Ugh tell me about it, fucking parasites.. dealing with them through an agency is even worse and lets them insulate themselves from any form of responsibility or feeling of normal human compassion... My partner and I have our first child on the way and had advised them of the fact and that we may need to apply for a shorter lease while we look for a cheaper options as my partner cannot work and I’m stuck with a low paying job. Instead they came back with a rent increase for the shorter time period or the longer time at the current rate. So forced in to a searching for other options, except now under pressure to find before the lease expired, very luckily managed to find somewhere cheaper and actually nicer but am now realising they’ve worked in all this ambiguous BS in the property condition report that’s allowing them to claim all sorts of damages that needs to be repaired that was originally there when we first moved but we hadn’t specified with enough detail to fight them on.. even after paying cleaner to go through they’re now keeping the whole bond and will probably try extort more from us for “maintenance” after they claim they have to replace the entire carpet floors due to some minor stains.. Un-fucking-believable that people can act in such a way when they are well aware of the financial issues which led to us asking for a shorter lease in the first place. Not to mention I know the agent knows they’re a BSing as she’s inspected the place multiple times before and has not once mentioned any of the “damages”... Ima just end thIs rant before I get too aggro so I’ll suffice to say this shit has really got Mao thinking...