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RENT CHARGES.....totally flabbergasted
JillyT
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My daughter and her family rented a property from the diocese for 10 months at a rent of £1350 pcm.
During this time there have been endless problems with the property, including no heating or hot water for 2 weeks during the coldest part of last winter, when the family had to use the facilities of a local B&B, buy so much extra fuel for the totally inappropriate coal fire to try and heat the only room in the house that they could heat, an aga that didn't work, so they had to purchase a cooker, mould and damp, the list goes on......they requested a rent reduction but were refused.
The family were given notice to leave after 6 months as the diocese wanted to sell the property. The house went on the market for two months and then taken off. Youngest grandchild had to change schools again to be nearer where the family could move to, she was so stressed about it. The diocese then offered them a reduced rent of £975 to stay but the family already had wheels in motion to move elsewhere and the stress and money involved with trying to find a home at short notice.
The family moved out of the property and the very next day the property went up for rent again but at a much reduced price of £800pcm.
As you can imagine, my daughter is flabbergasted that the diocese have reduced the rent by so much and would not consider reducing the rent when they asked due to the problems.
It just seems so unfair.
My question is, can my daughter claim any kind of refund/recompense from the diocese for the very exaggerated rent they had to pay during the time they lived there?
During this time there have been endless problems with the property, including no heating or hot water for 2 weeks during the coldest part of last winter, when the family had to use the facilities of a local B&B, buy so much extra fuel for the totally inappropriate coal fire to try and heat the only room in the house that they could heat, an aga that didn't work, so they had to purchase a cooker, mould and damp, the list goes on......they requested a rent reduction but were refused.
The family were given notice to leave after 6 months as the diocese wanted to sell the property. The house went on the market for two months and then taken off. Youngest grandchild had to change schools again to be nearer where the family could move to, she was so stressed about it. The diocese then offered them a reduced rent of £975 to stay but the family already had wheels in motion to move elsewhere and the stress and money involved with trying to find a home at short notice.
The family moved out of the property and the very next day the property went up for rent again but at a much reduced price of £800pcm.
As you can imagine, my daughter is flabbergasted that the diocese have reduced the rent by so much and would not consider reducing the rent when they asked due to the problems.
It just seems so unfair.
My question is, can my daughter claim any kind of refund/recompense from the diocese for the very exaggerated rent they had to pay during the time they lived there?
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HAD to pay?
Presumably they had the choice of not renting the property in the first place?I am a Mortgage AdviserYou should note that this site doesn't check my status as a mortgage adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice.0 -
My daughter and her family rented a property from the diocese for 10 months at a rent of £1350 pcm.
During this time there have been endless problems with the property, including no heating or hot water for 2 weeks during the coldest part of last winter, when the family had to use the facilities of a local B&B, buy so much extra fuel for the totally inappropriate coal fire to try and heat the only room in the house that they could heat, an aga that didn't work, so they had to purchase a cooker, mould and damp, the list goes on......they requested a rent reduction but were refused.
The family were given notice to leave after 6 months as the diocese wanted to sell the property. The house went on the market for two months and then taken off. Youngest grandchild had to change schools again to be nearer where the family could move to, she was so stressed about it. The diocese then offered them a reduced rent of £975 to stay but the family already had wheels in motion to move elsewhere and the stress and money involved with trying to find a home at short notice.
The family moved out of the property and the very next day the property went up for rent again but at a much reduced price of £800pcm.
As you can imagine, my daughter is flabbergasted that the diocese have reduced the rent by so much and would not consider reducing the rent when they asked due to the problems.
It just seems so unfair.
My question is, can my daughter claim any kind of refund/recompense from the diocese for the very exaggerated rent they had to pay during the time they lived there?
The short answer is no.
If your daughter wasn't happy with the rent at the time then was free to shop around to find somewhere less expensive to live. Rents can go down as well as up depending on supply and demand.0 -
My daughter and her family rented a property from the diocese for 10 months at a rent of £1350 pcm.
During this time there have been endless problems with the property, including no heating or hot water for 2 weeks during the coldest part of last winter, when the family had to use the facilities of a local B&B, buy so much extra fuel for the totally inappropriate coal fire to try and heat the only room in the house that they could heat, an aga that didn't work, so they had to purchase a cooker, mould and damp, the list goes on......they requested a rent reduction but were refused.
The family were given notice to leave after 6 months as the diocese wanted to sell the property. The house went on the market for two months and then taken off. Youngest grandchild had to change schools again to be nearer where the family could move to, she was so stressed about it. The diocese then offered them a reduced rent of £975 to stay but the family already had wheels in motion to move elsewhere and the stress and money involved with trying to find a home at short notice.
The family moved out of the property and the very next day the property went up for rent again but at a much reduced price of £800pcm.
As you can imagine, my daughter is flabbergasted that the diocese have reduced the rent by so much and would not consider reducing the rent when they asked due to the problems.
It just seems so unfair.
My question is, can my daughter claim any kind of refund/recompense from the diocese for the very exaggerated rent they had to pay during the time they lived there?
Don’t be silly, of course she can’t.
Don’t teach your kids life is fair.0 -
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Economy of supply and demand, no different to cost of holidays. They would have kept it up if they could get a tenant but they couldn't so they had no choice but to reduce it.0
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I'm sure many people would be comforted by the thought that they had subsidized the diocese during the tenancy and thus helped so many deserving bishops, canons, assorted prelates & vergers.
And that the next tenants will be blessed by this reduced rent.0 -
Why did your daughter not contact Environmental Health and report the problems to them if repairs were not carried out in a timely fashion (or at all)?0
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...no heating or hot water for 2 weeks during the coldest part of last winter
At a time at which plumbers and gas fitters tend to be swamped with work. Would it have been any quicker if they'd owned the property?
buy so much extra fuel for the totally inappropriate coal fire to try and heat the only room in the house that they could heat
Did they not contemplate buying an electric heater? There was alternative heating available, so the landlord met their legal requirements.
The landlord should have made sure cooking facilities were available. That could be a microwave.an aga that didn't work, so they had to purchase a cooker0 -
Thanks for all your replies.
They have a large family and rentals where they lived weren't big enough, so hardly any choice - the vicarage was big enough for them.
She didn't contact environmental health as the diocese kept promising the heating would be sorted, the aga would be fixed etc.. she did have a microwave.
The vicarage is huge, very high ceilings etc, the small coal fire was ineffective - they also had electric heaters, so the bills were higher than they should of been...
It took three attemtps by three different plumbers in the end to fix the CH - it needed replacing they said.0 -
Thanks for all your replies.
They have a large family and rentals where they lived weren't big enough, so hardly any choice - the vicarage was big enough for them.
She didn't contact environmental health as the diocese kept promising the heating would be sorted, the aga would be fixed etc.. she did have a microwave.
The vicarage is huge, very high ceilings etc, the small coal fire was ineffective - they also had electric heaters, so the bills were higher than they should of been...
It took three attemtps by three different plumbers in the end to fix the CH - it needed replacing they said.
Well that explains the now lower rent0
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