u/TwoPumpPanda

Applied for a rental, failed the referencing and letting agent kept asking me what I wanted to do. I kept replying saying that i want to rent the property so could they please advise me on what the landlord wants to do. I never said i was backing out of the application.

The letting agent then said that they can’t rent it to me due to the referencing check and that they will not be refunding the holding deposit.

As far as I’m aware, that’s illegal under the tenant fees act? I made an official complaint, heard nothing back. 4 weeks later I followed up on the complaint, heard nothing. I then made a complaint to the property ombudsman and no reply.

Am I missing something here? All that happened was that I failed the referencing check. I didn’t fail the right to rent check or lied on the application.

Bought my van a couple months ago and the batteries would empty after a couple of hours using just the spotlights and fridge. I figured maybe the batteries were old and dying so I replaced them with two brand new lead batteries at 130ah each. These use split relay and also a 300w solar panel.

They show 14v on a multimeter and the display panel when nothing is turned on, and then drop to around 12-13v when the electrics are on. But the display will go from showing a full battery to 80% empty after a couple of hours, but the electrics stayed on for hours afterwards with a TV, lights and fridge running. The display just kept showing 80% empty battery, until the next day when the solar started up again and the battery icon went up again.

The display is an Epever MT50 and is also very, very dim. Replacing the Ethernet cable fixed this for about an hour, and then the display went back to being dim and has to be looked at at an angle to see anything. This feels like something must be wrong but I have no idea, this is all very new to me.

So I guess my question is, could there be something wrong with my electrics and something is draining the batteries, or are the new batteries working fine and the display just doesn’t read lead acid accurately?