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  1. Sounds great Does that include letters that I have sent them and they have sent me? He will probably deny he has anything now however he's technically admitted it by saying what he said.
  2. Hi there, Just a quick question, I had sent a few letters back and forward to the Estate Agent who was managing a property I was renting. One of which was a complaint letter, I got a few responses back from them. For some reason I can no longer find these letters and I requested them from the Estate Agents. I'm not sure but surely they have to keep any sort of correspondance for a certain amount of time? Anyway, they have said that they won't send me them. This is what they have said: "No. I may produce the letters at a later date when required." Surely they can't refuse to give me the letters? Its correspondence between ourselves (Them the estate agent managing the property and us the tennants?) is this allowed? Against the law? etc etc?
  3. Yeah, well to cut a long story short, hes trying to get me to pay for work that hasn't been done. He got the quotes then gets his little friend to go in and do the work for next to nothing. Not that the work needed to be done in the first place mind! In my eyes thats certainly fraudulent.
  4. Is it classed as fraud if a LL gives you multiple what he classes as 'receipts for work carried out', expecting me to pay for them. Then when I do a little digging, the companies on those receipts tell me they are just estimates and the work was never carried out? I have a total £713 worth of 'estimates' which I have proof haven't been done.
  5. I've spoken to the decorator who quoted them and he has assued me the work hasn't been carried out. So basically the LL has got the quote, then got his mate to do any work (if any!) Surely the LL or estate agents should of inspected the property before we moved out, then got a list of what things need to be done and worked out what was going to be done by whom etc? Its not my fault the LL didn't come round and say 'I want this and that doing'. He just went ahead and done it.
  6. I have photos of all the problems and I also took photos of the house when we left. There was an inventory done by the estate agent (allbeit an incorrect one!) when we moved in, nobody came to inspect the property and do an inventory before we left. It wasn't untill a few days later when they went around to the house.
  7. As far as I was aware he isn't. I'm just concerned it will cost me a lot more money in court. I have a good feeling we would win but its the hassle of everything. Our original bond was £525. Yes I agree that I shouldn't of said use it as the last months rent, apparently that can't happen. However the LL agreed to this and as far as i'm aware the Estate Agents accepted that and gave the LL the money. I've now received quotes / receipts (only 3 of them have actually got 'PAID' on) stating he wants £152 for carpet cleaning, £90 for oven and extractor cleaning, £85 for general cleaning, £620 for painting and decorating, £126 for gardening, £90 for replace of a bit of carpet. I was never allowed to correct any of the problems myself, he just went ahead and done them without contacting me to organise it. The house did not need redecorating or cleaning in such a way they state it does, nor did the garden, the turf was put down in 2010 by a cowboy gardener and the turf was dead when it laid. The carpet he replaced, there was a tonne of it in the garage and under the stairs would could of been used. Nobody inspected the property before I left and it wasn't until a few days after I'd left when I get phone calls stating its costing this much and its getting done regardless. Surely (disregarding all the crap we have had to put up with over the last 2 and a bit years) he wouldn't have any rights to sue for this? I just don't know my options on moving forward with this?
  8. Hey, I've already contacted them regarding the situation, they state that nothing can be done unless something is actually done or they act on their threats. Theres literally so much stuff we have as evidence for the state we were living in, they didn't care about the place while we were there but they do care once we have left!
  9. Hi, i've just moved out of a rented property. To cut a long story shot we have had a very hard 2 years with both the estate agents and the landlord. I was without heating for 8 months and even when we did have it all the heat was gone by 3pm and so we were freezing in the evening (we had storage heaters and there was no gas in the property). The house was riddled with damp and we would have to clean the mould on a regular basis. We couldn't have a bath as the water tank in the loft didn't hold enough water, luckily we had a shower though!. There are a million other things that went wrong with the property and the the estate agent nor the landlord sorted things out, it used to take months to get anything done (including when the cooker hob went off and I couldn't cook on it, this took them around 2.5 months to sort it out). Upon giving our last months notice I knew the landlord would be awkward so I said they could take the bond as the last months rent. The landlord agreed to this and everything was fine. Nobody came out to the property to inspect it, not the landlord or the estate agents. We have never ever had a rent book and our tenancy ended on the 23rd of Jan 2012, we wanted to stop in the property as we were buying our own in over the next few months so we didn't see the point in moving twice. (I wish we had now!) I asked the landlord to get another month by month contract signed up but he didn't bother himself to do so. We handed the keys back a week gone wednesday and then I received an abusive phone call from the landlords wife on monday, then they went around to my parents house on the wednesday and harrassed them claiming its costing £600 to clean the house. After I found out that they had been around my parents house I rang the landlord up and told him not to go back there again. He then went on to tell me how he has already got the carpets cleaned, the garden sorted and other bits and bobs. I did forget to clean the oven which I then offered to do and remove some rubbish I forgot to take away. He agreed and said he would ring me back later on that day. He never rang me so I rang him around 5pm. The landlord then went on to tell me he has already got a company out to clean the oven so I couldn't do it. But he still wanted the rubbish removing, I went around that night and removed the rubbish (there wasn't much!). Nothing was said / heard from him until Thursday when he rang demanding the money for the cleaning of the house. Made threats down the phone stating he was going to send 'someone' round to my parents house to get my address from them, or he was going to follow my partner home from work etc. The landlord said the tenancy agreement runs onto a month by month contract after the tenancy end date. However this doesn't state that anywhere in the agreement and we never once had any rent book from either the estate agent or the landlord. I've had nothing but bother from day one with the Estate Agents, i've got letters and photographic evidence of the house we were staying in, nothing ever got done, the landlord took the property off the estate agents half way through the tenancy and then they were just as bad at getting things done. I had put a fence and a gate up (which I left), I also had got blinds up at the windows which I told him he could have when I said that they can take the bond as the last months rent. Which again he did agree to and as far as I'm aware he took it. Nobody came to inspect the property at all before we left, it wasn't until a few days later when the phone calls started. Now he claims hes going to take me to court if I don't pay up. Thanks in advance! Regards Scott
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