Sent to Info@OpenRent just now:-
“I thought I had let the house, but it turned out I would be letting to pups and on legal advice from the National Residential Landlords Association, I had to pull out.
They had not signed a Tenancy Agreement, produced another Guarantor, after one parent got cold feet, or two employment references the morning of the day they were supposed to be moving in, nor any month’s deposit or one month’s rent, minus a week’s holding deposit.
I paid £120 for Open Rent Referencing for 5 tenants and 1 Guarantor, which was very thorough and great value for money.
They even refunded £20, as the sole, valid Guarantor, did not initiate referencing, within the week allowed!
Open Rent Referencing said “proceed with caution” on all 5 tenants, due to one’s minor discrepancies with her month old sub-landlord, in a short term let and 4 others stating they were living with friends or family, when a total of 3 were living in the short term let.
Two other, signed and witnessed guarantor forms, were invalid.
Then they started bullying, threatening and harassing me, stating they would be homeless, when they weren’t my tenants.
One was even stalking the property, with another individual, as I came out of it at 16:30 hours, yesterday.
The same one even called me a vigilante - over my previous voluntary work, as former Organising Secretary of Islington Conservatives, having studied law and helping residents, eg when Linda Robson, of ITV’s Loose Women, said “Everyone Needs an Oriel”, over my Court action against two big bailiff companies and clamps on her stepfather’s car, John Bull, who was ill in bed with cancer, which article appeared in the Mail on Sunday, by Tom Harper.
This is proving a disaster and my property is still unlet.
Please help.