Landlord Horror Stories

SoupyNorman · 01-08-2010 07:10PM

Mike 1972 wrote: »

http://www.prtb.ie/

A true joke of an outfit.

tony1kenobi · 01-08-2010 07:27PM

The first place I rented the landlord kept back 100 quid because of a mark on the carpet where someone had laft an iron on it.Thing is the mark was under a bed that had never been moved.No point arguing at the time but it was obviously a crafty one on his part.

The next 2 times I rented I just didn't pay the last months rent.The first one was an agency.They called about the missed payment and I said "keep the deposit for my last months rent"....they replied "that's not how we do it"....so I said "that's how I do it"......they rang a couple more times asking could I drop in some money but I just said no you're grand.

The last place I did the same thing and the landlord just said fair enough.

gurramok · 01-08-2010 07:39PM

paddydriver wrote: »

Check the contract... nothing you cannot do if someone sign's up to it.

Witholding deposit because of cleaning is illegal. Witholding because of damage is legal, some landlords forget this.

Dardania · 01-08-2010 07:50PM

tony1kenobi wrote: »

The first place I rented the landlord kept back 100 quid because of a mark on the carpet where someone had laft an iron on it.Thing is the mark was under a bed that had never been moved.No point arguing at the time but it was obviously a crafty one on his part.

I'd insist on having the old carpet, or at least the section with the burn ;-)

01-08-2010 08:03PM

Here's one for ye lads, I lived in the UK for 6 months at the end of 08 to Jan 09, working with my company. The house was originally meant to be a 5 bed but the landlord decided to convert both sitting rooms into bedrooms too, so obviously we had 7 of us in the house then. So to top it off, he decides to slap a shítty flat packed B&Q conservatory on the side of the house which was now meant to be our new sitting room. It was roughly 6ft by 8ft in size, leaking, no heating and the light was the old outside halogen 500Watt spotlight over the back door of the house (which we eventually got changed). The room was completely visible to the passers by on the road so everyone could see what we were doing. Bear in mind I was living in the house at the end of 08 so it was the height of winter so trying to watch TV while it was pelting rain on to the cheap ass plastic corrugated roof was a nightmare. The original outside tap was still on the wall too. So, the moral of my scéal is never let your employer pick out your accomodation if the send you abroad! :mad:

yogy · 01-08-2010 08:14PM

Whatever about people telling stories of past horror stories I have fcuk all sympathy for anyone who is currently living in a **** hole with a cnut of a landlord...

If your oven doesn't work or there's **** on the walls and the landlord isn't willing to fix it then just tell him to go fcuk himself. Let him keep the deposit as last month's rent and find a new place..

It's a renter's markets out there and landlords who try to abuse their tenants will quickly find themselves paying their mortgage all on their own!

Having said that, for every prick of a landlord there's a nightmare of a tenant!

Jev/N · 01-08-2010 10:44PM

SoupyNorman wrote: »

A true joke of an outfit.

Got a judgment from them in our favour (tenants), waiting for an enforcement letter and I will take it to the Circuit Court if nothing happens.

It took awhile but I was happy enough with the process

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