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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed
After working for that estate agents I became a bit of a vigil anti and I received a lot of correspondence from home buyers/seller, tenants and landlords. One particular letter was from an Indian couple who's wife had been pregnant whilst living in the sort of conditions you show in your photographs. She got a lung condition from the damp and consequently lost the baby. They didn't know what to do or where to turn because the agent just put up a wall, so we traced the landlady and it turned out she'd had that property with the agent for around 7 or 8 years and never been to inspect it because she was elderly and lived a good 30 miles away. The agents had been charging her for painting and decorating every time a tenant left, they'd even charged her for a new sofa and sent her a made up invoice (there was no new sofa). They had also assured her that the property was in good condition and the tenants happy.
She took the agents to court and took the couple along with her. They really did get the book thrown at them.
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I do wonder if something similar to this happened with us
Like 10 years ago we rented a property...within weeks the boiler broke and the agent sent all kinds of cowboys, none of whom fixed it, then tried to tell us it was our job to get it fixed. We moved out and did not pay the last months rent much to his disgust (bear in mind they had taken a months rent upfront before we moved in so we were not living there for free for the last month)
A month or so later, the actual landlord turned up at our new place asking what the issues had been and why we moved out. We told him the place was perfect for us but we were not willing to cover the costs of a new boiler and had been living in an icebox for a month while the agent messed us about.
Landlord was FURIOUS..apparently he had been trying to let the place for 14 months and was happy that someone had taken it... and as he was leaving he was on the phone to the agent with a few choice words about the situation.
Its confused me a bit tbh until now. I wonder if the agent had charged him for a new boiler or something before he let the property...