Boiler gone - how long is fair

clutton_2

ennuissimo wrote: »

I do agree that the mindset of some people can be baffling and I'm sure as a landlord it must be incredibly frustrasting dealing with a tenant who believes they're entitled to the world, yet with no responsibilities in return

And totally agree that black humor can be excellent - perhaps I'm just raising issue with the quality of the p!ss-taking - maybe it's just not actually funny enough - go for it, do your worst!

you think i'm gonna risk losing my reputation as a caring sharing landlord just to please your sense of the "worst" - no waaaaay !!!!!



And another thing.. why that boiler-clerk thinks she can keep my £425 deposit when she reckons i owes her £4,500 defeats me... tight old witch

clutton_2

kazca wrote: »

Most of us live with old boilers that don't work :-)

i certainly used to -


so i just changed my life to become a LL - i still don't work !!! so they reckon... :rotfl:

FATBALLZ

ennuissimo wrote: »

I do agree that the mindset of some people can be baffling and I'm sure as a landlord it must be incredibly frustrasting dealing with a tenant who believes they're entitled to the world, yet with no responsibilities in return

Er yeah, apart from paying the rent of course.

The mindset that's baffling is that there appear to be so few landlords who understand the difference between the two concepts of 'renting' and 'owning'. It really is worrying that the UK rental market seems to have been taken over by morons who somehow find this irrelevant and misguided attempt at humour 'amusing', demonstrating their total misunderstanding of what 'renting' actually means (ps heres a hint, its in the dictionary).

BitterAndTwisted

Cor blimey. Nice way to harsh all our mellows. Ta for that, Mr Wet Blanket.

franklee

So long as the mortgage lender doesn't give the OP two months notice cos he wants somewhere for his granny to live.

OR OMG what if the lender gets wind of the OP having a dog, perhaps he can put a peg bag on it's head and pretend it's deceased?

FATBALLZ

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Cor blimey. Nice way to harsh all our mellows. Ta for that, Mr Wet Blanket.

Now you see to be a wet blanket, the OP would have actually have had to have something funny about it, not just being a thinly disguised attack at tenants. Post something funny and you'll have no complaint from me

BitterAndTwisted

I dispute the "thinly disguised" bit. There wasn't anything disguised about it at all. Still, the whole thing was a laff, so what the hell.



Wet Blanket Mk II signing off

GDB2222

emsywoo123 wrote: »

So basically this thread is a p!ss take out of tenants? Niiiiiiiiiiiiiice.

It's gently pointing out that tenants do get something for their rent. It's not all dead money, and also that some tenants probably unreasonably expect rather a lot from their LLs.

kingstreet

G_M wrote: »

My (oil) boiler has been spouting black smoke out of the flue, and not really getting the radiators hot, so I called out the boilerman.

He's found the pump was faulty, was overworking, and the excess heat had melted componants in the boiler.

How long is it fair for me to be without heating? Christmas is coming and it's cold outside, but my mortgage lender doesn't seem to care.

Surely they should make sure the repair guy gets the parts asap and gets the heat back on?

A bit of white text hidden in your post always works well in such situations. When you are quoted it appears. Here fishy, fishy, fishy!

G_M

Well, as the wet blanket with a warped sense of humour I can only say thanks to everyone who contributed - whichever side they came down on.

If you found it amusing, great.

If you felt the humour was poor - well, I'm not a professional comedian and anyway, NO comedian can please 100% of the people 100%....

And the boiler? Still waiting for parts with no sign of them materialising. BRRRrrrrrr!