Nightmare with rubbish collections for ground floor conversion flat with no front and rear garden

mitkx

deannatrois wrote: »

I think however much you recycle, household rubbish can get a bit smelly in two weeks. I wouldn't be happy to be living with that odour myself inside a property.

Can you contact the business next door and arrange for bins to be left there as long as the tenant is tidy with her disposal? As said already, you might have to pay for this and pass the cost along to the tenant.

Or you could offer to let her move out early and make sure the next tenant can live with this arrangement (without being a horder lol).

I know as I don't drive, and my local dump (which is a couple of miles away) has closed down, its not that easy to get to a dump anymore.

The Letting Agent is contacting the individual units in the Business Park next door and hoping they say yes to allowing the tenant to store her bin on one of their units. This providing she is discreet and tidy.

mitkx

lisyloo wrote: »

Are there no utility cupboards at all in the property?


The bottom line is that if this tenant is not willing to make any adjustments or go to the tip then the property is not suitable for her.

Unfortunately no utility cupboards. I coped with a gap where there is a break between the kitchen cupboards and the living room to store the kitchen swing bin and the recycling bags and coped fine with that. The Letting Agent is saying that the tenant is a bit of a neat freak. Unsure how being a neat freak is my problem.

mitkx

marliepanda wrote: »

At the end of the day its not the councils responsibility to make exceptions for one persons household layout.

She doesnt want to keep the full bag in her house - her problem
She doesnt want to take it to the tip - her problem
She has nowhere to store it outside - her problem

As she is your tenant these are starting to trickle into your problems, but what exactly do you want the council to do?

I approached the council with a view to help find a solution for this and where to store it until the next collection. In hindsight they didn't help me much.

It would be stupid for a tenant to move out over a rubbish bag but it is what it is, so long as the letting agent finds the next one who does not have these sorts of issues.

mitkx

Nasqueron wrote: »

I have a wheelie bin for rubbish and recycling. I leave the rubbish in a bin in the kitchen and empty it the night before the collection and put it out the front (did this before we had bins and just used black sacks). Same with recycling which is emptied once a week into the recycling bin and put out once a fortnight

This is what I would do, I am not sure how the tenant can get through that much rubbish quite quickly.

marliepanda

pimento wrote: »

I'm assuming that she will get a council tax rebate for taking her own rubbish to the tip.

Thats not how council tax works... Plus she is choosing to do it

mitkx wrote: »

I approached the council with a view to help find a solution for this and where to store it until the next collection. In hindsight they didn't help me much.

It would be stupid for a tenant to move out over a rubbish bag but it is what it is, so long as the letting agent finds the next one who does not have these sorts of issues.

Again, how can the council tell her where to store it. There is no land belonging to 'her' as the tenant that she can use, they can't allow her to store it on someone elses private land, nor will they let her leave it on public land. So, its either in the house or at the tip, which you knew already.

bouicca21

As an older lady in her 60s, I have 3 supermarket bags for life in the cupboard under the sink. One for general waste, one for paper and one for mixed plastic and can recycling and all out of sight. I take it down the tip myself.

mitkx

So the letting agent is now proposing that I meet her son in law (who has taken on the tenants 'rubbish' cries for help) and walk around to the Business Park situated behind the flat and ask the business's if they will allow her to store her trash.

The son in law previously asked the letting agent for me to hand over a copy of my deeds (what on earth does he want that for?) to review what bit of land belongs to the flat and where trash can be stored. I refused it.

I am just wondering if I should be meeting with the tenant or letting the letting agent resolve this as that is what I am paying them the monthly fee for.

marliepanda

mitkx wrote: »

So the letting agent is now proposing that I meet her son in law (who has taken on the tenants 'rubbish' cries for help) and walk around to the Business Park situated behind the flat and ask the business's if they will allow her to store her trash.

The son in law previously asked the letting agent for me to hand over a copy of my deeds (what on earth does he want that for?) to review what bit of land belongs to the flat and where trash can be stored. I refused it.

I am just wondering if I should be meeting with the tenant or letting the letting agent resolve this as that is what I am paying them the monthly fee for.

I would probably say mediating issues with a son in law was above and beyond their usual remit, but that doesnt mean you have to do it either.

The deeds thing doesnt seem too crazy if he is trying to establish if you own any land that could be used, though you think that would already be known.

If she wants to use a business bin or land then she needs to ask them, not you. Or, she can move out.

lisyloo

The Letting Agent is saying that the tenant is a bit of a neat freak. Unsure how being a neat freak is my problem.

It's your problem if you want to keep her as a tenant.


She seems a bit hard work but I don't know what it's like getting tenants round your way.

fairy_lights

mitkx wrote: »

So the letting agent is now proposing that I meet her son in law (who has taken on the tenants 'rubbish' cries for help) and walk around to the Business Park situated behind the flat and ask the business's if they will allow her to store her trash.

I would respond with a hard 'No'.
It's not your fault that your tenant can't recycle/deal with her own waste/buy herself a bigger bin and it shouldn't be your responsibility to find a solution for her. If she wants to approach local businesses about using their bin space fair enough, but why should it have anything to do with you?