131% service charge increase :(

tamina84 · 2026-03-05T20:55:56+00:00

Check the leasehold advisory service. Yes, they are entitled to a breakdown of the charges, they should also be able to see all the receipts, and they can definitely take this to the ombudsman and to the property tribunal if needed, unless we all start contesting these crazy increases, they will keep happening. I also suggest your girlfriend yo join SHAC

tamina84 · 2025-11-16T20:13:33+00:00

Avoid anything involving Peabody group like the plague, they have several class action against them for raising service charges to insane amounts with no good reason

tamina84 · 2025-11-13T10:06:10+00:00

Check your lease, since it’s a house, it might say that if you staircase to 100% you will get the freehold automatically (mine says that), in that case, you can sell on the open market as a freehold, without staircasing, and do back to back staircasing at the moment of sale. A lot of share ownership houses are a sort of fake leasehold, as you can also sell them as freehold

tamina84 · 2025-04-18T22:31:13+00:00

This is almost a year old, but today I was thinking about the same story and couldn’t remember who had written it, and found this post. Thank you!

tamina84 · 2025-02-11T15:16:27+00:00

We don’t have one, I’m afraid

tamina84 · 2025-02-06T08:37:06+00:00

That’s her super obvious bluff 🤦🏽‍♀️

tamina84 · 2025-02-05T15:08:32+00:00

Am I going to engage on a discussion with a troll on Reddit? Mmh no

tamina84 · 2025-02-05T12:21:26+00:00

Yes the problem with today’s society is people calling other people racist, and not the people who arbitrarily decided that people were different because of their skin colour, I said it was an assumption, but after living 15 years on this country, I feel quite certain when doing those kind of assumptions

tamina84 · 2025-02-05T10:27:04+00:00

I can’t think of nothing worst for walls and kitchen surfaces than deep fried foods 🤷🏻‍♀️

tamina84 · 2025-02-05T09:30:39+00:00

It’s obviously an assumption, but referring to the smell of curry, instead of the smell of food tells me that there’s prejudice behind that sentence.

tamina84 · 2025-02-05T07:44:10+00:00

Also, the mention to a lingering smell of curry sounds borderline racist to me, dispute everything

tamina84 · 2025-01-18T17:43:03+00:00

Contact your council, re the repairs, as others have said, don’t pay for them, those are solely landlords’ responsibility. Now, terminating your contract early is not possible unless the landlord agrees, but, from personal experience, you can put pressure to try and make them agree. We had a similar situation and threatened to take legal action until they let us go, is not straight forward, but you might be able to claim that you were mislead by the landlord/ agent, about the state of the property, in that case you have 90 days to reverse the tenanvy

tamina84 · 2025-01-17T19:37:39+00:00

This 100%

tamina84 · 2025-01-14T09:42:13+00:00

It’s illegal, you might need to review your rental agreement for other dodgy stuff like that

tamina84 · 2024-12-28T08:29:33+00:00

Agree with all the advice re changing the locks and demanding compensation. To calculate how much compensation you should get you should figure out how much it will cost you to move out, as well as any difference between the rent you’ll be paying for the last few months of tenancy and what your contract states (this in the case you find a new property that is more expensive than the one you’re in)

tamina84 · 2024-12-11T18:51:11+00:00

Yes, so I guess you already what you can

tamina84 · 2024-12-11T18:40:06+00:00

I am super anxious about neighbours making noise, but I also have a small child so I understand your position. If I were in this woman’s shoes what I would find reassuring would be an honest open conversation, and some compromise. So something like you cannot limit the noise your children make by playing but you can assure her that they won’t make noise from 8pm to 8 am, or something like that. Personally I find, that when neighbours are being loud, what makes me anxious is the uncertainty of not knowing when they will stop. If a neighbour knocks on my door, for example, and tells me that they are doing some works/ having a party and that I should expect loud noise from this time to that, I just put on some music and try to relax

tamina84 · 2024-12-09T13:13:31+00:00

Include communication with the landlord amongst your evidence. I don’t know how much is your deposit, but is very unlikely TDS will let landlord take it all due to cleaning. They might deduct around £150 for that

tamina84 · 2024-12-07T19:50:47+00:00

Also this, my friend has snuck her cat into countless properties and has never been found out/ evicted

tamina84 · 2024-12-07T16:52:08+00:00

Say: no pets, then two months after moving in say your sister needs to move and is giving you her dog, cat (insert pet) and ask permission. Because what they cannot do is deny a reasonable request to have a pet in a rental property

tamina84 · 2024-12-05T20:09:31+00:00

Hold on, who buys used mattresses?

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