Rent increase question

The photos make it look a LOT bigger than it is, and the garden is shared and nobody ever uses it so it may as well not exist.


It could well be worth £2k but don't be fooled by the photos, these estate agents are extremely good at doctoring images.
 
So after the place went live on Zoopla the agents were getting requests on the same day for application forms. On Monday evening they had 9 viewings in an hour and the place is let.

Honestly the property market is just ridiculous atm. Certainlyba bit of a rude awakening for us as we'll be looking soon.

Unrelated, I'm starting to see quite a few places on the usual letting sites with reduced rents, I wonder if this points to a larger shift.
 
Cba clogging the forum with more guff about this so I'll just use this thread.

The landlord is now claiming that we need to pay £1k in repairs and stuff for the flat.

The deposit is in a scheme, and I've rejected everything.

He really picked the wrong person to try and stiff this time, I'll divulge more once this is all settled for obvious reasons but suffice to say this is gonna be interesting. Rather looking forward to a fight :D
 
Quartz said:
Umm.. unless the damage was caused by you, repairs and fair wear and tear are the landlord's responsibility. And I speak as a landlord who's recently had to cough up many thousands for just that.
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The vast majority of the stuff was all documented on the checkin when we moved in, he's just trying it on.

With the wrong people this time.
 
Thing is, the guy showed his colours months ago when he decided to up our rent by £450 a month and when I emailed him to ask him about it, he blanked me and I had an email from the agents the next day stating that I was not to contact him directly. This was almost a month to the day after he came round the house with his family, seemed really nice and told me how well we're looking after the house.

Had he simply responded to my email explaining that due to the current climate he's got no choice I'd have had a very different attitude but he's ****** us both off to the point that we're now going to dig our heels in as much as possible and make life as miserable as possible for him. It's the least we could do for him.

We don't need the money anyway, I could whistle to it and just get on with life but now I've got an axe to grind, and I'm going to love every second of it.
 
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Surprise surprise he's just entered the same amount again and hit submit. I'll be rejecting that too then.

Side question - Shirley if he claims to have spent all the money he has, we should be able to see the invoices?

The only one he's provided is for some plumbing work and it's for some one-man-band outfit with no online presence whatsoever, no VAT number and a Gmail account.

He also reckons he spent £20 to replace a key, the same kind of key that Timpsons sells for a fiver, and which was completely redundant anyway as the existing key still worked fine.

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Freddie1980 said:
I think you need to speak with the agent, I assume it was them who came round and assessed the property for damage? If so they should provide you with evidence of what was damaged.
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Some 3rd party company did the report, and he then decides what to do with it, which as it turns out is to try and stiff us for as much money as possible.

I don't think he's a very amateur landlord, I think he knows exactly what he's doing.
 
Bahahahahahahahaha


Sit on it and swivel you cancerous parasite on society :D


It's a small thing in the grand scheme of things but knowing I wasted a few months of his time and cost him £640 is a victory for me. I just wish he was here to see me rub it in his face constantly for being such a **** :D

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Lol, last landlord "£450 a month more pls"

Current landlord "£30 a month more pls"

Guess that's the difference between London scaling and Surey scaling :D
 
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