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I have Management  Agreement with la etting agency., I have only had one report over the last 18+ months from them. The tenant h left the flat very dirty (according to the Letting Agency) so they cannot re-let in the state it is in. Having spoken to them today they are waiting for the Tenant to agree a price for cleaning before they can go ahead and clean and ultimately re-advertise the property. Meanwhile I am left with no rental income  surely this cannot be right. I have paid this  company £65 a month for over 18 months - for what!!! Any advice would be very welcome as I
really cannot afford to lose rent on this property. Many thanks

Take control yourself. Is there anything stopping you?

Please be careful of advice received from websites (including my own) and always do your own research.
Obviously I cannot understand your full situation from a small blog...

Hippos is right.
And you may not like the next part of this (apologies in advance) but if you didn't get a report for 18months why did you not follow up sooner 

Are you a newbie Landlord...?  If so then you have learnt a valuable lesson... even if you have a management agent (I never do) then you need to manage them. 
Assume in this world that everyone from agent, tax man, tenants, council, british gas, government, bank, accountant  is out to get the Landlord (paranoid? moi?  ) ..trust no one..where you can do it yourself then do it.

18 months is waaaay to long for you have done nothing about inspection reports
Hear endeth the sermon (apologies again)

Going forward I would suggest (and this is a very very slim chance of success )...you take up the following options with them.

1. They refund some of your fees in order to:
a. keep your business in the future
b. prevent you from making a complaint to ARLA or whatever (bs) organisation they are claiming they are affiliated to.

It might be the cost of managing the complaint (or the loss of future fees) is enough for them to either
a. Give some money back
b. Negotiate a lower fee in the future

(although I would suggest they arent worth doing any business with anyway).

Best of luck