Today B got a voicemail message on her phone from the elusive Mr. N! He said he had "only just" got her message (from 2 weeks ago...) and was confused because he thought we were moving out in October, not August!
What a complete prat.
As I may have already said, when we first moved into the property, there were 3 of us, and we signed a contract for a year, which would have taken us through to October 2009. However when K, our fourth housemate moved in in January, we had to sign a new contract (no idea why they can't just add her to existing one!). After the shenanigans that the estate agents had put us through the first time we were unwilling to stay in the property for another whole year and so only signed up for 6 months. Bloody Mr. N SIGNED this contract so it should have come as no surprise whatsoever that we are now moving out in August. Except he clearly didn't read it. What a douchebag.
Happily though, we have found a new flat in Stoke Newington and put down a holding deposit! It's above a shop on the "ever-popular and trendy Stoke Newington Church Street" and so far so good with the estate agents too! The lovely Ava of Location Location informed us today that the landlord had accepted our (reduced rent!) offer and is willing to meet all of our conditions including replacing the washing machine and general maintenance. Hurrah! Really looking forward to moving and hope the new landlord isn't as idiotic as the current one!
Wednesday 29 July 2009
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hello there
like the comment advice!
as a landlord i had to clear up a matter on your post - the reason your mate couldn't be added to the contract is because of the lovely deposit legislation brought in to protect tenants (from heaven & hell) from deposits being retained.
Any change to the tenants must create a new tenancy and the deposit must be reprotected (usually at a cost to the landlord)
this is just a minute example of the 80+ pieces of legislation covering L&T law.
none of which protect a landlord from weed farms, theft of property, arson, vandalism, filthy mattresses ;-) etc left by tenants
cheers for being able to see both sides but most small landlords have worked hard to buy their property and get stigmatised persistently by the media and some tenants who rip us off more than you can imagine yet are always the victim in court
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