Renting my flat problems

marliepanda

Well you would have had to break the contract as your house, according to you, has lots of damage and he cannot move in.

So will you be paying him your mystery £500?

At the end of the day nothing was signed, there was no contract, the end.

stranger12

the flat needs cleaning and damages is not something i would repair for instance I am not going to change the carpet because the previous idiot tenant has put 4 hols in it ( their bed?)

so it is kind of ready to move in to but needs cleaning which I am looking to get it done asap

marliepanda

stranger12 wrote: »

the flat needs cleaning and damages is not something i would repair for instance I am not going to change the carpet because the previous idiot tenant has put 4 hols in it ( their bed?)

so it is kind of ready to move in to but needs cleaning which I am looking to get it done asap

So its bad enough you want money from the tenant, but not bad enough to actually fix?

pcgtron

You're the sort of landlord that gives good landlords a bad name by the sound of it. Hope your property doesn't rent.

G_M

stranger12 wrote: »

You are very funny !!has anyone told you this?

My post was tongue in cheek of course, but it was also a serious point.

Why should one side make a non-refundable financial commitment pre-contract, and not the other?

Both of you have vested interests in the deal, and if either of you pulls out the other will be inconvenienced and/or financially out of pocket.

the flat needs cleaning and damages is not something i would repair for instance I am not going to change the carpet because the previous idiot tenant has put 4 hols in it ( their bed?)

yet you are demanding the £200 cost of replacing the carpet from the outgoing tenant!

Either the damage was minor (fair wear and tear) in which case you should not be claiming from the outgoing tenant's deposit,

or the damage is substantial and requires a brand new carpet (as you are claiming), in which case you are giving the poor incoming tenant a cruddy scrap of rag..... ((hope your inventory has the words "cruddy scrap of rag" on it!)

stranger12

not really . regarding the carpet it will get fixed but maybe next year when it is worn out so I can justify the cost

Please before judging and start saying hope your property doesn't rent etc .. , find out what the issue is

the tenant has !!!!ed up the place
lots os scratches on the wall, left the windows with spider net on it
hasn't cleaned the bathroom long enough that the bathroom sealent has turned black and number of other things

If I was to get the whole flat re painted, I will be looking at £200-300 for that so if I was to claim for all damages then around 600ish or more but I have claimed a fraction of it so it is a contributing when I repaint the property .

The damage he has done has made the whole repair process necessary .
not sure if I can be any fairer than this. if you rent a car and damage it then you can't expect to get away from it for free just because you have paid the rent

if you scratch the car then you will pay for it. not sure what is wrong with some of you people here. some seemed to have a biased view

marliepanda

Nobody disagrees with the tenant paying for their damage.

What we disagree with is you renting out this horrible, disgusting, damaged place to a new tenant.

And moaning that he has pulled out, and didnt move in immediately to a place you describe as being in an absolute state.

stranger12

no won't . it needs cleaning which I am arranging .

regarding the carpet or marks on the wall then I guess it has to be repainted but it is few sections of the wall and not very noticable so hoping to do it all next year as it is still in an ok condition if you know what I mean but still the tenant has done a damage and needs to pay for it


well re the state of the property, I was thinking it is in a decent condition and didn't know it is that bad. I am actually using this time to clean the flat after I checked out the flat .

in a way happy it wasn't rented straight after so I can repair it as didn't expect this sh*t but at the same time unhappy that the guys has played me

marliepanda

Well I guess if he's 'done a damage' you're right.

You don't appear to know what you are doing, nor do your letting agents. You need to appoint new ones if the flat was indeed that bad, and they didn't do anything about it.

You cannot be annoyed, you should thank your lucky stars you're not paying for weeks of BnB accommodation whilst you get your flat up to the standard expected by your new tenant.

Pixie5740

By the sounds of things you're trying to have your cake and eat it. On one hand the flat is so badly damaged that you're trying claim "compensation" from the outgoing tenant which you can't do. You can only claim for the damage they've done minus fiat wear and tear. From your other thread it sounds like you're trying to claim for betterment i.e brand new carpets and brand new painting and decorating which you can't do because the property has had some use of the carpets and paint.

Then on the other hand you're annoyed at a potential tenant, who had not signed a tenancy agreement finding somewhere else (probably somewhere else in a much better condition) to live. Yet you would have been happy for them to move in and pay rent for 12 months in a $h!t tip.

You're contradicting yourself. Either the state of the property is so bad it needs fixing immediately or it's not that bad and can wait 12 months.

If you haven't already joined a landlord's association it might be worth doing.