Thread: In need of advice

Hi a friend of mine lost his job as school site agent, this included losing his home aswell. He handed back the keys and left the property in better condition than when he moved in. The school recepitionist rung him several times last week asking him questions as to where the carpets went and several other stupid questions. Now the place was in need of severe repairs, ie very damp and wiring was dangerous. This had been logged back to 01 but still repairs wasn't done. So the carpets were replaced with wood flooring due to getting damp and going mouldy as was several pieces of furniture. They were replaced with my friends own money and were left as replacements.
Am I right in thinking that the school receptionist has nothing to do with the property what so ever, its the council that own the property.Does he have the right to tell her to stop ringing him and all correspondse should be through letters only. After all her job is school receptionist so she shouldn't be harrassing him, thats not her job discription.

A tenant.

The rent was taken out of his wages and yes he signed a separate tenacy agreement.

He was given something like 56 days to leave or it would of gone to court.

oops does it sorry, like i said i'm asking for a friend. He only wanted to know does the school receptionist have the right to keep ringing him over matters concerning the house, surely that would be up to the head teacher or the council to do and not her.

Thank you for taking the time to reply, she is indeed harrassing him he had 3 calls on Thursday and that was just in the two hours he was at my house. So would I be right in saying that he can tell her to stop the calls and put things in writing in the future.

when he moved in there was a carpet in the frontroom and 2 bedrooms, and a wardrobe. The house is a flatroofed single brick house so like a garage really. The house is covered in damp was reported since 01 no repairs were ever carried out despite several letters complaining bout the state of the property. Over time he had decorated several times but the damp continued and ruined the frontroom carpet he replaced this with woodflooring, the same with the bedrooms. the wardrobe was replaced with a modern double one which he left as he did the flooring. No he didnt need to tell anyone as he was improving the house to make the conditions more liveable.

Originally Posted by MrShed

You can ask, but I do not believe (await correction) that you can enforce written communication only. You can however enforce via the police that the calls are kept below the threshold of what is considered harrassment.

The keys were handed back before time and the property was left in better condition that what he got it in, thats why he doesn't understand why she is phoning all the time asking where the carpets have gone etc, surely having woodflooring replace the carpets because of the damp problem is better than having mouldy carpets.Which they would have to replace anyway for the next site agent.

Originally Posted by MrShed

Thats not entirely true I'm afraid. as a licencee, he had no right to modify the property, or its fittings, without the explicit authorisation of the owner.

However, it would be churlish of the owner to push matters that bettered the property - i.e. fixing of damp. However, new decor, even if the condition of the actual fittings was better, can be fully justified to be changed back at your friends cost - decor and fittings are very much one persons opinion, and the owners are entitled to have these as supplied.

The old head teacher knew about the flooring and decor she gave the go ahead. The funny thing about all this is they seem to be nit picking because he heard a rumour from a teacher that they want to knock the house down for carparking space!! The new head that seems to be causing all this trouble seems to have it in for my friend as GET THIS her husband has got the job as site agent.... go figure!!! and he won't be living on site.