To have thought this was really rude, and be getting more annoyed about it the more I think about it?

[Cathycomehome]

We are moving house at the end of this month. Very excited about new house, it's the answer to all my worries for lots of reasons. Anyway, got an email today from the new landlord which reads as follows.

Dear Cathycomehome,

It's not really my business, but hopefully you will leave name of current landlord's house in a good condition.

I ask as lady's name who lives in one of my houses is moving into your house and if it's left in bad condition she can't move in and therefore she can't leave our house.

Yours,

New landlord .

The living room floor is wrecked as it is a type of floor that you cannot put furniture down on. As the flooring man said would be the case when he was trying to get the landlord to put down proper flooring. It is newish as the old flooring had to be taken up as the floor boards had wood worm. He thought the best replacement for the living room floor would be bathroom lino. That's right folks.....

I find it quite funny actually

Mind you we looked round a shocker of a house. Apparently there was one tenant (estate agent was sure there were more but hadn't caught them) the kitchen was not visible under the washing they had left piled high in it. There were several sockets/light switches just removed with wires trailing . The back door had a hole kicked in it and the garden was waist high in nettles.

Estate agent was . I don't think they were going to see any of their deposit back. We had a good chuckle with the EA on the way back though when we said we didn't think we'd go for it...

That's made me think actually, Dewe...this new lady hasn't been round our house ( unless she's snuck in while we're out!), so it could be as described above for all she knows!

No inventory? he can't withold ANY money as he can't prove original condition.

It's as easy as that.

My LL-from hell wanted over £400 from me, but as the inventory she had was for the tenants she had 4 years previous and there had been another tenant in the meantime, the Dispute Service tossed out her claim immediately.

Clean it yourself (if you have time/inclination) leave it in an acceptable condition, but otherwise you don't have to fork out £££ on an end of tenancy clean.

If the LL had wanted it professionally cleaned, he ought to have paid for it to have been done so for you to move into.

I have NO respect for LLs that can't be bothered to present their properties professionally and properly.

DeWe - those tenants will have skipped owing rent, the deposit will not have covered the lost rent, let alone the money it takes to reinstate the property.

Thanks for that info. I don't want to cause bad feeling with current landlord (small village) but neither do I intend to take responsibility for things that aren't our fault, so I hope he hasn't implied to the new lady moving here that this place was a show home when we moved in, as this is very far from the truth!

We'll leave it clean, but it won't be decorated or anything....l

I have read the OP and re read it and still not sure I understand it