landlord still demanding rent

[boggey1]

Hi all we were served a po-cession notice after having our land lord served with a harassment notice and the environmental health had kittens because of the conditions in which we were living , so he through us out but before he did that he called housing benifit and said we had never paid him any money, they stopped payments to us straight away with no contact ,now we have left and he is continuing to be abusive to us, an even called my town clerk pretending to be a old friend wanting my new address she was willing issue statment to police confirming this and the police say because we owe money they will not do anything ,now we have been told we owe 3grand in rent arreas damge to property , via letting agent we contacted to try to stop any more harassnment .what should we do ?

[ims21]

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[stu007]

Hi boggey1

 

We need some more information to advise:

 

1. What type of Tenancy Agreement did you have?.

2. Start Date of Tenancy?

3. End Date of Tenancy?

4. Was Move In Inventory Check done and documented?

5. Was Move Out Inventory Check done and documented?

6. Exactly what was the Posession Order recieved and Date?

7. Do you have reciepts for all payments made to Landlord?

8. Have you logged all incidents?

[boggey1]

turned into a periodic short term tenancy, never signed the tenancy inventory as damaged items not on the inventory , possession notice all leagle ,documented all instances of abuse .recorded occasions on phone , separate statements from friends he abused, previous tenants he abused willing to go to court ,no receipts paid cash in to bank account, coppers say civil over money have this from inspector of Newquay say he is okay to call us hound us as over money .

[boggey1]

police served a harassment notice on him in august 2011 still call ing into this year saying he is going to hunt us down

[mariner51]

boggey1. General observations

 

1 Who instigated harrassment notice with Police? For what reasons?

2 If EH had 'kittens' (serious concerns) over your living conditions, they could have issued LL with an Order to prevent letting or Stat Notice to undertake repairs within a timescale up to 3 mo. Did they do either?

3 You have failed to answer most of Stu007's questions

4 You declined to sign inventories because damaged items were not included. Omission of items would have worked in your favour in any dispute.

5 Since you don't refer to ex-landlord, can we assume you still occupy his property?

6 If you have left/or not, LL is entitled to 'hunt you down' (legally pursue unpaid debts)

7 You state possession notice was legal, so you must have obtained some paralegal opinion

8 Has LL obtained a Court repo order?

Whilst advice here is free, assume the Forum is charging you Solic rate of £100+ / hr, so be concise and open.

[seanamarts]

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[boggey1]

Hi all not ready for such help, Usually I feel a bit alone offering help to others, not really any good at asking for it lol. Right moved in 14th of feb 2009 ,only accepted by him as dss because I was having to be looked after by partner an child because of chemo treatment for cancer.15th feb LL called saying the neighbours have complained as our dog had defecated in there garden this was a lie, as neighbour had there own issues with LL as he abused them as well ,we think he did it to alis-it a response against them from us. They rung to ask if the fence could be put up as lying on the grass ,we fixed fence .ask LL to sign inventory as it needed amending and he refused .Continued to harass us swearing moaning about trivial things bangin on the door all the time, 9;20 pm the latest to tell us he was going to keep our deposit as he had kept the neighbours .

We informed the police of his behaviour and was told civil matter On two occasions we were turned away.

November 2010 took leagal advise and was told if we do anything he will put us on the streets using the housing act as we were in a periodic short term tenancy .

November 2010 was strong enough to ask our mp to contact County council housing to help as they had done nothing .He then got us appointment with housing officer (January 2011,)with Council,he sent the housing act to LL and mp wrote direct to him explaining his behaviour was not expectable.

17th of may 2011 a inspection took place by a independent health inspector for the environmental health ,he found three category two hazards ,damp and mould growth ,excess cold and crowding and space .

The council intended to use formal notice powers to require the necessary improvements.

this never happened .

we also asked him if he would contact police in regard to harassment ,he did and on the 12th of july after WPC told me on no account was i to record him being abusive on my phone and she told me to stop.I stated it was for my own protection ,she didn't care .but after asking her to take advise from her acting Sargent, she called to say she had issued a harassment notice to him" he didn't take it to well" her words .

this worked .

On 12th august 2011 LL bangs the door down and tells us " I know you only have a week here but in want my £800 you owe me ?" we ask what he was on about and he ran away telling us to ring the letting agent .We did and he said he had evidence that we had been served with a possession notice to leave I asked for the evidence we had been served with such a order he said he had evidence we had been served it when I asked could I have it he put the phone down ,the next day My partner rang and he said he would arrange another one to us after he explained that he tells his secretary to post it not recorded just post box .we then had it stuffed through the letter box .

Checked and it was a legle notice ,but does state he needs to move in to the property LL'S never ever do this and abuse the housing act. We then went and slept on my parents conservatory floor .

October continued to call my partner saying he was going to hunt us down and find where we are living .

Reported it to police and got the fobb off civil matter I know its not as served notice . left it then Jan 2012 starts again saying is is going hunt us down to hand us court papers ,

jan 2012 LL called my town clerk as I'm a Councillor asking if he can post letters to me there and pretended to be a old school friend to try and get our new address . Called police same WPC as before she said my town clerk was unable to tell it was him from the recording on my phone even though she would offer a statement to confirm it was him . Then received a letter from inspector 23 jan in reply to my letter stating LL was still harassing us ,to say that because we acknowledged we may owe him money after he rang housing benfit an stated we had not paid him they stopped all payments for the last 2 months .

we have since been contacted by the letting agent asking for new address ,but have collected hand written details saying we owe 3 thousand. 800 for damage to the property on leaving rest in rent . what do we do I want to go to court and being of strict morals and sound judgement look forward to it ,sorry for it being so long with bad grammar and spelling but chemo has left me a hands wreaked