Help!..Homeless!!!Deceived by Lettings Agency/Landlord

rentergirl

People can give you any hope: you need legal advice, and you might have to pay fro a solicitor. Ask for a fixed fee interview, ask if Shelter can help, or get to your CAB FIRST THING in the morning.

alleycat`

OP, almost everyone on here will have some sympathy for your situation.

I'm not a LL, nor have I rented in more than a decade so i don't know the full ins and outs of what is or isn't "allowed".

Ignoring all of that:-

My advise to you is that you've lost sight of what matters right now and getting angry at the LL, LA or anyone on here is not going to help your current predicament.

Sort out your immediate problems, look for storage, scrabble around for a short term let or hotel and when you've sorted all that out and got settled in work then worry about the rest.

budgetdiyer

I run a letting agency myself and you can't tar everyone with the same brush, sadly some people act in strange ways.

I once had a landlord pull out of a letting 3 days before the move in because she could'nt bear to rent her lovely property (she used it as a weekend home), i pleaded the case of the proposed tenant (they were left with a very similar situation as yourself), but ultimately she refused to sign the agreement and there was not a jot i or anyone else could do.

(However i did ensure the tenants initial payment was refunded immediately and in full, and call round numerous agents / contacts to try and find an alternative house.)

Ironically 4 years later the lady got in touch today wanting us to let her house again.....which we have politely declined the opportunity.