Rent has just gone up :(

silvercar

daisykinn1 wrote: »

I've never had my rent increase so if my landlord suddenly wanted to smack an eighty pound increase I would most certainly move.

Thats is the dilemma. If a landlord had increased your rent by £20 a month every year for the last 4 years you may well have stayed. If the landlord decides he has a good tenants and doesn't want to risk them moving, he keeps the rent the same. After a few years he finds himself needing to make a correction and the tenant gets the hump at a large increase.

fc123

silvercar wrote: »

Thats is the dilemma. If a landlord had increased your rent by £20 a month every year for the last 4 years you may well have stayed. If the landlord decides he has a good tenants and doesn't want to risk them moving, he keeps the rent the same. After a few years he finds himself needing to make a correction and the tenant gets the hump at a large increase.

We haven't increased the rent since Jan 05, and are now in a dilemma.
Lesser houses (significantly lesser in terms of space. decor, location) are renting for £300 - £400 pcm more.
It is our family home and we rent elshwhere (and the rent we pay out just went up £50 pcm too) but our letting agent is really unhelpful.
We were aware the house was let on a 'competitive' rate at the time as we wanted the garden maintained.

However, they have blocked the drains with baby wipes (cost £300 to clear after it flooded back gdn with sewage) and haven't touched the garden since they moved in.

It is now a total jungle.


Sorry to butt in on the OP thread, but we would need to request a big increase in May (or take house back) and I really don't know what to do.


Am having a mountain of stress with this Cr Cr too and it's yet another :eek:

Alias_Omega

DGJsaver wrote: »

!!!!!! alert

Welcome to the world..

Reality is that landlord is putting rent up, if OP does not like it, wont pay it, be prepared to move out.

Landlord has valued the rent to be that amount, and hence set the limit.

This aint a market in tunisia, you cant haggle a better price..

Pay up, or move on out..:j :beer: :j

teabelly

fc123 wrote: »

We haven't increased the rent since Jan 05, and are now in a dilemma.
Lesser houses (significantly lesser in terms of space. decor, location) are renting for £300 - £400 pcm more.
It is our family home and we rent elshwhere (and the rent we pay out just went up £50 pcm too) but our letting agent is really unhelpful.
We were aware the house was let on a 'competitive' rate at the time as we wanted the garden maintained.

However, they have blocked the drains with baby wipes (cost £300 to clear after it flooded back gdn with sewage) and haven't touched the garden since they moved in.

It is now a total jungle.


Sorry to butt in on the OP thread, but we would need to request a big increase in May (or take house back) and I really don't know what to do.


Am having a mountain of stress with this Cr Cr too and it's yet another :eek:

Find another letting agent or tell the one you have now they either need to get the current tenants to pay another £250 pcm or find new tenants that will pay more or you are binning them off. The loss of easy money will hopefully make them jump.

SquatNow

The OP should find somewhere cheaper, then bargain the LL down below his current rent!

fc123

teabelly wrote: »

Find another letting agent or tell the one you have now they either need to get the current tenants to pay another £250 pcm or find new tenants that will pay more or you are binning them off. The loss of easy money will hopefully make them jump.

You know what?....That is what I thought but I may need to go to Waterstones and pick up one of those 'Self Help' books like ' Say what you want without fretting about being mean' or 'How to stop being an apologetic derrr..'

Thanks.

neverdespairgirl

beingjdc wrote: »

No, rents go up in a crash. When prices fall, fewer people want to own (so fewer landlords) and more people want to rent (so more tenants).

Not NEARLY as simple as that!

People can choose to live with family, house share, rent a smaller place, etc.

neverdespairgirl

Alias_Omega wrote: »

This aint a market in tunisia, you cant haggle a better price..

You most certainly can haggle about the rent!

Bungarm2001

fc123....I'll go with you if you like!!

Don't feel intimidated by a lacksadaisical LA Remember, they work for YOU as you are paying them...!

3 years sounds a very long time not to review the rent. I can't understand your LA not asking you about increases..it's in their interests as well. Go on, get in there and have a chat with 'em. Whats the worse that could happen?

PS About the drainage thing..and this is to EVERY LL out there...get it into the AST as a special condition that if the outside drains block up due to the tenants negligence (shoving nappies in the loo would do it) then THEY will be charged either at the time i.e. they can get their own drain man in, or the cost to you for clearing it will be taken from their deposit at the end of the tenancy.

An LA that we employed once panicked when a tenant of ours phoned him and told him the kitchen sink was blocked, and instead of telling the tenant to go buy herself a bottle of mr muscle drain cleaner from the shop next door (£3.99)sent the drain man out at a cost of £40+vat to us. (stopped it from the rent he was to pay us) Turned out it was food blocking the p trap. I was a bit miffed to say the least. :mad: I would have gone beserk if one of my tenants cost me £300 for that...!!

fc123

Bungarm2001 wrote: »

fc123....I'll go with you if you like!!

Don't feel intimidated by a lacksadaisical LA Remember, they work for YOU as you are paying them...!

3 years sounds a very long time not to review the rent. I can't understand your LA not asking you about increases..it's in their interests as well. Go on, get in there and have a chat with 'em. Whats the worse that could happen?

PS About the drainage thing..and this is to EVERY LL out there...get it into the AST as a special condition that if the outside drains block up due to the tenants negligence (shoving nappies in the loo would do it) then THEY will be charged either at the time i.e. they can get their own drain man in, or the cost to you for clearing it will be taken from their deposit at the end of the tenancy.
...!!

The letting was only a temp thing as we re-located for work plus we tried to sell during 'The Great HPC of 2005' but got gazundered and told the bloke to bu88er off.
Now I'm fed up with the whole thing. I hate being a tenant too BTW. Ooooh..fun .... got another house inspection on Monday when some kid turns up with her clipboard. I know it's part of the deal (and I get the inspection reports on our house too...which never mentioned ' Garden is now jungle'.) but still.....

Sorry, just !!!!!! off tonight as the Cr Cr is mucking up all our carefully laid out life plans, from selling our house to our business.

I never wanted to be a LL anyway, I'm a designer by trade but happened to us by accident:mad: