Sorry, this could be a long one!
So I rent a room in a hair & beauty salon and back in Feb this year the owner of the salon decided she wanted to do a couple of opening evenings to promote the fact an aesthetics doctor had just moved into one of the other rooms and she had a fairly new hair stylist and myself. We originally talked about myself and the hair stylist putting something in the local paper so she (the stylist) got it priced up and it worked out to be around £60 each. Then the salon owner said to wait and we could do a bigger add and all chip in. She got carried away with herself and ended up doing a half page ad and then expected me to go thirds with her and the doctor! The paper managed to cocktail the ad up and my business was an after thought and I ended up with one line at the bottom. She expected me to pay £200 for the pleasure. I wasn't happy about this but unfortunately didn't say this at the time. Anyway, ive not heard anymore about it until today when I inform the salon owner that I'm moving on. We've never had a cross word and I've enjoyed working there, I just have a new opportunity elsewhere. So once I tell her she said oh good because I was going to put your rent up anyway which I thought was a bit of a strange thing to say. She then goes upstairs (she lives above the salon) and brings a letter down dated 26 September demanding I pay the £200 I owe her immediately or else she will take further action. I was really shocked. Anyway, I discussed it with my partner and he agreed it was ridiculous and I should reply to her letter and enclose a cheque with a good will gesture of £50. Then this evening I get a text from her saying the £200 is still outstanding and I have two options 1. Pay in full on Friday and I can stay until the end of the month. 2. Stay until the end of the month but leave my desk, chair, spray tanning machine and mirror.
This woman is being totally unreasonable but now that she's mentioned my stuff I'm really worried that she will have just gone in there tonight and taken it.
What would you do? I'd really appreciate any advice as I've never been in a situation like this before.
I plan on going there tomorrow to collect my things and the just ringing all my clients and asking them to come to my house.
Help!!!
Thanks for reading, sorry it was so long xx
So I rent a room in a hair & beauty salon and back in Feb this year the owner of the salon decided she wanted to do a couple of opening evenings to promote the fact an aesthetics doctor had just moved into one of the other rooms and she had a fairly new hair stylist and myself. We originally talked about myself and the hair stylist putting something in the local paper so she (the stylist) got it priced up and it worked out to be around £60 each. Then the salon owner said to wait and we could do a bigger add and all chip in. She got carried away with herself and ended up doing a half page ad and then expected me to go thirds with her and the doctor! The paper managed to cocktail the ad up and my business was an after thought and I ended up with one line at the bottom. She expected me to pay £200 for the pleasure. I wasn't happy about this but unfortunately didn't say this at the time. Anyway, ive not heard anymore about it until today when I inform the salon owner that I'm moving on. We've never had a cross word and I've enjoyed working there, I just have a new opportunity elsewhere. So once I tell her she said oh good because I was going to put your rent up anyway which I thought was a bit of a strange thing to say. She then goes upstairs (she lives above the salon) and brings a letter down dated 26 September demanding I pay the £200 I owe her immediately or else she will take further action. I was really shocked. Anyway, I discussed it with my partner and he agreed it was ridiculous and I should reply to her letter and enclose a cheque with a good will gesture of £50. Then this evening I get a text from her saying the £200 is still outstanding and I have two options 1. Pay in full on Friday and I can stay until the end of the month. 2. Stay until the end of the month but leave my desk, chair, spray tanning machine and mirror.
This woman is being totally unreasonable but now that she's mentioned my stuff I'm really worried that she will have just gone in there tonight and taken it.
What would you do? I'd really appreciate any advice as I've never been in a situation like this before.
I plan on going there tomorrow to collect my things and the just ringing all my clients and asking them to come to my house.
Help!!!
Thanks for reading, sorry it was so long xx
