To be peed off at letting agent

[mother2b]

Have had a lot of trouble with this letting agency already and havent even move into the house yet, and now to top it all off;
FIL is being guarantor and house is in DP's name becasue it cant be in my name because im a temp
and the agency wont speak to me about the letting yet they will quite happily talk to MIL about the property
is this unreasonable?

MIL is great but am i right i thinking that if they wont speak to me then surely they shouldnt talk to her either?

Even got told by the agnecy if i wanted to know what was going on to aske her about it, i know its not her fault, shes been brill but am at agency

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They would talk to her if both your fil and mil have sign as guarantor, which they may have had to do in their property is in both names.

If you're going to be a main tenant - then why can't they talk to you?

Your name can still be on the rent book if you're a temp surely? I had a mortgage with my DP - I was only a temp. We only used his earnings to prove income and there was no problem there? (not sure if I'm being thick and this is totally irrelevant?!?!)

That sounds like total nonsense. We let to trainee air hostesses who were not on proper contracts and lost their jobs after 9/11. never occurred to us or our agent to insist on a guarantor.

erm...this seems all a bit weird.
My dh and I let a house and I wasn't even working. They didn;t seem to have a problem with that.
WE shared with my brother and all three of us had to sign the contract.

It all depends on the agent/landlord.

Who is FIL guarantor FOR? If the tenancy isn't in your name at all then they are right not to talk to you about it, if MIL is co-guarantor then it makes sense to be able to talk to her.

I'm sick of the whole process though - DH is earning much more than he was when we signed the tenancy, we have been good tenants, never missing a payment, never causing problems for 3 years now... and yet we still have to have a guarantor (for both of us) because I get a miniscule amount of housing benefit a month.

I think our letting agents ask for guarantors if you are under 21 or can't give any other references - could that be the case?