To start a new thread about bollards on the Isle of Wight

[Mrsdavidcaruso]

OK new thread will post on this after 5pm when bollards are up

They'd be wasting their time and money!

They'd be a bit stupid to start an expensive land dispute where you legally hold the deeds and it isn't their battle anyway.

Good that the LA aren't feeding this idiot.

Oh for gods sake, they really don't get it do they? What twats.

I bet it was BinLaden.

You are very lucky to have the LA you have.

The only person who should be mounting a legal challenge is the former owner of the land, for the rent he should have been paid by the LL.

Mrs DC I hope you spend today with a pad of paper and coloured pencils sketching garden plans. A penguin fountain spewing wine should be included somewhere in there!

They are making twats of themselves now.

FFS, they must be thick as pig shit...

Three cheers for the Letting Agent!

I'll bet it was Bin Laden as well - did LA tell you who it was?

"get back their legal rights" - >Snort of derisive laughter< - you can't get back what you never had!

I hear your irkedness, MrsDC, but this really is the best kind of update you can give us have - it's so pathetically futile on their part, there's nothing left but laughter.

Xpost with you, Mrs DC. I seriously do NOT believe them! TBH, I'm not familiar with UK property laws so I have no idea what they'd even base a lawsuit on.

Still think you need to spend the day drawing plans, but instead of a penguin fountain, maybe you should sketch in a penguin statue giving a two finger salute in their general direction!

Good for the LA, what knobbers they sound. ‘Legal challenge’ my ass.

I take it the LA will not be renewing the tenants lease now?

Probably not something the LA is in the position to tell them but if they wanted to mount a legal challenge their best target would be the LL who rented facilities he had no legal rights to.

and for you Mrs DC you really shouldn't have to put up with this. I hope you can zone out and not be totally wound up by it all, you've done everything correctly.

The only person who should be mounting a legal challenge is the former owner of the land, for the rent he should have been paid by the LL
^ This.

I suppose the tenants might just have had a case for back rental overpaid seeing as the flats never had their own parking, but in reality they did use the parking anyway, so even that would be doomed to fail.
They could possibly be released from their rental agreements without penalty and go and find somewhere else more convenient to live.
It'd be nice if the unreasonable neighbours did bugger off. Here's hoping.

I'm sorry, I have to just delurk and offer a big bunch of to you - I'm sorry you still have to put up with their crap! How thick can you be, to not GET that you never had parking rights in the first place?

Just ignore them and concentrate on your lovely garden plans!

Legal challenge. It's almost worth letting them do it to watch them piss their money up the wall.
What legal right could they possibly think they had to the land that didn't ever belong to either them or the landlord. If they don't like it they can just move. That is one of the advantages of renting moving is relatively easy.

A few of those tenants really are well ignorant!!!

If they wanted to mount a legal challenge why didn't they start 3 weeks ago as soon as they had notice. Why on earth did they think the LL reduced their rent - errr because he knew he didn't have a legal leg to stand on.

That is ridiculous!! Where on earth are they getting their 'Legal Advice'?!

I have to say though that if I was the tenant I would be rather pissed off too. I'd rented a flat with what I understood to be off road parking and then to have it taken away.
However, I would be giving the LL shit, not mounting 'legal challenges.'

They have known about this for weeks, why get angry now and at the wrong person?

It seems every tenant bar one has been nasty to OP, and every tenant thought despite the letter that they could continue to park on private land, despite a reduction in rent.

Do the tenants understand that the LL never owned the land, or had any right to use it? I'm wondering if they have just got the wrong end of the stick or if the LL has phrased things to make him look better?

Presumably the tenants are not aware that the LL never owned the land, and assume that he sold it to Mrs DC. They're thinking that they're locked into a 12 month contract in an unsuitable flat that they wouldn't have rented without parking. If that had been the case, they could challenge the initial contract. From their point of view, they've been misled by the LL, and may think LL and Mrs DC have stitched them up. Totally wrong an unfair of course, and it's not fair to have a go at OP at all, but let's not forget it's really the LL who is the problem (and Bin Lady, but she's clearly a fruit loop)

They are bluffing.

They are wankers.

I would take the view that it is funny. Let them work themselves into knots. Watch it happen.

Hum to yourself as you sketch your new garden.

Re 'legal challenge', if I were that way-minded, I'd be looking to sue the landlord for renting me something that he didn't have - is that misrepresentation ?

If I was OP, I would tell the tenants that the rude tenant was behind her buying the land in the first place so they have that tenant to thank for their predicament.