Hi everyone
So here we are - with another exciting installment of this drama.
Since I last posted, we sent documents to the PRTB, etc ... and we have now received the landlord's side of the story, along with an appointment for an adjudication hearing in mid-august.
The landlord has submitted invoices re:cleaning (€1,500) decorating (€5,000), I should probably point out he is in the building business, so I am sure he can get people to give him invoices or to "inflate" them to over the value.
He still insists that there is one velux blind missing and has included a photo of the bare velux window. Sadly the sun hits on it and you can't see that THERE ARE NO FITTINGS for the window!
He has submitted photos of probably previous tenancies - some of the photos are effectively from our time there, and we take responsibility for that (scribbling of chairs and walls, as I had described before) but he has included photos of the garden with lots of old grass, dead vermin (?) and photos of a destroyed oven encrusted with muck. As I said before, there is no point in lying and if we were effectively responsible for this we would stand up to the plate, but the man is LYING.
We have discovered as well that suing people seems to be his modus operandi. He was in the news recently for a 7-year-old lawsuit and he is not budging ... God knows how many people he has had in the past.
Can anyone provide some insight about the hearing? What to expect, etc? we will be sending comments to the PRTB re the photos ... we also saved some adverts from daft.ie where the house was being advertised to let and it had exactly the same furniture we did.
I am getting all distressed again. I have tried to calm down and have thought that in the worst of cases and if we had to pay up the €7000 he wants, we could do it, not easily, but we could do it in installments or something, and that it's not the end of the world, but it really is not fair .. the house hasn't been rented yet and I am sure this is his way of making some nice extra income - just suing people for living in there.
I feel sick.