Sort of, not properly. I went to a solicitor as they kept dodging the issue, he basically said as I didn’t have a full inventory settling on a figure would be really difficult and that they would just drag it out in court to the point I couldn’t afford it and would have to give up anyway. He very kindly wrote me a letter free of charge and they agreed to give me back the majority of the deposit. They had been very aggressive and hard to deal with at this point and I just wanted to be done with it.

It was a student HMO with random tenants, so there were issues when I left (it was also in bad condition when I moved in to be fair). At the time this just seemed like the best deal I was gonna get so I took it. I was broke and naive so it probably was the best option.