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Flat/House mates who leave the Front door open
movnik894
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Morning,
I have a problem that I hope someone can help me with.
I live in a converted house split into 4 flats. I live on the ground floor flat.
The other 3 flats are occupied.
I work shifts and this week I have been leaving the house at 5.30am and discovered the front door has been left wide open.
I can imagine this has been left open all night, and as I live on the ground floor I am worried that anything could happen.
I spoke to the other residents yesterday and asked them to make sure the front door was shut for obvious security reasons. They nodded their head.
However imagine my fury this morning when again the same thing happened. The front door was wide open.
I now want to escalate this to the agency and the landlord. I pay rent through agency to landlord.
I know want I want to write, but what can I expect them to do?
I want to give them some kind of direction:
Ask them to bolt and fully secure my own door?
Ask them to fit a spring on the Front door so that it shuts automatically?
I really need some advice to find out what rights I have and what I can do about this.
I am concerned if i just write a letter of complaint with no 'demands', that it may just get ignored.
Any help/advice would be really much appreciated.
thanks.
I have a problem that I hope someone can help me with.
I live in a converted house split into 4 flats. I live on the ground floor flat.
The other 3 flats are occupied.
I work shifts and this week I have been leaving the house at 5.30am and discovered the front door has been left wide open.
I can imagine this has been left open all night, and as I live on the ground floor I am worried that anything could happen.
I spoke to the other residents yesterday and asked them to make sure the front door was shut for obvious security reasons. They nodded their head.
However imagine my fury this morning when again the same thing happened. The front door was wide open.
I now want to escalate this to the agency and the landlord. I pay rent through agency to landlord.
I know want I want to write, but what can I expect them to do?
I want to give them some kind of direction:
Ask them to bolt and fully secure my own door?
Ask them to fit a spring on the Front door so that it shuts automatically?
I really need some advice to find out what rights I have and what I can do about this.
I am concerned if i just write a letter of complaint with no 'demands', that it may just get ignored.
Any help/advice would be really much appreciated.
thanks.
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You can demand as much as you want. But the landlord is under no obligation to meet your demands.Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.0
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You can demand as much as you want. But the landlord is under no obligation to meet your demands.
The tenant is fully entitled to expect to enjoy "quiet enjoyment" of their flat. An insecure environment is not. Providing a self-closing door and / or extra bolts on HIS personal door would go a long way to help, and would protect a LL from any claim after (say) an assault or robbery. It would seem to be prudent for the LL to act.Under no circumstances may any part of my postings be used, quoted, repeated, transferred or published by any third party in ANY medium outside of this website without express written permission. Thank you.0 -
Have you tried putting a polite A4 typed note on the front door, reminding residents to close it for security reasons? More than likely they aren't not shutting it out of badness, prob just forgetful / lazy.0
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Who forgets to shut the front door? It's not like they have to go out of their way to shut a door, it's right there, having just walked through it.
Eejits.If you haven't got it - please don't flaunt it. TIA.0 -
Are you 100% sure there isn't some kind of intermittant fault with the door lock thats allowing the lock closure to retract allowing the door to swing open? Sometimes the spring can fail.0
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The tenant is fully entitled to expect to enjoy "quiet enjoyment" of their flat. An insecure environment is not. Providing a self-closing door and / or extra bolts on HIS personal door would go a long way to help, and would protect a LL from any claim after (say) an assault or robbery. It would seem to be prudent for the LL to act.
But this nothing todo with quiet njoyment. Quiet enjoyment is about the tenant enjoyingg the property without harassment from the land lord. Not doors that other occupiers leave open. Providing a door is there and it's serviceable, then the tenant cannot 'demand' what the landlord should or shouldn't provide.Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.0 -
As James mentioned though, it would be prudent for a good landlord to listen to this concern and attach a self closing mechanism to the back of the door. They do not cost a lot and will alieviate this most difficult of tasks from the cretins that the OP is living with.
If I were a landlord I would be happier knowing that the front door to my property was closed properly rather than relying on people who it appears cannot fathom how to close a door.0 -
As James mentioned though, it would be prudent for a good landlord to listen to this concern and attach a self closing mechanism to the back of the door. They do not cost a lot and will alieviate this most difficult of tasks from the cretins that the OP is living with.
If I were a landlord I would be happier knowing that the front door to my property was closed properly rather than relying on people who it appears cannot fathom how to close a door.
You're entirely correct,but there is an attitude that tenants can demand things from a landlord when it suits them.Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.0 -
Tenants pay good money to landlords - and are their customers - I think they are entitled to make some demands. I would not be happy if my neighbours were forever leaving the front door open! And I imagine a decent landlord would want to protect his property from random people coming in too. Ask him to sort out the self closing mechanism
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Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »Who forgets to shut the front door? It's not like they have to go out of their way to shut a door, it's right there, having just walked through it.
Eejits.
Exactly, but sadly there are plenty of them among us. We just take it for granted that most people have a certain degree of common sense!0
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