Q: Mediation looking at a flat in the weekend following the meeting of the letting agent last weekend. Everything looks so promising far.
Anyway have a number of questions regarding various utility bills and how it works. I know that many companies have a minimum of 12 months in connection to their service. If I rent for 6 months, with a possibility of a stay of 12, how does it work? I think of things like broadband, phone, etc. I know that I can 1 months broadband contracts, but you
Q: Hi,
In December, our travel agency wrote asking us to let them know in writing if we wanted to stay in our current house. Our contract is up on March 10 and we are obliged to give two months in advance. So on January 10 by e-mail them, we announced that we wanted to stay. They told us they would discover that the landlady or possible.
After that we heard nothing. About 10 days ago, we chased, and the rental agent said she still not heard back from her. Since then we lef
Q: I am considering introducing an offer on the flat I am currently renting. Ive just done a little math – we pay approximately 12,500 per year rent, so I figure 250,000 is the price the more profitable for the landlord to offer my take (based on the fact that he could invest in the 250,000 5% 12,500 per year and make of it). Given the fact that what he has to pay so the letting agent who manages the property, I suspect that the 250,000 break-point mark for him would actually significantly lower
Q:I've been in my rented flat for a few years. Recently the letting agent changed at the behest of the LL. About 8 months after the change a bill for water arrived in the post – I've never paid this utility before it's always been part of the service charge in the rent & was negotiated as such.
I can't get out of not paying this additional utility, which I regard as an unofficial rent increase, as it's in my new contract. It's underhand and the LA knows it
Q:After 4 1/2 months of battling with a letting agency who have not given back our deposits ( three tennants) they are now saying that because all the utility bills gas /electric have not been fully paid up then they will not give back deposits. Am i correct in thinking that the person named on the bill is liable NOT the landlord or letting agent?
We have previously sent two solicitors letters to them asking for money back and have had NO response. Before that they gave various excuses or
Q:I am about to let out my flat & wanted to use a letting agent.
I have seen 2 agents already. For Full Management, one was asking 14% of rental income PLUS VAT, the other 15% PLUS VAT. The one at 14% said not negotiable, the other said maybe.
At these figures I will not be covering my costs (mortgage interest, managing agents fees for the leasehold of the flat etc.). What's more they ask for "one off setting up fee" and all sorts of other fees before they
Q:Ok so here's the situation.
I've been renting a flat privately for about 3 yrs. 1 year ago the landlord changed from one well known property management company to another.
A new contract was signed and everything continued pretty much as before.
However, I've just received a bill for water for the property for the last six months (note not from the start of the new contract with the new agents). Querying this I've been told that from now on I
Q:Hello to everyone. We have rented out our flat since we moved overseas. The current tenancY will expire soon; and we are thinking to change the letting agent as we are dissatisfied with its service. We are now paying 10% comission + VAT for its letting and management service. I have recently done a research and found out one letting agent which only charges 7% commission for letting and management service. It sounds a good deal. However,the risk is that we are required to pay all the 7%
Q:If a tenant had rented a property through a letting agent, where the agreement was explicitly for the tenant to pay rent each month through standing order or direct debit (i forget which), but the letting agent never sent or otherwise provided the forms to register for the routine monthly bank transfers of the rent payments even after repeated requests by the tenant, and the tenant had for months had to endure time and expense of personally travelling to the bank, withdrawing cash, travelling