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some advice???

davek75

hello ladies and gents,

i know what your all thinking.... oh no! not davek75 again!! :)

well i have a little problem and am just looking for some advice really....

i have a new home as most of you already know but have a problem, when i first took the tennancy i was told to bring with me a £10 postal order for a contribution towards rent which i did and never thought anything more of it.... however a week later i had the housing association telling me i was a week behind with the rent?? and was i sent a rent card??? im entitled to full housing benefit and have already put a housing benefit form in for the property.

they then informed me that every tennant is a week in advance and was i able to pay £10 a week till i was a week in advance... to which i said yes! (anything to keep my new found home)...

NOW... because i was never informed on sign up for the property about being a week in advance am i obligated to still pay this or can they demand the week in advance to which i was never informed of???

thanks :)

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  • longman said:
    They can ask for money to be held against breakages, which as anyone will tell you, even if you never break anything and leave the place perfect at the end of the tenancy, you'll have a job to get any of it back.

    That tends to be private landlord behaviour.  As a past HA tenant myself, I can tell you a HA would not behave like that.  HAs don't ask for deposits and there is now a law about landlords keeping deposits in an independent way so that they are not in control of handing it back (or not).  When we vacated our HA flat they couldn't believe how immaculate we left it, and we didn't have a deposit to do it for, they said it was like newly decorated and they wished all their tenants were like us.

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  • longman said:
    They can ask for money to be held against breakages, which as anyone will tell you, even if you never break anything and leave the place perfect at the end of the tenancy, you'll have a job to get any of it back.

    That tends to be private landlord behaviour.  As a past HA tenant myself, I can tell you a HA would not behave like that.  HAs don't ask for deposits and there is now a law about landlords keeping deposits in an independent way so that they are not in control of handing it back (or not).  When we vacated our HA flat they couldn't believe how immaculate we left it, and we didn't have a deposit to do it for, they said it was like newly decorated and they wished all their tenants were like us.

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