Bedroom too small - LA help please

silvercar

Captain_Mainwaring wrote: »

"the freezer space was insufficent"

Two points
1) Did you not see the freezer when you viewed?
2) Frozen food is no good for you, buy fresh.

More to the point, did you not see the room when you viewed, or did the landlord cover when end inmirrors so it appeared twice its size?

macaque_2

QuirkyChemistry wrote: »

Hi,

We have been renting a 5 bedroom house from a letting agency. However we recently found out that one of the bedrooms is not big enough to qualify as a bedroom. We have now moved out of the house and only found out this just before the end of our 9 month tenancy. We had the council round to measure and confirm this and while the inspector was there he also said that the house was in breach of numerous fire safety regulations, the freezer space was insufficient, one of the bedrooms had damp up to about waist height and there was inadequate ventilation in the bathroom. It was marketed as a 5 bed house and there were 5 of us living in it (students).

Fortunately the guy who had the small bedroom was my boyfriend and so set up a desk in my bedroom and used my room for storage as there was no space for him to work in his bedroom.

What I would like to know is if there is anything we can do? Unfortunately the letting agency has annoyed us so much with their incompetency that any way to get some form of comeback would be good. I'm sorry if that sounds bad but it's hard to phrase and they really were that awful.

Thank you for any help you can give.

So you want to chisel some compensation? Why should the landlord suffer because you are too feeble minded to make a decision of your own?

nobblyned

Perhaps he had been sleeping in the airing cupboard by mistake?

Captain_Mainwaring_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

not necessarily true at all. Frozen veg is often higher in vitamins than "fresh" as it was frozen quickly.

Not if you grow it yourself in your garden rather than moaning about the size of your freezer on internet forums.

Captain_Mainwaring_2

macaque wrote: »

So you want to chisel some compensation? Why should the landlord suffer because you are too feeble minded to make a decision of your own?

You have to laugh at the statement "incompetent" - they viewed the house but didn't note the size of the room.

mlz1413

Captain_Mainwaring wrote: »

Not if you grow it yourself in your garden rather than moaning about the size of your freezer on internet forums.

Didn't mean to thank you capt'n but too late now!

Jugding by the garden of the ex-student/immigrant rented house I bought I doubt the garden was used for anything but throwing rubbish into
- but the thought of students growing their own vegetables has made me smile :rolleyes:

Bungarm2001

<SIGH> They are after a bit of compensation otherwise why bother posting the question after actually leaving the house? Things like this should be addressed after looking around the house and before signing an AST

Captain_Mainwaring_2

mlz1413 wrote: »

Didn't mean to thank you capt'n but too late now!

Jugding by the garden of the ex-student/immigrant rented house I bought I doubt the garden was used for anything but throwing rubbish into
- but the thought of students growing their own vegetables has made me smile :rolleyes:

I know some students who can be really quite green fingered.

clutton_2

CM = what kind of "plant" were they growing ?

velocity.girl_2

ok, i'm a student, i also have my own vegetable plot AND allotement...point taken i'm a mature student...but a student all the same!!