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Landlord in 'bit of a ***** shocker' - Advice needed
Right, basically the missus just moved into a place with her two friends and already things are starting to take a turn for the worse.
Before the moved in the place was rented by students who pretty much trashed the place. So before they got things signed they spoke to the landlord and asked what would be happening.
He claimed the place would be fully cleaned and any things that were broken would be fixed.
This included a wonky toilet seat and in two of the rooms windows in serious need of repair. Both have the ropes snapped, and in my girlfriends all the plaster surrounding it was falling off the wall and the window itself has sticky tape holding certain parts together.
With these issues raised he agreed to fix them before they moved in and so they got him to sign an agreement saying as such.
Fast-forward to the moving date and the place has been cleaned but everything else hasn't been done. He claims the builders were hard to get hold of during this period and will get them to do it at some point, however it is a four-hour job and can only done during working hours during the weekday. This means one of the tenants will have to take half a day off work to be there while it's done.
Annoyed that all this hasn't been done, my girlfriend has now told him the rent will not be paid until the promised work is done, he's turned around and threatened throwing all of them out.
So basically yes he's being an arse, but what is everyone's legal right? And why did I have to write so much?
Any advice would be welcome.
10-05-2007, 08:23 PM
Landlord in 'bit of a ***** shocker' - Advice needed Post #2
I'm going back 10 years to when I was a student but we lived in a bit of a dump run by a millionaire slum landlord in Durham. The 3 jags on his drive should have been a warning to us.
Our roof started leaking when it rained and he kept putting off fixing it even though it was ****ing in everywhere. So we went to the student accomodation people (Can't remember their exact title now) and told them. They told us to get 2 seperate quotes from seperate builders to do the job, forward them to the landlord with a written letter saying either he fixed the roof himself within 14 days or we'd go ahead with the cheapest quote and deduct it from his rent.
We hand delivered the letter and he had a man round the next day.
Of course this was a while back and I don't know if we had legal grounds to do what we did, but it worked.
10-05-2007, 08:34 PM
Landlord in 'bit of a ***** shocker' - Advice needed Post #5
Originally posted by nbrocky:
... however it is a four-hour job and can only done during working hours during the weekday. This means one of the tenants will have to take half a day off work to be there while it's done.
no it doesn't.
it means the landlord takes the time off to ensure it gets done as it's HIS property, contractually obligated to make the property liveable.
10-05-2007, 09:14 PM
Landlord in 'bit of a ***** shocker' - Advice needed Post #8
yeah agree with that. screw taking a day off work.
the landlord is obliged to manage the tenancy, either himself or through an estate agent... that includes making himself available to let tradesmen in and out or leaving a set of keys somewhere (ie. with an estate agent) where they can be collected.
10-05-2007, 09:22 PM
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