To be shocked at landlord’s allegations about me

@JustWowser

If you can't afford a solicitor, deep research on chat gpt is really good for helping you win your claim. Many solicitors might also help you for a fixed fee.

She sounds like a sloppy & neglectful LL, I'm so sorry for your stress.

From memory, they already have another place which is being refurbed and they needed temporary accommodation in the meantime.

Please someone with a better memory of the last thread feel free to jump in and correct me if wrong.

You both sound a bit mad

You've moved out right? And in a new place?

This is a rabbit hole and tbh it sounds like a load of time and energy on your part. You sound really angry and pissed off- but what are you going to gain? Is it just for cash??

Focus on your business and your family. Reassess. Let it go.

The claim is for breach of contract and breach of landlord legislation causing us to have contractors in and out of the property for 6 months (lack of peaceful enjoyment, I WFH) out of an 8 month tenancy because she kept doing bodgejobs and loss of amenities included in the tenancy. and also a pest infestation caused by lack of maintenance and major repairs that there is evidence were known about before the start of the tenancy.

I knew this was the Silverfish poster the minute I opened the thread.

You didn't like the replies you got on the last thread (which mostly told you to leave the fuck alone and focus on the future) so you seem to have name changed and come back for round 2.

Not sure that this thread will proceed much differently to the last.

No idea why people are being so shitty to you. i can only assume they either havent rented, or are landlords themselves! I rented for 18 months after i had to leave my house due to my ExHs behaviour and it was awful. The landlord kept half my deposit unfairly and the protection scheme was useless, and I was told to go to court if I wasnt happy. I decided against it as really not worth it for me, so I applaud you doing it. Well done. I am so glad I no longer rent. I agree with the PP who said you need to separate yourself emotionally some how. Its really hard. My Exh was awful to me through his solictitor, and even though I had a solicitor it was still hard. The great thing about court though is you cant just say things, you have to prove it. my exh said all manner of things about me, and some people believed him. The court however asked for proof and he had none. I however had reams! It was a great day even though it was stressful running up to it. Stay cool and dont worry about what she says - you have the evidence and she doesnt.

He said, she said. "You made me stressed and anxious", "No, you made me stressed and anxious". I hope that you both lose tbh

I think you need to calm down a bit if you are representing yourself. If your snippy responses to anyone who has disagreed with you are anything to go by, you don't seem to want to listen to anyone's opinions apart from your own. Listening to both sides is what the court is there for.
For what it's worth, I think the liklihood of you getting six months rent back because the landlord carried our repairs you had requested in next to nil. But you are not really interested in anyone else's opinion but your own.
I'm a bit puzzled why you think stress is a perfectly reasonable thing for you to allege but are outraged when your LL does the same.

Did you simply move out when you had the eviction notice, or did you wait for a court order?

If she evicted you because you made a complaint i think that comes under revenge eviction in sure you know that sounds not sure why I'm pointing it out really.

Hope it all gets sorted

You're going to get people picking apart your post here for a variety of reasons.

If you've decided to represent yourself rather than hire a professional, then you need to be able to seperate the legal bollocks from reality.

She will throw everything she can at this to defend herself - that was always going to be the case when you started this and if you'd hired someone to deal with it, you'd be removed from the emotional aspect of a lot of things a fair bit.

As you've not done that you DO need to rise above it. Courts hear a lot of stupid shit, they will recognise the drama and bullshit for what it is, if you have the evidence you need to prove your side of things and you're not over egging it and being over dramatic yourself, you'll probably get a decent outcome.

Chances of that resulting in her actually paying you any money of course are another matter entirely. She'll just claim she hasn't any.

What behaviour did you read that makes the OP sound like a massive ballache as a tenant?

Lots of us self employed have to do this. It’s very common

Courts hear this type of shite all the time. They won't consider her feeling stressed as technically she is a business and businesses don't have feelings. Even if they were to look into her feelings it's can't be part of the case as it concerns the tenancy, not the aftermath

So she both did too much and too regularly building work on the home but equally didn’t maintain it or carry out repairs, but when she did do repairs it ruined your enjoyment and she evicted you from a home you claim you didn’t want to live in anyway?

In my experience people start talking about stress in a court case when there isn't much evidence that they were inconvenienced, that they were impacted etc. I would be making it very clear that I had done nothing to make her feel vulnerable, did not have access to her property or keys to her front door as she did to yours.

Make sure your allegations of stress actually show you were stressed and that the stress impacted on you in ways that involved financial loss, ie doctor's appointments, therapies you paid for, time off work with a doctor's note that you lost money on.

And finally, going to court without a solicitor is very unwise, especially if the other side has representation. My organisation was involved in a court case recently with an individual who had no solicitor. They missed a court deadline for filing, the case was thrown out and costs were awarded. They will probably have to sell their house to cover the money.

Clearly lots of landlords on this thread OP, hence the defensive posts!

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TBH if I was in charge of the court I'd think you were both being histrionic and ridiculous with all these silly claims of suing each other for stress etc

Have we find the landlord?!

I’m just a bit sidetracked by the fact you work at home while simultaneously caring for two young children - taking the piss there

Well I've just had the pleasure of my property flooded by the upstairs tenant because she 'didn't notice' the water flooding out of the toilet through my ceiling. Thing is, if I hadn't told her she wouldn't have noticed. It's called real life.