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housemate is being charged 690 euro to move out by mgmt agency

  • 07-12-2018 12:46am
    #1
    BornIn84
    Registered Users Posts: 483 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    Our housemate is moving out and is being charged 690 euro by the management agency citing solicitors fees and management fees as the reason.

    Any time anyone has moved out previously, the received the security deposit from the new person and moved on.

    There was nothing about these charges in the last lease we signed.

    Also a few weeks ago we received an email saying we owed the agency 360 euro which came out of absolutely no where as we have always paid our rent on time.

    When i confronted them, they backed down and said they'd talk to their accounts department - we never heard about it again.

    We used to deal with a number of people in the agency who we found, all recently left.
    Seems the agency may be in trouble and looking to find money any way they can?

    Tonight i bumped into another tenant in the apartment block and they say there's a couple of apartments who are having the same charges thrown at them for people moving out.

    This doesn't make sense to us.
    Now as a new tenant is soon moving in, the agency have asked us to sign a new lease. we're worried they may try add in these new "Charges".

    Has anyone experienced anything like this?


Comments

  • #2
    Fol20
    Registered Users Posts: 3,623 ✭✭✭Fol20


    Ask for whatever fees they are requesting in writing. Dont mentioned it to the agency however once you have it in writing contact threshold and rtb. Unless the tenant overheld or was doing behaviour that would involve an eviction. I cant aee any other reason to charge you. Speaking from a ll point of view, theres good and bad ll and tenant. And unless we dont know the entire story. This reaks of a bad ll


  • #3
    BornIn84
    Registered Users Posts: 483 ✭✭BornIn84


    The other tenant tenant I live with has been great.

    Lived with him nearly 3 years and sad to see him go.

    We're a quiet bunch and never bother the agency about anything and always have our rent paid on time.
    We're completely baffled by it. They seem to be trying to grab money any way they can.


  • #4
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users Posts: 9,500 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    BornIn84 wrote: »
    The other tenant tenant I live with has been great.

    Lived with him nearly 3 years and sad to see him go.

    We're a quiet bunch and never bother the agency about anything and always have our rent paid on time.
    We're completely baffled by it. They seem to be trying to grab money any way they can.

    They can't magically create charges, get it in writing first and then you can make a complaint.


  • #5
    dennyk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭dennyk


    Ignore the silly management agency, they have no standing to charge a tenant any fees which aren't specified in the lease as being the responsibility of the tenant. Their contract of service is with the landlord and the landlord would be responsible for paying any fees owed to them for services rendered, unless you have signed some separate agreement with them yourselves. Tell them to go squeeze the landlord if they want more money, or to just go pound sand.

    Your former housemate should make sure that he has properly submitted his notice of termination giving the necessary notice period based on his length of tenancy and following the correct format and all; that's all that he has to do to end his tenancy, assuming he isn't on a fixed term lease. If they try to take this bogus "fee" out of his deposit, he should go straight to the RTB.


  • #6
    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,871 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    This is what will happen when the professionals take over renting. Charges for everything and increases every year on the button. But people want the professionals and not the person with a couple of properties.


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