A Tenant's guide to renting

MissMoneypenny

juststarting wrote: »

I am not sure if I am in the right place, but we left the house on 10th June we thought we had left it better then when we moved in. After aweek of not hearing anything I rang the the LA to be told there where 2 broken light fittings and the oven and extrator fan weren't claen enough and for these they where chanrging us £200 from our bond. I had a copy of our inventry on which I had written that these 2 light fitting where broken. I copied it and took it into the LA who have said that as they haven't got a copy ( I did post them one when we moved in) the damage was down to us. Are we stuck or is there something I can do?

From what I have read on various threads of this site, if the LA haven't got an inventory (signed by you and them) stating the condition of the property when you moved in, then they can't prove what the house was like when you moved in. In others words, you should get you full deposit back.

tbs624

dirtydavey wrote: »

http://www.fairrentals.co.uk/

What do you think?

Many spelling mistakes plus factual errors. I try to avoid acting like the Spelling Police but if you want your webpages to be taken seriously you need to address those issue.

If you're using *this* website as a source for information you may want to think about crediting your source or even providing a link to the Board: see also post 39.

I hope the poor chap who posted in your forum asking for help way back in early May has managed to get some useful advice somewhere else. The idea of the webpages is a good one but you have to be able to deliver or all you will be doing is giving incorrect "advice" and/or effectively delaying a T getting the help that /she needs.

dirtydavey

tbs624 wrote: »

Many spelling mistakes plus factual errors. I try to avoid acting like the Spelling Police but if you want your webpages to be taken seriously you need to address those issue.

If you're using *this* website as a source for information you may want to think about crediting your source or even providing a link to the Board: see also post 39.

I hope the poor chap who posted in your forum asking for help way back in early May has managed to get some useful advice somewhere else. The idea of the webpages is a good one but you have to be able to deliver or all you will be doing is giving incorrect "advice" and/or effectively delaying a T getting the help that /she needs.

Hi the information on the web site is not taken from this site, its from a number of sources that have been resarched.

Thanks so much for feed back, the aim of the site is just so that people wont fall into the same traps I did.

I will make sure I correct all spellings this week.

Would it be possible to let me know where you feel there where factual errors.

Thanks

Dave

MissMoneypenny

If you want to do some checks on a landlord......

• Businesses: Have unhappy customers sued them?
• Other people: Have they refused to pay what they owe before?
• Trust Online gives access to the OFFICIAL government register - and more

http://www.trustonline.org.uk/

The site was mentioned on this thread
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=24115037&posted=1#post24115037

charles02

Thank you for this thread. It really helped me a lot. Specially now that I have decided to be independent and rent a unit while I'm still saving for my future.

RAINBOW123_3

Hi

Is there someone who could let me know the following please:

My situation at the moment is that we are in the process of selling,have put down a holding deposit of £400 for a place to rent & the inventory & rest of the payment is to be paid next week.

The estate agents of the place we are renting from have said that if we dont get an exchange date by the time the inventory & payment is due then the property will go back on the market.

We were told that the holding deposit was for the credit checks,reference checking,inventory/tenancy agreement & to take it off the market so noone else can view it.

1. Are they allowed to put it back on the market?

2.If we chose to sign the agreement,do the inventory & pay the rest of the money but dont get an exchange date will we lose the money?

3.What money would the landlord lose if the property was empty while we were still waiting for exchange ? Rent,council tax ? Is there anything else? Cant think :rolleyes:

4.Would we be allowed to offer the landlord a payment to hold it open for us for another week or two instead of it going back on the market as we dont want to lose it ?

Hope to hear from you.

barnaby-bear

RAINBOW123 wrote: »

Hi

Is there someone who could let me know the following please:

My situation at the moment is that we are in the process of selling,have put down a holding deposit of £400 for a place to rent & the inventory & rest of the payment is to be paid next week.

The estate agents of the place we are renting from have said that if we dont get an exchange date by the time the inventory & payment is due then the property will go back on the market.

We were told that the holding deposit was for the credit checks,reference checking,inventory/tenancy agreement & to take it off the market so noone else can view it.

1. Are they allowed to put it back on the market?

2.If we chose to sign the agreement,do the inventory & pay the rest of the money but dont get an exchange date will we lose the money?

3.What money would the landlord lose if the property was empty while we were still waiting for exchange ? Rent,council tax ? Is there anything else? Cant think :rolleyes:

4.Would we be allowed to offer the landlord a payment to hold it open for us for another week or two instead of it going back on the market as we dont want to lose it ?

Hope to hear from you.

Please can anyone considering reading this click on the posters name and look at their other posts. They've been starting multiple threads all asking the same questions repeatedly and are now hijacking threads like this sticky. Please can a moderator advise them this is wasting people's times and that they have had answers many times.

Please can you just ask your questions in one place - once so people don't waste their time.

RAINBOW123_3

Barnaby-bear.

Dont worry Im going now.

All my questions have been answered now. Yipeeeeeeeee:j
Your too late .

If you could see that they were from me why did you keep on clicking on the posts & replying.Youre the one wasting your time

Its not wasting peoples time as Ive been getting different answers from different people with different experiences/answers.

Bye Bye

sjcollett

Just wanted to mention that you can always post your property wanted ads on websites that are aimed at private landlords like Virtual Letz - that way you get to say all the things that you want in the property, where you want it close to [e.g. bus routes etc] and the properties and landlords come to you - can make like so much easier!

tompritchard

Renting a property is generally really easy, but some ladnlords are awful, other great. One thing they all seem to want to do you on though is the 'professional cleaning' at the end of a tenancy, even though professional cleaners often do a lazy job compared to the thorough cleaning tenants do so they can get their full deposits back. Personally I've resented paying £300 for a bad cleaning job on a place I no longer live in!