Letting Agencies - Lady Gardens

[C.A.R.]

Brace yourselves - feel the need to vent.

We were recently evicted from our flat because the landlord wanted the property back for her son to live in. Bearing in mind I had a heavily pregnant Mrs at the time I think we were quite accomodating.

The problems came up just over a week ago when we actually moved out. The move out was scheduled for the 8th at 3pm, whereon a 'Checkout inventory' of the flat is to take place.

Cue frantic cleaning of the flat from top-to-bottom on the day of checkout, we made sure the place was spotless.

Comes to 3pm. Nobody here yet.

3:30, still nobody. I'll give them a ring.

"No sorry, the inventory clerk is not available this afternoon and we had trouble locating the master inventory for the property, but if you could still drop the keys off at the office...."

I did as was asked of me and dropped the keys off.

Still hadn't heard of them by the Monday afternoon. Phoned up, evidently "no checkout has been done yet, we hope to do it tomorrow morning"

At this point I'm pretty p*ssed, as they are holding up £1,000 of my money.

On the Monday night I returned to the flat to check with neighbors to see if they had any parcels for me, as one had gone missing. There were lights on in our old flat, so I knocked.

The landlords son had moved in - get this - on the Saturday night, just hours after we handed the keys over. A checkout wasn't done until the Tuesday.

On Thursday they phoned up to tell me the inevitable - surprise surprise, there were problems with the state of the flat.

Apparently two walls needed repainting, to the tune of £120.

I'm so, so p*ssed off it's unreal.

Surely they can't prove we are responsible for the supposed 'damage'?

So with that I can confirm that all letting agents are in fact lady gardens unless proven otherwise.