i know i've mentioned this before...

[wilkinsi]

OK, tenants and landlord are tossers. Tenants slam doors and party every day and night. Landlord does fuck all. He's previously withheld deposits for anyone terminating contracts early and at least tried to charge admin fees for doing so ASWELL (one tenant lost his deposit but told him where to shove his BS admin fee of £150). My tenancy agreement wasn't renewed this year. I've complained about those punk tenants and he's done fuck all. Do I a) give him notice, not knowing whether he'll charge an admin fee AND/or keep my deposit? - in which case, b) fuck off without saying a word? I don't even know whether he will try to approach my employer or my parents. He's a lazy greedy twunt with "selective hearing". What would you do? I've been to Shelter who advise this sorta thing, but never seem to give an answer for every possibility. What would you do (and be honest please).

[fett]

Move home? Something tells me if you do something that will "fuck over" the lardlord, word will get out that you are a "pesky tenant". In other words, if you intend to move out, play by the POS rules.

[ozzuk1]

Landlords can be bastards in the uk they can pretty much throw you out when they please and charge you money for it....

Sucks that he doesent do anything about your noisy neighbours..

I can gaurantee that they'd be the first to complain if you were making the noise....

Especially if it was early in the morning....

If your tennecy is about to run out dont renew it adn find somewhere else, best thing to do would be to write a letter and send it recorded delivery....

As always be polite, but notify him of his lack of landlordly duties and telling those otther tennets to keep it down, or you could do what this guy i know did after hsi wife continuously slammed the doors, took them off the hinges.....

Good luck dude if worst comes to worst youll have to move back home....

[wilkinsi]

The contract has already expired 4 months ago, so the tenancy has already gone from fixed assured to periodic. Legally, i have to give 1 month's notice, according to Shelter (C.A.B are crap, don't bother). I'm already 4 days into this month. If he wanted to keep my deposit AND charge on top, then I'd be inclined to tell him to fuck off. My plan at the mo is to get my valuable stuff out to my parent's house first, then give him notice, so he doesn't have a chance/motivation to break into my bedsit and steal stuff (he previously broke into an ex-tenant's room to take possessions, though that tenant was behind on his rent, I'm not and never have been). This would mean handing in notice a week late and I don't wanna pay this **** any more than the deposit he already has. The other side effect to this plan is that I could end up staying til end-Sept. I should also mention that the agreement states you can't offset the rent (i.e.: use the deposit as the last month's rent).

[fett]

What a fucking great plan. Have you lined up another place? Bite the bullet. Give proper notice; get your stuff out; eat whatever the LL will get from you and move on. Landlords thoughout the world have associations and the knowledge to break your balls. It's a nasty ass world out there. Make a clean break.

[Soap]

i know i've mentioned this before...

Man, I wish you would quit asking about this stuff.

[Rsmacker]

I should also mention that the agreement states you can't offset the rent (i.e.: use the deposit as the last month's rent).

What? The agreement that has expired?

Be civil to Mr Patel, don't let him smell your fear, he'll love that. In fact, don't be afraid of him at all. You have a business relationship, it's give and take, you give him money, you need satisfaction in return (oo-er!). Treat him firmly and politely, but don't take any shit from him. Unless you are going to be renting the next place off his Uncle Raj, don't panic about what he'll say about you, money talks and anyone renting a place out would be able to see you will be a fairly safe bet. If you were Eastern European, or just been evicted from a crack house, or maybe even just out of jail, maybe not, but you shouldn't give any landlord sleepless nights.

You are living in a bedsit right? Without trying to take the piss out of you, you are on the underside of the bottom rung of the housing/renting market ladder. You will be treated like shite because the only place lower than a bedsit is a hostel. I guess you live alongside scumbags and dossers (erm, I know that you do, you have said), if you are an intelligent and normal bloke, get out of there, you will just make yourself ill worrying about cunty neighbours who couldn't give a fuck about you. They might give a fuck about shiny musical instruments sitting in your room begging to be taken down to Cash Converters. Time to leave.

Where to go? Got any mates? Share a flat? Maybe even advertise or answer ads for a flatshare (not really the best thing to do, but you may get lucky). Even lodging in someone's house, someone from work?
If all else fails, go home to Chez Mater & Pater, there's no shame in doing that, you'll get fed, your washing done, and you can get some cash together to stick a deposit on a flat, or even a mortgage of your own. (NOT buy more guitars. NO NO NO!!) Probably have to put the wild parties snorting Charlie off Page 3 Girls tits on hold, but they are docile girls, they will understand.

Actually, thinking about at your posts here about your living accomodation and your work, you obviously aren't at all happy.

Personally, I'd cut loose from the bedsit, lose money if necessary, but it will be a clean break, jack the job, go back home cap in hand and start again.

Think what you WANT to do, if necessary get enrolled at the college (just in time for the new term) and make a plan.
I take it you didn't plan a glittering career at the call-centre? Once again, no disrespect, but you are very close to the bottom of the food chain, it's not going to be the end of the world if you plant your arse on the bosses desk and leave him a Mr Whippy to remember you by. You could do anything right now, being young and comittment-free. Pick fruit, labour on building sites, whatever, there will always be someone looking for a youngster with half a brain who can speak English, even if it is to keep all the Poles already employed in check - there, already a foreman! Decide the field you want to work in and go and knock on some doors. No-one is going to come and liberate you from Happy Howard's Halifax Helpline (or wherever you work). If you don't get out you will be 40 years old, no hope, doomed.

Don't spend your life being eaten up by all this shit, you are giving ME an ulcer. Get out, see some of the world and the many many things you could do with your life, the worst thing that could happen is that 5 years down the line you could be phoning Patel Letting Agents looking for a room and answering phones for a Credit Cunt Company, just like you are today. You might easily land on your feet and be earning piles in a dream job fluffing Abi Titmuss' nipples for photoshoots (If you DO, I'll have to kill you though)

Try it, then come back and tell me what a cunt I am. I doubt you will, when you turn your back on all this nonsense you will feel liberated and wonder why exactly you put up with this crap for so long.

Go and make yourself happy, my friend.

[QuantumRider]

Go and make yourself happy, my friend.

+1,000,000

No one else can do it for you, and once you've learned how to make yourself happy, no one can take that ability away from you, either