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Rental obligations
Katykat
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MIL lives & owns a terraced house. Next door is a rented house, lived in by a very nice couple with 2 children. The party wall in the yard is in a terrible state & is leaning into MILs yard. It could fall anytime. The family in the house has requested the owner replace it several times over the past 3 years. She keeps promising to " come & look at it". MIL has also phone the owner & suggeted going halves as she cant afford to pay for it all. The owner said "I'll come & look at it". Quite obviously, she has no intention of doing anything about it, but we are worried now that the wall will fall while MIL is in the yard & she will be hurt. She is not trying to dodge paying for it, is quite happy to pay half, but is there any legislation that demands the owner of the rented house makes her property safe for the tennants and neigbours.
:smileyhea A SMILE COSTS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
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Contact Environmental Health and ask them to come and look at the dangerous wall, EH can enforce repairing obligations on the landlord.Declutterbug-in-progress.⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️0
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