A few years ago the government decided to start up a tenancy deposit scheme (check out the details at the bellow link) to try and sort out problems like this.
I'm assuming if this was after your tenancy started then it might not be applicable, but still may be of some help.
A few years ago the government decided to start up a tenancy deposit scheme (check out the details at the bellow link) to try and sort out problems like this.
I'm assuming if this was after your tenancy started then it might not be applicable, but still may be of some help.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TenancyDeposit/index.htm