 Inventory checkout by landlord
Hi,
I recently ended my tenancy in a property managed by Grainger (a 'professional' residential management company). Two days before my end of tenancy, I wrote to my property manager (landlord) to arrange for inventory checkout on the day I was exiting. I got a reply back saying that the checkout clerk would call me in the following week & I would need to hand over the keys to him. I contacted the property manager over phone next week to check the progress on this. He mentioned that I hand over the keys to their approved letting agent. I returned the keys. When I called him again after 10 days, he mentioned that he had visited the property & that he would charge me £100 for cleaning. He pointed out four things that needed cleaning.
In our email interactions since then, he has been evading answering about the inventory checkout & why that did not happen. He is asking me £100 for inventory checkout. I have asked him bluntly whether this money is to pay for his visit to the property or the checkout clerk's, to which he is yet to reply.
Do I have the right to not pay him any money for the checkout inventory now that it is 12 days since my end of tenancy, & I have taken enough care to urge that the checkout inventory happens. Am I bound to accept the property manager's version of what is wrong with the property. Isn't it a risk for me to accept having an inventory checkout now, given that it has been 12 days since the keys are not with me & there are multiple holders of the keys (managing agent, landlord).
Regards,
Amit
Last edited by amit175; 21st August 2008 at 10:00.
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