A landlord must give at least 24 hours notice of any visit and if it does not fit in with you being there then it needs to be arranged for when your there unless your happy for them to go in when your not. Landlord has no rite to enter the property without giving any notice at all. From what i can remember, if you were to get home and the landlord was in the property and refused to leave when asked you can get the police to come and remove them as its trespass. Has your landlord given notice to you that they want you to leave or have you given notice that your going? The condition your room was in is nothing to do with them so long as it wasnt a mess due to holes in walls or carpets stained and ripped. We all have an odd day when a room is upsidedown for one reason or another.

If i was you i'd send the SB letter anyway cos if its 14 years old they can only ask you to pay but can do nothing else about it. If you have no idea what its to do with then its up to you if you want to chase it and find out where it originaly came from but you could be opening a can of worms if your not carefull.

SAR going to welcome in the morning then and see what rubbish they manage to send back..

Great, thanks. I take it i need to send it to welcome and not to mkrr.

My oh got a letter this morning from rapid recoveries for just short of £5000. She remembers the loan she took out but after a few problems and moving about a lot due to her ex partner she had forgotten all about it. Its the usual we may and we mite take further action letter. What do i send to welcome first to get all the account details. She said the loan was for £2500 so its pretty much doubled. Think its about 3 or 4 years old. I no there will be charges and stuff that can be claimed back to get it back down to where it should be but need to no the first step to take. A link to the first letter to send would be good. Thanks in advance....

If your heating system and hot water are run from an electric version of a combi boiler then your bills will be quite high. If its been on an economy 7 meter rate then your paying nearly 2 times a normal cheap day rate which put your bills up a lot then only paying less than half rate for night time use which is normally around midnight till 7am. Do you no what the make and model of the boiler is and i'l see if i can dig out the running costs for it so you have some idea why your electric bill is so high.

If its money he holds until you move out the property then it can be guised by any name but at the end of the day its a deposit and thats the only word that covers it.

Sounds to me like he has it in a high interest account which when taking money back out you need to give notice depending on the type of account or he's stuck it away in premium bonds which again they need notice when you want to take money back out.

Did you give him a deposit and a month in advance when you first moved in. Even though he's not called it a deposite i would say if the answer is yes then thats exactly what you paid to him which by any standards is the norm.

You should find that now your chasing him and asking for the id number for the deposit holding scheme he will sort out the deposit you gave him as he can get into a lot more trouble than its worth to be found out that he's been holding it in one of his own accounts. This is why the scheme was set up, so landlors can not make any money on deposits they hold..

Sometimes a landlord will keep the deposit if its the same as a month rent to cover your last month at the property but that is only if you agree to do it that way. If you have paid your last months rent up until you moved out then he has no reason to with hold your deposit. As far as i no the landlord depost scheme is now law for landlords and they must use then, even though they don't like to. It stops them putting it in a high interest account of there own and using it to to get more money from it.. Does it say anything in your tenancy about deposit being paid?

Was it a van for taking small stuff or a van to tow the car away with? If it was to tow the car then you owe nothing as it was not your car. If it was to take away house hold items and you had not allowed him entry then he would not need a van so can not charge you for it.

Liability Order of £475.81 on 20/10/11 Attendance Fee £24.50 on 01/11/11 Attendance Fee £18.00 on 26/11/11 If they visited both times then the above is all you owe. The levy is invalid as it was not your car as is the vehicle fee. Write to the council and chandlers with a very strongly worded letter stating they put a neighbours can down as the levy so no fees were due and if they had bothered to check with dvla then they would have found out for themselves it was not your car..

If they ask you to arrange for them to be taken away just look up your local scrap man, the washing machine he will take for free and a lot of them will take a fridge freezer as well or mite charge 5 or 10 pounds to take it. My guess would be the landlord will be happy to arrange for them to be taken away.

Get the landlord to arrange to have it taken away. It was there when you moved in and if you now replace it with your own appliance then it is just that, your own and nothing to do with the landlord. You can move it out the way to put your own in then its up to the landlors to sort out taking it away. If your asked if you can sort out getting rid of it then ask politly if you can have it in writing just to save any confusion in the future as to what happened to it.

Just to add, if you buy new ones then or second hand ones arrange for the landlord to remove the broken ones and make sure you get receipts in your name from who ever you get the replacements from so you have proof they are yours. Also get the landlord to issue a new tenancy agreement with the washing machine and fridge removed or get him to remove them from the one you have and both of you sign the invantory sheet then there is no confusion..

He would have put them on the inventory to cover himself if you left, it would save an arguement about who's they were. The fridge freezer if left by previous tenant would be down to you when it dies as it was your choice to keep it there and use it rather than supply your own from day one. Same with the washing machine, a landlord does not have to supply a washing machine and its a case of how nice the landlord is to weather he covers having it repaired or replaced or neither. As he supplied you with a new one when you first moved in as a gesture of good will he is not responsable for it and would be the landlords own choice if they wanted to do anything about it. A landlord only has to supply cooking facilities of sorts which is either oven and hob or a microwave, anything else is always a bonus. Probably not what you want to hear but a landlord will do what ever they can to get a tenant in then it all changes once there getting there rent.

Good news. After sending them an email explaining the situation with my landlord and the fact its rent owed that i could not afford to pay without the underpayment being paid to me they have decided as its going to cause a serious problem if they do not allow it there going to pay it to me to cover the shortfall of rent thats owed. Actually turned out to be quite a nice phone call with them this morning and they realised it would be wrong of them to put me in such a bad position. Result :whoo:

Who are the ones that will not play ball and how much is owed to each of them.

I've had a quick word with someone from CAB and they say they can but given the circumstances they should realy let me have it as its rent that i can not afford to pay and thats why my housing has gone up but i will need to argue it out with them but i only have till the last day of this month to pay my full rent..

A DRO is more of a last resort for most people as it has a knock on effect for getting any type of credit for the nect few years but if you do go for one then don't mention it to any of your creditors (they have no rite to no your taking one out) just try and emagine there faces when they get the paperwork through to say leave this person alone. If they wont play ball and try to help then a DRO does work a treat. I would try one of the free advice places first that can deal with your creditors on your behalf like debt line (think thats what there called). They will be able to work things out for you and tell you your best option. Others will be along soon who no alot more than i do about what you can do before a DRO so hang in there for a while till theres a few more answers to choose from..

My partner has been on SSP for the last 2 months so i took feb payslip in at the end of feb to show the reduction in income and did the same for march. The reduction on SSP is less than half her monthly wage. They have taken up till yesterday to finally work out what they have under paid us. Spoke to a woman from the council who said we've underpaid you nearly £600, yay i thought. My landlord has been really good and let us pay half rent for feb and march untill our housing got sorted out then what they owe us is pretty much what we are short for the last 2 months to the landlord plus a little bit out of our own pocket. Great i though, we can catch up on the rent and everything will get back to normal untill my partner goes back to work. The woman from the council then goes on to say that because we had an overpayment from last year (they deduct £16 a week from our housing to pay it of) they are going to off-sett the underpayment against it which will leave us getting non of it. I explained that its money that is owed as out income is a lot lower and its money that is owed to the landlord and not us as such but all she said was, were allowed to do it this way. When i told her that my landlord can not do another month at half rent because he's used his spare cash to carry us for feb and march she just told me to get the landlord to ring them and they will explain it to him. I told her that will make no difference to him being able to pay his mortgage by explaining why he's not getting anything as there keeping it. She just said thats the way they do it. Can they get away with this as its going to cause my landlord to look at evicting us if we can't cover the rent again as he can't afford for us to be here and not even be paying enough to cover what the house is costing him, also makes it more diffecult because he's a very good long term friend for over 12 years and its going to cause a rift between us because of the council refusing to pay the money thats owed. I always thought that when they work out your housing it starts of with what the law says you need to live on, so by not giving us the underpayment for feb and march it puts us below what they state the law says we need to live on for those 2 months. Any help or advice would be great as i want to kick them where it hurts and work out if they can actually do this. Thanks in advance for any comments and help...

No one has said to remove them by force, all i've said is the steps that need to be taken to get them out if thats what they want to do and for both its a case of going to court which i have made clear. And the reason people ask for help on here is to get advice which is what i am doing.

But if the tenant is not paying rent then they have broken the agreement from there side which then means you can give them 1 months notice and if they refuse to leave after that you issue a section 21 or if they owe more than 2 months full rent its a section 8.. Either way, its court then a waiting game.

Easy way to look at it, if you have a tv and a DVD player and only ever watch DVDs then you never need a licence. Reason - when you buy a DVD you also without realising get a licence to view said DVD as much as you like so you've covered yourself. I've argued it with tv licensing and they backed down and admitted I was rite and they couldn't argue it. Tv detector vans, pretty much all of them were empty inside and were only used as a scare tactic. All they used to do in the back of the van was eat lunch.