Pulling out of tenancy agreement before moving in

Annie35

Slithery wrote: »

Be grateful that this is your only issue and that you haven't been scammed out of a grand by someone who doesn't even own the property.?

Ooh slithery, I watched exactly that unfold on a fb site last night, can't stop thinking about it

OP, have a read through the tenancy agreement they often have clauses where by you can leave early if you pay re letting fees & rent for vacant period. If it doesn't ask the agency anyway.

Cakeguts

melb wrote: »

if a flat is advertised with photos showing curtains at windows would you reasonably assume that when you move in the curtains would still be there?

If the letting agent tells you on the phone when you ask what is included with the rental "it's just as you see it in the photos" but then once you have signed up says that because the curtains weren't mentioned in the description then they won't be included (even though one set is still there but hanging off a pole which is hanging off the wall?)

If they now say that the property is unfurnished (which wasn't specified in the description and the photos gave the impression of a furnished property) why are there a settee, bed, wardrobe plus various tables etc in the flat?

Can the letting agent lie with impunity? The oven is way dirtier than anything i have seen in my life. I am pretty sure the previous tenant will have had a sizeable amount taken off their deposit to cover this and other cleaning.

Who is responsible for cleaning the communal areas in a house sub-divided into about 3 or 4 flats? In the Tenancy agreement it says the landlord but it is filthy and the letting agent has quoted the landlord as saying that each flat owner should hoover outside their own front door. So that will be a nice clean square metre outside each door and the stairs will remain a health hazard

A house divided into 4 flats might mean that the landlord is responsible for the cleaning of the common parts but it might not be the person who owns the flat your daughter is renting. It could be the owner of the building so the freeholder landlord not the owner of one of the individual flats.

The best thing to do here is to hire someone to clean the flat if your daughter doesn't want to do it herself. It is possible that she chose this flat because it was cheap?

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How is your daughter feeling about the flat?

Why was she wanting her own place? She must be doing fairly well to have been able to manage the rent deposit etc? I know the first few places I lived in weren't palaces when I saw them initially but I soon fixed them up including cleaning and sticking peeling wallpaper down. It was what I could afford at the time so compromises have to be made.

Cleaning an oven has to be done at some point, a bit of bicarb of soda, a good scrub, repeat if necessary. If really tough you can buy acid containing oven cleaning kits (can be bough from some cheap shops for about £3 or less), put the shelves in a bag and dissolve the grease/burnt on debris with minimum scrubbing. Walls etc can be scrubbed. Even the grimiest windows can be cleaned fairly quickly, frames and all with vinegar and a tea towel or two. Floors can be cleaned with the hire of a carpet washer. Dirt is easy. Repairs are harder.

Unfortunately having paid the deposit and rent up front, there isn't a lot of choice.