This is part a request for advice, part just a rant.
I have fortunately just moved out of a flat with a particularly unhelpful and unpleasant landlady, but we are now attempting to get our deposit back and it's proving a little tricky.
At the beginning of the tenancy, she had a company come in and carry out an inventory check. All fine and good except that they were cowboys and didn't check everything - so we went round, checked ourselves and added our own comments to everything, then sent it to them and they confirmed they'd received it.
Now, they've done another inventory check at the end, and surprise surprise picked up loads of stuff that was there at the start, but which they didn't see then, and are blaming it on us. Also, they claim to have no record of the comments we sent them last year.
Fortunately I have e-mail records proving that they received the comments back then, and this should get us out of having to pay for some of the problems that were there last year.
Unfortunately, we didn't pick up on everything either. There are some problems which I am 100% positive we didn't cause yet neither the inventory company nor us picked up on them last year, and now they say they're our fault. Basically we're screwed aren't we?
I have fortunately just moved out of a flat with a particularly unhelpful and unpleasant landlady, but we are now attempting to get our deposit back and it's proving a little tricky.
At the beginning of the tenancy, she had a company come in and carry out an inventory check. All fine and good except that they were cowboys and didn't check everything - so we went round, checked ourselves and added our own comments to everything, then sent it to them and they confirmed they'd received it.
Now, they've done another inventory check at the end, and surprise surprise picked up loads of stuff that was there at the start, but which they didn't see then, and are blaming it on us. Also, they claim to have no record of the comments we sent them last year.
Fortunately I have e-mail records proving that they received the comments back then, and this should get us out of having to pay for some of the problems that were there last year.
Unfortunately, we didn't pick up on everything either. There are some problems which I am 100% positive we didn't cause yet neither the inventory company nor us picked up on them last year, and now they say they're our fault. Basically we're screwed aren't we?
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