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Dog in rented flat - admin charges. Help!

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  • MissMoneypenny
    MissMoneypenny Posts: 5,324 Forumite
    edited 31 May 2010 at 10:31PM
    My landlord had agreed we can have a dog (yay)

    Just get the landlord to put that in writing by either sending you an email/letter, or by you sending the landlord an agreement to sign and return (enclose an SAE). Job done.
    RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
    Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.


  • Just get the landlord to put that in writing by either sending you an email/letter or by you sending the landlord an agreement to sign and return (enclose an SAE). Job done.

    And £117 worth of dog food saved!!
  • Fire_Fox
    Fire_Fox Posts: 26,026 Forumite
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    Complex legal work would obviously cost more than £117 as I have eluded to but I won't mention the 'B' word so as not to 'Bang on'. I am not trying to frighten the OP that is a rIdiculous suggestion.

    ... it's a small price to pay in the scheme of 16 years or so of Dog ownership, its vaccinations will cost more than £100 to start with.

    If the tenant decides to change the terms of their agreement for whatever reason the Managing Agent is perfectly at liberty to charge an admin fee. Whether that's £1, £10, £1000 or a bag of magic beans. If the tenant doesn't like it then find another property (that will take a Dog).

    If I wanted a Dog and was then allowed to keep one in a property where it previously wasn't allowed and I knew that when I took on the property I wouldn't complain about the charge.

    People in glass houses should not throw stones. It is 'alluded to' and the word dog should not have a capital letter. :p
    Declutterbug-in-progress.⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️
  • moromir
    moromir Posts: 1,854 Forumite
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    edited 1 June 2010 at 12:50PM
    And one of those services is tenancy management. A service that they have already been paid to provide. I would have thought that an enquiry from the tenant, following by clarification from the LL would come under this already well rewarded heading.

    Major assumptions and speculation about the remit of the Letting Agent's services! Exactly what the LA does and does not provide for their fee is simply not known to the tenant and therefore it makes little sense to make assumptions.

    Quite frankly I would proceed with caution with all these suggestions of contacting the Landlord direct. Mine are lovely, but told me in no uncertain terms that I would need to make any requests through the LA for any changes to my tenancy, simply because they really arn't clued up on letting and the various laws (and the implications of getting it wrong) and also because they didn't want to come off as undermining their agent who in all fairness, has been very good to the both of us.
  • Wee_Willy_Harris
    Wee_Willy_Harris Posts: 7,512 Forumite
    moromir wrote: »
    Major assumptions and speculation about the remit of the Letting Agent's services! Exactly what the LA does and does not provide for their fee is simply not known to the tenant and therefore it makes little sense to make assumptions.

    Quite frankly I would proceed with caution with all these suggestions of contacting the Landlord direct. Mine are lovely, but told me in no uncertain terms that I would need to make any requests through the LA for any changes to my tenancy, simply because they really arn't clued up on letting and the various laws (and the implications of getting it wrong) and also because they didn't want to come off as undermining their agent who in all fairness, has been very good to the both of us.

    Just a quick leap back to reality.... The tenant asked the LL if they could have a dog, the landlord says they can. Hardly a difficult issue to deal with. But, according to some, it needs a barrister AND a car mechanic and the £117 of the tenants hard earned that the LA shovels into its till seems to be perfectly justified. Even !!!!!! Turpin had the decency to wear a mask!!!
  • Milliewilly
    Milliewilly Posts: 1,081 Forumite
    Just a quick leap back to reality.... The tenant asked the LL if they could have a dog, the landlord says they can. Hardly a difficult issue to deal with. But, according to some, it needs a barrister AND a car mechanic and the £117 of the tenants hard earned that the LA shovels into its till seems to be perfectly justified. Even !!!!!! Turpin had the decency to wear a mask!!!


    Justified or not they are entitled to charge it and they have. I don't work for Romans either.

    As your comments are directed at me you have made yourself look a total idiot with your childish humour. Anyone reading this thread with half a brain can clearly read that I have not recommended a barrister and / or a car mechanic

    Anyone who posts any issues with a Surveyor will now not have the benefit of my extensive knowledge and legal dealings on the subject and can cry into their valuation as people (on here) wrongly tell them they only had a valuation so its their fault.

    I'm off.
  • Vampgirl
    Vampgirl Posts: 622 Forumite
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    Looking at Romans website they appear very professional and open till 9pm weekdays and all day Saturday and Sunday someone is going to have to pay for all that. Fancy websites and offices in Berkshire / Surrey etc don't come cheap.
    Having had personal experience of Romans (along with several other close friends) I can assure you that their website gives a totally false impression ;)

    From the tenant's point of view they are one of the worst agencies around here for renting...their application fees are very high, their contracts contain a fair few terms that would probably be deemed unfair (eg. requiring 2 months notice from tenants, requiring tenants to have their utilities supplied by Spark Energy) and they do love to charge tenants £100 plus VAT for pretty much anything. So it doesn't surprise me that the OP has had issues with them.
  • bebewoo
    bebewoo Posts: 622 Forumite
    I would tell your landlord about the charges if I were you.
    I let out a house and would be very annoyed if I found out that my agency were charging my tenants and making contract amendments every time they asked for something. (Mind you they keep asking for things so that can't be the case!).
    I pay my agency a hefty monthly fee to act as a go-between between myself and the tenants, so they shouldn't be charging extra for normal requests like this.
    A standard tenancy agreement usually says you can't keep pets without the landlord's permission, but a letter from your landlord IS permission. It's quite sneaky of Roman's to draw up a non-standard agreement so they can then then charge to alter it, this must happen a lot, it's a nice little earner for them.
  • Wee_Willy_Harris
    Wee_Willy_Harris Posts: 7,512 Forumite
    Justified or not they are entitled to charge it and they have. I don't work for Romans either.

    As your comments are directed at me you have made yourself look a total idiot with your childish humour. Anyone reading this thread with half a brain can clearly read that I have not recommended a barrister and / or a car mechanic

    Anyone who posts any issues with a Surveyor will now not have the benefit of my extensive knowledge and legal dealings on the subject and can cry into their valuation as people (on here) wrongly tell them they only had a valuation so its their fault.

    I'm off.

    Half OF a brain.
  • mufi
    mufi Posts: 656 Forumite
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    Half OF a brain.

    Not taking sides or anything, but you're wrong:cool:.
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