Been offered cash to leave my rental

_Penny_Dreadful

This thread sounds familiar.  I think I've read a thread from the landlord on another forum, or it might even have been this one, where the landlord had bought a couple of barn conversions or something, got a lot of duff advice from the letting agent, and hadn't realised that the tenanted property had a LPG tank feeding a gas cooker in the kitchen.  I'm sure that landlord was advised to offer cash for keys so if your the tenant of that landlord I'm glad you've managed to work something out and yes the letting agent did cause a lot of problems therefore I concur with @Mutton_Geoff about @diystarter7's comments being bullmerd.

MultiFuelBurner

We have paid off a rather sticky non paying tenant some years back.

They would have wrecked the property and caused more damage than the pay off so it was a calculated move on our part enough for a new deposit somewhere else and their first month's rent.

Three bad tenants over 12 properties in the last 10 years having secured rental full payment 11.9 months out of 12 for the past 10 years.

Three bad tenants included the one mentioned above, another with a crossbow and knife fetish and the usual cannabis farm.(all part for the course these days as a LL)

bertie1979

_Penny_Dreadful said:

This thread sounds familiar.  I think I've read a thread from the landlord on another forum, or it might even have been this one, where the landlord had bought a couple of barn conversions or something, got a lot of duff advice from the letting agent, and hadn't realised that the tenanted property had a LPG tank feeding a gas cooker in the kitchen.  I'm sure that landlord was advised to offer cash for keys so if your the tenant of that landlord I'm glad you've managed to work something out and yes the letting agent did cause a lot of problems therefore I concur with @Mutton_Geoff about @diystarter7's comments being bullmerd.

Nope not me, but yes sounds similar (ours was an lpg fire in the lounge).

Just as a side, I did continue to pay rent every month, but I turned into a proper div after they decided to turn up and cause a massive scene in the little village, banging on all windows & doors.
Got the neighbour's to spy & report back to them, had a heating engineer come in to carry out the gas safe (which was subsequently shown to have the LPG supply capped off), snooped around & lied in court documents, etc.

I just think they have more money than sense, if they hadn't cancelled the last court date, I would've been given my marching orders & I ended up leaving 4 months after that court date, so would've been the same amount of time.
I'm guessing they want it to refurb asap & get it on the Airbnb market for the summer months (probably £600 a week minimum) as well as give them a base for visiting.

bertie1979

Sarah1Mitty2 said:

bertie1979 said:

let's just say the agent is the one that's caused A LOT of the problems.

Anyway, good news £10k hit my account yesterday, the £775 has been processed waiting on that hitting my account & they wrote off £650 "arrears" (they increased my rent during this debacle and I just kept paying the original £775 pcm).

So thanks all for the help.

Good result for you, will you be able to find a similar or cheaper rental?

Will be having to move out of the area (no big issue), theres very little decent properties round here, generally all for sale or holiday let's.

Murphybear

If you do this and keep on the LL’s good side you will be able to get a good reference if you rent again.