no cooking facilities in rental property.

Bf109

Why on earth did you ever agree to pay rent for such a shiathole?
It sounds like an utter toilet run by a total slumlord more used to running crack dens.

Nicky321

bristol_pilot wrote: »

For heavens sake, there is an enormous supply (oversupply) of decent rented accommodation available these days. Your daughter should move out and let this landlord experience what he deserves - a void.

In our area the rental properties are very rare for DSS applicants and with the local government there are no properties available, therefore if she hadnt took this it could be ages before another one was available.

We are meeting with the LL later at the property and will post how we get on.

poppysarah

Just because your daughter is DSS then she should not have to accept sub standard rental properties.
If landlord doesn't sort, get onto tenancy support officer at council and get them to help find her a solution

red40

Nicky perhaps it maybe a benefit to elaborate a little more on what type of rented accommodation it is? s/c flat, bedsit, shared house, etc,etc

tbs624

A Ll is obliged to provide a suitable gas or electrical point to which you can connect a cooker.

.Specifically, under the LL & T Act 1985 S11 a LL is obliged

(b)to keep in repair and proper working order the installations in the dwelling-house for the supply of water, gas and electricity and for sanitation (including basins, sinks, baths and sanitary conveniences, but not other fixtures, fittings and appliances for making use of the supply of water, gas or electricity), .."

A LL has to ensure that gas and electrical safety regs are complied with.

Make a list of what is not safe/properly maintained at this property, put it in writing and ask the LL to get it sorted out. If s/he doesn't talk to the Tenancy relations Officer on the local council's Private Sector Team. Is this property an HMO? (House in Mulitple Occupation)

Are you in Eng/wales or Scotland? - two reasons for asking, one is that if E&W then deposit regs where there is an AST & the deposit has been paid apply after 6 April 2007, and if Scotland, no deposit regs at the moment but LL does have to be registered.

Nicky321

tbs624 wrote: »

A Ll is obliged to provide a suitable gas or electrical point to which you can connect a cooker.


.Specifically, under the LL & T Act 1985 S11 a LL is obliged

(b)to keep in repair and proper working order the installations in the dwelling-house for the supply of water, gas and electricity and for sanitation (including basins, sinks, baths and sanitary conveniences, but not other fixtures, fittings and appliances for making use of the supply of water, gas or electricity), .."

A LL has to ensure that gas and electrical safety regs are complied with.

Make a list of what is not safe/properly maintained at this property, put it in writing and ask the LL to get it sorted out. If s/he doesn't talk to the Tenancy relations Officer on the local council's Private Sector Team. Is this property an HMO? (House in Mulitple Occupation)

Are you in Eng/wales or Scotland? - two reasons for asking, one is that if E&W then deposit regs where there is an AST & the deposit has been paid apply after 6 April 2007, and if Scotland, no deposit regs at the moment but LL does have to be registered.

the house is a 2 bedroomed terrace, private rental accomodation in England.

PasturesNew

bristol_pilot wrote: »

For heavens sake, there is an enormous supply (oversupply) of decent rented accommodation available these days. Your daughter should move out and let this landlord experience what he deserves - a void.

That's easy to say in a sweeping statement, but if the person is limited to the very cheapest accommodation available then they don't have the oversupplied marketplace available to them.

While there might be 500 larger/newer properties available at 50-100% more, there is only ever one property that is cheapest.

It's also very difficult to find anywhere, to get to view it, to go through the process of renting. There's no one common search portal ... you have to track down and contact loads of individual agents with varying resources issues and hoops to jump through.

eira

Contact the local council-they should have a department that monitors rented accomodation. they will be able to advise you regarding regulations -they should also be monitoring landlords. Shelter's advice line and website are superb-check with them also.


Be very careful re meters-this seems to be a common scam. Take not just the meter reading but the registration number of the meter-some landlords read one meter but the bill comes from another.

bristol_pilot

DSS wasn't mentioned in the original post, but now that we know that it is public money i.e. taxpayers money i.e. MY money going towards this - that's even more reason for it not to go to some scummy landlord who doesn't provide a basic safe environment.

PS I thought DSS under 25 had to live in shared accommodation these days?

PasturesNew

bristol_pilot wrote: »

DSS wasn't mentioned in the original post, but now that we know that it is public money i.e. taxpayers money i.e. MY money going towards this - that's even more reason for it not to go to some scummy landlord who doesn't provide a basic safe environment.

PS I thought DSS under 25 had to live in shared accommodation these days?

If you stalk the OP you'll find it is a 20 year old single parent with a new baby.