URGENT advice needed. Letting agent threatening to change locks on my door

GDB2222

pimento wrote: »

Please name these Letting Agents so we can all be agog at their professionalism.

Please do not name them. This is a moderated board, and both Martin and the moderators are at risk of a libel action. If you name the LAs, there is a very good chance this thread will be taken down.

angrypirate

GDB2222 wrote: »

Please do not name them. This is a moderated board, and both Martin and the moderators are at risk of a libel action. If you name the LAs, there is a very good chance this thread will be taken down.

Does a poster describing their experience with a named lettings agents consititute a risk of libel? All the poster has done is to describe how they have been treated by the LA.

puddy

im not sure how its different to me saying that i have had terrible service in sainsburys blah blah blah, whats the difference?

davilown

Time for my two pennies worth.

GDB2222, are you the letting agent because you are basically saying do as the letting agent says? Where on earth you got the feeling tha the op was being aggressive to the LA, I'll never know, as they only posed a question.

The LA are pee'd (any more e's required?) off with not getting their fees every year so they are looking for any excuse to get a new tenant in. Write to the LL and explain the situation to them.

With reference to the lock and fire door, I have no clue to fire regs, but don't give them a key until you move out as they have no legal right to access you flat without your permission.

silvercar

Let them take you to court and see them being kicked out by the judge. You have taken all reasonable steps to inform them of the change, they just ignored your communications.

The point is that OP is a tenant. The LL can decide to give notice by way of a correctly served S21 notice to leave at the end of the fixed term. If the S21 is served correctly it won't be "kicked out by the judge" as S21 is non-discretionary, so it will be the first step in OP having to move home.

All very well stamping your feet and enforcing your rights, but it is worth remembering that it is straightforward to get a tenant out at the end of a fixed term. The balance between being a co-operative tenant and an @rsey one can be the difference between keeping your home and being forced, at inconvenience and cost, to have to move home.

pimento

GDB2222 wrote: »

Please do not name them. This is a moderated board, and both Martin and the moderators are at risk of a libel action. If you name the LAs, there is a very good chance this thread will be taken down.

Sunhil (Sunny) Dhown of IRD Homes in Kingston would beg to differ.

DVardysShadow

t0rt0ise wrote: »

Of course it's a final exit door to the flat. Those rules apply to doors that aren't on the ground floor in which case it wouldn't apply to any. How many flats do you know where the communal exit door is a couple of floors up?

There is no 'of course about it. The link you have given refers to 2 different descriptions

• front home security door
• front/final exit door

in 2 different paragraphs. Now to my mind, in a block of flats, the final exit door is communal [from what little I know about flats] and is not the home security door. Now, if you can name the regulations,I am open to persuasion. But it has to be better than 'of course ...'.

lynzpower

pimento wrote: »

Sunhil (Sunny) Dhown of IRD Homes in Kingston would beg to differ.

A bump needed for that thread methinks

pimento

lynzpower wrote: »

A bump needed for that thread methinks

Coming up to student rental time again, methinks you are correct!

QuantumSuccess

The Section 8 notice has arrived. Hand delivered today. Ground 10 - breach of contract.

Ominously the letter accompanying the notice states:

"We will need to make regular visits to your property in case you abscond without communicating your intent to leave."

What is meant by the above line. I really think this situation is getting dangerously close to harassment and I'd like to know if I can bring action against the LA at this point. Presumably they mean they will be coming 'round and ringing my doorbell? Or even letting themselves into my flat?? How else would they know whether I had "absconded" or not?

The letter also states: "We will be successful in obtaining an Order for Possession (as against a Suspended Order for Possession). They also state that they are charging me £600 plus VAT for "the county court summons and steps up until a possession order is granted).