Please help student moving house

theartfullodger

poppet16 wrote: »

Hi yes they all 3 tennants had to have a guarantor although we never saw a contract just a sheet of paper to sign for the guarantor

Oh good! The only bit of good news I've seen (I hope..) for some time here...

We won't know for sure until it (if it does) gets to court but the general advice to landlords regarding guarantees is that
a) They must be enacted as a "Deed" and witnessed..
b) Are only valid if guarantor has seen tenancy & can be proved to have seen tenancy... so LLs are told to get guarantor to sign a copy

See.. (eg)
http://www.letmerlin.co.uk/_forms/1188082678Deed_of_Guarantee-Unlimited.pdf

IN WITNESS whereof the Guarantor has executed this instrument as a deed the
day and year first above mentioned.
Dated 200
THE GUARANTOR’S SIGNATURE MUST BE WITNESSED
Signed and Delivered as
here)
a Deed by the Guarantor(s)
in the presence of

Still leaves each of the tenants liable for the whole 12-months rent tho...


Best of luck...

Artful

neverdespairgirl

poppet16 wrote: »

Hello the tenancy says its a assured shorthold tennancy for 1 year between brudenell properties limited
They all had to sign the tennancy together and it says 'the tennants shall be jointly and severally responsible for all rents payable under this agreement and for all other obligations imposed by the agreement'
I am not sure what this means ?

It means each tenant is liable for all the rent, not 1/3rd of it each.

tbs624

It also means that all 3, or each T individually, may be held liable for any other breaches of the contract/damage to the property etc

poppet16 - has your daughter spoken to the (a) the LL, since the change of locks (b) the Uni Accomms Officer or (c) the Council's private sector tenancy relations officer?

poppet16_2

Hi yes she has contacted the LL twice and only got voicemail and left two messages,i have e mailed them twice and we still havent got any keys.She contacted the universty and they put her in touch with the student union who said as its a private LL they couldnt get involved.We did sign a guarantor which was faxed through to us and my neighbour witnessed,but we never received a tennancy agreement.
I would just like to thank all the genuine people for there advice

RAS

Hi

Was your daughter in Leeds? If so, she might get some help from the UNipol web-site http://www.unipol.org.uk/Leeds/IFS/Contracts/default.asp

Unfortunately, it does not appear that brudenell Properties are Unipol Code landlord, as this would ahve given her a lot more support.

She needs to WRITE to the landlord urgently, registered post.