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    • LPA.  (I'm fighting insolvency due to all the stuff that he and lender have done).  He appointed estate agents - (changed several times). Disclosure shows he was originally appointed for a specific reason (3m after repo) : using his powers as acting for leaseholder to serve notice on freeholders (to grab fh).  There was interest from 3 potential buyers. He chose one whose offer depended on a positive result of the notice.  Disc also shows he'd taken counsel advice - which was 'he'd fail'.  Irrespective he'd asked to resign as his job (of serving notice) was done and he'd found a buyer.  Lender asked him to stay on to assign notice to the buyer.  Notice failed, buyer didn't buy.  So receiver stayed.  There was 1 buyer who wanted to proceed w/o fh but receiver/ lender wasted 1y trying to get rid of them!  Disc shows why. But I didn't know why at the time. Lender voiced getting rid of receiver. Various reasons - including cost.  But there's a contradiction/ irony: as I've seen an email (of 4y ago) which shows the receiver telling lender not to incur significant costs and to minimize receiver costs.  Yet lender then asked him to serve another notice - again counsel advice indicated 'he'd fail'.  And he did fail.  But wasted 3y trying and incurred huge legal costs - lender trying to pass on to me. Lender interfered - said wanted to do works.  Receiver should have said no.  But disc. shows he agreed to step aside to let them do the works - on proviso lender would discuss potential costs first (they didn't), works wouldn't take long (took 15m), and lender would hold interest (they didn't) (this last point is crucial for me now - as I need to know if I can argue that all interest beyond this point shouldnt be allowed?)   I need to check receiver witness statement in litigation with freeholders to see exactly what he said about 'his position'. But I remember it being along the lines of - 'if the works increased the value of the property he didn't have a problem'.  Lender/ receiver real problems started at this point. The cost of works and 4y passage of time has meant there is no real increase in value. Lender (or receiver) didn't get any permissions (statutory or fh) (and didn't tell me) and just bulldozed the property to an empty shell.  The freeholders served notice on me as leaseholder for breach of covenants (strict no alterations).  The Lender stepped in (acting for me) to issue notice for relief of forfeiture - not the receiver.  That wasted 2y of litigation (3y if inc the works) and incurred huge costs (both sides).  Lender's aim was to do the works that every potential buyer balked at due to the lease restrictions.  Lender and receiver knew couldn't do works w/o fh permission. Lender did them anyway; receiver allowed.  Receiver remained appointed.  I'm arguing lender interfered in receiver duties.  Receiver should have just sold property 4-5y ago w/o allowing any works.  Almost 3y since works finished the property remains unsold (>5y from repo). The property looks brand new - but it was great before.  The lender spent a ton of money - hoping that would facilitate a quick sale.  But the money they spent and the years they have wasted has meant they had to increase sale price.  It's now completely overpriced.  And - of course - the same issues that put buyers off (before works) still exist.   The receiver has tried for 2y to assert the works increased value. But he is relying on agents estimates - which have proved highly speculative. (Usual trick of an agent to give a high value to get the business - and then tell seller to reduce when no-one buys.). And of course lender continues to accrue interest (despite 4y ago receiver saying pause interest). Lender tried to persuade receiver to use specific agent. Disc shows this agent was best friends with the lender's main investor in the property.  Before works this agent had valued it low.  After works this agent suggested a value 70% higher!  The lender persuaded receiver to sack one agent and instead use this agent.  No offers. (Price way too high).   Research has uncovered that this main investor has since died.  I guess his investment is part of probate? And his family want it back?    Disc shows the sacked agent had actually received a high offer 1y ago.  Receiver rejected it.  He was relying on the high speculative valuation the agents had given him to pitch for the business. The agents were in a catch-22.  The receiver sacked them. Disc shows there has been 0 interest ever since. I don't think lender or receiver want all this to come out in public domain via a trial.  It will ruin their reputations. If I can't get an order for sale with lender - can I apply separately against receiver?
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Landlords do post here and quite a few landlords are available to answer questions from a LLs perspective

Any posts submitted here on the Consumer Action Group under the user name GlasweJen may not necessarily be the view of the poster, CAG or indeed any normal person.

 

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Thanks Becka I'll try that.

 

And Jen, you're joking, I scrolled through posts here after I posted and found one landlord who appeared set upon like wolves by everyone. Nooo thankyou, I'm already in fear for my safety and sanity.

 

I have popped a suggestion over to the administrators of the site to possibly re-name this forum 'Advice for Tenants' so landlords dont wander into the wrong side of the stadium too often, I hope they do.

 

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un-bloody-believable.

 

Shame that you have edited your original posting- you needed a lot of advice, believe me, I saw that posting. Shame about your delicate sanity level- if you think a few posts could affect you, maybe you should not have lodger (NOT TENANT) who dares to cook, listen to music and shower.

As for the "wrong side of the stadium"- puuhlease, you do not know what you are talking about. This is one of the most helpful, polite, informative, respectful, impartial, up-to-date and passionately caring forum in UK on matters of tenant/landlord laws, on par with much older Landlordzone. The contributors here get very rarely frustrated with posters and are quickly brought to order by others- I know, as I am the one with a potty mouth and short fuse!

 

Fancy someone popping in for 2 seconds and shooting their mouth of like this! !!

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only one? I count at least 3 excluding the knowledgable Joa who seems to know things from both angles. Splitting the forum will mean hardly anyone will be available to advise the LLs even though some tenants do know about the relevant law despite not being landlords themselves.

 

slightly irked now (at the OP, not admin who are just responding to a request)

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The reason there are more threads about tenant problems is simply because more people post them.

 

Well spotted demon. More tenants have problems with landlords and less access to resources then landlords who have problems with tenants. Nothing, absolutely nothing to do with us hounding landlords away (although I did try very hard once, but am reformed :cool: )

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Not wanting to slate the admin, but lets remember that all the OP has done, admittedly misguidedly, has put a request in. The admin jumped in(IMO somewhat heavy handed) and done the changes as mentioned. I do not want to slate them too much, as a) I dont want to be slapped down and b) I do generally think they do a good job.

 

My only request would be that before admin act on such a request, they analyse the context behind it. In this situation, as the user in question had only just posted on this section, it would have been nice to ask the regular posters in this section their opinion and consult on this basis, as they are the most likely people to know the potential effects of such a change. At the end of the day, this forum would not exist were it not for the regular posters in particular areas, and this should maybe be remembered when making such wholesale changes. In particular, and with the greatest respect to the admin, they do not know the aspects of letting law, and therefore do not know how interlinked the two sides of the coin are - the regular posters do(I hope!).

 

I hope this has not appeared as too negative - just want to basically make a suggestion for future reference :)

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True MrShed.

 

To be fair the OP could have just left his question while admin investigated though, now we're all talking on a half-dead thread

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Nevermind, I can see this isn't the place, I dont see any landlords posting.

 

Could an administrator possibly re-name this forum 'HELP FOR TENANTS' ??

 

Landlords do not often post questions it is agreed. However, I see LOTS of landlords posting - in response to questions by tenants. For example myself, and I know of at least one other regular poster here who is a landlord. I suspect that all of the regular posters in fact(with one notable exception - you know who you are!:D) landlords themselves. This is due to the simple fact that you do not get this kind of level of knowledge purely as a tenant or an onlooker - you get it by being a landlord - generally speaking.

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I do not want this whole forum to become a grumble point for this change, and so my post above will pretty much(!) be my last on the subject - I feel my point is made.

 

The only thing I want to add is that I hope BankFodder will do as he suggested on the other thread and rather than just change it and thats it done with, maybe in a few weeks consult with the regular posters in this section and ask their opinion on how it is running. It is easy to say that the issue will be reviewed - quite another thing to actually do so.

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I'm just in it for the banter MrShed (and you all love me really), lol. I've managed to aquire some random knowledge of everything, comes from dating a law student who loves tax law like I love chocolate. I like to think I contribute something useful every few months or so :p

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Hello, this is my first question so I hope its in keeping. I am about to rent out a property for the first time. I wondered if someone might give me some advice about getting bank references for a tenant. When I have been a tenant, I have filled in a standard form and ticking a box agreeing to pay for the reference and giving my account details. Is this acceptable? If so, where might I get such a letter and will it be acceptable to most banks? Many thanks in advance

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Would have loved to read onavamps 1st posting hehehehe b4 there edited it.....

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oh, it was something truly ridiculous; she's had a lodger whom she wrongly believed to be an AST tenant, she was outraged because the lodger used kitchen and a bathroom at night, she was totally unreasonable in her expectations of what lodgers could be allowed or could not- she needed a lot of help and correcting. And worse of all, she stupidly whined that there should be a separate forum for tenants and landlords (the irony of it- she not even a landlord!!) and the site owner believed her and split the perfectly working landlord and tenants forum into two separate ones. Well, we have been promised that the situation will be reviewed and that the forums might be put back together....

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