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Providence Properties Ltd 9:26pm on 03 Nov 2008 That article has brought all the unpleasant memories flooding back to me! I had all the same problems from Providence and more when I rented from them in 06/07! They had our deposits for almost two years from the date they took them to when they gave them back (minus an unnecessary £20 from each deposit!) and we had to fight like you wouldn’t believe to get them! They were always rude and abusive when we went in to talk to them and were even so if our parents went in to talk to them too! I remember the ‘it’s providence lets that deals with deposits’ line all too well and I’ll never forget the day when me and my housemate went to find the mysterious providence lets and found it was just a letter box, we didn’t know whether to laugh or cry! If you threaten them with court they just laugh, it makes no difference to them at all!

We also had an addition to our contract saying that if works that were being carried out on our house at the time we signed were not completed by July1st when our contract started we would be compensated. The works were not completed but it’s probably no surprise to hear we never did get that compensation!

But that’s not even the worst of it. Their houses are often in really poor condition and no matter how much you report the issues they’ll never do anything about it. For instance, in the house I rented from them there was a leak in the kitchen that made the ceiling so damp fungal growths such as mushrooms of a diameter of about 5cm’s were in our kitchen all year. Reporting it made no difference how ever; they would just be rude to you and not do anything about the problem so we quickly had to give up on that one!

These people are little more than thieves taking advantage of the fact that many of us students have only just left home and have little idea of what our rights are or what to do in this sort of situation!

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