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Tenant - Please help.
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            devils_advocate wrote: »As everybody knows, RainMaker, the jobsworths don't have the wit to think for themselves. So when the Toilet Flush Performance Regulations 2010 come into force, we'll all know who to blame.
 Are there not already strict guidelines on water usage systems in new builds?
 One London council proclaimed no baths in new properties didn't they?0
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            ""LL has just text to say she's trying to sort problems ""
 so do you take back any of the insults you hurled at your new LL ??
 - why? what did i say to insult her?
 Do you know her then is that you ur so bothered?
 i dont think this poster is anywhere near as "vulnerable" as she is making out here
 how do u know? do u know me?
 I cronic pelvic disease and have problems with my tummy and have had to have many operations and I on Morphine (200mg) I still care for my mom as that's the type of person I am.
 Even though i'm poorly my mom means the world to me and I do my best to help her. She comes before my illness.
 I am pregnant, but no it wasn't planned. I was told I couldn't have anymore children. I then found out I was pregnant and then that my Husband has been unfaithful during his leave whilst in Iraq. I am doing my dam best to provide and be a good mommy to my 3 year old, baby inside my tummy and to care for my mom who has MS.
 I came on here to ask a question and didn't expect to be have my feelings hurt and be made to feel as if I've done something wrong, when I haven't
 - I have posted this personal info as you're ripping my character apart and you know nothing about me, my mom, children or illness. I put what i did to merly give an insight to my situation not for you to use it against me.
 in 2005 she posted
 - yea 2005! 5 years ago. My illness didn't begin until about 9 months after I had my son.
 Oh my word how can you search through my old threads from 2005 just to use it against me as another dig at my situation.
 ""so I should be able to claim:
 From March will be caring full time for mom who gets middle rate.
 Child Tax Credits: Higher rate as lone parent -
 My husband and I we're going through a seperation trial as he was suffering from post-traumatic stress from losing his best friend (my best friends partner) in Afghanistan and he needed time alone.
 - I shouldn't even have to explain this to you.
 Working TC - until March when mat pay finishes
 Carers Allowance - from March when my mom's carers finshes and I take over full time
 Income Support - from march - when claiming carers + Carer's Premium
 Where do I claim all these from? 
 How much roughly is each? " "
 Clearly she knows exactly how to organise her own life in many respects.
 I haven't once said I don't know how to orgnise my own life.
 So why in the hell would you go onto my profile and search all my old posts from 5 years ago just so you can make another dig at me.
 You do not know me at all and have no right to keep making remarks and having a go me, even after I've asked you several times to stop it.
 I have not been spiteful towards you so please stop it.
 You seem like a bully?
 I won't be bullied by you on this site so please stop it.
 You're so keen to defend my LL who you don't even know and don't care how or what you say. Hurtful or not to me. Hurtful or not to me.
 i think this young woman simply likes to blame other people for her misfortunes.
 How do i do that? I haven't blamed anyone for my own misfortunes. You seem to get pleasure for using my misfortunes to be cruel to me though
 Almost everyone on this thread, and the other locked one, seem to have entirely lost sight of the fact that all the complaints she made were within 24 hours of signing the Tenancy agreement and before the LL had chance to reply
 You lost sight of my question when you started picking at my situation and then starting quoting from a thread for 2005 which is nothing to do with any of this and you had no right to do that.
 I haven't been nasty to you so please stop been nasty towards me. 
 If yoy come to a forum, expect a variety of answers - you may not like them all
 I kindly asked you to please stop simply using this thread as I way to hurt someone you do not know.
 Just because you are a Landlord and don't have the same opinions as me it doesn't give you right to then be nasty. 
 Please, please stop this now Clutton0
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            Why did you sign the contracts and pay the money then? You sould have confirmed that she agreed to do all of the above first. If someone came into a house of mine and stated that the carpet needed replacing as it was disgusting they would immediately get my back up.
 She asked me to look around the house to make sure everything was as I expected. Also she'd given me her word she would repair everything.
 I told her the carpet needed replacing as it was disgusting and stained all over, the house needed painting as there's marks all over walls and there's a bad leak in the bathroom which has marked cellings so a plumber is needed. I old tenant has since told me she has been trying to get the LL to repair it but didn't Also there's a leak in he en-suite which has stained the flooring. You cannot use the main bathroom as I could see where the leak was coming from and I'm worried the celling could collapse and I can't risk myself or son being hurt.
 I didn't mean or want to get her back up I was just being honest by what i thought needed doing before moving in
 CLAIRE0
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            :rolleyes: Not sure what the purpose of your post was WW, other than to vent your own spleen perhaps? We probably don't have anywhere near the full picture but, on the face of it, here is a LL who has treated the previous tenant shoddily, who seemed content to re-let the property in a less than decent condition & hasn't, as a bare minimum, shown a gas safety cert to the OP as required by law ...... Now, no matter how rude you may think the OP has been in response to some of the posts on here (& let's remember that she does seem to have a fair bit of pressure on her ) it does not mean that she "deserves" a LL who fails their tenants in this way.
 Thank again tbs624. You talk sense and I totally agree with you.
 With regards to people thinking I put rude posts in was in reply to certain poster just ventening their anger at me being upset with my LL. They don't know me but found it easy to be nasty.
 Never mind though, I really don't want to upset or anooy anyone on here, just want to knw what my rights are.
 Thank you again for trying to stick up for me. You're a very nice, kind person
 God - Bless xx0
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            poppysarah wrote: »Because some of us are really gullible and believe landlords when they make promises.
 It's got to be beaten out of you by years of being lied to and abused by people.
 Hear hear! x0
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 :T :T :T :T :T""LL has just text to say she's trying to sort problems ""
 so do you take back any of the insults you hurled at your new LL ??
 i dont think this poster is anywhere near as "vulnerable" as she is making out here
 in 2005 she posted
 ""so I should be able to claim:
 From March will be caring full time for mom who gets middle rate.
 Child Tax Credits: Higher rate as lone parent
 Working TC - until March when mat pay finishes
 Carers Allowance - from March when my mom's carers finshes and I take over full time
 Income Support - from march - when claiming carers + Carer's Premium
 Where do I claim all these from? 
 How much roughly is each? " "
 Clearly she knows exactly how to organise her own life in many respects.
 i think this young woman simply likes to blame other people for her misfortunes.
 Almost everyone on this thread, and the other locked one, seem to have entirely lost sight of the fact that all the complaints she made were within 24 hours of signing the Tenancy agreement and before the LL had chance to reply
 If yoy come to a forum, expect a variety of answers - you may not like them all0
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            Wicked_witch wrote: »If you were so hurt by what clutton said to you, why on earth quote it all again? Paticularly as you have not made it clear what remarks from you s/he was replying to, or any of the helpful and sensible words s/he also contibuted...
 Silly of me probably but i justed wanted them to read as i didn't wanna seem as if i was trying to cause bad vibes. If i post anything that hurt Clutton then i'm sorry for that but i didn.t what i put was a reply to her comments.
 Having read the previous thread (and I suggest everyone else does too), I think the landlord is in fact rather more difficult than she appeared from the first post, but considering the abuse you gave everyone who suggested you also had some responsibilities in this situation, I am also tempted to think you both have the counterpart you deserve...
 I argee the LL has been more difficult but i didn't want to put anything else about her as i got not nice comments the last time. I'm only being honest and telling the whole strong. I hope the LL and I can sort things out. I don't like to fall out with anyone and will always say sorry if im in the wrong.
 The landlord has text today stating:
 LL has just text to say she's trying to sort problems and i will have to just wait till she has time to fix them. I move in 17th so hope she finds time before then. I wish I'd just moved in 5th when I paid the firstmonth rent and desposit 4th, i was just trying to be helpful by giving her time to sort them out.
 Thank you very much for your posts and help xx :T0
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            There is nothing wrong with you asking for the keys now.
 You should get them and go and take pictures of the state of the place.
 Ask for the gas safety certicicate and the EPC.
 Take a friend with you if possible when you pick the keys up. It'll just make you feel better having someone with you.
 The plce will be fine. The landlord has maybe not done what they should have done re: keys/GC/epc - but once you've got these you can move in and sort it out.
 If she won't replace the carpet make sure you take photos. Seriously. Even if you have to buy a disposable camera to do it - then BUY A RUG! You don't have to look a her carpet - a big rug won't cost you loads and you can pick one you like and take it with you when you move.
 Then get on with rebuilding your life and looking after yourself and your kids. 0 0
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 So a T asking you about something which you are legally obliged to provided - the EPC- would be seen by you as one who "kicked up a fuss"? Are you one of those LLs who'd invoke the old S21 at the earliest opportunity when a T raised any query during their tenancy ?......... If the Tenant kicked up a fuss I'd rather give them 200 quid rather than pay some herbert to tell me I don't have double glazing. If you were a Tenant which would you prefer ?.
 Do you actually tell the T about your offer of a 200 quid "bung" from the start Rainmaker, or just keep quiet and hope the T does too?
 What's to stop the T trousering your "donation" and still reporting you to the Trading Standards people later on?;)0
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            ""why? what did i say to insult her? ""
 since you
 "" have re-worded and amended a few things, better worded them as to not make people mad like before""
 we now dont know do we ??0
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