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Can Housing Association force entry to (absent) upstairs neighbour's flat...
elvis86
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...if there's a leak up there that is flooding our flat?:(:(:(
The upstairs neighbour is in prison, but we think various undesirables have been staying in his flat (one of whom burgled our flat last week, but that's another story).
A plumber has been out and switched off what he thinks is the stopcock outside, but is it not reasonable to expect the Housing Association to force entry and check this out? We think the guy who burgled us was charged today, so there's every chance that this could be malicious.
At the end of my tether!:mad::mad::mad:
The upstairs neighbour is in prison, but we think various undesirables have been staying in his flat (one of whom burgled our flat last week, but that's another story).
A plumber has been out and switched off what he thinks is the stopcock outside, but is it not reasonable to expect the Housing Association to force entry and check this out? We think the guy who burgled us was charged today, so there's every chance that this could be malicious.
At the end of my tether!:mad::mad::mad:
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Has the water stopped flooding down now that the stopc*ck has been switched off?0
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personally, i'd call the police and say that someone upstairs is causing a leak in your flat and they're not replying to the door, you're worried that they might be injured upstairs or dead in the bath or something........ not sure it would work but i don't know what else to do if there was a real emergency!:happyhear0
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1) I'm 90% sure the HA would have powers to enter, including forced entry if required, in 'an emergency'. Water flooding through would be an emergency.
2) HA would (well, should!) be concerned about the flat being used by unauthorised people0 -
1) I'm 90% sure the HA would have powers to enter, including forced entry if required, in 'an emergency'. Water flooding through would be an emergency.
2) HA would (well, should!) be concerned about the flat being used by unauthorised people
Apparently, he can allow whoever he wants to stay there. It's his home. Never mind that his is paid for by the state (even whilst he's in prison), and my boyfriend owns ours which is being rendered impossible to live in.:mad:0 -
A LL definitely does have legal powers to enter a rental property in the case of an emergency to effect repairs0
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Seriously, move.
Try selling a flat with anti-social social housing tenants living above it, windows broken in the flat above etc etc. Only someone like my OH would be short-sighted enough to buy it in the first place! The previous owners must've rubbed their hands together when they saw him coming!:(0 -
I would get the management compant/HA/landlord to sort the flat out upstairs and then put yours on the market.
The worst thing in the world is living in the vicinity of undesirable people. It ruins everything.Everyone is entitled to my opinion!0 -
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