All landlords are required by law to protect any deposits taken for a tenancy within 28 days of receiving the deposit. TDS provides government-approved tenancy protection in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to help you meet your legal requirement. Choose between our free Custodial scheme (where TDS holds the deposit) or our Insured scheme (where you hold the deposit) and pay TDS a small fee to protect it.

Once you have protected your tenancy deposit in one of our deposit protection schemes, TDS will issue you with your prepopulated PI. You must give this to your tenant (and any other person who contributed to the deposit) within 35 days of receipt of the tenancy deposit.

Should a dispute arise at the end of tenancy we offer a free dispute resolution service. As a landlord/agent you must comply with the request to use the dispute mechanism. If there is no dispute, release the deposit within 5 working days.

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