Inventory Update

poppysarah

Just reading something that made me think:
Can you alter the inventory once it's been signed?
Say the landlord decorates a room, or changes a carpet because they were very worn for instance...

It'd be madness to allow the tenant to return them to the state they were in at the start of the tenancy, so I assume you can update the inventory

so it'd go:
original: carpet old and worn, wallpaper tatty

amend to: carpet replaced with new on x/x/x and repapered on x/x/x

What's the process for that? Just get the tenant to acknowledge the changes have been made by way of an amendment? And what if they didn't sign to say the changes had been made? They could then scruff it up and because the original one is binding then the landlord is screwed?

chappers

Yep just add it into the inventory ands both sign and keep a copy.

Fire_Fox

An inventory is a snapshot of a moment in time .... If a landlord wished to lay a new carpet or redecorate they'd need to confirm access arrangements with the tenant; I am big on confirming formal agreements in writing. So the landlord would end up with an invoice for the work and a copy of the letter to the tenant - I would think these would be taken into consideration if there was a dispute? I would say this works both ways - sometimes tenants wish to redecorate, as long as this is agreed in writing I wouldn't have thought the landlord could later ask for a repaint on the basis of an inventory (unless the quality of the work was very poor or the colour not what was agreed).

poppysarah

Fire_Fox wrote: »

I am big on confirming formal agreements in writing. So the landlord would end up with an invoice for the work and a copy of the letter to the tenant - I would think these would be taken into consideration if there was a dispute? I would say this works both ways - sometimes tenants wish to redecorate, as long as this is agreed in writing I wouldn't have thought the landlord could later ask for a repaint on the basis of an inventory (unless the quality of the work was very poor or the colour not what was agreed).

Ah that's another valid point. The paper trail is the way to do it I guess, with both.