Dead girl's rent 'must be paid'

[Square Ball]

From the Liverpool Echo


Landlords chase dead girl's family for rent
Mar 29 2008 by Ben Turner, Liverpool Echo

THE family of a Liverpool student who died in January have been threatened with legal action over rent on her digs.

The parents of Shauna McCann said the letting agents,  had caused them "undue stress and worry".

Shauna was in her final year of a special needs teaching degree at Hope University when she died aged 19 of natural causes on January 29.

The teenager, from Bessbrook, in Newry, Northern Ireland, had rented a house with three girls in Carsdale Road, Mossley Hill.

Despite the tragedy, Bpm is demanding her father Kevin pay monthly amounts of £216.67 until June as he "agreed to guarantee his daughter's rent payments in full for the whole of the period of the tenancy."

A spokesman said: "We can confirm that legal action will be taken to recover any unpaid rent, as agreed by both Miss McCann and Mr McCann (as guarantor) on the tenancy agreement."

Shauna's family said: "We are trying to the best of our ability to come to terms with the loss of our precious daughter. This whole issue has caused us undue stress and worry."

Liverpool Hope's vice-chancellor Professor Gerald Pillay said: "I wish the landlord wouldn't add to their worries.

"This could happen to anybody and landlords who are running a business should insure themselves against this eventuality."

Bpm denied being unsympathetic and said it had "offered Mr McCann the opportunity to spread the burden of the payments over as many months as his budget permits."

Mick Brady, a Sinn Fein Northern Ireland Assembly member who has taken up the family's plight, branded the agents "callous".

He said: "I have never come across such a totally unsympathetic attitude."

[Double Cross]

Bpm Services Ltd.: Brownlow Property Management
Flat 6 Peel House 108-114 Lawrence Road Wavertree , Liverpool, L15 0EQ
Tel: 0870-162-4899

It would be a shame if everyone let these people know exactly how they felt about this matter.

[tyronefan]

do they have an e-mail address

[Donagh]

That makes me so angry. Utter utter scumbags.

[Double Cross]

do they have an e-mail address

this is all I can find, http://www.letting-agents-uk.org.uk/contactus.asp?id=2916

[stew]

With a quick piece of research I found the guys name, house address and phone number. However, Im not prepared to put it up here...if anyone wants to a bit of detective work, go to the Companies House website and search for the company name, you will then get the directors and secretary's name and home address. Doing a quick search on bt.com residential search will then give up the guys phone number. Give him a quick call and let him know what you think of him.

Thanks mac, i will be calling him in the morning.

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

http://atangledweb.squarespace.com/httpatangledwebsquarespace/a-question-of-debt.html#comments

An alternative view - although not one I agree with, I think its utterly appalling the way the landlord is behaving for the sake of a few hundred pounds.

[tyronefan]

will also be calling

[Leg End]

http://atangledweb.squarespace.com/httpatangledwebsquarespace/a-question-of-debt.html#comments

An alternative view - although not one I agree with, I think its utterly appalling the way the landlord is behaving for the sake of a few hundred pounds.

My  i have never heard such ruthlessness ever... SOme of the posts on this are rediculous.. Do people not have hearts anymore. Madness. Sums up why there is so much hatred in the world. Enough philosophical preaching from me...

Seriously though the landlord probably had it leased out the following month anyway.

[ziggysego]

There's a Facebook Petition, if anyone uses it.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10642714627