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The day the landlords moved in

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Ineedagoodusername · 28/06/2017 21:22

Is anyone watching this? The second landlord with his disgustingly extravagant lifestyle is making me so angry. The communal areas in his flats are horrific.

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buntingqueen · 05/07/2017 21:38

This is some extortionate soft play!

MeanAger · 05/07/2017 21:38

He's an idiot if he thinks tenants are spoilt for choice wrt lower price properties. Of course they aren't. It's a LLs market. They can charge what they like as people haa next to no choice.

memyselfandaye · 05/07/2017 21:41

Pft, crocodile tears, you're playing at being potless mate.

dillite · 05/07/2017 21:41

I find it funny how both landlords grew up poor and now that they have money, they are shocked about what it's like to be poor and are actually minimising everything about being poor.

MeanAger · 05/07/2017 21:42

So all they need is for the electric and gas to run out and it's all fun and games!

MeanAger · 05/07/2017 21:42

Agree diliite

dillite · 05/07/2017 21:44

I actually though that it was a rather cheap soft play. Compared to the one that we have in our town.

MeanAger · 05/07/2017 21:45

It's cheap compared to my local softplay too

BaDumShh · 05/07/2017 21:45

This is reinforcing my views on managing agencies being an absolute waste of space. They don't give a shit.

JustDanceAddict · 05/07/2017 21:45

Cheap soft play if you're in London! Haven't been for years though...
the wife is dreadful - again!!

memyselfandaye · 05/07/2017 21:49

Wtf was that about the electric metre?

dillite · 05/07/2017 21:50

Basically they have a shared meter between two properties and yet it's only tonight's tenant that is paying all the bills.

memyselfandaye · 05/07/2017 21:50

Meter even.

WindyWednesday · 05/07/2017 21:52

I think I said up thread, but I'm a landlord and it really frustrates me to find there is an issue that the agent hasn't told me about or the tenant hasn't reported and then wonder why I don't do anything about it.

Also not all tenants allow you access for repairs, and they are totally within their rights so to do.

Letting agents screw tenants and landlords.

MeanAger · 05/07/2017 21:52

He didn't seem at all bothered that he was letting one tenant pay the leccy bill for two properties did he?

dillite · 05/07/2017 21:52

Yet again it is obvious that no inspections are being carried out, or if they are, nothing is being done.

And putting an 18-year old in charge? That's just stupid.

MeanAger · 05/07/2017 21:55

I have lived in 4 rental properties. 3 were managed by the LLs and 1 by an agent. By a country mile the worst experience was with the agency managed property. Not a single repair done in 3.5 years including emergency ones. I had to pay out a fortune myself. (I am a lone parent). The other 3 properties, were in a far better condition to start with and without fail my LL themselves would be there the same evening I had reported a fault.

dillite · 05/07/2017 21:56

Do any of you remember the name of the last week's Mr Motivator landlord? There was a man on Judge Rinder today who looked exactly like him.

BaDumShh · 05/07/2017 21:56

Agree windy. I've only ever rented directly from a landlord, would never even contemplate an agency.

dillite · 05/07/2017 21:57

I wonder whether they simply painted over the mould?

MeanAger · 05/07/2017 21:58

I think he was called Paul.

frazzled3ds · 05/07/2017 22:00

It would be interesting to have a catch up with the tenants and landlords featured several months down the line to see if the various promises made and the 'I'll do business differently from here on in' spiel holds true.

WindyWednesday · 05/07/2017 22:05

For example, I emailed my agent this week regarding an issue. I need them to reply so I can go ahead and fix the problem, but I need the tenants permission first to enter the house. They haven't replied yet to my email.

I am a caring landlord, but it's hard to get the agent to do their job. I'm paying for full management, but they don't really seem that bothered.

The tenant pays the agent monthly at the start of the month. The agent then takes out the management fee and any repairs that month. Then two weeks later I get the payment. I'm not asking for the violins but it's not always the landlord at fault.

dillite · 05/07/2017 22:07

Personally I've had a mixed bag of experiences- my first place was rented direct from a Landlord and it was a shit experience- repairs were never done, his own plumber condemned the boiler and it was only replaced when it fucking blew up!

Next place was through an agency who were quite good when it came to repairs but dicks about everything else- I moved furniture around to make it easier to move around the rooms and they demanded that I put it all back the way it was when I moved in and it had to be kept that way at all times. They also refused to give me my deposit back because I did not use their approved end of tenancy cleaners.

Third place was through an agency again, a small, family run place who were quite good when it came to repairs.

Now this house is rented through an agency but the repairs are done by the landlord. He's anything but happy to carry out repairs (like leaking roof, broken fence, holes in internal doors left by previous tenants). We have no inspections and everything has to be chased and chased.

MeanAger · 05/07/2017 22:14

The problem is that there is fuck all required in terms of qualifications or regulations of being a letting agent. (Or a LL for that matter) Anyone can set themselves up as one. Obviously reputation plays a part after a while but if it's like my town where they are all shit (despite the Mickey Mouse certificates they put on their walls) then it doesn't leave LLs or tenants with much choice. The tenancy deposit scheme has helped but that's no use to you when you have water pisshing out of your bathroom sink.