Hi, I'm Rob. And I'm Rob. And this is Ask Rob and Rob.

Hey everyone, welcome to Ask Rob and Rob, the show where you give us your wonderful questions

and we give you some half decent answers in return. This week, we've got two absolutely

fantastic questions coming up. But before we do, let's give you a quick reminder of how you

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Okay, let's have our first question from Scott.

Hi, Rob and Rob. Scott from Wilcher here,

long-time listener of the show. I have a question on deposits. As rent increases occur during a

tenancy, do you also ask for more deposit to them be put into the deposit protection schemes?

Something I've been thinking about for a little

while. Thank you very much for everything that you do. Look forward to hearing from you. Thanks. Bye.

Scott, this is amazing. We're nearly 500 episodes into this show and you have come up with a question

that has never been asked before, which is absolutely brilliant. That's why I love doing this.

And the answer is you can, but most people don't. I never have,

at least anyway. But I've had it done to me when I've been renting. So rent went up and then

insult to injury, I can't demand to pay more into the deposit protection service to take it up to the

equivalent of five weeks of the new rent. Now, I believe if you want to do this with the way the

deposit schemes work, it has to be an actual new tenancy agreement,

which means I don't know how this is going to work when the rental reform bill comes in, but that's a whole other matter.

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