Where do I stand?

dowie · 26 Jan 2013 at 19:36

Cheetah Designs said:
Whilst I was moving another agency turned up to try and move their client in producing a contract. There is a lot of arguments, the police were called and now all the agencies have left.

I am stuck in the room with the landlord and the other tenant. The landlord says she never signed an agreement with my agency. My agency are yet to provide a hard copy of my tenancy agreement and I don't have one on me either.

What do I do?

Well what you shouldn't do is take it out on the other tenant/agent tbh... especially as they have a contract and you seem to have handed over a bunch of cash without having one...

Seems like you've been a victim of a scam? Or there has been some misunderstanding... I'd move your stuff out of there and take it up with the police and with the agent you dealt with.

Does seem odd that you've presumably got a set of keys for the property yet the landlady claims not to have contact with the agency?

Edrof · 26 Jan 2013 at 19:39

Yikes! Good luck, matey.

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 26 Jan 2013 at 19:51

Sounds like landlord has given instruction to agency then has found their own tennant via another agency. Your agency have not followed proper protocol in speaking to landlord and have just gone ahead issuing a contract to you.

If the landlord has signed an instruction for the agency to not need to validate an agreement then the likelyhood is whoever signed the letting contract first would be the holder of the valid lease. It all depends on the agency to be honest they may well have been acting within authority and the landlord has not advised them he planned to withdraw their agency (they are an agent for him)

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 26 Jan 2013 at 19:52

Do you perhaps know which agency let the property out last?

May be your guys did and the landlord has planned to give it to another agency and in the mean time your agency has not been advised or not understood they are not to relet

bertles86 · 26 Jan 2013 at 20:31

Efour2 said:
Boxing stance till 9am ?

This

haaammit · 26 Jan 2013 at 20:54

Cheetah Designs said:
I am in a massive pickle here and in I will name and shame as well once it is sorted.

I have signed a tenancy agreement with an agency and moved in today. I paid my deposit, agency fees and first months rent.

Whilst I was moving another agency turned up to try and move their client in producing a contract. There is a lot of arguments, the police were called and now all the agencies have left.

I am stuck in the room with the landlord and the other tenant. The landlord says she never signed an agreement with my agency. My agency are yet to provide a hard copy of my tenancy agreement and I don't have one on me either.

Where do I stand?

Outside I guess :confused:

Good luck in getting it sorted

Fuzz · 26 Jan 2013 at 21:21

Cheetah Designs said:
Where do I stand?

Quink said:
Outside I guess

<3 GD

Ilikeitblackplease · 26 Jan 2013 at 21:24

Cheetah Designs said:
I am in a massive pickle here and in I will name and shame as well once it is sorted.

I have signed a tenancy agreement with an agency and moved in today. I paid my deposit, agency fees and first months rent.

Whilst I was moving another agency turned up to try and move their client in producing a contract. There is a lot of arguments, the police were called and now all the agencies have left.

I am stuck in the room with the landlord and the other tenant. The landlord says she never signed an agreement with my agency. My agency are yet to provide a hard copy of my tenancy agreement and I don't have one on me either.

What do I do?

You and the landlord file for fraud.

liamfolz · 26 Jan 2013 at 21:34

Efour2 said:
Boxing stance till 9am ?

Made me lol

Kol · 27 Jan 2013 at 11:10

Any update?

hurfdurf · 27 Jan 2013 at 12:26

Hate to say this but it sounds like you have fallen for one of those scams where someone rents a property out they have no real access to just to take the deposit and run.

SexyGreyFox · 27 Jan 2013 at 12:31

hurfdurf said:
Hate to say this but it sounds like you have fallen for one of those scams where someone rents a property out they have no real access to just to take the deposit and run.

The only problem is -

Cheetah Designs said:
the police were called and now all the agencies have left.

They must have a massive set of balls to do it in front of the police.

mysticsniper · 27 Jan 2013 at 12:41

dowie said:
Does seem odd that you've presumably got a set of keys for the property yet the landlady claims not to have contact with the agency?

I am quite puzzled by this as well.

Were you given a set of keys to that property by the agency?

hurfdurf · 27 Jan 2013 at 13:17

Dimple said:
The only problem is -

They must have a massive set of balls to do it in front of the police.

A good point well made, didn't sink in that his agency was there as well.

I would love to know how this **** up happened and is going to get sorted...

Bromhead · 27 Jan 2013 at 13:23

Ask the other house mate to split the costs and sleep with them? Either that or boxing stance.

arc@css · 27 Jan 2013 at 14:43

Poor chap.

mysticsniper · 27 Jan 2013 at 14:54

Bromhead said:
Ask the other house mate to split the costs and sleep with them? .

We need to see pictures of the other house mate

Cheetah Designs · 27 Jan 2013 at 19:57

Think it's obvious that I need to be sueing someone to get my money back, don't know who to start with.....the whole thing is a bit fishy.

Anyone dealt with a no win no fee service they can recommend?

Can anyone link me to some information on what constitutes a legally binding contract? Because I've just realised all they have from me is a photocopied tenancy agreement with my signature on it and not the landlords, surely the fact they only have a photocopy of my signature means nothing!

My agency deal with several tenants in the let who have had contracts for months....I think the agency has been around a while

PapaLazaru · 27 Jan 2013 at 20:08

Who is the letting agency?

Diagro · 27 Jan 2013 at 20:11

Fuzz said:
<3 GD

Epic

Where do I stand?

Wise Guy