Urgent - Leaving A Rented Room

BitterAndTwisted

If I knew I was responsible for the damage I would not formally pursue the deposit and I would let this landlady retain it, but in view of her outrageous behaviour I wouldn't admit anything either verbally or in writing. Paying someone to replace a broken tile on a floor like that is not an inexpensive job.

ladymarmalade1970

What a cow the LL is!!! I really hope you do get your deposit back...

stokie21

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

If I knew I was responsible for the damage I would not formally pursue the deposit and I would let this landlady retain it, but in view of her outrageous behaviour I wouldn't admit anything either verbally or in writing. Paying someone to replace a broken tile on a floor like that is not an inexpensive job.

Thats the best part, my mom offered to get it done and the landlady said No!!

just so she could rip her off !

Sambucus_Nigra

Get her to take photos before she leaves - of everything!

dancingfairy

I can see your thinking and it might be worth doing as a backup strategy if she can do some without the landlady knowing. I guess though without a signed inventory the state of the property is irrelevant though and trying to take pictures might cause more problems with the landlady.
Hopefully one of the experts can advise further whether it is worth taking photos as a back up or not.
df

RAS

Since mum was evicted at three hours notice, days before the tenancy was due to end, photos are a bit irrelevant now.

stokie21

:beer:

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Get her to take photos before she leaves - of everything!

lol thanks for the post m8, but if you had chace to read it all you would see she was kicked out !!

photos were took

:beer:

Sambucus_Nigra

RAS wrote: »

Since mum was evicted at three hours notice, days before the tenancy was due to end, photos are a bit irrelevant now.

Not if she tips orange juice over the carpet after the OP's mum has gone.....

Sambucus_Nigra

stokie21 wrote: »

:beer:


lol thanks for the post m8, but if you had chace to read it all you would see she was kicked out !!

photos were took

:beer:

Sorry - I thought it was for 9pm tonight!

Never mind....

RAS

stokie21 wrote: »

Done, Just got a reply back from LL

" please contact our lawyer as you have no deposit pending"

"Dear Cow

Further to your recent text messages, I remind you that I paid you £200 deposit as witnessed by the agreement signed by yourself and myself and £100 rent on (date) for the week ending 5 February.

Following my verbal notice (date) indicating that I intended to leave on (date), you inspected the room and indicated a number of things that you considered to be "damage" and recorded these in a note book. I was very (what ever mum felt) and agreed that I would try to remedy these problems, even though I was uncertain as to whether I was responsible for any or all of the "damage".

Since no inventory was taken when I moved in, I doubt if either of us could accurately recall the state of the room when I moved in. Since I was evicted at three hours notice, I was not even given the opportunity to clean the room before my departure.

I do not therefore believe that you have any right to make any deductions for damage and I doubt a law court would support you.

Please make arrangments to return £229 (the deposit plus two nights rent) within 10 days."

Something like that anyway.