Leaving a rented property-what more can I do?!?!?

sooz

Em - don't forget to remind your LL that he did not fulfil his legal obligations & register your deposit in a scheme

emsywoo123

sooz wrote: »

Well - he sounded rather mad from what you said he was asking your referees.

Have you found somewhere new?to my great relief, yes we did at the weekend! jsut going through checks now!

No - after 2.5 years it is not reasonable for your LL to charge you for repainting - unless you have been practising your artwork on the walls, bloodletting, gouging the walls with knives etc.

Please don't shoot me, but there have been stickers, and they haev left marks, that was why I was going to re-magnolia...........:o

emsywoo123

sooz wrote: »

Em - don't forget to remind your LL that he did not fulfil his legal obligations & register your deposit in a scheme

Yup, was going to save that if he took the p***:D

emsywoo123

chewmylegoff wrote: »

personally the experience i have had with letting agents tells me that there's no point in cleaning the place, professionally or otherwise, as they will just say that it isn't clean enough and get their own people in and charge you for it anyway. this has happened to me at least 6 times, it seems pointless to argue.

Tis a private LL, if that makes a difference?

zebulon

emsywoo123 wrote: »

Waht sort of thing/amount can I expect deducted? Waht is acceptable/not acceptable?

£0.00 !!!!

If there is no damage, all is clean etc.... there is no reason why someone should expect to get something deducted.

many people just take as normal that something will be take and because often it 'smallish' amount £20-£50, many don't bother to make a fuss.
so it looks like it became normal. :mad: :mad: :mad:

Of course he has your deposit, and you might have to fight to have it back...
sometimes it will suffice to show that you're not one to be walk over.

Don't forget the pics as well.

Good luck and happy cleaning :j
If anything goes wrong you'll find around the forum great letter models to fire off without delay :beer:

chewmylegoff

emsywoo123 wrote: »

My AST says at the end of tenenacy I must return
"furniture, fixtures and effects properly replaired, decorated and kep in accordance with the terms hereof....." so I guessed that meant painting?
and
"to clean the windows on a regular basis" does this mean inside and out!?!?

the "regular basis" part of the window cleaning clause is probably unenforceable but if the windows were clean when you moved in (inside and out) then you should return them to that state when you leave. EDIT: actually i'm not sure about outside, it may be the LL's responsibility to do the outside.

as far as i understand it, regardless of what your AST says you don't have to redecorate the house yourself. the LL cannot charge you for what amounts to reasonable wear and tear. if you have drawn all over the walls, for instance, then you would have to redecorate to return them to their previous state, but if there's just the odd mark here and there then you don't.

chewmylegoff

emsywoo123 wrote: »

Tis a private LL, if that makes a difference?

in my experience it does. letting agents don't bother checking what the state of the house is, they just send cleaners around and then don't back down over charging you. private landlords have usually been much more reasonable to me, apart from the one who tried to charge us hundreds of pounds to remove all of his own furniture which he said we left behind!

emsywoo123

chewmylegoff wrote: »

the "regular basis" part of the window cleaning clause is probably unenforceable but if the windows were clean when you moved in (inside and out) then you should return them to that state when you leave. EDIT: actually i'm not sure about outside, it may be the LL's responsibility to do the outside.

as far as i understand it, regardless of what your AST says you don't have to redecorate the house yourself. the LL cannot charge you for what amounts to reasonable wear and tear. if you have drawn all over the walls, for instance, then you would have to redecorate to return them to their previous state, but if there's just the odd mark here and there then you don't.

Mmmm the dreaded stickers adn their marks are going to haunt me:eek:

emsywoo123

bumpy bump in case there is anything to add to loads of good advice already...........:)

Captain_Mainwaring_2

emsywoo123 wrote: »

My AST says at the end of tenenacy I must return
"furniture, fixtures and effects properly replaired, decorated and kep in accordance with the terms hereof....." so I guessed that meant painting?
and
"to clean the windows on a regular basis" does this mean inside and out!?!?

"does this mean inside and out?"

Do you just wash the inside of your underpants?

And one wonders why deposits don't get returned.