Rental not honored .

We app**** to rent premises in Hout Bay, Cape Town, and I was phoned on the Friday afternoon that we where successful and that the lease agreement would be sent via email and that we must sign it at our earliest convenience.As we could only print the lease on Monday morning and we could only both sign it on Monday evening, so the earliest we could get it back to Cape Letting was on Tuesday. In an earlier email from them we where informed that the deposit would be one and a half months rent, but on the lease they asked for two months <br> rental deposit. We had money in different accounts so we could pay for most of the deposit and the balance we paid the following day, 04/02/2015. We where informed via email today 05/02/2015 that because we took so long to pay the deposit, they have let the premises to someone else, and that they had signed the lease and paid the deposit by yesterday 04/02/2015, and that the other person had done this all in 24 hours. So now they are sitting with our money, and they will only pay it back when we supply our banking details and when they check their bank statement.<br> <br> I feel grieved and believe that this is not very professional.<br> <br> Victor