Foxton's Fucking Us Over - update
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dryfterRight, after spending most of the day arguing with them, Foxton's have agreed to release a further £300 back to us - but not the full amount.
The rest is due to three days in February 2004, which was a leap year.
Our contract is listed as being x hundred pounds a week, although we pay monthly, at 4.34 x the weekly rate.
Our contract started on the 31st of a month, and so we were always paying a month in advance, to the end of the next month.
However after February, apparently this changed - because February only went to the 28th, our payments from then on were only covering us to the 28th of the next month.. so on our final payment I assumed that we only had to pay from the 31st onwards, but actually we were due from the 29th onwards. So that means we're short a few days according to them, but then the entire payment was lost by them anyways..
Smells a bit suss to me; basically they seem to be saying that because february was shorter than usual, we owe MORE than usual, rather than the same or less.
WTF?
The rest is due to three days in February 2004, which was a leap year.
Our contract is listed as being x hundred pounds a week, although we pay monthly, at 4.34 x the weekly rate.
Our contract started on the 31st of a month, and so we were always paying a month in advance, to the end of the next month.
However after February, apparently this changed - because February only went to the 28th, our payments from then on were only covering us to the 28th of the next month.. so on our final payment I assumed that we only had to pay from the 31st onwards, but actually we were due from the 29th onwards. So that means we're short a few days according to them, but then the entire payment was lost by them anyways..
Smells a bit suss to me; basically they seem to be saying that because february was shorter than usual, we owe MORE than usual, rather than the same or less.
WTF?
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From a lawyer...
Date: 2004-10-06 03:55 pm (UTC)"I'd want to see the tenancy agreement as to exactly how it is phrased. If it is a weekly rent then I don't see how days can be "lost" - you just pay in 7 day periods. What does the payment clause in the tenancy agreement say?
If I have understood the 4.34 basis, you pay £x x 4.34 per month for say 12 months where £x is the weekly rate. A week must be 7 days. If so, that gives you a total number of days paid for of 364.56, which is an odd arrangement, but which would mean that you wouldn't have paid for the full year. This strikes me as being wrong, but let's see the original tenancy agreement; if you could scan it me that would be good."
Re: From a lawyer...
Date: 2004-10-07 01:06 pm (UTC)cheers,
Toby