Terms of Business

freeride

Hi all

I'd like to run this scenario past the forum members to get different opinions.


If you hired the service of a well known letting agent who was providing you with a good service for 8 months. Then, out of the blue, the well known agent is bought by another letting agent who then started providing you with a terrible service.....

Do you think the Terms of Business of the first agent is valid?

Freeide.

theartfullodger

so, when you re-read the terms of business (NB do you have a signed exchange of terms of anything with the agent??) what does it say about change of ownership of the agency?? e.g. is it mentioned at all??

In the absence of any other info... if you had a valid contract before change of ownership you still have the same valid contract now.

However, if it was a vague agreement to terms with nothing formally agreed then probably a court would decide you had an agreement ... but who knows....

Alternatively if you are asking "If the quality of service is suddenly much worse has the contract been broken " then it would depend how the quality of service is described in the original contract...

However, I suspect you could anyway fire the agent.

I'd start by asking ...
a) Is the money still coming through on time?
b) Are the tenants happy?

All else disnae matter much in the scheme of things, IMHO..

cheers!

Lodger