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Check out - charging for replacing the sofas?

pimento · 2013-08-01 07:44:29

My son and his three friends moved out of their student house on July 1st and have just received a list of things the landlord will be taking out of their deposit. When they moved in the old house had just been redecorated (in white) and all the furniture was IKEA value range. In the sitting room were two cream IKEA Klobo…

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wannahouse Posts: 381 Forumite

3 August 2013 at 10:30PM

ValHaller wrote: »

Everyone gets that, OP gets it.

All apart from the sofas, which LL knew from the outset were only fit for one year in a student rental. Which is all this thread is about.

well, i don't agree with one year being the lifespan if care was taken, as i mentioned, we had these in a rental property, so we made jolly sure we didn't mark them by taking precautions as there was no way we wanted to lose any bone, and when we moved out after 1.5 years, they did not look brand new, but certainly were not stained or ruined...just an all over less bright look, but nothing to complain about...
stupid choice for a rental, but no excuse for spillages and staining.

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