Re: Interesting question

On 10 Apr, 15:43, nullified <n...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've just had some barmy bint from Your Move on the blower, telling me
I've "broken their terms and conditions" and not acted "honourably"
(honour? from an estate agent? yer 'avin a larf, surely!).
Needed to rent a property for a few months while works going on at my
house, so saw this particular house in the paper advertised by YM.
Rang, arranged a viewing, liked it, told 'em to send me the paperwork
and we'll sign the dotted line.
When the paperwork arrived this morning we discovered the pretty
staggering fees involved in renting a house now. I dont mean rent, or
deposit or whatever, but securing fee (150) arrangement fee (200)
guarantor fee (20) extension fee (20) and inventory fee at end of
tenancy (111) all PLUS vat. So I rang them and said they could contact
the owner and tell him they had someone wanting his house but they
wouldnt pay those fees - did he want to rent it or not? I'd meet him
halfway feewise, I said. Nope, said YM, they're *our* fees, not his.
Well I'm not paying them says me, cheerio.
Then I remembered that there was another agents board in the garden,
so I rang them, their fees were less than half YMs, so I went to their
office signed up and paid them there and then. When that agent phoned
YM to say the house was no longer available, they let slip my name and
YM added two and two together and realised it was let to the bloke who
had refused to let it from them. Hence this bint just now. She reckons
I'm in breach of some contract or other and I told her she was
demented. Who's right?

It never ceases to amaze me how little state agents and the like know
about their own area of 'expertise'. Time and time again they cause
stress and aggravation to all concerned in the house buying process
because they don't even have a basic understanding of what the process
is beyond their involvement. And if you can take a lecture on honour
from one of them with telling her to 'f-off' then you have stronger
will power than me.

Anyway, rant over and to your question. You don't have a contract
with them, and have no liability to pay the fees. If the property is
jointly marketed then this is bound to happen, not least if they try
to stick the tenant with charges of nearly 600 quid on top of their
fee from the landlord.

.

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