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melanieb
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I see on these threads that no-one holds management companies in very high esteem but I wondered has anyone considered suing to stop what really amounts to daylight robbery?
As you can probably guess I have recently been 'bitten' by my agent/management agent who never kept in touch with me (I am in Australia but they have my email address) never inspected & I had to tell them when my rent was late every month even when it was 2/3 weeks late they didn't seem to notice. after much nagging I managed to get them to inspect as I heard from the neighbours there was continuous partying in the house & the guards had been called on several occasions & the agent said it was 'a bit grubby, sure 4 lads live there' but otherwise fine, less than 2 weeks later, I was told (by a neighbour) there was over 40 refuse sacks outside as they never paid for bin tags & the flies were horrendous & a week after that, after throwing things over the wall & hitting another neighbour I had to nag the agent (up to7/8 phone calls a day insisting I didn't want rent I wanted them out) to evict them (they had been served 28 days notice 30+ days before for non payment of rent & anti-social behaviour) the agent then said the house was fine but they were keeping the deposit to pay for a handyman, a cleaner & a couple of other bits - it was just messy was their attitude. Luckily my neighbour has a key & reported a completely different story complete with photo's & the place had been destroyed - fireplace pulled off the wall, all the beds broken, all the toilets blocked with industrial hand towels, writing a splodges of different coloured paint all over the walls...I could go on...& on!! How could the agent have missed all this at an inspection?? even all the flooring was wrecked. Their excuse was - yes it's bad but it was worse & we made them clean....well surely I should have been told when I asked instead of lied to that all was well??
Is this not breech of contract?? It makes a mockery of paying an agent, they have lied to me continually since too, saying work was done that wasn't, I have some of this in writing by email. I am now scared to trust an agent & feel these theives should be brought to justice to stop other poor unsuspecting landlords paying them good money to 'manage' their properties. Only 1 poor lad in the agency will speak with me now, I have never been allowed to talk to anyone other than him - he can't avoid me because he answers the phone but no-one returns my calls - least of all the directors who promised me faithfully my house would be safe in their hands & since this incident have never had 'time' to take my calls or return them.
Can I sue??? Is it worth my while? Any ideas or advice would be much appreciated - this shouldn't be allowed.
As you can probably guess I have recently been 'bitten' by my agent/management agent who never kept in touch with me (I am in Australia but they have my email address) never inspected & I had to tell them when my rent was late every month even when it was 2/3 weeks late they didn't seem to notice. after much nagging I managed to get them to inspect as I heard from the neighbours there was continuous partying in the house & the guards had been called on several occasions & the agent said it was 'a bit grubby, sure 4 lads live there' but otherwise fine, less than 2 weeks later, I was told (by a neighbour) there was over 40 refuse sacks outside as they never paid for bin tags & the flies were horrendous & a week after that, after throwing things over the wall & hitting another neighbour I had to nag the agent (up to7/8 phone calls a day insisting I didn't want rent I wanted them out) to evict them (they had been served 28 days notice 30+ days before for non payment of rent & anti-social behaviour) the agent then said the house was fine but they were keeping the deposit to pay for a handyman, a cleaner & a couple of other bits - it was just messy was their attitude. Luckily my neighbour has a key & reported a completely different story complete with photo's & the place had been destroyed - fireplace pulled off the wall, all the beds broken, all the toilets blocked with industrial hand towels, writing a splodges of different coloured paint all over the walls...I could go on...& on!! How could the agent have missed all this at an inspection?? even all the flooring was wrecked. Their excuse was - yes it's bad but it was worse & we made them clean....well surely I should have been told when I asked instead of lied to that all was well??
Is this not breech of contract?? It makes a mockery of paying an agent, they have lied to me continually since too, saying work was done that wasn't, I have some of this in writing by email. I am now scared to trust an agent & feel these theives should be brought to justice to stop other poor unsuspecting landlords paying them good money to 'manage' their properties. Only 1 poor lad in the agency will speak with me now, I have never been allowed to talk to anyone other than him - he can't avoid me because he answers the phone but no-one returns my calls - least of all the directors who promised me faithfully my house would be safe in their hands & since this incident have never had 'time' to take my calls or return them.
Can I sue??? Is it worth my while? Any ideas or advice would be much appreciated - this shouldn't be allowed.