im having my house repossessed and am lookin for a rented house, my husband went into a letting agency and had to pay 300 pounds to get reference checks even though we were given money to pay 6 months rent in advance all the staff at the letting shop said there would be no problem in us letting this house in the end we were turned down so the 300 poundwas wasted, my husband said to them he didnt want to hand over the money if the end result would be us losing out and the shop all said no problems would arise only if we had a criminal record which we obviously havent, so we were ripped off 300 pounds and nowhere to live so why landlords will you not give people a second chance it makes me sick.