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Managing agent wants to backdate rent!!! HELP!
joAnn
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I moved into a rental in June 2006 it was supposed to be a 6 mth temp arrangement between a sale and purchase, but has dragged on. The very day I moved in was the same day that the neighbours started extensive building work on their new extension. All of this building work was unknown to me when I agreed to rent the flat. To cut a long story short, the landlord kindly agreed to reduce the rent for the duration of the works. The landlord/managing agent's surveyor was sent over in November to check the progress of the works. He was supposed to carry out his internal inspection with access via the neighbour's house, but they were out so he carried out his inspection externally over my garden fence.
I heard nothing about the result of the inspection and was under the impression that the work was still in progress, particularly as the builder was still there doing noisy work until just before Xmas. Last week, the managing agent called to tell me that the building work had infact been signed off by the surveyor in November and that I now owed the full original rent and this was to be backdated to November. This amounts to nearly a month's rent, which I just don't have sitting around. I would have budgeted if I knew this was going to happen. The builder also told me in December that the job had not at that time been signed off by the council's building control. I asked my neighbour if the surveyor had made a return visit, but he reported he hadn't comeback, but did send an email asking when the works were completed. The neighbour told the surveyor it was late October and that the builder had been back to work on 'snags' and a few unrelated jobs. Is this request for back dated rent fair? Will I have to pay back the money? I don't mind paying from now on, but am now worried this money I apparently owe will be taken from my deposit. I have written to the managing agent and raised my points. Is there anything I can do?
I heard nothing about the result of the inspection and was under the impression that the work was still in progress, particularly as the builder was still there doing noisy work until just before Xmas. Last week, the managing agent called to tell me that the building work had infact been signed off by the surveyor in November and that I now owed the full original rent and this was to be backdated to November. This amounts to nearly a month's rent, which I just don't have sitting around. I would have budgeted if I knew this was going to happen. The builder also told me in December that the job had not at that time been signed off by the council's building control. I asked my neighbour if the surveyor had made a return visit, but he reported he hadn't comeback, but did send an email asking when the works were completed. The neighbour told the surveyor it was late October and that the builder had been back to work on 'snags' and a few unrelated jobs. Is this request for back dated rent fair? Will I have to pay back the money? I don't mind paying from now on, but am now worried this money I apparently owe will be taken from my deposit. I have written to the managing agent and raised my points. Is there anything I can do?
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Ask them to at least show you a copy of some paperwork that shows the sign off date. Don't pay until you've seen it. This will differentiate between the bits of work you agreed a reduction for (major works) and the other jobs, even if they were noisy.
I take it none of this reduced rent scheme is in writing? If not then there's your problem. You have no proof that anything has been agreed to, unfortunately.
What about agreeing to pay the extra back in installments?Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery0
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