Sick of Lettings Agents

JonnieHACK

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JonnieHACK

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chocolatechipcookies

weegie.geek wrote: »

The letting agents act as a go-between between yourself and the landlord. They're responsible for making sure the rent is collected, and the landlord does everything they're meant to do. If either party doesn't fulfil their end of things, they're supposed to ensure they do. Chase you for the rent, chase the landlord to fix things that break.

It's a lot more than that.......

weegie.geek

chocolatechipcookies wrote: »

It's a lot more than that.......

Obviously, but when someone's renting someone else's property, it's imperative that they pay the rent, and likewise if someone's letting out their own property, they should ensure it's suitable for living in.

Those two things are the most important factors, and that was the point I was trying to get across.

I didn't say that that was where the responsibilities of landlord/tenant/letting agency began and ended...

chocolatechipcookies

izzybusy23 wrote: »

I posted on a recent thread about LA's not accepting a couple living together because one had good credit and the other bad. In that post I said how sick I am of LL and LA's treating people like scum and no better than !!!!!! on the bottom of their shoes.

Take heart in that this greedy madness will not and cannot continue. When the housing market crashes at full speed, those greedy sods will be grateful of anybody to rent their two bit houses, and then people won't want them because they will be able to buy their own.

What goes around comes arouund.. karma I think they call it.

I really hope you find somewhere really soon. It cost us £1550 to move into this place.. that was £800 deposit, £550 one months rent up front and £100 each for credit checks. Now, if somebody clearly hasn't got that money, how on earth do they find a home to live in? The whole BTL has gotten beyond a joke and is now built on just plain greed and full of self congratulating loathesome LL's who think they are 'clever' because they have bumped the market up well above the reach of most first time buyers.

Not every LA is like that. I work in one and work very hard to make sure the tenants are happy in their homes. It is SO EFFING difficult when you have to call a landlord for every single repair issue because they're tight and don't want to spend a penny so you have to remind them that wires hanging out of a ceiling is a health and safety issue.. Or when you spend day after day emailing and calling the developers when a property is under warranty because they house smells like !!!!!! due to poor plumbing. People think you aren't doing anything, then turn around and get mad at you when you are doing your best to get someone to look at the problem. I've been calling a loss adjuster to get a letter to say it's ok to go ahead with a lady's application so we can move her out of her flooded house for three weeks now. If I ever heard of any tenant's with immediate issues, I call someone immediately, but I cannot make these engineers show up when I want them to. There will always be an admin fee, I had to pay one too. Sometimes it is easy to get references, but there are occasions where you have to chase them up almost everyday. Then of course when people look at the property they want the keys there and then. I know deposits are a lot of money, but what do you do when the tenant has left the property completely destroyed? This is why there is a deposit. So people don't leave the property looking worse than a tip. If someone has bad credit, all we'll need is a guarantor, which of course makes the whole admin side even more difficult when you have to call the guarantor every day to see if they will act as guarantor.
Of course every profession has it's bad seeds, but it's not fair to label them all the same.

chocolatechipcookies

weegie.geek wrote: »

Obviously, but when someone's renting someone else's property, it's imperative that they pay the rent, and likewise if someone's letting out their own property, they should ensure it's suitable for living in.

Those two things are the most important factors, and that was the point I was trying to get across.

I didn't say that that was where the responsibilities of landlord/tenant/letting agency began and ended...

I wish is was that easy! Some days I just want to bang my head against the wall when things go wrong over and over.

JonnieHACK

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Lizzieanne

JonnieHACK wrote: »

Its a good idea in principle but how do you know it actually happened?

I know it happened, because it happened! Our tenants asked the agents if we would consider paying for their reference checks. The agents phoned us and asked us. We thought about it and agreed to pay. The tenants called us directly to say thank you.

We've had a few minor issues with the flat over the time our tenants have lived there and we've always done our utmost to get things done straight away for them. We've even paid for things that we didn't really have to - for example, a flat nearby was burgled and our tenants got a bit worried that the front door locks weren't good enough, so we paid for additional locks for them.

I know what you're saying, that things may have changed in the past few years and you're not likely to get a favourable response, but it may be worth a go. You could stumble across some lovely landlords like us ( )

Sorry you're having to go through these problems.

JonnieHACK

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DGJsaver

JonnieHACK wrote: »

Thats Lettings agencies and Lettings agents,

Thats who i was referring to....