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we were sorting through a junk mail pile and a letter was addressed to 'the tennant'. the letter said not to pay original landlord any money as the propertyhad been put into hands of receivers,which were the people who sent us the letter. we told estate agents and they wanted us to come back into the office and then they got on the phone to the original management company, who had spoken to the new management company. we were told not to worry, the new management company would honour our original agreement and the estate agents gave us choice of what to do, get deposit or we could take it, we said we had booked a van and people had taken time off work etc to help us move and agents and original management company told us to go ahead then and move our stuff in, we would be looking at tue/wed for carpets to be done. which was fair enough, we were ok with the wait. we did what they said and moved stuff. but of course couldn't live there with concrete floors. so nearly a week later our stuff is there, new furniture still wrapped etc etc. clear to anybody who sees that we have never lived there.
tue came and nothing was done, the receivers who are the new management company kept stalling and wouldn't return our calls, same wednesday. on thursday after noon we were finally told negotiations between the original carpet fitter and new management (aka the receivers) were on going as carpet fitter wanted money up front and management didn't want to pay upfront.