Bluejuice
Lazy as a rug on Valium
I just wanna judge the average "renewal" fee for renewing a tenancy agreement. The ****s we deal with at Lampons are forever slapping ludicrous charges on us for either sending out plumbers we didn't want, demanding money for letters they've sent us or renewing our tenancy agreement, which they force us to do every six months at £50 a go. £50 our landlord doesn't see, £50 which goes towards the cost of 2 pieces of paper and the cost of a stamp to send it the 500yds up the road to our house from our local letting office.
Now obviously renting through a private landlord would most likely avoid the majority of these fees but of the people I know who also rent through an agent nobody else seems to be having to pay so much, and forced into 6 month agreements each time. We want to stay in our house as long as we can, as it's a nice place it'd be a shame to lose but frankly I'm sick of coughing up every time another letter comes through the door demanding yet MORE money out of us to fill the pockets of these money grabbing letting agent FUCKFACES.
We paid the fee to rent the place from them in the first place, we each paid stupid money for credit checking, we pay them far more each month than our landlord sees from them and we pay them every 6 months just for another bit of paper to sign. And what exactly do they do? f*** ALL that's what. If ever anything goes wrong they just wait 6 months to have somebody look at the problem, declare it unrepairable and simply remove it from our tenancy agreement. They do absolutely NOTHING to justify the kind of money they extort from us and this is entirely evident by the fact that EVERY letting agent in town is decor'd up like a trendy wine bar with fancy lighting, immaculate marble flooring, expensive contemporary art pieces and other obvious symbols of having far too much money.
Anyone who works in letting should be ashamed of themselves for taking advantage of a housing boom that's priced all but the top-earners out of the market to own their own home. It sickens me and I feel more people should speak up about it.
So going back to my original question, what do other letting agencies charge in renewal fees, and how often are these charges presented?
Also, from a legal point of view, if anyone's good with this sort of thing, if we were to approach our landlord with the proposal that we cut out the middle man, pay him the rent direct and look after the place ourselves thereby earning him far more money and avoiding us all the pointless fees going to the greedy letting agent BASTARDS would there be any complications in our defecting from Lampons? Do they have any sort of exclusivity over administering the tenancy or could we just f*** them off entirely?
Any thoughts gratefully received.
Now obviously renting through a private landlord would most likely avoid the majority of these fees but of the people I know who also rent through an agent nobody else seems to be having to pay so much, and forced into 6 month agreements each time. We want to stay in our house as long as we can, as it's a nice place it'd be a shame to lose but frankly I'm sick of coughing up every time another letter comes through the door demanding yet MORE money out of us to fill the pockets of these money grabbing letting agent FUCKFACES.
We paid the fee to rent the place from them in the first place, we each paid stupid money for credit checking, we pay them far more each month than our landlord sees from them and we pay them every 6 months just for another bit of paper to sign. And what exactly do they do? f*** ALL that's what. If ever anything goes wrong they just wait 6 months to have somebody look at the problem, declare it unrepairable and simply remove it from our tenancy agreement. They do absolutely NOTHING to justify the kind of money they extort from us and this is entirely evident by the fact that EVERY letting agent in town is decor'd up like a trendy wine bar with fancy lighting, immaculate marble flooring, expensive contemporary art pieces and other obvious symbols of having far too much money.
Anyone who works in letting should be ashamed of themselves for taking advantage of a housing boom that's priced all but the top-earners out of the market to own their own home. It sickens me and I feel more people should speak up about it.
So going back to my original question, what do other letting agencies charge in renewal fees, and how often are these charges presented?
Also, from a legal point of view, if anyone's good with this sort of thing, if we were to approach our landlord with the proposal that we cut out the middle man, pay him the rent direct and look after the place ourselves thereby earning him far more money and avoiding us all the pointless fees going to the greedy letting agent BASTARDS would there be any complications in our defecting from Lampons? Do they have any sort of exclusivity over administering the tenancy or could we just f*** them off entirely?
Any thoughts gratefully received.
