Landlord reviews for Christopher Lyles in London

Christopher engaged in unscrupulous tactics to evict us with less than the required notice by negotiating for a new tenancy with a replacement of tenants, then pulling the offer once referencing was done. He then proceeded to blackmail us into giving up an enormous portion of the deposit even though (after 7 years of the property being let since the last inventory was done) he was entitled to relatively little. Chris could not be reasoned with by explaining to him how betterment works under the UK law, and his only responses were to tell us how bored he was of our requests, aggressive messages highlighting random sections of the tenancy agreement and threats of legal action. He cannot be reasoned with, and like many landlords, his greed became all too apparent at the end of the tenancy.

I suggest that Chris takes a hard look in the mirror to consider why he should take tenants cash for basic maintenance (like painting a wall long after it’s usable life span is up) rather than paying for it out of the roughly £280k he has collected in rent since the last time these jobs were done. He also didn’t want to replace things like broken fridge shelves that on the original inventory were showing cracks due to age and repair. He was, however, generally good with other items of repair (such as when plumbing broke and the bathroom flooded) although I suspect that was only because that threatened the material value of the home. Never did one inspection in all the time we lived there either.

In short, parasitic and partially absent landlord now views the house as a passive source of cash rather than something to be genuinely lived in and then later maintained by him on the basis it’s an investment.