Letting agent requiring use of overpriced services?

paddyrg

Your actual landlord might be as shocked as you are over these ridiculous tactics - you have his address on your tenancy, let him know that the agent has sprung a bunch of overpriced and unjustifiable terms on youwhich substantially alter the terms of the lease and so you will not be the long term good tenants the LL probably hopes for. £10/week for inspection? Horseballs. £120 for leccygas - blimey, my bills are more like £60 between them. Broadband and phone - use a mobile and surf at lunchtime at work/at a cybercafe.

Fancy naming and shaming the letting agent?

deanos

sounds like they are scamming you

Jeff_Bridges_hair

im amazed at reading this thread and have no advice other then what has been said but £200 for the TV license? thats way above the actual price of a license and surely is unenforceable in itself.



Ive thrown a link onto the house board for the OP so people can see it fi9rst thing in the morning and hopefully offer some help.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/52757889#Comment_52757889

CreepyJim

We are also having to look after the letting agent's cow, which lives in the back garden. We are required to ensure it is fed and looked after at all times, even though it is not our cow.

debsue

deanos wrote: »

sounds like they are scamming you

Sounds like the OP is scamming us!

debsue

CreepyJim wrote: »

We are also having to look after the letting agent's cow, which lives in the back garden. We are required to ensure it is fed and looked after at all times, even though it is not our cow.

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antrobus

arcon5 wrote: »

To be honest, if these services and costs are listed in the contract I can't see how it can be deemed "unfair" or unenforceable...

The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contract Regulations 1999 apply to contracts relating to land. The OFT have even published a document entitled 'Guidance on Unfair Terms in Tenancy Agreements' see http://www.oft.gov.uk/shared_oft/reports/unfair_contract_terms/oft356.pdf

They state that "If you think that any of the standard terms in a consumer contract are unfair you can contact the OFT at the address below or your local trading standards service."

debsue

Is the cow in the contract?

duchy

debsue wrote: »

Is the cow in the contract?

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Anyone got a cloth -need to clean my screen !

Re the TV licence I'd give licencing a call and find out if that's even legal-I suspect if you buy your own it's not enforcable anyway -after all if you had one before you'd simply be transferring it to the new address mid year.

CoolHotCold