Landlord and entering house

00ec25

the fact you paid via the PB portal has no bearing on it

"he" could just as easily have been "her" (your actual LL) AGENT and was therefore acting on her behalf as she did not wish to have any face to face or indirect contact with you at all - for reasons that do not matter to either you or her.

as such he was entering the property on her behalf after having agreed (by what you say) appropriate notice of doing so

can you prove otherwise?
in reality of course, what you want to show is you had dealings with the LL's agent and acted in good faith communicating through him on all matters to do with the tenancy

AdrianC

KatrinaWaves wrote: »

To be fair to the OP, his nationality was brought up in relation to the names and him not realising that he had a female landlords name on the tenancy, which could easily be done with a name from another country, where Frank and Janice Jones wouldn't be quite as difficult.

I'll tell that to my friends Chris, Jo, Micky, Les...

jbainbridge

Has a reason been given for withholding the deposit?
There was a check in inventory / report?
The deposit has been protected in a scheme? (guessing it was as you mention adjudication)

theartfullodger

My mother was born in Brazil: Does that mean I should treat her as suggested above?



What about Farage's wife eh?

AdrianC

theartfullodger wrote: »

What about Farage's wife eh?

His first ex-wife? Irish.
His second ex-wife? German.
His current girlfriend? French.

Mind you, even he says it's OK for immigrants to do the jobs British people refuse to do...

KatrinaWaves

AdrianC wrote: »

I'll tell that to my friends Chris, Jo, Micky, Les...

I would argue also if the name on the tenancy as landlord was Chris Jones, and a man was coming round and dealing with everything, it would not be unusual to assume he was Chris. Its also likely a legal document would have full legal names and not the nicknames you have used. Plus most British people would realise a unisex anglicised name, unlike a name such as, for example, Bongiwe (a girl I used to work with) at first glance I would not be aware if that was a typically male or female name, or whether it was unisex. Alongside the fact this man dealt with the things that would normally be dealt with by a landlord, I don't feel there was anything 'wrong' in mentioning his nationality.

AdrianC

"African" isn't a nationality. Africa isn't a country.

bouicca21

What matters for the adjudicaton is what amount he (or she) is claiming and what it is for. It is the check in and check out inventories that provide the evidence.

noddynoo

He is Nigerian sorry. He is just making things difficult and the inventory shows that we entered a filthy house and left it clean. There will be no doubt about that But all the correspondence I had with him was as landlord and he wasn't. He never gave notice he just text and said he was coming. And within minutes he was there. he came into the house with me alone and tbh he could have been anyone. Its fine I have a list of people who have been duped by him now after a very busy morning online and he is known to various bodies so I don't think I will have any trouble now getting the money I just would have preferred the easy way. Purplebricks never knew he was in contact with me or came round etc and came in as he got my number from a plumber who had done work in the house and started contacting me like that Yes its my fault but I am over 2k out of pocket currently and he is a crook who I could shop to the immigration people for his shoddy NHS fraud but I'd rather have my £ and a quiet life

noddynoo

God he wants my address now and PB have had to intervene and tell him to stop harassing me as he isn't the landlord They are dealing with her and she is saying nothing