Landlord can't afford repairs

whalster

This should not be a fortune a triton shower and fixing usually costs me around £140, they end not to last long five or six years at the most.

You do need an electrician who will plumb the couple of pipes rather than a plumber who will do the few wires though .

Okydoky25

DRP wrote: »

How about offering to deduct the cost from the next 4 or 5 months rent , thereby it is less of a hit on the poor landlords pocket?

Poor Landlord? If you can't afford to make simple repairs like this you should not become a Landlord!

ihatemyhouse

well said oakdoky

too many LL think its easy money, as the rules seem tobe set up to favour them

G_M

ihatemyhouse wrote: »

well said oakdoky

too many LL think its easy money, as the rules seem tobe set up to favour them

Take a break!

Yes- in this case the LL is out of order, but your repeated generalisations based on isolated cases here (happy tenants with good LLs don't start threads!) don't help anyone.

As for the rules, they are well-balanced these days. Where disputes arise (as is inevitable) the courts, Environmental Health, the deposit schemes etc generally sort them out.

benjus

ihatemyhouse wrote: »

too many LL think its easy money, as the rules seem tobe set up to favour them

Tenants have plenty of rights. Unfortunately lots of them don't bother to find out what they are and how to use them, and just go ahead and do something daft which ends up putting the landlord legally in the right.

fishybusiness

Yes- in this case the LL is out of order, but your repeated generalisations based on isolated cases here (happy tenants with good LLs don't start threads!) don't help anyone.

We are happy tenants! I know, I didn´t start this thread.....

Have been in this situation in the past, a full ceiling fell in, caused by lots of bathroom leaking water, the landlord said he couldn´t afford to fix. Really infuriating at the time, the whole fix ended up costing the landlord about 2k, and it took 4 months to get sorted.

Our current landlord is much better, and we have put money in to the house, to suit our lifestyle. For ex a cooker extractor unit, we changed the kitchen around which cost a few hundred quid. Landlord has also put their hand in their pocket. My expectation was that we would have to fight and hassle the landlord, and it didn´t turn out that way.

I think it is easy to expect a landlord to do absolutely everything, then go on the offensive to get everything done. Perhaps in this case it would be wise to offer to have the shower replaced, quote the landlord the price beforehand, and ask if the landlord would accept a repayment plan, say over 12 months taken from the rent.

No guarantees are given with landlords, but it can cultivate a good working relationship.

Foxy-Stoat_3

In my last place the Triton shower broke, I bought another Triton one, £89 from screwfix, and fitted it myself. Pipe was in the same place as was the wiring. Took around 30 minutes to change.

Offer to buy the shower, if they can get it installed by professionals as I wouldn't advise replacing it yourself in-case something happens, and send in the receipt and get it refunded when you leave.....as I wouldn't want to stay in a rented place if the LL couldn't afford to replace a shower.

pcgtron

To be honest, if a landlord didn't have a small fund to replace a shower Iwwouldbe wworrie. A new bboiler at a few grand is one thing. A couple hundred quid for a shower should get fixed straight away in my opinion. I'd have it sorted straight away in my property. A happy tenant pays their rent on time and looks after your house

Halle71

We are new landlords - completed on 8.11 and tenants in 23.11 - of an unfurnished four bed house in London. Some of it is a bit dated (well, one bathroom and aforementioned washing machine) but generally it's a great house for the rent, we decorated throughout even though this was not necessary or requested by the tenants who agreed to take the house, and the few things we were requested to supply are really good quality. We also took a fitted wardrobe out at their request and this left a hole in the laminate so we had to carpet that room. We've been beyond reasonable.

Two days after they moved in I received an email to say the washing machine was leaking so the next evening we got a plumber round to check it. He checked under the machine (dry) and the filter and seal (both fine) and concluded that the machine was overfilled although the tenant denies this.
However.... although the washing machine casing is normal sized, the drum is very small at 4.5kg, not really big enough for a family and the tenants are a couple plus toddler. Also, the machine is a bit dated - probably put in when our vendor replaced the kitchen 8 years ago - so we were wondering if we should just replace it anyway? It's integrated though so won't be a cheap fix.

What would you do or expect as tenants?

Thanks!

Pixie5740

marathonic wrote: »

I agree with this. I sympathise with the landlord because Christmas is a tough enough time to have funds ready (although any landlord should have emergency cash for such issues, there are a lot of accidental landlords without the experience to know this).

:mad: I have zero sympathy for the LL, she is running a business for Christ's sake. What does she do with the rent money? We are constantly been told that one of the benefits of renting is that as a tenant you are not responsible for maintenance and repairs to the property which is all fine and well if you don't end up with a clown like this as your LL.