Recieving Rent Deposit

Hi,

In what form did you give your rental deposit? If it's in cash to your landlord, it's forbidden.

Legal dispositions
The guarantee must be deposited in an escrow account at the bank in the name of the owner and the tenant.

The law provides that the guarantee can be constituted by the tenant in 3 ways:

the tenant blocks the entire amount in the bank: in this case, the guarantee does not exceed 2 months rent (without charges);

the tenant does not have the totality of the sum: he can pay constant monthly payments to the bank (the same amount each month) during minimum 1 year (if the lease is one year) and maximum 3 years (if the lease is 3 years old or older). In this case, the guarantee will be 3 months rent (without charges);

Warning; this modality is hardly used, banks almost systematically refuse to do so.

via the CPAS of reference: the CPAS concludes a contract with the bank. The bank gives the owner a bank guarantee of 3 months rent. The owner does not know that the CPAS intervenes in the guarantee of the tenant.

Via organizations such as the Housing Fund or some associations that  offer  loans  for rental guarantees.

Some homeowners sometimes ask for cash back guarantee money, that is, hand-to-hand, or the owner's personal account. Although common, these practices are illegal.

If despite all the tenant agrees to give "in cash" the amount of the guarantee, it is very important that it requires a receipt signed by the owner, with the date, indicating the mention "for rental guarantee". In the case of a payment on the personal account of the owner, it should also be mentioned in communication that it is a rental guarantee for such housing and the date of the beginning of the lease.