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homeowner rights against rented properties

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  • Southend1
    Southend1 Posts: 3,362 Forumite
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    slgiles wrote: »
    no, absolutely not. It's up to me to improve the value of my property but I certainly don't expect someone else to decrease it's value by their actions or lack of.

    So why should it work the other way round? Just because he has different standards to you? I appreciate your predicament because I live in a mid terrace and neither of my neighbours are keen on gardening or general maintenance but at the end of the day as long as their actions or lack of aren't damaging my property it's up to them how they keep their own.
  • mrginge
    mrginge Posts: 4,843 Forumite
    Guest101 wrote: »
    I dont hink simply leaving the property in a state of disrepair breaches that legislation

    No but that seems to be the straw that the op is clutching at.
  • olly300
    olly300 Posts: 14,738 Forumite
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    mrginge wrote: »
    No but that seems to be the straw that the op is clutching at.

    There are specific things that are valid complaints but nothing the OP has listed is one.

    And even if it was it would probably take a minimum of year before the council would even start consisting taking the neighbour to court.
    I'm not cynical I'm realistic :p

    (If a link I give opens pop ups I won't know I don't use windows)
  • Errata
    Errata Posts: 38,230 Forumite
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    Lots of properties have doors which are all wood and painted. Lots of properties have a weed ridden garden. That's all the viewers of your property will see, unless they have x-ray vision.
    .................:)....I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
  • slgiles
    slgiles Posts: 5 Forumite
    Errata wrote: »
    Lots of properties have doors which are all wood and painted. Lots of properties have a weed ridden garden. That's all the viewers of your property will see, unless they have x-ray vision.

    Unfortunately, these doors still have shards of glass left in them from the original window pane.

    Understand all your comments. However, please remember, I am new here and don't know what is a legally valid complaint and what is not. Hence my thread. In mine and my partners eyes, we have a valid complaint.

    Maybe a large fence is on the cards :D
  • anselld
    anselld Posts: 8,646 Forumite
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    Rented or not, if a property is genuinely detrimental to the amenity of the local area then the council have the ability to serve a Section 215 notice on the owner to demand improvement.

    It probably needs to be seriously worst than you have indicated to get the Council to act though.
  • Southend1
    Southend1 Posts: 3,362 Forumite
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    slgiles wrote: »
    Unfortunately, these doors still have shards of glass left in them from the original window pane.

    Understand all your comments. However, please remember, I am new here and don't know what is a legally valid complaint and what is not. Hence my thread. In mine and my partners eyes, we have a valid complaint.

    Maybe a large fence is on the cards :D

    One of my neighbours on one side has a boarded up front door with broken glass. Maybe he likes it like that or maybe he just can't afford to replace it but it's his house and it's not affecting me unless I choose to be annoyed by it. Live and let live.
  • xylophone
    xylophone Posts: 45,642 Forumite
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    http://www.no-use-empty.org/case-studies/Section215
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