STUDENTS – Some helpful tips from Harvey & Co
With the impending start of the student year take some helpful tips from our fictitious students. Henry Gondorff and and Johnny Hooker are a couple of American kids who have come over to Glasgow. Henry is going into his second year studying Economics, his ambition is to set up an online betting company. Johnny has just left high school and is undertaking a general business degree - he has a lot of learning to do.
They have paid a deposit for the flat. Their landlord is a guy called Doyle Lonnegan who doesn’t have a very good name in the West End. Henry has insisted Mr Lonnegan prove he is a member of a Tenancy Deposit Scheme which will hold their deposit during the duration of the tenancy. Despite it now being a statutory requirement Henry is aware that some unscrupulous landlords and letting agents still don’t do this. (This will put Henry at loggerheads with Mr Lonnegan for the duration of the tenancy but very sensible).
Johnny is an expert at playing ‘Quarters’ which involves bouncing a quarter coin into a tumbler filled with beer, if it goes in he can nominate one of his playing partner’s drink it. While this may be good fun Henry points out that the incessant bouncing of the coin may damage the table. He informs Johnny of his experience after first year when he was charged for redecoration of a bedroom, he had put betting charts on the walls using blu tac. This had left marks which were not classed as wear and tear. (Quite right Henry – in both cases the damage cannot be seen as wear and tear and the landlord can charge).
Johnny’s Auntie lives in Glasgow and wants him to look after her dog, Lucky Dan. Fortune has not favoured Lucky Dan this time as Johnny has to decline, it is a stipulation of the lease that pets are not permitted without permission from the Landlord. (Please note if a landlord does permit pets it is common for them to ask that a ‘Pet Mandate’ is completed which indemnifies them against damage that the pet may cause). The boys have got off to a good start. By checking what they can, and cannot do, they are setting standards that will benefit them at the end of the tenancy.
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