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Can a Landlord back out of releasing a contract?

sea_of_stars · 2012-11-11 14:32:02

Back in September, myself and four friends started renting a house which we found through the uni accommodation website (we are all students.) Before moving in, we had viewed the house and could see nothing wrong and were not told of any problems. I say 'viewed' - but the past tenants were all in so we couldn't enter their…

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Fire_Fox Posts: 26,026 Forumite

12 November 2012 at 4:27PM

ElizabethSmith wrote: »

Landlords can be really bad, especially in student areas where they feel they can get away with it. My daughter is at uni in a pretty horrible student house at the moment. Good luck getting those contracts back. Let me kow if you hear about a good place for advice.

Welcome! Please run an advanced search, landlords repairing obligations, how to enforce these have been gone over in detail many times. MSE is a good place for advice, send your daughter here!

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