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Guarantor request by LL for student accomodation

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  • BobQ
    BobQ Posts: 11,181 Forumite
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    cjdavies wrote: »
    OP, have you read the contract you Son signed?

    I think the OP is more interested in attacking the financial services industry than bothering about this sort of detail.
    Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.
  • aquitaine
    aquitaine Posts: 93 Forumite
    GwylimT wrote: »
    Why aren't you pursuing the insurance companies who make landlords of student lets have guarantors?

    They don't, it is a decision of the landlord.
  • aquitaine
    aquitaine Posts: 93 Forumite
    Guest101 wrote: »
    EVERY Tenant takes on that risk, EVERY SINGLE ONE

    If a 19 year old with no assets takes it on, good luck chasing him.
  • GwylimT
    GwylimT Posts: 6,530 Forumite
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    aquitaine wrote: »
    They don't, it is a decision of the landlord.

    So you think landlords decide the clauses in landlord insurance policies?
  • aquitaine
    aquitaine Posts: 93 Forumite
    cjdavies wrote: »
    OP, have you read the contract you Son signed?

    No I haven't. I discovered today that none of them has even been to look at this house. I rather admire their nonchalance. Apparently the pictures looked OK and they had better things to do so they signed up which is fair enough, certainly no excuse for all these threats and warnings and demands.
  • Guest101
    Guest101 Posts: 15,764 Forumite
    aquitaine wrote: »
    If a 19 year old with no assets takes it on, good luck chasing him.

    Exactly! Hence the need for a guarantor.

    Frankly I'm for the agent banning you and your child from any more applications, letting other agents know and you explaining to your son why he can't live with his mates.
  • Guest101
    Guest101 Posts: 15,764 Forumite
    aquitaine wrote: »
    No I haven't. I discovered today that none of them has even been to look at this house. I rather admire their nonchalance. Apparently the pictures looked OK and they had better things to do so they signed up which is fair enough, certainly no excuse for all these threats and warnings and demands.

    There have been no threats, warnings or demands.

    There's terms and conditions, deal with it.

    - not sure if it's been called already, but - it's the summer holidays...
  • aquitaine
    aquitaine Posts: 93 Forumite
    GwylimT wrote: »
    So you think landlords decide the clauses in landlord insurance policies?

    They certainly decide which policy to take. Anyway, the insurance companies are totally untrustworthy as they prove time and again. They have spawned a whole industry devoted to suing them. What other industry can boast that?
  • paddy's_mum
    paddy's_mum Posts: 3,977 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    aquitaine wrote: »
    the pictures looked OK and they had better things to do so they signed up which is fair enough

    I once chose a boyfriend like that.



    It ended disastrously :D
  • aquitaine
    aquitaine Posts: 93 Forumite
    Guest101 wrote: »
    There have been no threats, warnings or demands.

    There's terms and conditions, deal with it.

    - not sure if it's been called already, but - it's the summer holidays...

    I am dealing with it. Outcome still uncertain.
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