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tennancy clause
furby-2003
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there are quite a few clauses in our tenancy. one being when we leave we have to have a gas safety check done. I didn't think this was a tennants responsibility. and if it is how much roughly is this going to cost us?
Converted comper to MSE. Thank you for all your answers!
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It is a legal requirement for the landlord to have the gas safety check carried out annually at his expense and it is a criminal offence for him not to do so.
Certain landlords put all kinds of clauses in their tenancy agreements but whether they are enforcable is another thing.Named after my cat, picture coming shortly0 -
i was wondering. if a landlord does not provide a safty check like our last land lord for 6 months what can you do? we have proof that we were without a certificate for 6 months and we thought if he doesn't give our deposit back (the house in our opinion is fine) then we could hit him with that.Converted comper to MSE. Thank you for all your answers!0
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furby-2003 wrote:i was wondering. if a landlord does not provide a safty check like our last land lord for 6 months what can you do? we have proof that we were without a certificate for 6 months and we thought if he doesn't give our deposit back (the house in our opinion is fine) then we could hit him with that.
Are you saying that you are no longer in the house that didn't have a certificate?
If so, did you get your deposit back?
If you did get your deposit back I would leave it at that and put it down to experience so that you are not it the situation of being without a certificate again. As rayed said it is a legal requirement for the landlord to sort out the gas safety checks.It is unwise to pay too much but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, all you lose is a little money... that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot...it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better (John Ruskin - 19 ctry author, art critic & social reformer)0
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