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Huihuitu

在下有个关于租房押金的问题，如果我的房子到期了，但是第二天马上回国，请问押金该怎么接受呢？我一直有这个疑问，押金应该是退房之后才给的吧，但是一退房，就立刻回国了，敢问押金到底是怎么接受的呢？房东是应该在退房的时候立刻给现金是吗？
感谢大师们不吝赐教！感激不尽！！！因为我六月份的时候租得房子到期了，然后第二天立刻回国，但是房东说给我一个什么code类似邮政的东东，全球都有地方取钱，第二天我回国，然后音讯全无，我就一直在想，如果我不回来，我的钱就完了，虽然现在还没给我，哎，近乎泡汤了，还是我哪里做得不妥，像是应该提前要押金之类的。真的跪求高人指点一下！多谢多谢！

hohoho

My friend rented a student apartment last year.  After she moved out, she waited for 3 months and yet she still couldn’t get her deposit back because of a long administration work.  We are talking about a well-known estate agent dealing with her case.  This is England.

hohoho

You are welcome.

I have my own unhappy memory.  I did a law paper and I know a little bit of it.  I have a car accident in 2008.  I was 100% sure I was right and the other party admitted he was wrong, yet it took 4 years with exchange of many letters, document between solicitors and myself.  A week before court hearing, the other party’s insurance company finally agreed to pay me compensation to avoid lawsuit.  

Yes, I got compensation but did I win the case?  No, I think the only people won the case are the solicitors as no matter which party lost the case, solicitors will get payment.  As for me, I rather have no accident than to have compensation as lawsuit is very tiring and time consuming.

In your case, if you cannot prove your landlord's wrong doing, it really is not worthwhile to bring up a lawsuit.  Good luck.

Huihuitu

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oh...ok.i see. Thank u thank u and thank u!

hohoho

do you have time and money to spend?  Will it be worthwhile?  If she indeed put money in the deposit fund, she can't access to it and she cannot be blamed for that. As I mentioned before this deposit system only work for local home students and not for overseas students. If students have to leave this country and can't wait for the administration work to be done before deposit can be returned, landlord done nothing wrong and I am afraid you couldn't win.  You could only win if you can prove landlord didn't put money into fund and keep it herself yet she doesn't want to return it to you.

Huihuitu

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yea,if i use law, and will i win?

hohoho

just treat this as a lesson  in life and hope you will meet better landlords in future.  To be honest, having a Chinese landlord will be easier to communicate with each other

hohoho

well, don't know what to say. I think unfortunately there is a loophole in deposit funding system for overseas students

Huihuitu

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thank u very much! She just told me without no proof.

hohoho

I have to stress that once deposit is put in the funding system, even landlord cannot access to it but he should give some proof to you that your deposit is really in the funds (ask for letter or document etc)