Why - do you decide to drop everything and not pay your rent/mortgage/debts when bad things happen in your life? I mean pretty much everyone experiences having someone close to them die at various points in their life - it is something you need to learn to deal with not run away from.
Evil Buy To Let Landlord demands rent from students after their friend dies(Daily Mail)
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Why - do you decide to drop everything and not pay your rent/mortgage/debts when bad things happen in your life? I mean pretty much everyone experiences having someone close to them die at various points in their life - it is something you need to learn to deal with not run away from.
I just don't see things so black and white. If I lived with a close friend and I found him dead in bed one day. I don't know how I would react. Would I want to move out of the place to maybe help move on from the event? Maybe I would.
I'm not saying that I would ditch all debts in such an instance but I would still like to think that people would show a level of compassion. It's all very easy saying you deal with things and not run away from them. Until you experience certain things in life you would never know how it feels.
To me, pestering the grieving parents and offering them a nice 2 year gesture is just pretty slimey. I hate that. Personally if I had to give them any form of correspondence it would be my condolences and then I'd get back to the business end of letting the place out to someone else down the line.
Regarding the friends, well I would be inclined to ask them for money owed but not enforce the duration of the agreement.
I probably wouldn't but supposing I did I wouldn't just decide that I could ditch my obligations.
If the roof caved in or the house flooded but the Landlord's wife recently died should tennants be understanding that actually he's not going to get round to doing any repairs any time soon as he's currently grieving?
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Probably wasn't MDMA
Probably PMA again... or another cut.
Legalise and regulate, your losing anyway govt, and that landlord is a ****ing scumbag. Just say help get new tenants in and you can leave/find a work around.
Edit: never mind it was mdma, just a very high dose. But I guess you can't tell with said pills.
Probably PMA again... or another cut.
Legalise and regulate, your losing anyway govt, and that landlord is a ****ing scumbag. Just say help get new tenants in and you can leave/find a work around.
Edit: never mind it was mdma, just a very high dose. But I guess you can't tell with said pills.
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ALL letting agents are thieving ****s
He did do that he said they could sublet etc but basically they want out of their contract and not have to pay a penny
Probably best to start by having this idea. Why? Well yeah, not everyone looks after where they're staying, but I'm not surprised when I see/hear the state of what students are renting as a "place to live" that so little is thought of the landlords. Mates house was 'fully renovated' before they moved in so they only had two pages of problems before they had finished checking the top floor.
Of course the landlord isn't a charity, but I feel what they've offered was more than reasonable.
supposing it was the other way around - suppose they'd paid the rent up front for the second half of the year but the flat is then flooded and the students have to move out to alternative accommodation for 5 months
turns out the Landlord's wife has died, he's a bit upset at the moment so he offered to pay for 3 of the 5 months they're in the alternative accommodation - is that reasonable? I mean his wife has died, he's having to deal with repairs etc.. so they ought to have some sympathy for him right? Taking a loss of a few grand is reasonable despite the death having nothing to do with them at all?
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If it's a student let, chances are it wouldn't let until the next year anyway, which is perhaps why the landlord couldn't just waive it and put it back on the market.
A more reasonable solution would have been for the families to cover the rent until the landlord could find new tenants, or the contract ends (whichever comes first). Neither party needed to be unnecessarily out of pocket.
Wouldn't be surprised if this goes the tenants' way though TBH. It's clearly not an open and shut case given the Judge has adjourned proceedings for a few weeks to decide on the verdict.
Wouldn't be surprised if this goes the tenants' way though TBH. It's clearly not an open and shut case given the Judge has adjourned proceedings for a few weeks to decide on the verdict.
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A contract is a contract. Welcome to the real World children.
Landlord was reasonable.... students typically will find any excuse to not pay rents in normal circumstances, let alone in this situation.
A contract was signed and they should pay up as they are joint liable.
Its sad the student died but the world goes on, they have become adults now and when you sign contracts you have to pay.
If this case is won by the students can you imagine the sudden interest in just how far you can stretch the idea.... "my mam died!! i dont have to pay.. i am traumatized"
The landlord offered solutions that he did not have to.... he was prepared to compromise... yet he is the scum?
A contract was signed and they should pay up as they are joint liable.
Its sad the student died but the world goes on, they have become adults now and when you sign contracts you have to pay.
If this case is won by the students can you imagine the sudden interest in just how far you can stretch the idea.... "my mam died!! i dont have to pay.. i am traumatized"
The landlord offered solutions that he did not have to.... he was prepared to compromise... yet he is the scum?
The big party at fault here looks to be the uni, rehousing the students without ensuring this was all sorted correctly. The landlord has his contractual rights, the students their pastoral needs, the uni got involved and didn't sort either of them correctly.
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You're obviously in possession of some facts which the rest of the world hasn't heard. Looking forward to hearing why.
That's not quite the same, your life insurance on the mortgage would clear the mortgage off so it wouldn't be an issue.
Unless you were shockingly irresponsible and didn't take any out.
that is the bit that it seems might scupper it - though if they've moved out and have not been paying rent is it that unreasonable for him to carry out some renovation/repairs... I'm not sure that simply carrying out work on the property is a clear cut case of him 'taking possession'