to want to tell my landlady she can't come in!

[rosiejoy]

We are moving out on the first of May.

At 3.45pm today and found missed call and answerphone message from my landlady saying she probably should have rung yesterday, but the boilerman is coming between 4-6 today. She is going to let herself in if I'm not here!

So, 10 days til we move out. I work mon, tues weds, so by weds night house is usually mess, and i put it back together on thursdays. If I knew she was coming I would have stayed up last night getting house tidy.

Normally I would just be a bit embarassed and it wouldn't matter too much, but because we are moving out and I am very aware that she will want to see what state we've left the house in.

Oh, and after rushing home to get here for 4 still no sign of her!

sonearandyetsofar....wonder if that landlord would have done the same if it had been 5 male students sharing the house?

Sonearandyetsofar - Wish I could have done that with our old landlady! She reckoned as it was her house she could come and go as she pleased - and the other tenants believed her and kept letting her into the house!

She's the one who got an 'unexpected' eyeful when we heard her prowling around one night.

Don't know, he was rather old, creepy, and reminded me of my history teacher.
He dressed all in beige polyester, which went with his beige taste in decor...
Draw your own conclusions...

The girl in the towel was unlucky enough to have her bedroom right by the front door!

Only just seen this so a bit late but....

NOBODY has the right to enter your property without your express permission.

Well the VAT man does, and the police probably do but you know waht I mean.

Landlords cannot leave a message on your answerphone and tell you they are coming in.

Even if they bully you, you are within your rights to refuse. Whatever nonsense they spout, you can decline access.

A landlord should give reasonable notice and it is normally polite to allow that to happen. But if it really is inconvenient you do not have to give a reason, you can just say "NO".

It is your home. Not theirs.

If you landlord has entered your property, or given their key to the boiler man to enter without your permission you have grounds to get very angry and start talking about various acts of parliament.

And you might find that that the £500 in cash that you left on the dining room table has gone missing and could the landlord explain that please

Think it was £1000 actually..

i had a landlord who used to let himself into a flat i was renting and depsite being told it was not on and that he should call first he continued to do it. So i accidently broke my key in the lock and then arranged a locksmith friend of mine to come out and fit a new set of locks which i always "forgot" to give a set of to the landlord until i moved out.

You could try that.....

aaaargh!!
She has just rung me to ask if we can change the day we move! was due to be saturday the 1st of May. The family moving in want a whole weekend to move so I guess were going to move in the following Friday. Landlady has said she can't afford to miss out on a weeks rent, and she wants inventory lady to come in first thing on Saturday morning (she didn't actually do an inventory with us so don't need to worry about that, just literally hand the keys back).

Thing is money is tight so being let off a days rent would be handy I spose....I hadn't realised how much of a pushover I am!

I'm terrified of not getting our deposit back because we're so skint, I just want to keep her sweet.

But she really is starting to take the piss now I think!

You just say no if it's inconvenient.
Lots of people end up having to go through small claims to get deposits back regardless of jumping through hoops to appease landladies.

People don't have to go to small claims to get deposits back. They're all held in government approved schemes.

I know this because we had tenants who trashed our place, left rotting food waste everywhere, graffiti on the walls etc etc and it still took 5 months to get the deposit money back out of the scheme. And the tenants got £300 of the deposit back despite us having lots of photos, an inventory from when they moved in etc etc

So don't worry about the deposit too much - as long as the place is in OK condition you'll get most if not all the deposit back (although it may take a while for the scheme to release it if the landlord challenges)

Good luck . Not all landlords are this bad, honest!!

Oh, and if you've been there a while remember that a reasonable amount of wear and tear is OK - the place doesn't have to be EXACTLY as it was when you moved in.

Is that scheme UK wide? I'm in Scotland.

Thanks. I know that she has 10 days after we leave to put in any claim.

We received a letter through the post with list of things they wanted done when we left. Lots of them were'nt done when we moved in!

Will be heading down to the letting agents today and get things straight I think!