Monday, Apr 13, 2009
Former estate agent sees her BTL flat trashed on facebook
Telegrath: Woman spots her rented flat being destroyed on Facebook
"I recognised it as my flat straight away and I couldn't believe what I was seeing - people jumping on the furniture, dancing on the kitchen table, holes in the walls and smashed TVs. It looked like a slum." 26 year old Miss Lorimer refused to name the lettings agency or the tenants for fear of "recrimination"
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1. quiet guy said...
"Utility accounts should always be in the name of the tenant leaving the landlord with no liability." What on earth was the
Clearly the owner did herself no favours here but the chavs behaviour just creates a bad name for renters. I was glad to see that she had warned other letting agencies in the area but I suspect that here ex-tenants will do the same thing again.
2. montesquieu said...
The narrative here doesn't stack up at all. No landlord is this dim, no lettings agency this negligent. Surely.
3. little professor said...
Can't find anyone matching her on facebook. She must have locked down her account.
4. little professor said...
More info and pics here and here
5. inflation is eating my savings said...
I always thought a deposit was just a down payment on a letting agent's ford escort.
Thanks for posting this. Seems that once in a while the deposit is actually used for something else. Never realised that.
I don't think she'll starve.
6. uncle tom said...
The nouveau landlords of the last decade have almost invariably underestimated the likelihood, consequences, and costs of dealing with feral tenants; until they learn the hard way..
7. new user 2007 said...
I have heard of tenants doing this. There are bad tenants, just as there are bad landlords. But from what I have heard of people closer to home, they treat the property badly AFTER it is obvious the landlord does not do their duty, or is unlikely to give the deposit back.
Funny how we rarely see stories on the just as traumatic treatment of tenants--keeping of deposits, not fixing things etc--from newspapers, just the extreme stories of tenants. And that happens systematically!
8. mytimeisnigh said...
..but if the tenants had payed their rent on time and looked after the property, it would have been perfectly acceptable for her to keep the £800 deposit because of a small stain on the carpet? You win some, you lose some.
9. japanese uncle said...
This sort of incident will be much more common as desperate landlords are forced to accept 'sub-standard' tenants thanks to the severe competition for relatively smaller number of prospective customers in a market flooded by the rental properties.
10. Grumpy Middle-aged Git said...
I don't have a lot of sympathy - either she, the agency or both were grossly negligent for not sorting out the transfer of utilities at the beginning of the tenancy and as a former estate agent she should have been a bit more clued-up about contents insurance as well as realising that the average letting agent's vetting process is merely a scheme to fleece the tenant for more cash as well as the landlord (via the finder's fee). Most agents don't give a monkey's who rents the property if they have the upfront cash and many employment references aren't worth the paper they're written on. If I possibly could manage a let myself, I would - I've heard too many stories about lazy agents who do nothing and pocket the cash. I would far rather do the vetting process myself than trust some commission-driven ***** - at least if the tenancy then goes belly up, I could only blame myself............. Before you all ostracise me, I'm not a BTL'er!