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Moving out of rented house
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monkeychops wrote: »That's not what the job centre or the council said. They told us we should have got new agreements. The one we had was just for a year so we had no real proof that we even had a rented house or how much the rent was when it was a couple of years out of date.
That is incorrect.
They may have their own requirements, but the law is clear, the tenancy continues on the same terms0 -
All enforcible. You did not need to take this on yourself.monkeychops wrote: »
Posters are saying because they were there when we moved in we have to make sure they are there when we move out. So surely when they stopped working he should have replaced them?
As I said above surely he should have replaced those items when they packed up? He didn't so the oven and hob became ours as we bought them.
There are laws, and processes, for getting a landlord to repair/replace broken items (particularly cooking facilities - see Landlord & Tenant Act 1985 ). You clearly did not follow the correct procedure (unless there is more to this than you have told us). Instead it seems that you chose to buy your own replacement.
Not sure there was an "unspoken agreement". He just would not do any work or replace any items so we had no choice but to sort things out.
You could have enfored his repairing obligations.
We will never know if he would have raised the rent if we had not done work will we? True.
... Imagine if we had just ignored all the repairs needed as he did what sort of state the house would be in. No heating or hot water, no cooker or hob, filthy disgusting bathroom, a big leak which flooded the whole of the downstairs - it was literally under 2 foot of water, no fascia boards, a couple literally rotted away and fell off, leaky roof. I could go on but won't.0 -
All enforcible. You did not need to take this on yourself.
So we go through the enforcement process which, obviously, would annoy him. Do you not think he would then terminate our tenancy?
Years ago I rented a flat with my boyfriend. The landlords kept putting the rent up and we went to the Rent Tribunal. They ruled that the increases were unfair and guess what? Yes our landlords decided they could not let us stay in the flat0
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