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Please help! RENTED FLAT PROBLEM

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  • BitterAndTwisted
    BitterAndTwisted Posts: 22,492 Forumite
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    The landlord cannot increase the rent during a fixed-term agreement. Few students would be daft enough to sign a six month one and then be forced to find alternative accommodation in spring when all of the most decent properties will have already been let. So I suspect that your son has signed a 12 month agreement. Therefore no rent increase regardless of what maintenance and repairs are required.
  • SUSIEQ
    SUSIEQ Posts: 9 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Thanx Bitter, one less thing to worry about !
  • DannyboyMidlands
    DannyboyMidlands Posts: 1,880 Forumite
    SUSIEQ wrote: »
    Of course he read what he was signing ,we're not stupid but we're not experts when it comes to loop holes available to LL's. I seeked advice not sarcasm Danny !

    Calm down dear.

    I don't think that he read it and is just relying on you to deal with stuff for him. Time to cut the apron strings methinks. The tenancy agreement isn't rocket science, just a list of each parties rights and responsibilities.
  • SUSIEQ
    SUSIEQ Posts: 9 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Thanx for your imput Danny dear and of course you're right, all mothers should stop trying to help their kids when they go to uni, silly me !
  • pimento
    pimento Posts: 6,243 Forumite
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    SUSIEQ wrote: »
    Thanx for your imput Danny dear and of course you're right, all mothers should stop trying to help their kids when they go to uni, silly me !

    This is one thing about this forum that annoys me sometimes. The assumption that once the fruit of your loins reaches their 16th birthday that they should be cast adrift to fend for themselves.

    I've been laughingly told to 'cut the apron strings, mummy', a few times for asking for opinions and assistance on behalf of my university aged son.

    Well done to all those lucky people who have managed to do it without recourse to advice from their parents. I still value the advice given to me by my mum and dad and I'm in my 50s.

    Not everyone's parents are mollycoddlers, you know!
    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair
  • poppysarah
    poppysarah Posts: 11,522 Forumite
    pimento wrote: »
    I still value the advice given to me by my mum and dad and I'm in my 50s.

    Not everyone's parents are mollycoddlers, you know!


    You do make your own mind up though, don't you?
  • Benji
    Benji Posts: 640 Forumite
    Can you tell us, is the property your son is in a converted flat, or a purpose built one?

    If it is a conversion, how many storeys are in the full building and how many 'flats'?

    Are there only the 2 of them in their flat?

    FWIW when my son goes to Uni in 2013 I shall be a nightmare to the landlord if he doesn't play by the rules ;)
    Life should be a little nuts; otherwise it's just a bunch of Thursdays strung together.
  • pimento
    pimento Posts: 6,243 Forumite
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    poppysarah wrote: »
    You do make your own mind up though, don't you?

    Yes, of course. They pass the benefit of their experience to me and I try to do the same to my son.

    It doesn't always work though. ;)
    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair
  • SUSIEQ
    SUSIEQ Posts: 9 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Hi Benji
    In answer to your question my son has just started his third year at uni.The flat is in a purpose built block of three stories with twelve two bedroom flats.He shares it with a friend.

    Pimento
    Agree with everything you said :beer:
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