Comments on: Landlord Hell http://www.stooly.com Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:15:24 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.stooly.com/london-guide/landlord-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-116 admin Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:42:35 +0000 http://www.stooly.com/landlord-hell/#comment-116 Our landlord nightmare started a few months ago when we moved out of our old flat. The landlord avoided us completely when it came to settling the deposit. I phoned him constantly and he told me he would first sort it out with the company that did the inventory checkout. That took him weeks and I had never received a phone call or not even a text message. Eventually I had to take off work to go and see him, when I arrived; he made me wait another hour while he attended to other business. I was not pleased by having to wait around and waste my day off on this type of crap. He started talking to me expecting me to have all the paperwork. I told him that he said that he would sort it with the inventory check out company. He then started to work out rough figures and started charging me for cleaning which I already did the last two days we were in the old flat. Then told me that we would only get back about 10% of the deposit and that got me extremely annoyed at him. Thought I’d go home and check the contract before taking him on, besides, I am fairly new to London and the renting laws. Then spoke to a friend who told me to visit the Citizens Advice Bureau. They advised me that I would need proof in form of letters that I had written him. Wrote five letters and faxed him twice, still got no reply. I then get a call out of the blue from him telling me he is going to deposit money into my account, I then thought I had won my battle because he was really unfair and did not consider my comments on anything. Checked my bank statement and found that he only deposited the 10%. It has been months, he wrecked me a bit financially but I am definitely going to take this matter to court now even if it kills me now because people like that should not be allowed to rent to other people. Folks, this is a reminder, do not let landlords walk all over you, the law can be on your side as well…. Our landlord nightmare started a few months ago when we moved out of our old flat. The landlord avoided us completely when it came to settling the deposit. I phoned him constantly and he told me he would first sort it out with the company that did the inventory checkout. That took him weeks and I had never received a phone call or not even a text message. Eventually I had to take off work to go and see him, when I arrived; he made me wait another hour while he attended to other business. I was not pleased by having to wait around and waste my day off on this type of crap.

He started talking to me expecting me to have all the paperwork. I told him that he said that he would sort it with the inventory check out company. He then started to work out rough figures and started charging me for cleaning which I already did the last two days we were in the old flat. Then told me that we would only get back about 10% of the deposit and that got me extremely annoyed at him. Thought I’d go home and check the contract before taking him on, besides, I am fairly new to London and the renting laws.

Then spoke to a friend who told me to visit the Citizens Advice Bureau. They advised me that I would need proof in form of letters that I had written him. Wrote five letters and faxed him twice, still got no reply. I then get a call out of the blue from him telling me he is going to deposit money into my account, I then thought I had won my battle because he was really unfair and did not consider my comments on anything. Checked my bank statement and found that he only deposited the 10%.

It has been months, he wrecked me a bit financially but I am definitely going to take this matter to court now even if it kills me now because people like that should not be allowed to rent to other people. Folks, this is a reminder, do not let landlords walk all over you, the law can be on your side as well….

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