Repeat after me: All Landlords Are Bastards.
For want of a pressed metal lock that – if I could find one – costs less than 5 quid, they will withhold £100 of the bond. All Landlords Are Bastards. No way could we find one today, any hardware shops will be closed tomorrow (the large shops don’t do this lock) and tomorrow they want the house back. Until I hand the keys over, I am the tenant. Once I hand the keys over, anything I do will be criminal damage. I could cheerfully cause well over that amount of damage.
Update: J has agreed a trade with him. He gives us the money, we give him the keys. He’s not keen on the idea but who cares ? 🙂
All landlords are bastards. No question about it. I’m sorry to hear someone’s pulling this kind of crap on you. All landlords are bastards.
Why are folk so damned petty ! over a £5 lock ffs!
Totally unreasonable. Why didn’t they just say fair enough, we will just charge you £5 for the missing lock. Heres £95 back. Done and dusted…
Oh feck, I forgot….all landlords are bastards…
The proper procedure is to not pay the last months rent. Puts the boot on the other foot. If you need help on the procedure for issuing a claim in the small claims court let me know.
(root): here (or at least all the leases I’ve ever signed – in the states) they specifically say that you can’t put your security deposit to the last month’s rent. Actually, they say lots of things that make you want to run and set up house in a tree somewhere. Good trees are hard to come by though, so most of us sign the horrifying little contracts.
good going on the trade.
Good news on the trade mate, and it certainly seems landlords are bastards over there! Thank god they’re a nicer bunch here!
Big up the J for getting the swap tho!
In UK law it says something similar. But there is no effective remedy for the landlord.
Not all landlords are bastards. Some landlords are dead. They WERE bastards.
I want to be a landlord when I grow up so I can be a bastard too!
My Bastard Landlord story:
I was moving out. Half my shit was there, half my shit was out. The place, as one could expect, was turned upside down. I still have a week until I turned the keys in, went to the apartment to get more stuff and had a little note stuck to my door.
I also noticed this day he stuck a big George Bush sign in my yard. So while cleaning up the trash, that went too 🙂
I was just amazed at this letter. I lived there for six freaking years and never once gave him a problem. Of course the place was a mess, I was in the middle of moving. I did decide to be the better woman and clean the place before I moved completely out.
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All landlords are bastards. However, we left our last ever rented place infested with fleas. Hurrah!