Tenant has damaged sink and asking it to be fixed at Landlord cost

sheepy21

You're the landlord, it's your shelf that failed and your sink that's broken, think it's pretty obvious you should be paying to fix it!

Cakeguts

charithacq wrote: »

The cabinet didnt fall off. Its actually one of those glass cabinets you see at B&Q. It has a divider shelf which is held by four plastic plugs. The unit was all in order when the house was handed, whats caused the shelf to fall is one of the plastic plugs has come off while the cabinet has been used so this has cause the shelf to wobble, hence the contents falling, which has damaged the wash basin. So this is on the tenants using the house in my opinion.

This is your fault for not getting cupboards with more robust fittings. Anyone who is a landlord knows that you have to put in items that are better fitted than you would if it was yours at home.

csgohan4

charithacq wrote: »

The cabinet didnt fall off. Its actually one of those glass cabinets you see at B&Q. It has a divider shelf which is held by four plastic plugs. The unit was all in order when the house was handed, whats caused the shelf to fall is one of the plastic plugs has come off while the cabinet has been used so this has cause the shelf to wobble, hence the contents falling, which has damaged the wash basin. So this is on the tenants using the house in my opinion.

So wear and tear then/ cheap units, B+Q aren't exactly good quality are they?


Either don't have a cupboard 'Above' the basin or fix it. It's not the tenant's fault


If your such a bean counter, good luck getting good tenants who stay

buglawton

csgohan4 wrote: »

your a landlord, you did have landlord insurance? If you don't pay, don't expect to have good tenants, it's business and treat as such, things break.

if you pee off the tenants too much your going to have more trouble than it's worth, void periods, non payment of rent, eviction e.t.c

Landlord insurance as it exists now won’t cover fitments in a leasehold flat. When I looked into the fine detail of landlord insurance, it wouldn’t cover 90% if real world events or reasons for loss of rent. So I don’t buy it.

csgohan4

buglawton wrote: »

Landlord insurance as it exists now won’t cover fitments in a leasehold flat. When I looked into the fine detail of landlord insurance, it wouldn’t cover 90% if real world events or reasons for loss of rent. So I don’t buy it.

but it covers larger things like leaks and fire e.t.c does it?

theartfullodger

charithacq wrote: »

.....Tenant has damaged sink and asking it to be fixed at Landlord cost ......

Eh? Surely

"""Landlord's happiness with daft positioning of cupboard & failure to secure contents has damaged sink and unsurprisingly tenant is asking it to be fixed at Landlord cost"""

I'm on tenant's side on this one: Were I the landlord, I would re-locate cupboard - to protect my investment

Money_maker

Remove the cupboard. Presumably the sink is just chipped or whatever rather than actually 'broken'. If the sink is still operational I would leave it until change of tenants.