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For the last two years my wife, our child and I have been renting an appartment. We paid a four thousand pound deposit at the start of the period, and have been good renters I would think.
In December, our last month we have started to notice our landlord getting quite edgy with us, constantly asking us when we move out etc. And reminding us that we wont get our deposit back unless the appartment is returned in exactly the same condition as it was rented out to us. So we decided to withold our last months rent until we could resolve the issues he had.
I replied to this email saying, 'hi, I'm sorry but you are wrong on that, we are supposed to hand the apartment back in great condition, but allowing for reasonable wear and tear, and the contract mentions that.
Our landlord by the way is a coke head stock broker.
I didn't get a reply from him, but I did get a nasty surprise today when I went to clean the appartment and retrieve some things. He has changed the locks, and been into my appartment and removed all our stuff.
Probably about 3-4000 pounds worth. My neighbour was in and he told me that he saw them removing our stuff the other day and that they had said we were bad renters and hadn't paid our rent.
I have a contact until the end of december, and for my landlord to do that to me counts as breaking and entering if I am correct ,and possibly theft. I didnt have a hammer on me so I couldnt get break the lock, but I have messed it up.
I went down to the basement and by climbing onto the metal bars and peeking over I can see he has stored some of our stuff in the basement, but changed the lock. So I have taken the lock off the door, and will be returning in the morning for my stuff. I couldnt do it today because I had to pick family up from the airport and there was no room in the car.
I rang him, he rang back coked and drunk off his head shouting down the phone to me. What should I do? Call the police and report it? Or take my stuff and just leave it at that. I haven't received any of my 4000 deposit back, and from the jist of his coked up phone ramblings, I'm not likely do unless I go down the legal route.
In December, our last month we have started to notice our landlord getting quite edgy with us, constantly asking us when we move out etc. And reminding us that we wont get our deposit back unless the appartment is returned in exactly the same condition as it was rented out to us. So we decided to withold our last months rent until we could resolve the issues he had.
I replied to this email saying, 'hi, I'm sorry but you are wrong on that, we are supposed to hand the apartment back in great condition, but allowing for reasonable wear and tear, and the contract mentions that.
Our landlord by the way is a coke head stock broker.
I didn't get a reply from him, but I did get a nasty surprise today when I went to clean the appartment and retrieve some things. He has changed the locks, and been into my appartment and removed all our stuff.
Probably about 3-4000 pounds worth. My neighbour was in and he told me that he saw them removing our stuff the other day and that they had said we were bad renters and hadn't paid our rent.
I have a contact until the end of december, and for my landlord to do that to me counts as breaking and entering if I am correct ,and possibly theft. I didnt have a hammer on me so I couldnt get break the lock, but I have messed it up.
I went down to the basement and by climbing onto the metal bars and peeking over I can see he has stored some of our stuff in the basement, but changed the lock. So I have taken the lock off the door, and will be returning in the morning for my stuff. I couldnt do it today because I had to pick family up from the airport and there was no room in the car.
I rang him, he rang back coked and drunk off his head shouting down the phone to me. What should I do? Call the police and report it? Or take my stuff and just leave it at that. I haven't received any of my 4000 deposit back, and from the jist of his coked up phone ramblings, I'm not likely do unless I go down the legal route.
