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Well Finally finished moving yesterday! Bloody landlord mind! WEll we had to hand the keys back yesterday, and I have been moving house pretty much on my own and with my own little rover for the last 3 weeks!
We were promised vans and others help with their cars but non of this appeared unil the last day when the things were too big for my car! for 3 days before we were due to move house we were getting phone calls asking for the keys back and if we have finsihed moving as he had people waiting to move in!
He was bringing people over to view the house without notifiying us or 20mins notice.
The other day he rang asked for the keys back and we told him we where not there yet and was moving stuff to our mums. Only to find when we got back, our neighbour told us he came over and let himself in and looked around.
He also moaned at the mess of the place and when confronted and told by our neighbour hes not allowed to do that his reply was "I can do what I want im their landlord!"
Then to top it off yesterday was sorting some jobs out and left some things over the old house to collect and stll getting calls asking when can get keys (told him we drop them off, even after saying I will be their at 11am to give keys back! Left at 1pm and had not turned up to collect) only to get a phone call from the landlords daughter saying they had reported us to the council and all of our details had be forwarded to them and copies of our passports and ids will be given to them.
Also stating we had left the property in a mess and the council will be charging us for the cleanup??? :ack2:
The only mess there was the rubbish out front, and our bin man have been on strike for 2 weeks now, so why is this our fault?
Anyway, When we returned to check the house, collect and give the keys back to the landlord, we found that the house had been broken into and the locks changed! and the repairs I had done broken.
The new tennents are moving in, even though he has not done the required replacment of carpets and rewireing of the house.
I know he will try to pull someting else on us to prevent deposit coming back to us, But I have taken pictures of every part of the house and garden and all of the damge both what we had done and what was there already!
So far what he needs to do before a tennent moves in is the following.
Get the gas and electrics saftey tested! (Not done since 2008)
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Rewired the house, as the builder has stated that the wiring is in servere need, as when cooker blew at xmas the rcd did not trip but some wireing in the hse melted some where. Also lights are wired into the mains plug sockets!
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Boiler needs replacing as still had issue before leaving with not working.
Carpets need replacing. These are now around 5-6yrs old. (apparntly after 18m any issues are classed as wear and tear and we cant be charged!)
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Floor and bath needs replacing. The bath is cracked and dropped so water leaks though the celing and light socket below.
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Also when moving out we found to our amusment and 30 gallons of water of the kitchen floor that the non return valve as failed on the washing machine connection and we have had to turn the mains water supply off!
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He also moaned that we took the washing machine. We brought this one ourself after the supplied one failed and we were told by the agency that its tough luck they are not responsable for it once a tennent is in the house and any replacment or repairs is down to the tennent!
Here are some pics of how we left the house, and the gardens are better then when we got there (the wood and material are whats been left by the builders) We have kept the lawn uptogether replanted grass seeds as when we moved in it was in a very sorry state.
we replaced the carpet ourselcve in the hall and one room as the hall carpet was dangerous. t was 2 gaffa taped together and was being pulled apart from hovering.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]26521[/ATTACH] Notice in this picture the front door has a letter box attached.
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This is the kitchen how we left it! We had to replace the floor as the vynil was dangerous and where were tripping over the tears. you can see soon the holes in the floor undernethe have damaged the new floor.
heres some of the other rooms.
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The gardens.
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We were promised vans and others help with their cars but non of this appeared unil the last day when the things were too big for my car! for 3 days before we were due to move house we were getting phone calls asking for the keys back and if we have finsihed moving as he had people waiting to move in!
He was bringing people over to view the house without notifiying us or 20mins notice.
The other day he rang asked for the keys back and we told him we where not there yet and was moving stuff to our mums. Only to find when we got back, our neighbour told us he came over and let himself in and looked around.
He also moaned at the mess of the place and when confronted and told by our neighbour hes not allowed to do that his reply was "I can do what I want im their landlord!"
Then to top it off yesterday was sorting some jobs out and left some things over the old house to collect and stll getting calls asking when can get keys (told him we drop them off, even after saying I will be their at 11am to give keys back! Left at 1pm and had not turned up to collect) only to get a phone call from the landlords daughter saying they had reported us to the council and all of our details had be forwarded to them and copies of our passports and ids will be given to them.
Also stating we had left the property in a mess and the council will be charging us for the cleanup??? :ack2:
The only mess there was the rubbish out front, and our bin man have been on strike for 2 weeks now, so why is this our fault?
Anyway, When we returned to check the house, collect and give the keys back to the landlord, we found that the house had been broken into and the locks changed! and the repairs I had done broken.
The new tennents are moving in, even though he has not done the required replacment of carpets and rewireing of the house.
I know he will try to pull someting else on us to prevent deposit coming back to us, But I have taken pictures of every part of the house and garden and all of the damge both what we had done and what was there already!
So far what he needs to do before a tennent moves in is the following.
Get the gas and electrics saftey tested! (Not done since 2008)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]26515[/ATTACH]
Rewired the house, as the builder has stated that the wiring is in servere need, as when cooker blew at xmas the rcd did not trip but some wireing in the hse melted some where. Also lights are wired into the mains plug sockets!
[ATTACH=CONFIG]26516[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]26517[/ATTACH]
Boiler needs replacing as still had issue before leaving with not working.
Carpets need replacing. These are now around 5-6yrs old. (apparntly after 18m any issues are classed as wear and tear and we cant be charged!)
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Floor and bath needs replacing. The bath is cracked and dropped so water leaks though the celing and light socket below.
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Also when moving out we found to our amusment and 30 gallons of water of the kitchen floor that the non return valve as failed on the washing machine connection and we have had to turn the mains water supply off!
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He also moaned that we took the washing machine. We brought this one ourself after the supplied one failed and we were told by the agency that its tough luck they are not responsable for it once a tennent is in the house and any replacment or repairs is down to the tennent!
Here are some pics of how we left the house, and the gardens are better then when we got there (the wood and material are whats been left by the builders) We have kept the lawn uptogether replanted grass seeds as when we moved in it was in a very sorry state.
we replaced the carpet ourselcve in the hall and one room as the hall carpet was dangerous. t was 2 gaffa taped together and was being pulled apart from hovering.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]26521[/ATTACH] Notice in this picture the front door has a letter box attached.
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This is the kitchen how we left it! We had to replace the floor as the vynil was dangerous and where were tripping over the tears. you can see soon the holes in the floor undernethe have damaged the new floor.
heres some of the other rooms.
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The gardens.
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