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TDS- Should I cash the cheque??
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Here is a link to another MSE thread where a tenant has sued successfully for the 3 x deposit. The OP is an excellent letter writer and you might get some ideas from his posts in framing your letters before issue of proceedings.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=835421
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terryw"If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools"
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Thanks tbs and terry. I've decided to go ahead with this and send a second letter, got some tips from the above thread. Even if I dont win, at least it might make the LL think twice.0
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No, you don't Mainwaring, you really don't ...:sad:
Some tenants do not feel in a position to challenge their LLs, and it's not really for you to judge why that should be.
Hence the need for numerous pieces of LL &T law, the need for organisations like Shelter, the need for Tenancy Relations Officers, and law centres with specialist LL & T lawyers etc....
Not all LLs are fine upstanding citizens and, before anyone retorts that neither are all tenants, there is generally a very different power position between the two parties: it's distressing when a tenant is unable to feel safe in their own home, the home for which they are paying rent.
You miss the point, if someone chooses not to exercise their rights, then don't ask anyone to care.
Ah, so the meek shall inherit and all that? You wouldn't buy something from the supermarket and not complain so why tolerate it for a far greater sum of money.
As with everything its either put up and shut up or do something about it.
I hope that these "law centres" that you propose provide an equal assistance for LL's who suffer from bad tenants.0 -
I'd agree with you there Pru, but I just find it hard to fathom why some people can't understand what it must be like if your LL is a wrong 'un, and for any number of reasons you as the tenant can't just "up and off"....
Blah Blah Blah, this is an extremely bipolar argument. I can't understand why I have to wait months to sling out a tenant who has smashed my house up and doesn't pay the rent. Funny old world isn't it?0
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