Please help re flat deposit

jennynoo

Wow, well done for reading all that! Seems so long ago now. Used to read this thread every day. Eager learner gave me the courage to take my ex-landlady to court. My ex-landlady kept £560 to buy herself a new sofa. It took a year to get to court then my landlady didn't show up so I won. That was last month but I'm still waiting to get my money back and I've asked for the bailiffs to go round to her house. She owes me over £900 now with all the fees and interest :rolleyes: I'm sure I will get the money soon.

Tori_Bellatrix

I read the thread last week and it took me over 2 day (on and off) to get through it .. What a saga ... I'm glad the LL finally got pinned down ...

Tori_Bellatrix

jennynoo wrote: »

Wow, well done for reading all that! Seems so long ago now. Used to read this thread every day. Eager learner gave me the courage to take my ex-landlady to court. My ex-landlady kept £560 to buy herself a new sofa. It took a year to get to court then my landlady didn't show up so I won. That was last month but I'm still waiting to get my money back and I've asked for the bailiffs to go round to her house. She owes me over £900 now with all the fees and interest :rolleyes: I'm sure I will get the money soon.

I'm glad you posted an update ... I did wonder what happened ... It was the Ikea sofa and it's dodgy arms if I remember correctly ...

jennynoo

That's the one! I drove past her house the other week and she had a nice chandelier in her front room (umm, could fetch a bit!!!) but yesterday when I drove past the blinds were closed.

Tori_Bellatrix

jennynoo wrote: »

That's the one! I drove past her house the other week and she had a nice chandelier in her front room (umm, could fetch a bit!!!) but yesterday when I drove past the blinds were closed.

It's amazing how 'some' landlords think they can do what they like with their tenants money .. I'm currently going through the same with my ex-LL (as of last week) as she has withheld my deposit for a new cooker and hob ... :mad:

I have a thread hanging around somewhere which I'm updating with progress ... I'm hoping it will be quite a short thread and I'll get my cash back soon ... but that might be just wishful thinking ....

Mrs_pbradley936

I thought I was seeing things when this thread popped up in my email! Good luck to anyone else fighting an unfair landlord.

clutton_2

Eagerlearner has been an inspiration to us all !!!! i may well have news of how she has inspired me in the fairly near future !!!

how is the new business going EL ? i do soooo hope u r still thriving and getting more work in ...


i think one CRUCIAL thing to be learnt from this thread is - if you are going to sue someone - then its best to keep EXCEPTIONALLY good records - every phone conversation, every email, every visit to where-ever needs to be documented at the time .....
b w EL and all those tenants who have tight-fisted mean LLs



(we're not all like that ! )

clutton

EagerLearner

Hi all, good to see familiar 'faces''! was also surprised to see new posts here and it's brought back many a bad (and good) memory from that full year! Wow what an experience and I am sure it's a life lesson that will serve me well. Good luck jennynoo and Tori with your challenges - I think it;s a good thing that landlords should learn they can't do this anymore. We now have a lovely landlord - she is fab and last week when our shower went, she installed a brand new one within 3 days and also signed us up for some sort of insurance that if anything went wrong with the shower, boiler or washing machine (anything machine involving water) there's a company who will come out asap. She also checked our fire alarm, something previous ll's have never even cared to think about. Naturally come this April we will renew again.

In terms of self-employment, one of my clients offered me a full time job in November which I accepted and started there in January as a Business Manager, lovely people and it's a British charity bottled water which is expanding rapidly because people are fed up of importing bottles of water from farflung places, from companies who don't give anything back. So all in all I feel very happy now, and still have 3 clients of my own which I work for 2 nights a week + saturday mornings.

Hope you are all well, and Clutton do let us know as soooooon as you have any news for us!

MissMoneypenny

EagerLearner wrote: »

We now have a lovely landlord - she is fab and last week when our shower went, she installed a brand new one within 3 days and also signed us up for some sort of insurance that if anything went wrong with the shower, boiler or washing machine (anything machine involving water) there's a company who will come out asap. She also checked our fire alarm, something previous ll's have never even cared to think about. Naturally come this April we will renew again.

I thought I was dreaming when I saw this thread on page 1 again:eek:

Hang on to that LL EagerLearner, she sounds like one of the rare ones. Where did you find her?

I am trying this renting lark since last summer as I moved areas, and rented while looking for something to buy (although that is on hold with the market the way it is now). The house I rent had lots wrong with it. Now it has a new boiler, all the electrics are tested and where it needed doing, rewired by a qualified electrician. Plus lots of other bits like the rubbish being removed from the garden, cooker and carpets being cleaned and a shed door.

EagerLearner

Hiya, funnily enough I found the place we're in now via Gumtree, plus she'd included pics, which sold the place to me right away. She's a kitchen designer, I spend alot of time in the kitchen = I loved the kitchen:smileyhea!

I often daydream about the what-ifs - like how our LL is doing in terms of fooling other tenants, whether the taxman ever got her, how it would have been had we all sent her the Xmas cards we all talked about