Can the lettings management company do this?

MissMoneypenny

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Be prepared for them to argue over everything at deposit return - make sure you clean thoroughly and take lots of photos of everything.

Is there a dual-signed inventory?

And if you haven't got contents insurance with the optional extra of 'Legal Cover'; make sure you get it now before any problems arise. Making sure of course, that the Legal Cover doesn't have any exclusions for legal action against a landlord. Have you read the Legal Cover policies from DAS and ARAG?

MissMoneypenny

elsietanner71 wrote: »

Sorry, yes I did read all the previous advice. It's just the fact that they seem so confident they can do what they like that phased me.

Anyone can set themselves up as a landlord or letting agent; no qualifications or IQ test needed.

I doubt that many letting agents know what a housing laws is; even if it poked them in the eye:D

Uk_Lover

Op doesn't need to worry about a reference as they said they have bought somewhere so that irrelevant.
You've been very reasonable offering 3 viewings per week. Tell them to do one for any more and as others have said change the lock temporarily

FTBFun

jjlandlord wrote: »

Not so sure because a blanket refusal when the agreement provides for it would not only be a breach, it would seem rather unreasonable as well.
As a tenant I would not want to be sued for a month rent worth of compensation because I decided to refuse all viewings (which inevitably causes a loss of rent to the landlord since it creates a vacant period).

Damages (which would be the remedy) are there to compensate an individual for the loss suffered. I would still find it difficult for a landlord to prove that they've "lost" a month's rent due to a former tenant refusing all viewings (which of course they are perfectly entitled to do under the common law "right of enjoyment").

jjlandlord

tbs624 wrote: »

I would argue that a T offering alternative dates and times is a reasonable compromise and is unlikely to result in any loss to the LA/LL.

Exactly.

My point is that while a common advice given on this forum is that a tenant can disregard what's in his tenancy agreement and freely refuse all viewings this is probably not true and could be risky.

FTBFun wrote: »

Damages (which would be the remedy) are there to compensate an individual for the loss suffered. I would still find it difficult for a landlord to prove that they've "lost" a month's rent due to a former tenant refusing all viewings

As explained, it is obvious that if a tenant refuses all viewings he will cause a loss of rent to his landlord because of the vacant period created. That's a loss, and if it results from a breach of contract T could be sued (then it's up to the court to weight things up including whether parties acted reasonably).

FTBFun wrote: »

(which of course they are perfectly entitled to do under the common law "right of enjoyment").

As per my previous post, nothing in law say that they are entitles to that, or to disregard their tenancy agreement.