Landlord has two clowns doing all his home maintenance

TartanSaver

I don't believe in spending my money on doing the LLs job for him. If I can fix something easily at very low/no cost, I'll do it. Otherwise no chance. If the LL asked me to do something but he would pay for materials, I'd do it if I can. I suspect a lot of LLs have unrealistic expectations of capacity. People who have never owned property are unlikely to have had much opportunity to learn DIY. Similarly, they probably don't own many tools. With the threat of 2 months notice always looming, tenants have no reason to make long term time and money investments in someone else's asset.

Madbags

Before we got our mortgage we lived in a terrible place for 6 months and the landlord wanted us to fix the problems when we reported them. He was happy to provide the tools but christ as if we had the time and it wasn't even our responsibility.


The first thing we noticed was the "wet room", it was supposed to be some kind of conservatory but it was so badly built it leaked and we had to have buckets lying around and mop up regularly. Even while we were the the wood and walls started turning green and mossy/mouldy. The landlord was happy to provide some laminate and expected me to get a ladder into the neighbours, go on the roof and lay Ii. Haha what a joke!


The second thing was one day I opened a cupboard to get some food and a mouse came flying out. The house was actually infested, the landlord provided a mouse trap, we killed about 7 mice in total (we actually killed 2 mice in the same trap at the same time once). Again, he was happy to provide the tools but do nothing about it. There were droppings absolutely everywhere behind our furniture.


The third was the boiler. Oh yes, having a shower was very nice......... for about 5 minutes, then the water would go freezing, the pilot light would keep cutting out. Called him, he sent someone out and the guy said "we've told him numerous times he needs to replace this boiler". Did he? No of course not.


Fourth thing - the electrics. How many times when we've had lights on you would hear a "banging" noise as the lights flick on and off. Sometimes it sounded like a small firework display, I swear it was only a matter of time before the house exploded in a ball of fire. Mentioned it to him, he gave some strange excuse or explanation and never did anything about it.


There is a lot more than this but this is just a taste. It's not like the guy "was just getting by" he was rich, always off to Greece on holidays, buying new properties, cars, bikes. Total waste of space landlord. This is what pushed us to getting our own place, totally fed up paying sub-par landlords to feed their lifestyle.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

In one of my student houses, a random guy turned up announcing that he was here to "do some tiling" to pay back a debt he owed to our LL. He put two rows of ~5 wonky tiles in the middle of the kitchen wall, and then disappeared. I think we stuck a poster over them.