Can anyone guide me on my rights... I have been renting a room for the past 6years which I decorated. No contract has been signed just a weekly standing order paid to landlord. I have given then 1 months notice to leave and they asked me to leave the room as I found it. Which sounds reasonable until you realise that I had decorated it tastefully, and put a new flooring down. When taking up the flooring it has made the floor much worse than to begin with and I have a feeling they will charge me to re carpet it. Do I have to pay for this?
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BannerPenguin
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With no contract, there is nothing legally they can do. If you rip it up and the flooring is bad underneath than still, he can't force you to pay anything legally. If it's done tastefully I don't understand why they'd want it all ripped up. Have you asked them to specify what they want doing? IE is it just shelves taking down, holes filled in and walls whitewashed?
Thank you... the room I took on was an office with magnolia paper and lots of ‘notes’ written on the walls, the flooring has the basic green thin mat carpet. I put Laura Ashley wallpaper and paint and laid a vinyl tile flooring over the top of the carpet. Now I’m leaving it will revert back to an office and it was requested that paper must come off and flooring out back to original. As well as shelving taken down. It’s just the floor is now a mess. I want to know my rights before we have the discussion of resolving the flooring issue.
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I'd of left the floor in place!
It is standard practice to request that the property be vacated and left in it's as near original condition as possible.
What did you do with the original carpet?
Could you have not just laid some carpet over the top of your laminate?
I'd just wait and see if they say anything...they might not be bothered....
It's quite possible that the next occupier will want to do a complete renovation anyway!
It is standard practice to request that the property be vacated and left in it's as near original condition as possible.
What did you do with the original carpet?
Could you have not just laid some carpet over the top of your laminate?
I'd just wait and see if they say anything...they might not be bothered....
It's quite possible that the next occupier will want to do a complete renovation anyway!
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Landlord should have provided a contract before you started renting the room that included a clause about returning the room to original condition when you leave.
Without any proof of agreement between you regarding a termination clause, they’ll be hard pressed to legally pursue their case.
I’d leave the room as it is and let them deal with it.
Without any proof of agreement between you regarding a termination clause, they’ll be hard pressed to legally pursue their case.
I’d leave the room as it is and let them deal with it.
