My husband and I rent a house and are due to move out in about three weeks as we just bought our first place. We’ve been here 18 months. Before we moved in we were warned about our landlady by both the previous tenant and the neighbours next door (who are a lovely couple and who we’ve since become friends with).
Apparently she comes across v normal / bit high maintenance but fine during the tenancy but as soon as you say you need to move out she goes crazy. She took precious tenant to court over deposit for reasons which seemed mad to us when we were told, and lost. It’s a nice house so we decided to risk it anyway.
Since telling landlady we need to move out she’s gone from normal to OTT as we were warned:
- Accusing us of blocking viewings for new tenants (not true at all, we just advised what days/times worked for us when asked but welcome viewings as it might mean we can move early!)
- Accusing us of obstructing gas checks (not true, husband stayed home from work for gas man who never turned up, then just wasn’t available to stay home from work the next day)
- General rude, aggressive accusatory messages for no reason. Bit stressful to deal with in between general life admin (work, pregnant, house purchase and move etc!)
Now we’ve just noticed a leak in the kitchen coming from bathroom above. We didn’t notice til now (it’s in a corner / slightly hidden by cupboards) but as soon as we noticed we realised it’s really visible!
Looks like it’s the bath but grouting etc is all intact. There is a small crack in the bath which was there when we moved in but without calling someone in to check we don’t know what the fault might be.
As we’ve already given notice we’re worried she will blame us and try to withhold deposit or worse, just be abusive/rude in messages which is stressful to deal with. If we don’t tell her and move out in a few weeks she’ll see anyway.
What would you do?