Did you take a deposit before 6 April 2007?
If you still hold that deposit against an AST (including periodic tenancies where you have allowed the tenancy to roll over from month to month) then you must protect it before 23 June.
If you do not protect then you may have problems regaining possession of your property using a Section 21 and you are liable to receive a fine of up to three times the deposit amount plus the original deposit.
Companies that you can use to secure deposit protection:
Deposit Protection Scheme
www.depositprotection.com/
Tel: 0330 303 0030.
Or write to:
The Deposit Protection Service
The Pavilions
Bridgwater Road
Bristol
BS99 6AA
MyDeposits
www.mydeposits.co.uk/
Tel: 0333 321 9401
Or write to:
myDeposits
Ground Floor,
Kingmaker House,
Station Road,
New Barnet,
Hertfordshire,
EN5 1NZ.
Tenancy Deposit Scheme
www.tds.gb.com/
Tel: 0845 226 7837
Or write to:
Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS),
PO Box 1255,
Hemel Hempstead,
Herts,
HP1 9GN