The entry in my Outlook calendar was:
“October 7: Your 2 year anniversary. Forget this and Louise WILL kill you to death.”
Thankfully I have remembered.
Still waiting for my solicitor to send me a draft of the letter he’s sending to my ex-landlord.
Also, got my Flash Advance linker for Louise’s Nintendo DS. If you don’t know what one of these does… then I’m not telling you. Just know that it rocks. As do I.
Today I have my completed “allocation questionnaire” to return to the court, along with 11 (count ‘em, 11!) supplementary pages of invoices, emails, statements of truth etc that say the landlord is a grade A pain. Sent a copy to the court, a copy to him and a copy to my solicitor, who’s sending a letter to my ex-landlord tomorrow. Fingers crossed he throws in the towel now…
After much pestering, I got the maintenance people at my former letting agent to send me a copy of all the emails we exchanged while we were living at my old flat. Basically, about 60 emails of:
Me: “This has been broken since we moved in. Fix it.”
Them: “Soon.”
Turns out I’ve been royally screwed on the inventory too - the check-out inventory basically slates the flat as being in a poor condition. Helpfully, they included some photos with it, which, if you compare them with the photos we took when we moved in, show that the statement is a load of bollocks. They also claim that there’s rubbish left on the kitchen floor… which isn’t in their photo. Bright.
While going through these emails I found that one of them had been CC’d to my ex-landlord. Now tell me, how much fun can we have with that?
I just got off the phone with my lawyer. Wow, I’ve waited a long time to say that. Apparently I have a “fair” chance against my ex-landlord. I just had to pay a stupid sum of money just to get them to send a letter to him trying to settle out of court with both parties dropping their claims. Unfortunately, if it goes to court, my legal fees will far outstrip any money I stand to gain. Shit. So it’s either:
1) Pay my ex-landlord a pile of money that’s claiming unfairly
or
2) Defend it in court and have to pay huge legal fees, with the risk of having to pay the landlord money anyway, plus his legal fees.
Not impressed.