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small damage to door - astronomical deduction from deposit. Please help!
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1. If you haven't done so now make sure all your contact with the solicitor is in writing only. Preferably by letter but you can use email and post a first class letter to them with exactly the same content as the email to speed things up.
2. State in the email/letter that all replies are to be in writing.
3. And yes you can threaten to charge them for use of a solicitor and your additional costs.
However I would:
1. If the LL has a trustee and is bankrupt I would also cc copies of the letter to them with a covering letter stating that you may pay a reasonable amount towards the currently alleged damage, after you have been repaid in full as per your charging order and are provided with proof of any damage.
2. Threaten to report the solicitor to their professional body for misconduct if they contact you in any way apart from in writing.
This gets sillier and sillier. What is the point of any of that?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Thanks Olly - that's basically what I've done. I'll await a response and then take it from there0
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