Advise on damage caused by tenants

neverdespairgirl

olly300 wrote: »

Why do amateur landlords who post on here think all tenants want to live in squalor?

On this board generally the worst of both types are posted about. Most landlords and tenants don't have problems.

We are an example of happy LL and tenants. We pay our rent on time, do minor stuff to save the LL having the hassle of it, I've even sorted out the gas cert inspection (with the LL's agreement) and knocked the cost off the rent and forwarded the non-tenant copies. Of course we look after the flat - we live in it!

In return, we get no grief from the LL, no unexpected visits (in fact, one visit a year, with lots of notice at a time handy to us all), no quibbling when something genuinely does need mending.

neverdespairgirl

envelopes wrote: »

Oi, Its a business, not a bloody charity! he wouldn't have died if he hadn't have been a drug taking alcoholic.

Wow. You are all heart!

neverdespairgirl

When claiming deductions from a deposit, you can't better your own position.

So if you have a 10 year old carpet, and the tenant damages it, you can't charge them for a new carpet of the same spec.

A 10 year old carpet in a BTL is pretty much worthless, I'd have thought. And you seem to think so, as you were going to get rid anyway.

envelopes

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Wow. You are all heart!

No, I'm running a business!! Not a charity, not responsible for someone taking whatever, not responsible for anything other than the property - my property.

Had i have had no heart i'd have gone to his next of kin and aksed them for the money to repair the house 0- i didn't i took the loss - now tell me where i have no heart.

You a landlord are you?? You understand the business?? You happy to give your money away daily are you??

Doubt it.

envelopes

Doozergirl wrote: »

Did I miss a "Quick! Grabbit" for hallucinogens earlier?

I have read some of the strangest posts tonight. A landlord who charges £400 to drug addicts yet puts pure wool carpet in properties; The person who wants to know how you can tell that flooring hasn't been fitted under the skirting boards by the time someone's attached beading to it all. All topped by the person choosing their windows based on them letting in more light then the others that quoted..

And I have read some of the daftest answers - Finf me a drug addict who holds up their hands to their landlords and says "hey BTW I am a druggy, let me rent your house" unfortunately for the landlord, it is often one of those things that you find out after they have been offered a 6 months tenancy -

You'd be happy if someone walked into you home, !!!!ed and puked on your carept would you? Doesnt matter how much you paid for the carept - how old it is, would you want it cleaning?? I expect so.

And yep, i rent out some pretty decent properties, some bog standard and i find that the higher end tenants can cause just as much damage as those renting the lower rentals - and lets face it, someone has to offer those who can't afford much more than a basic rent the opportunity of a decent home -

read through posts properly and quit making crap assumptions cause you think you are clever.

And also, if you can get away from your own little selfish life, there is a whole country beyond central London where I expect you'd pay an arm and a leg for rental properties - travel North and rents are much cheaper and we make a lot less money from tenants - there is little in the way of ripping off tenants up here in the North.

Drea

lynn09 wrote: »

We might replace the flooring to a laminate anyway, (but we have not said anything to the tenants)

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lynn09 wrote: »

Carpet has been there for about 10 + years (again tenants don't know that)and we would have been looking to replace it at some point anyway.

don't make you sound very good at all.

real1314

You don't see many threads where someone damages someone elses property and people say that they have no moral responsibility to pay for the damage.
And people actually say the owner is scum for thinking about asking for some sort of recompense.

Is there any other scenario where this would happen?

What about an old car that's only worth £250 but someone puts a big dent in the wing. It'll cost £150 to put right, almost half the car's worth. But it doesn't even affect the value by £10. Would you say "ah, forget it, it doesn't matter" ??

And if they gave you the money for the repair but you decided to not have the repair and bank the money towards a new car (you were thinking of buying a new car); Would that make you scum?

Doozergirl

envelopes wrote: »

read through posts properly and quit making crap assumptions cause you think you are clever.

Is that the sound of a goat clattering over your bridge? :rolleyes:

envelopes

Lynne,

Its your house, its your carpet, you don't have to tell your tenants anything, it is non of their business. If you want to fit laminate then do so, i don't think that it is ethical to charge them for the carept because you allowed the pets - renting property is a learning curve - i remember my first tenants telling me that their last landlord wouldn't allow them to put up picture hooks so that they could hang pictures and i said that they could make themselves at home - wen they'd gone and there were nails hammered in at different levels on every single wall and they had painted the living room deep purple covering the carpet in splodges of purple paint and also painting all the woodwork in emulsion i recognised that a strict tenancy was needed for future.

It is your home and it is your business, TBH i'd leave the carept until after they have vacated and then lay laminate - i don't think that you can expect them to pay for any part of a new carpet - i have lovely carepts that are over 10 years old - you get what you pay for.

I loose more some years than i make on my property, i hate the business, it is hard work and there merely because we do not pay into a pension because we are both self employed - one of the properties used to be my home hence the very expensive carpet.........

But it really doesn't matter what your tenants know But you can't really make them pay for new floor but you can ask them to pay to have the current carpet cleaned and really only when they are due to move out.

You could write to them now though and explain that you are not happy about their cat shoiting on your carpet and they either get their cat trained or you ask them to get rid of the cat or them to move out whichever they prefer really.

Good luck.

envelopes

Doozergirl wrote: »

Is that the sound of a goat clattering over your bridge? :rolleyes:

Nahhh I thought that was you.