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Utter Bastard (London Landlord-centric)
Briefly put...I'm living with 3 other people all who have good jobs in the city. Me, i'm about to start a masters at UCL. So as i'm a student my parents need to be guarentors for my rent. But now the landlord has come back saying my parents need to be guarentors for EVERYONE in the house. This doesnt make sense to me at all! my parents are refusing (which i understand) and now it looks like we may lose the house!
does anyone have any advice. I think there's little we can do as we haven't actually signed the contract yet.
arse.
move out or kill your landlord?
Man's a complete cretin
if he thinks that's an acceptable request. And what's the difference to him anyway? He's still guaranteed the same amount of money, albeit from 3 different sources.
Rubbish that you're losing the place, but best you find out what an idiot he is now rather later.
buy a flat then the bank is your landlord
still i'd rather pay a mortgage than pay some dodgy landlord or worse still a silly yah who's parents have bought them a 'buy to let'
i guess
but its such a massive hassle as i start uni next monday and 2 of the other start jobs.
argh
break
everything down into the simplest terms possible.
Landlords think they can treat students like dirt, just dont stand for it.
go in there and say that your parents obviously arent going to be guarantors for everyone, they have no need to be and that you dont have time to waste beign treated like that.
tell the landlord its his choice about whether or not he wants to lose tenants for the house, and make sure you really spell it out hta the other people arent students.
ive dealt with big estate agents and tiny independent landlords in my 4 years here and theyve ALL tried to fuck me over, only one has succeeded. write them letters, take pictures of the place, and pretend to cc your family's solicitors into every piece of correspondence.
boom!
its futher annoying
as he's going through the estate agents so we can't talk to him directly....and the estate agents are on our side.
humf
I agree with johnny
if he's insisting on such stuff now, before you've even moved it, i can see him seriously fighting you when you have to move out for every penny of the deposit. An example: ex-landlord had fitted a shower that had a pulley chord thingy on it, and then put a brass attachment at the end. predictably, it cracked one of the tiles when it bashed against the wall. He wanted to charge me £800 to get the whole bath re-tiled for one slight, hairline crack(even though he was the twat for putting a brass fitting in the first place).
I fought him and won, but I had a very sturdy inventory with photographs behind me.
Others may not have been so lucky.