Will i be taken to court?

rodneyuplonker

Hi, it was due to start from the 23rd of july

rodneyuplonker

have not moved in

Wee_Willy_Harris

rodneyuplonker wrote: »

Hi, it was due to start from the 23rd of july

And when did you tell them you weren't taking the tenancy?

rodneyuplonker

Its was around the 8th of july

Leory

you signed the contract so it looks like you're stuck into it im afriad.

but i'm confused. you say you dont want the flat because they have messed you around - You obviously wanted the flat and the only additional cost (apart from the LA costs which you would have known about) is an extra weeks rent. i work this out at around £125. This is only slightly more than the £110 re-letting fees that you have paid!

surely you need a place to live? and it looks like you may have to pay the rent anyway, so why dont you just move in?

tell me i am wrong, but it sounds to me like you have other reasons for not wanting the property and are using the LA's actions as an excuse.

tbs624

rodneyuplonker wrote: »

The original rent was advertised at £465 so i paid the deposit of £200 to take the flat off the market but i was later told this was a mistake and it was suppossed to be £495 which i agreed was ok. But when i went to sign the contract the bond had gone up because it was based on the rent price. Also because i was not moving in on the 1st of the month i had to pay a extra weeks rent because the letting company only took monthly rent payments on the 1st. (No one told me this, if they did i would have moved in on the 1st) and to top it off there was also £200 fees from the letting company.

It doesn't help you now but it may help someone else reading the thread who may face a similar mess up by an LA/LL. This is the point at which you say "you have misled me, return my "holding deposit" in its entirety" and then you walk away from this particular property/LL/LA. LAs can be downright dodgy but you have to safeguard yourself and your money. Don't simply say "no-one told me" - ask the question! "Please provide a written breakdown of all the financial implications of this let - deposit, rent, admin fees, renewal fees....." Don't sign anything yourself, or hand over any money to the LA/LL ,until you have this info and are happy with what you will be committing yourself to.

No training, qualifications, specific experience are required to set up in business as an LA and a fair few of them seek to make up the rule book as they go along.

rodneyuplonker wrote: »

I went to sign the contract on my break at work and rushing so i wasnt late back and being a bit of a soft touch i signed it with all the charges and increased payments in front of me.

So having been effectively "rooked" by them over the actual rent/deposit figure you then complete everything "in a rush"?

rodneyuplonker wrote: »

I didnt pick this flat because it was in a nice area or because was my dream home. I picked it because before it was what i could afford.

Why carry on with signing on the dotted line once you realised the costs had changed?

rodneyuplonker wrote: »

All they checked for references was my wage and last few addresses. I havent lived at the address they hold for me for at least 2 months.

You will be traceable.

rodneyuplonker wrote: »

2 days after signing the contract i told them i couldn't afford it and paid the re-listing fee. It is advertised on 1 website but when you click through to the letting agency site it is not there because of some "technical hitch" that won't allow them to put it back on. Also they failed to put it in the local paper 3 weeks in a row. So i have no idea what the re-letting fee has been spent on.

Write to them (&keep a copy) State that you have paid the advertising fee on the grounds that they do actually readvertise the property and ask them to confirm to your in writing what efforts have been made to date. If you think that they are deliberately failing to get on with finding a new T talk to (a) the Council's Trading Standards Officer and (b) the Council's Private Sector Rentals Team