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Maybe there could be a forum sub-heading called 'Course-Work', then everyone posting and replying would know the true picture?

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I'm with Kape65.

Any time I have taken someone on quickly, I find myself working evenings on the place to try to get it ready. Frankly that is stress I could do without.

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Presumably if you already have a mortgage with them, they aren't going to take it off you, are they?

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OMG, what a bunch of lefties:

'We now have a private rental system where tenants are very much at the beck and call of their landlords'.

In my experience it's the opposite.

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Seems to me that o/p is the author of his own misfortune by renting someone's home, isn't he? They were bound to want to return at some point.

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Oh, well I would say you'll have it done, but want MK fittings. I dare say the quote is for £1.19 Screwfix sockets. MK are around £4.

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It's something I have done a few times. Basically, you are making the system new again, as all the joints are re-made, and all the sockets no longer have any unseen burnt contacts that cause bad contacts. (PVC covered wires don't deteriorate at all.) It's an easy diy job, and no need for chasing, is...

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In view of your glee about this Artful, I hope it comes back to bite you....

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I'm afraid you do sound like a professional tenant. I think you signed your own eviction order the day you got the council involved. That really p*sses landlords off.

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You'll need party wall agreements with neighbours also.

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Does it have that sneaky little clause about defended section 8's?

(If tenant defends with some spurious reason, cover is suspended until such time as you prove reason is false.)

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No you're not wrong Andrew. Let me guess... did they have a particular policy they recommend, that pays them commission?

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I wonder if T's family would have been so quick to get the police to kick down the door if it was T's own property?

I bet they thought: 'Silly old sod of a landlord is bound to be insured. Let's crack on!'

FTA: I wonder if O/P does claim on insurance, the insurers actually...

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I try not to let to teenagers. ...

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Ah, frankly Jon, we get a lot of electricians joining landlordzone to drum up business for their profession. Usually by telling us the law requires us to get electricians to do various things that either don't need doing, or we could do ourselves.

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I always supply washer driers. However my idiot tenants prefer to drape wet washing over the storage heaters.

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Sorry to hear your story.

I don't think you'd get anywhere with claiming lost rent. I'd ask for any fees and commission paid and cost of eviction.

Also, I would report agent to redress scheme if they don't cough up willingly, and then sue if still no joy.

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Because it is his fault that this happened. I think there is more to this story than you have been told....

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Fair enough. If you see it like that, wait and see what your next year's insurance quote is after you claim.

FTA: Are you sure it was not suspicion of drug dealing rather than a medical emergency? Sounds rather overkill for that....

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Yeah right. 'It's in a book I've got that I can't quote from'.