Hello all, I hope I've come to the right place and apologise if my question is in the wrong category, I felt it fit into this one best.
There are 3 of us currently living in a houseshare, we are 3 months through our 9 month tenancy, and all of a sudden the EA has advertised our property on 3 different letting websites, all for immediate viewing/move in, and without telling us or even asking us if we even wanted to stay after our tenancy agreeement ends! We're still living here, have made no indication that we want to move, and are very upset as we do like the property and had all planned to stay on. We hadn't even thought about moving due to the reasonably short time we've been in the place!
When we phoned up the EA to inquire as to the listing, she laughed at us and said 'we can do exactly what we want, it's our property, it's in your contract' and that they were 'sick of us phoning up with problems'. The problems we phoned up with were a broken washing machine (there are no launderettes here...) and a faulty fuse box (hardly minor issues), we only repeat called when the problems didn't get sorted, i.e if they'd done their job in the first place they wouldn't have received any calls! It took them 2 months to get us a new washing machine, of course we phoned them a few times to inquire as to what was going on. I've also looked through the contract and there isn't even a clause about allowing EA rights to show prospective tenants around in the last month before the tenancy ends (usually standard practice I assumed), it says absolutely nothing about prospective viewings, just the standard 'landlord must inform 24h in writing before requesting entry'.
So my question is; what the hell do we do about this? I do not want the EA letting random people into my house all the time, nor do I particularly want to move. We all work so it's not guaranteed there will always be somebody in the house to refuse them entry. Who should I inform of this practice to make them, well, stop?
There are 3 of us currently living in a houseshare, we are 3 months through our 9 month tenancy, and all of a sudden the EA has advertised our property on 3 different letting websites, all for immediate viewing/move in, and without telling us or even asking us if we even wanted to stay after our tenancy agreeement ends! We're still living here, have made no indication that we want to move, and are very upset as we do like the property and had all planned to stay on. We hadn't even thought about moving due to the reasonably short time we've been in the place!
When we phoned up the EA to inquire as to the listing, she laughed at us and said 'we can do exactly what we want, it's our property, it's in your contract' and that they were 'sick of us phoning up with problems'. The problems we phoned up with were a broken washing machine (there are no launderettes here...) and a faulty fuse box (hardly minor issues), we only repeat called when the problems didn't get sorted, i.e if they'd done their job in the first place they wouldn't have received any calls! It took them 2 months to get us a new washing machine, of course we phoned them a few times to inquire as to what was going on. I've also looked through the contract and there isn't even a clause about allowing EA rights to show prospective tenants around in the last month before the tenancy ends (usually standard practice I assumed), it says absolutely nothing about prospective viewings, just the standard 'landlord must inform 24h in writing before requesting entry'.
So my question is; what the hell do we do about this? I do not want the EA letting random people into my house all the time, nor do I particularly want to move. We all work so it's not guaranteed there will always be somebody in the house to refuse them entry. Who should I inform of this practice to make them, well, stop?