Woodchips
25-10-2009, 10:22 AM
We had a rather nasty incident involving our landlord yesterday and would appreciate some advice as to what to do next.
A bit of background, we have a rented property that we've been in for 25 months and we gave our notice to leave at the appropriate time and we have up untill the 30th November to leave. The Landlord has found new tenants who wanted to rent the property on the begining of November and we agreed to move out on or before the 31st October so this could happen.
Ever since this was agreed we have been bombarded by phonecalls by the land lord asking what we are going to do to put the house right before we leave, we have explained on numerous occasions that we will clean the house from top to bottom to a high standard and will will re decorate part of the lounge that has some damage to the wall paper. Despite our assurances, we received phonecalls on a regular basis asking to put in writing what we are going to clean and how etc and that we are going to going to re paper the wall and the phonecalls became increasingly more aggresive.
Yesterday myself, my partner, daughter and numerous rubber gloved family members were having a mass cleaning session in the property, (we have moved our belongings to our new address) and the Land lord banged on the door demanding to come in, we said no, simply because it was quite clear that the land lord was acting confrontational, we explained that we were cleaning the property, this prompted the land lord to become abusive, so I shut and locked the door. The landlord started to bang violently on the door with a stick shouting obsenities and tell us to 'get out of his house'. At this point we opened a window and ask the he bear in mind we have a small child in the house and the reaction from the LL was 'so??' The abuse carried on for a while after, and went from abusive to threatening, our responce was to keep the door locked and ignore it and after 15 mins or so the LL left and then spent a further 15 minutes sitting in his car adjacent to the property.
We have 1 more room to clean, and the wall papering to do, but quite frankly we're nervous about returning to the property. So we would like to request that the LL does not come back whilst we're there, are we within our rights to do so? we would also like to cease all contact on the telephone and keep communications in writing now until we hand over, can we do this?
Additional info is that there was no inventory when we moved in to the property and we've never had a certifcate saying that our bond is protected.
Also just to add that the property is in a good state of repair, all bar one room has been cleaned to a high standard, in our opinion, cleaner than when we moved in.
A bit of background, we have a rented property that we've been in for 25 months and we gave our notice to leave at the appropriate time and we have up untill the 30th November to leave. The Landlord has found new tenants who wanted to rent the property on the begining of November and we agreed to move out on or before the 31st October so this could happen.
Ever since this was agreed we have been bombarded by phonecalls by the land lord asking what we are going to do to put the house right before we leave, we have explained on numerous occasions that we will clean the house from top to bottom to a high standard and will will re decorate part of the lounge that has some damage to the wall paper. Despite our assurances, we received phonecalls on a regular basis asking to put in writing what we are going to clean and how etc and that we are going to going to re paper the wall and the phonecalls became increasingly more aggresive.
Yesterday myself, my partner, daughter and numerous rubber gloved family members were having a mass cleaning session in the property, (we have moved our belongings to our new address) and the Land lord banged on the door demanding to come in, we said no, simply because it was quite clear that the land lord was acting confrontational, we explained that we were cleaning the property, this prompted the land lord to become abusive, so I shut and locked the door. The landlord started to bang violently on the door with a stick shouting obsenities and tell us to 'get out of his house'. At this point we opened a window and ask the he bear in mind we have a small child in the house and the reaction from the LL was 'so??' The abuse carried on for a while after, and went from abusive to threatening, our responce was to keep the door locked and ignore it and after 15 mins or so the LL left and then spent a further 15 minutes sitting in his car adjacent to the property.
We have 1 more room to clean, and the wall papering to do, but quite frankly we're nervous about returning to the property. So we would like to request that the LL does not come back whilst we're there, are we within our rights to do so? we would also like to cease all contact on the telephone and keep communications in writing now until we hand over, can we do this?
Additional info is that there was no inventory when we moved in to the property and we've never had a certifcate saying that our bond is protected.
Also just to add that the property is in a good state of repair, all bar one room has been cleaned to a high standard, in our opinion, cleaner than when we moved in.