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Tenant wants rent reduction - but is he entitled?

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  • Pixie5740
    Pixie5740 Posts: 14,515 Forumite
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    Give him a reduction by all means but two full weeks of rent...that's OTT.
  • dodger1
    dodger1 Posts: 4,579 Forumite
    bigbananas wrote: »
    Nope. Haven't heard anything from him directly.

    Well if he just cleared off without giving you the chance to offer something in the form of different heating (with a small reduction in the rent) then I wouldn't offer a penny and I'm speaking as a tenant.
    It's someone else's fault.
  • tamiami
    tamiami Posts: 537 Forumite
    Maybe he just went on holiday for 2 weeks!

    I'm a tenant and my boiler packed up in December, my LL was very apologetic as it took over a week to order the parts and get someone to fit them. I didn't ask him for a rent deduction as these things happen.

    When I lived in my own home I've had a boiler broken for over a week as well, with plumbers promising to come and not turning up, and waiting for parts to be ordered.
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