Just want to leave..:'(

ray123

Rather than pay the fine, you could try to transfer Virgin Media to another address, perhaps parents or boyfriend. The fine is probably the outstanding amount on the contact, so worth changing the address (or negotiating as soot 2006 said). Just a thought.
If you leave without paying or sorting the bills out, it will leave a black mark on your credit file, which stays there for six years (is that right?).

sandraroffey

sounds like pest control may be a quick point of call as well. i would report this place to the council and your uni. and at the first instance!!! its not fit for human habitation. and dont tell anyone what you are doing. they may be start tarting it up before the inspectors arrive. just get on and do it. then you can take them court for your deposit. with your income it will probably be free. and take photos. LOTS of photos and guard them with your life. and records loud music etc. you will need it at a later date.xxx

RAS

ray123 wrote: »

If you leave without paying or sorting the bills out, it will leave a black mark on your credit file, which stays there for six years (is that right?).

Correct. Love, before you go and you do need to go, you must read and possibly photo the meters which are in your name, then phone the supplier and follow up with a letter. Give them the nightmare tenants name.

Wickedkitten

Your landlord is taking you for a ride darling. You only need to give one month notice to leave now that you are on a rolling contract, she has to give you two months notice if she wants you out.

sooz

itwasyou86 wrote: »

Last September I signed an assured shorthold tenancy agreement for 12 months. I am now 7 months into this agreement and cannot take living here much longer.

The OP has a 12 month fixed term.

tbs624

Wickedkitten wrote: »

Your landlord is taking you for a ride darling. You only need to give one month notice to leave now that you are on a rolling contract, she has to give you two months notice if she wants you out.

I agree with your first sentence ( for different reasons) but am not sure how you have come to the conclusion that that the OP is now on a Stat Periodic agreement?

Check back:

itwasyou86 wrote: »

Last September I signed an assured shorthold tenancy agreement for 12 months. I am now 7 months into this agreement ..............

it says in my contract that we can move out after 6 months if we give 2 months notice but then theres another bit that says if we do move out after the 6 months but before the end of the contract then we'll be liable to pay legal costs and letting fees etc of trying to rent the room out after we leave.

It would appear that she is still within the original Fixed Term and that her contract offers some sort of break clause, hence my earlier suggestion:

tbs624 wrote: »

.....As regards the contract and the break clause, can you post the full clause up on here?

It is usual for a break clause to require two month's notice from either side but when, and if, it can now be invoked depends on the wording within the contract: if, for example, it says that at six months, either party may give the required 2 months' notice then the OP has missed her opportunity to do so.


Edit: Sooz not there when I started

sooz

itwasyou86 wrote: »

Just after I went home for the Christmas holidays, one of the people living here moved out, she somehow put the gas and the electric in my name although that didn't concern me as it's pay as you go.
I was then (when I returned from my Christmas break home) pressured into having the Virgin Media put in my name, however this is not now a problem because my dad is helping me cover it and I can take it with me when I leave.

How could anyone have put any bills in your name? It is not possible. Call up the utility companies concerned, & say that you never consented to have these in your name. You also won't be able to put it into anyone else's name. If no-one agrees to have it in their name, & why would they , then you can try giving them your LL's name (whilst telling the companies that she is the LL).

sooz

It's early . I forgot about the badly written break clause. But it's so badly written it makes little sense.
OP - have you been to the student welfare office yet? Take your AST with you

tbs624

sooz wrote: »

It's early . I forgot about the badly written break clause. But it's so badly written it makes little sense...

The clause itself probably is badly written but until, and unless, the OP posts it up we won't know for definite - her interpretation of it is certainly less than clear

itwasyou86

Hey,
I've been looking into where to go and I'm going to the Uni welfare people on Thursday. I'm still stuck at the house at the moment with what I now believe is more a chest infection than a cold.

I'm sorry I didn't see your post about posting the full clause, I'll type it out now straight from the contract.

(5) (d) (i) If the tenant shall desire to determine the tenancy hereby created at or at any time after the end of the first six months thereof and shall give the Landlord not less that 60 days previous notice in writing of such desire the term hereby created shall upon expiry of the notice determine but without prejudice to any antecedent claim or breach or obligation.
(ii) If the tenant shall determine the tenancy hereby created pursuant to the provisions of (5)(d)(i) above the tenant shall on demand pay to the Landlord a proportion of the legal costs and/or letting agents fees incurred by the Landlord in connection with the creation of letting such proportion to be a calculation based on the ratio that the unexpired term of the tenancy bears to the length of the period from the commencement of the term to the date at which the notice of determination takes effect.