Lettings agent harassment

lookstraightahead

The amount of people on this forum who are stressed about buying / moving etc when they own a property (eg cannot possibly go into rented etc) yet it's ok for a tenant to have complete strangers traipsing around their house of no benefit to them a few weeks before they move? No op - I wouldn't allow them. All they are trying to do us avoid a void at your expense. If they withhold the deposit go through the deposit scheme. Next time you speak to them tell them they are harassing you.

lookstraightahead

steampowered wrote: »

You have to comply with the terms of your tenancy agreement.

This probably requires you to permit viewings at reasonable times on 24 hours notice. If you refuse to permit all viewings, you could potentially be held liable for any increased void periods that result.

You should get back to the letting agent to tell them when they can and cannot conduct viewings. Then the letting agent can work around that when arranging the viewing. For example 10am-2pm on weekdays or 3pm-5pm on Saturdays.

This sounds like something out of Dickens.

Steveal

Of course! I'm counting on it and well prepared with GM's excellent sticky on deposits. :money:

Considering the "inventory" he took has photos from when the refurbishment was going on before we moved in, I'd love to see how he gets any money out of me.

anselld wrote: »

Don't forget, the agent/L can still choose to be difficult when it comes to deposit etc.

Wanderingpomm

anselld wrote: »

Don't forget, the agent/L can still choose to be difficult when it comes to deposit etc.

Which is why the deposit scheme exist

millwalls

I've always wondered about this as well. Posters who will complain about minor things but think it is perfectly fine for tenants to be without a working boiler for a few days. I think it's ingrained in the psyche, this notion that tenants are a sub-class of residents living their lives at the pleasure of the landlord.

The worst of it is that even many tenants have imbibed that attitude, being grateful for the landlord barely meeting his legal obligations, never questioning completely unreasonable clauses in the contracts which would never stand up to scrutiny, not making sufficient use of the excellent deposit protection scheme which has now been around for more than 10 years!

lookstraightahead wrote: »

The amount of people on this forum who are stressed about buying / moving etc when they own a property (eg cannot possibly go into rented etc) yet it's ok for a tenant to have complete strangers traipsing around their house of no benefit to them a few weeks before they move? No op - I wouldn't allow them. All they are trying to do us avoid a void at your expense. If they withhold the deposit go through the deposit scheme. Next time you speak to them tell them they are harassing you.

anselld

Wanderingpomm wrote: »

Which is why the deposit scheme exist

There is plenty of scope for being difficult within the deposit scheme rules.

steampowered

lookstraightahead wrote: »

This sounds like something out of Dickens.

It is not unreasonable for there to be viewings in the last month or so of your tenancy. I don't think Dickens would be too upset.

Jumblebumble

steampowered wrote: »

The problem with this is that the judge would also order you to pay the landlord's legal costs in going to court, and any resulting damages suffered by the landlord.

Since you would have breached the term in your tenancy agreement which requires you to permit viewings.

Can you give a single example of where this has actually happened and a judge has ruled on these clauses overriding the right of quiet enjoyment ( which cannot be overruled by any agreement) or is this as I suspect no more than mere speculation.
How could anyone credibly claim that the person who did not get to view would definitely have taken the property

Letting agents have a habit in persisting in such nonsense as putting in the agreement that tenants cannot change energy suppliers without permission despite Ofcom rules stating that the tenants have the unconditional right to do so.