Landlord duty to replace broken items

mumlady1

thanks to everyone who replied, your suggestions & advice are appreciated

Managed to get a decent dryer for £30 & hubby will fit so decided it was worth the spend to
a) keep wet washing out of the flat
b) keep the tenant happy & hopefully happy to stay long term

ezez

we moved out of a room which is in landlord's house. the loo is in the communal area - it was mainly used by us and sometimes by landlord and family. the day we were moving out when we had cleaned up, the loo started to rise and there was a blockage in their septic tank. now we have moved out and the landlord wants us to foot half the (huge) bill for having a new pump put in as a rag caused the pump to break and they say that it is our fault. what do we do? we are 100percent sure it is not our fault. they have had blockages twice since we moved in and tried the last time to say it was our fault but it was not. are we liable for this.

19lottie82

ezez wrote: »

we moved out of a room which is in landlord's house. the loo is in the communal area - it was mainly used by us and sometimes by landlord and family. the day we were moving out when we had cleaned up, the loo started to rise and there was a blockage in their septic tank. now we have moved out and the landlord wants us to foot half the (huge) bill for having a new pump put in as a rag caused the pump to break and they say that it is our fault. what do we do? we are 100percent sure it is not our fault. they have had blockages twice since we moved in and tried the last time to say it was our fault but it was not. are we liable for this.

Please start your own thread instead of adding to someone elses. You will get a better response.

Homeagain

cattie wrote: »

I have to agree, the more I read these forums, the more I pity LL's with some of the ridiculous expectations that tenants have of what they feel a LL should be forking out for.

I know that a lot of tenants go on about how they are paying a LL's mortgage, well dearie, isn't the LL providing a roof over your head? Where would you be if there were no LL's?

And no, I am not, have never been & would never be a LL. Reading posts on mse is enough to put anybody off.:o

What a horrible generalisation. Not all tenants are dreadful people. I expect that without LLs most people would be happily owning and living in their own house by choice. You don't know what circumstances put some people in the position of having to rent. Gosh!

topdaddy_2

ezez wrote: »

we moved out of a room which is in landlord's house. the loo is in the communal area - it was mainly used by us and sometimes by landlord and family. the day we were moving out when we had cleaned up, the loo started to rise and there was a blockage in their septic tank. now we have moved out and the landlord wants us to foot half the (huge) bill for having a new pump put in as a rag caused the pump to break and they say that it is our fault. what do we do? we are 100percent sure it is not our fault. they have had blockages twice since we moved in and tried the last time to say it was our fault but it was not. are we liable for this.

If its shared how can they say its your fault?

G_M

Unless they can prove the rag that caused the blockage was your fault, they are onto a loser.

Are they requesting money from you? Either ignore or politely deny liability.

Or are they witholding your deposit? Write (yes a letter) politely denying liability (do not provide long-winded explanations or justifications - just a short simple denial) and request your deposit back in full within, say, 5 days.