Tenancy applicant - previous (or current?) assured periodic tenancy

[AndrewDod]

A tax bill of £120,000.00 about...

Gifting to daughter won't help unless you do it in tiny chunks (at this kind of value you could gift about 2% of the property each year for the next 50 years to avoid tax if the tax rules remain unchanged)

Lets say capital costs (some legal...

[AndrewDod]

Yup solicitors are special. They charge £20/minute - about 50 times as much as an NHS surgeon.

Crooks basically running a closed shop, and colluding with freeholders. Not much more to be said on the matter....

[AndrewDod]

Sales by auction usually take place for a reason. Is it being sold with the freehold? You could set your hi fi up on full blast 24/7, stick posters around the place warning about the mould and rats, hang your nickers around the place, leave a bucket of dung on the balcony, and then bid for it at au...

[AndrewDod]

So how did the window break?

It seems silly of her to make an insurance claim and chase you - it should be one or the other. However the fact that she placed a claim does not mean that you are absolved from liability for losses - even if a claim is placed the excess and the future uplift...

[AndrewDod]

The particular company mentioned are incentivised to create work. I would definitely get a second opinion.

I dumped them after they informed tenants that if I removed a perfectly safe and good boiler then their energy efficiency would improve by 10% and that they should insist that I do...

[AndrewDod]

What's the difference between a reserve fund (which you say you paid) and a contingency fund (which you say is not provided for in lease)?

Who else paid for stuff - we presume the other lessees in the building are out of pocket somehow?

What timescale -- was this 10 years ago,...

[AndrewDod]

This is the reason not to let to anyone where it looks like the property could conceivably become HMO. Cuts out a lot of perfectly good tenants who have to find somewhere else to stay.

They are related but the key question is are they having sex and sleeping in the same bed. The government...

[AndrewDod]

Quite. Now we will start the debate about whether the agent is obliged to give tenant 1 (but not 2) a legal tutorial on periodic tenancies. It is hard enough for landlords to keep up with perverse and damaging legislation - let alone becoming tutors to tenants using that legislation to oftentimes s...

[AndrewDod]

Is the place being properly heated (for example 20C at day at say 17C at night continuously including in all rooms)? Maybe you need another dehumidifier? is washing being dried indoors, cooking with lots of steam without extraction?

Unless there is some external structural cause r water...

[AndrewDod]

Possibly not - however I am perfectly willing to accept that there may be good reasons (just as there are good reasons some folk might end up with a ccj or even a criminal record) - even worthy reasons.

But I guess my main query is whether this might just be a purely technical thing -...

[AndrewDod]

No they are not



Can't see how it is a "ploy" - if anything it is the landlord who is damaged - L will (or should be) desperate to get rid of the tenant. If anyone should be cross it is the landlord (who IS the customer of the agent).

Hard to see how...

[AndrewDod]

I really don't understand this? How would they have been helpful? I suppose they could have advised the tenant how to give valid notice so that they then be left with only one tenant from whom to claim rent or to sue when they failed to leave.

The OP just needs to follow the procedure....

[AndrewDod]

Many thanks for responses. I have learned that sometimes it is useful to know the answers to questions before you ask them. For instance I know the tenant's current landlord details, and that there has been a tribunal. Then I know whether they have disclosed the correct landlord details, and that there...

[AndrewDod]

Can someone interpret this for me before I decide whether to progress this application from a tenant (for my regular AST property)

A search online on Tribunal Decisions shows a simple 1 page Tribunal decision involving the applicant 6 weeks ago:

The decision is headed:
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[AndrewDod]

Definitely don't let the tenant do it or pay for it.

If the tenant agrees in writing to a small rent increase variation to contract (that's not a fee - it is an altered service) then go ahead. The increase would be small though (maybe 1/200th of the cost of the work per rental month)....

[AndrewDod]

Just to add that the advice you have received from MrShed is exactly what you must do. You must pay the rent up to the end of that notice. You can if you wish sue your ex for their share of the rent. When the notice (correctly given) expires you walk away. And you must be able to prove it all. In addition...

[AndrewDod]

As above -- what you did is not formal notice. You need to give formal notice in writing to the address specified in the lease, and get proof of serving that. After the notice has expired you are no longer liable -- but until then you DO owe the rent, and will likely be sued. The letting agency have...

[AndrewDod]

Except they can only implement that which the lease )or law) makes it possible to implement. As with a lot of these types of threads, it would be most helpful if the OP cared to give us a clue instead of wasting time....

[AndrewDod]

Yes I agree on that bit -- where there is not a break. But in principle it could be the case that a previous landlord could remain the landlord for the property despite selling it (via this mechanism and several others)....

[AndrewDod]

Putting aside the particular issue in this thread (whether this *particular* house is suitable - which it might not be) - then no, they can't tell you when to shower (or if to shower at all). It is your choice if you choose to use the house in an inappropriate manner you can have a cold shower at the...