My husband and I and our 4 children rented a property for almost 3 years. The house was fully furnished with no inventory or proof on the tenancy agreement that it was rented as furnished. The landlord lives in Thailand and upped and left and left us in charge of his worldly possessions. Before he left he put a few marked duvets in the garage, covering some of his possessions.
We gave our months notice and repainted the property before we left even though it did not require this on the tenancy agreement and did numerous repairs out of our own pockets on the house during the course of our tenancy. Upon leaving the house was immaculate apart from the kids had accidentally broken 2 glass lamps that were in their bedrooms. A few pictures had been knocked/fallen off walls and 4 plastic venetian blind wands had snapped. We did not replace the lamps and pictures as they were one of a pair or a trio and purchased 8 years ago when the house was built and no longer for sale.
Upon his return the landlord has requested the following:
The blind rods be replaced
The lamps be replaced
The pictures be replaced
As mentioned before the above two are irreplaceable as part of a set?!
Garden chairs have slight algae on them and should have been stored in the garage over winter (which we were never asked to do)
The lawn has brown spots where the dog has weed in a few places and he wants this putting right.
Where do I stand with this? Can I replace his lamp with any old lamp? His picture with any old picture? Surely after nearly 3 years with 6 people in the house he should allow for some accidental damage?
We asked him for permission to have a compost bin. He agreed to this but is now asking us to remove it. Can this be classed as a portable item?
He has gone in the garage to retrieve the aforementioned duvets only to find that a rat had made a home in them and damaged (chewed through) virtually all the duvets, duvet covers and cushions he had stored in there. I kindly offered to take them to the tip for him as he has no car whilst in the UK. He is going to try to claim the costs back on his landlords insurance, which I doubt will be successful. However, he turned around yesterday and said if his claim was unsuccessful he would be reclaiming the costs for the damaged items out of our bond!!!!!!
Anyway to cut a long story short, he hasn't protected our deposit to the best of our knowledge and we have had no Gas Safety Certificate from October to March. However, although he is in the country at the moment he could go back to Thailand at anytime leaving me out of pocket and leaving Court action not really an option as it would be too lengthy, HELP!!!!!
We gave our months notice and repainted the property before we left even though it did not require this on the tenancy agreement and did numerous repairs out of our own pockets on the house during the course of our tenancy. Upon leaving the house was immaculate apart from the kids had accidentally broken 2 glass lamps that were in their bedrooms. A few pictures had been knocked/fallen off walls and 4 plastic venetian blind wands had snapped. We did not replace the lamps and pictures as they were one of a pair or a trio and purchased 8 years ago when the house was built and no longer for sale.
Upon his return the landlord has requested the following:
The blind rods be replaced
The lamps be replaced
The pictures be replaced
As mentioned before the above two are irreplaceable as part of a set?!
Garden chairs have slight algae on them and should have been stored in the garage over winter (which we were never asked to do)
The lawn has brown spots where the dog has weed in a few places and he wants this putting right.
Where do I stand with this? Can I replace his lamp with any old lamp? His picture with any old picture? Surely after nearly 3 years with 6 people in the house he should allow for some accidental damage?
We asked him for permission to have a compost bin. He agreed to this but is now asking us to remove it. Can this be classed as a portable item?
He has gone in the garage to retrieve the aforementioned duvets only to find that a rat had made a home in them and damaged (chewed through) virtually all the duvets, duvet covers and cushions he had stored in there. I kindly offered to take them to the tip for him as he has no car whilst in the UK. He is going to try to claim the costs back on his landlords insurance, which I doubt will be successful. However, he turned around yesterday and said if his claim was unsuccessful he would be reclaiming the costs for the damaged items out of our bond!!!!!!
Anyway to cut a long story short, he hasn't protected our deposit to the best of our knowledge and we have had no Gas Safety Certificate from October to March. However, although he is in the country at the moment he could go back to Thailand at anytime leaving me out of pocket and leaving Court action not really an option as it would be too lengthy, HELP!!!!!