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Leak from my flat into flat below

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  • Cam1
    Cam1 Posts: 1 Newbie
    Is it illegal to have an internal stop !!!! boxed in with no access to it in a council property?
  • Pixie5740
    Pixie5740 Posts: 14,515 Forumite
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    richdeniro wrote: »
    Had a reply from the Estate Agent with the following having sent them a couple of links with my last email:

    From reading the information you have emailed me it would appear that the body of text refers to a tenant being asked to pay for damage caused by a leak into their own property. Not from a leak from someone else’s property.
    From what I have read you are still liable for the repairs to the ceiling not the landlord of the property we manage.
    We will seek legal advice as well as speaking to the Citizen advice.

    Which link did you send them, the one edddy posted?

    Let them seek legal advice and speak with CAB. In fact you could give CAB a call yourself.
  • richdeniro
    richdeniro Posts: 308 Forumite
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    Pixie5740 wrote: »
    Which link did you send them, the one edddy posted?

    Let them seek legal advice and speak with CAB. In fact you could give CAB a call yourself.

    Yes and a link to a page on the CAB website that stated the landlord is responsible.
  • Pixie5740
    Pixie5740 Posts: 14,515 Forumite
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    edited 2 October 2017 at 2:55PM
    richdeniro wrote: »
    Yes and a link to a page on the CAB website that stated the landlord is responsible.

    Not the brightest crayons in the box then.
  • eddddy
    eddddy Posts: 17,965 Forumite
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    richdeniro wrote: »
    Yes and a link to a page on the CAB website that stated the landlord is responsible.

    The agent might just be saving face.

    Rather than saying "Oops - we were wrong" or "We were just trying it on"...

    ... they might take a while and come back with something like "We've taken legal advice, and whilst our advisers tell us we have a good case, as a gesture of goodwill, we've decided not to persue this matter any further on this occasion."
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