Tenancy Damages

jgriggle

This should be covered under your house contents insurance.

The good thing about doing it that way is that the insurers will need to see an invoice for the replacement, stopping the landlord from just leaving the old hob there and pocketing the cash. Also insist on taking the old hob with you. If you've paid for it, it's yours (even if you just take it to the tip).

When we moved into our last house there was a large, broken mirror on the wall (even listed on the inventory as 'mirror - broken').

By coincidence, we knew the previous tenant and happened to see him not long after we moved in. It turns out that he'd accidentally broken the mirror in the process of moving some furniture out, and had had £100 deducted from his deposit for a replacement!

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in the letting agents' office the next day!

BitterAndTwisted

The landlord if they have successfully claimed for a broken item is not legally (or morally) bound to buy a replacement. It was their item and the the deduction becomes their money to do with it what they will.

yummynoodles

Council said that my former landlord was only entitled to 10% of what they were asking, landlord appealed and was still only awarded 10%. All that worry for nothing, a great outcome.:j

lkmc01

Weldone!!! :beer: