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OMG! Things are going from bad to worse. I am getting sooo stressed that I feel like my head is about to explode.
I rang the landlady up on Friday just to inform her that me and Ric are now going to be moving out after the date we have finished paying our rent up to - 26th August. She then turned around and had the cheek to tell me that we haven't paid rent up until that day we have only paid until 27th July. Apparently, on Thursday, she rang up the University to see when the official end of term is and they told her that the end of term is 27th July and after that if students want to stay on they are charged rent weekly. So she then got it into her head that that is what we are going to do, when quite clearly we have already paid until the 26th August.
When we moved in we paid for 45 weeks of rent, leaving 7 weeks throughout the year when we havent paid rent and therefore werent going to live here, i.e. at xmas etc when we want to go home. She said that was fine and when we werent here to just let her know and shed come up and lock the doors to make sure it was safe. All was going well until it came to the summer. We moved in on 16th September last year, so obviously our 45 weeks (plus the 7 weeks) runs from 16th sept to the 16th sept. If we've already taken 5 weeks out of the house (3 at xmas and 2 at easter) then we obviously only have 2 weeks left between now and sept 16th that we havent paid for which we completely understand. When she came up to have a meeting with us a few weeks ago she 100% agreed that we had paid until the end of summer, because she even said that she didn't mind if we wanted to pay those extra 2 weeks and not have to go home at all, which we did before we decided to move out.
If she is going to turn around now and say that those weeks when we werent living here we were still paying for then she had absolutely no right to come and lock he doors so that we couldnt get back in - we cant be paying for a house we cant get in to.
I dont know where she has got that we have to move out on 27th July from, it makes absolutely no sense. She says we are welcome to stay over the summer if we want to pay her the extra rent. I dont think so!! I have no idea what it has to do with the university term times, we dont live at the uni!!! I was on the phone to her for ages trying so many different ways to explain it to her and she just kept saying over and over again 'No no no, the uni have said....' I was like Grrrr, for fucks sake it has nothing to do with the uni.
I dont usually get angry and can usually keep quite calm on the phone but she was really pissing me off and she just wasnt listening to what I have to say. There is absolutely no way we have only paid until 27th July.
Anyway, in the end we decided that we would just do what she wanted and move out by 27th July. The only problem is my parents are away then and thats half way through jury service so the only chance we actually have to move out is this weekend. So we've booked a van, half the rabbits have already been taken home and we're taking the rest at weekend.
She has in no way got away with it though. We worked it out that if we move out this early, she has gotten away with nearly £900 of mine, ric and sarahs money including our deposits. We are not going to let that happen so tomorrow we are off to citizens advice and a smalls claims person if needs be. Then she'll really be shitting it. I was getting so frustrated with her though, it seems completely over the top to have to take her to a small claims court over it, but we cant let her get away with all that money and she is the worlds most slowest woman and theres just no talking to her and getting her to see your point of view. It's like banging your head against a brick wall.
So anwyay, if we move out early and start the process then in a way we can at least lose no more money - we've already lost some but cant be made to pay out anymore. If we'd have stayed past the date she said we had to move out then if we'd have lost the argument we could have been made to pay her the extra rent. There is no way we can lose though because its all in writing what we agreed when we moved in. But at least if we do move out we are kind of 'safe' and at least the rabbits are out of the way so there is nothing she can say about that either.
Another things is that theres a notice on our notice board thats been there since we moved in listing our rights as tenants. It says that we have a right to a fully legal contract, we we dont have cost our contract int worth the papers its writte on, which again is going to back fire on her because she needs to cover her own back. It also says that if we have any problems to call this number, so we're going to ring that too. There is mold all over our house which is bad for you, and when we brought it up at the last meeting the guy even had the cheek to say 'its not mould its just moisture' - haha! How stupid does he think we are????
We now have a very busy week of packing up allll our stuff into boxes, which we dont have at the moment. I cant believe how much stuff we have. Oh and another thing is, when we moved in we had the smallest shittiest little fridge ever that was all broken so we went out and bought a new £300 fridge freezer. Also when we moved in there was really crap settee in here, made of duck feather, prickled you whenever you sat down and it was like sitting on wood. It was awful so when my mums friends offered us the really nice settee we have now we obviously said yes. There is no way that now, after all this, that we're going to be leaving her a brand new fridge and settee when we moved in to the crap ones. So we're taking them with us. Ric's Mum loves the sofa and hers is dead so when the van comes to pick all our stuff up we're bringing her old crap sofa with us and taking the good one home. Also, we're going to pop to the charity shop in Lancaster and buy a shit cheap fridge and leave that here too, and take the good one with us.
I cant believe all this is happening but in a way at least it just gets us out of here now rather than us hanging on to the end of summer. It does mean though that if we have any resits to do we are going to have to find a way of travelling up here to do them. At least we can get everything sorted and unpacked at home though. I was planning on staying here for a good 2 years but after all this now im glad we're moving out.
On a small positive note though before I stop waffling, we went to have a look at cars yesterday. We went to Fords of Windsor and they have HUNDREDS of different cars. I absolutely fell in love with one though and we can afford it, the insurance is good and its a nice car so I think we're going to get that type, from somehere. I'm not sure when though now because we're so busy and my mum and dad are off on holiday so it may be a while yet, but at least it gives us something to look forward to. I'm not going to tell anybody which car yet, you'll have to wait and see....hehe