How to thank the landlord?

Fly_Baby

The sink in the bathroom in my rented house started leaking. The landlord called out the plumber who advised replacing the whole bathroom suite and the floor. Admittedly, the bathroom WAS old - at least 12 years old. The bath tub was peeling, the sink and the pedestal were mismatched, the floor vynil was looking really tired.

The question - in the view of me getting a brand new bathroom should I thank the landlord? I mean, a box of chocolates, a bottle of wine, a thank-you card? Something more substantial? I am on good terms with him and he has been quite considerate and spent a lot of his time in the house during the refurbishment process advising the pumber etc. It was an essential repair and he was obligated to do it as a landlord but still?

On the other hand, I realize that the landlord might want to raise the price since the property now has a new bathroom.

Advice is appreciated!

Anew

We had a cracking landlord last year! Fixed things very prompty, if we had not gone onto buy our own place we would have happily stayed!

We didn't really thank him until we left, but we let him know we had loved living there, and our way of thanking him was to be very helpful with viewings, paying all the rent on time and then leaving the place in immaculate condition when we left.

I guess the best way to thank a great landlord is to be a great tennant!

But everyone loves a bottle of wine if you feel it deserves it!

blued

Giving him a thank you gift might put him off increasing the rent!

sarah_elton

Bottle of wine or a nice box of chocs I'd say. ) Good landlords are worth their weight in gold.

I tend to go for chocs in similar situations (once had to apologies to the neighbour downstairs for some water leaking into their flat) as not everyone drinks.

Fly_Baby

blued wrote: »

Giving him a thank you gift might put him off increasing the rent!

Would be lovely to count on that but I honestly don't think so.

If I do give a gift now and then he increases the rent (which I will have to accept because there is no way I'll be moving at this point) then I would feel stupid in retrospect.

pie81

Fly_Baby wrote: »

Would be lovely to count on that but I honestly don't think so.

If I do give a gift now and then he increases the rent (which I will have to accept because there is no way I'll be moving at this point) then I would feel stupid in retrospect.

The worst that happens is that you have "wasted" the cost of a box of chocs. The best that happens is he thinks "what a nice tenant" and delays increasing the rent. Potential upside is large, potential downside is small, price of box of chocs is small, go ahead and get the thank you gift.

poppysarah

Yeah chocs. Not booze. Booze very tricky to get right imo.
But chocolates are pretty non-offensive.

Morrisons did have that huge thorntons box for £6 but that offer might have finished

Fly_Baby

pie81 wrote: »

The worst that happens is that you have "wasted" the cost of a box of chocs. The best that happens is he thinks "what a nice tenant" and delays increasing the rent. Potential upside is large, potential downside is small, price of box of chocs is small, go ahead and get the thank you gift.

Thanks - I think I'll do that.

It is the not the price of the chocolates that concerns me - but feeling stupid in the end.

We had a very good landlord in my previous flat. If the question came up I would always say to anyone how considerate and nice he was. He even put in new windows and I gave him a sweet token gift for Christmas to thank him for being a good landlord.

But when I was checking out he wanted to withhold £500 from my deposit for 1 large stain on the carpet (he claimed he had to replace the carpet now and it was down to me to cover the whole cost) and for a bit of dirt left uncleaned under the fridge which he found when he took the fridge out (he said he would have to call out cleaners for £200 after I'd spent a week making sure ever square centimetre of his property was sparkling clean - didn't think of taking out the fridge though).

Pee

I'd say the best thank you for a landlord is to be a considerate and above and beyond the call tenant, pay the rent on time, make sure post that he needs to see gets to him and leave the property nicely in due course.

longtimelurker_2

I left some home-made chocolate cakes out for our landlord when they came round for their inspection as they'd been swift in fixing the leaking roof.

They took my special spotty plate I left the cakes on

clutton_2

if i wanted to thank my landlord i would sign anohter 12 months tenancy agreement

p.s. just because improvements have been done, does not always means increases in rent