what are my rights

chris_m

sandsni wrote: »

I take it you only started this thread to try and get someone to agree with you. You apparently have no intention of actually accepting any of the very sensible advice given thus far.

That's hardly surprising, The OP's apparently taken very little on board of the very sensible and helpful advice people have provided on the other two threads they've started about this.

BitterAndTwisted

In case you aren't aware posters generally get a bit fed up of multiple threads around the same situation. It's usually considered fair to keep everything in the same thread so others have a clear picture of what may be going on.

Still, I can't say that I disagree with you about being tied into a twelve month tenancy only to find the property leaks like a sieve and the landlord unwilling to do anything whatsoever about it. I'd have been onto Environmental Health months and months ago.

Keep all of your correspondence somewhere safe if you're not going to pay any more rent. You could find that the landlord's costs for chasing you for two month's rent minus your deposit through the courts means that he won't consider it worth the time or the effort.

Mulder00

Just get Environmental Health in? Somewhere in one of these threads you mentioned you tried, but it seemed like you just asked them whether you can withhold rent. Don't approach it that way, get them in, in order to assess the place and get it fixed.

You seem to be going down too many routes at once (the same as with all these threads).

sandsni

ihatemyhouse wrote: »

the reason they need reskimming is because the wall is that damp it is coming away from the walls, and all the paint is flaking of

Yes, but if you and your builder neighbour knew anything about damp, you would know it's utter foolishness to replaster and reskim BEFORE the source of the damp is eradicated AND the walls have fully dried out. So your letter to the LL should be specifying sorting the damp problem out FIRST AND FOREMOST.

I'm beginning to think this whole thing (ALL the different threads) is a troll.

ihatemyhouse

all the advice I have been given, is pay the rent and be grateful the LL lets you live there, as he might issue you with a CCJ that is up to him, as it seems even thought I am repeatlly asking him to do jobs, and he is refusing to even come out to the house to look at the problems, I am in the wrong, if he wants to sue me let him, I will wait till he has paid his legal bills then go bankrupt, am not bothered any more

ihatemyhouse

I have been on to EH and all they say is fill in forms again and will pass to a case worker, they hope you get fed up and move some where else, so they don't have to deal with it, as other people I have spoken to have the same treatment from the council

sandsni

TROLL alert.

ihatemyhouse

sandsni wrote: »

TROLL alert.

I am not a troll, I have a genuine problem

ihatemyhouse

I am not a troll, if you live near me (st Austell, u can come and look at the house) the plaster can dry out all it likes, it is falling off the walls so will need reskimming

Mulder00

ihatemyhouse wrote: »

I started different threads, as they are different points not the same question

Same topic though. Advice tends to be better when people have the full picture rather than limited bits of information.