I rent a flat to a group to 3 girls who look after the place and pay the rent on time. They have been in the flat just over a year. About a month ago I went round to check the room of one of the girls who was moving out (relocating to another part of the country), and obviously the tenants brought up a couple of problems. The main one was the cost of changing the contract to the new tenant. I use a letting agent and they set the fee, I agreed with them that it was very high and I would talk to the agents about it. Having done so there is nothing I can do about it, apart from changing agents which having just paid out the fee to them I won't be doing for another year.
At the same time they asked for a new wardrobe as one of the rooms has a very small built in cupboard. As I was trying to appease them at the time over the agency I agreed to it. However on the way home I started to think that they were taking the michael a bit. They've been there for a year, so if it was a problem they should of said something when they initially moved in. I used to live in the flat and had a lodger in the room - they managed to fit all their things in. The current occupant has a lot of clothes - hence the need for another cupboard. I just feel that they should be buying this themselves.
I didn't do anything about it, hoping they'd forget, but I had an email today asking what was happening. AIBU to say no or am I just going to have to suck it up and buy the damn thing?