Private renting issues

Caz3121

Tiredoldbroad wrote: »

I was paying £100 each month to try to stay on top of the bill until they changed my tariff to economy 7,

so you have paid £1,300 and they say there is still £2,000 outstanding?
Might be worth checking appliances etc to see how this is building up. bulbs could be contributing

Did your home insurance cover the damage to wardrobe and clothes?

If you are on a periodic tenancy have you considered moving?

G_M

The electricity issue is a dispute between you and the elecricity company. For advice, post on the energy board here.


For your repairing issues, read:


* Repairing Obligations: the law, common misconceptions, reporting/enforcing, retaliatory eviction & the new tenant protection (2015)

HampshireH

The energy company have nothing to do with your fuse box.

You need to be more proactive. Utility companies won't come to you.

There is an energy forum on here. I recommend going on there with your tariff details and the dates and readings that you have supplied whatever company you are with.

Cakeguts

Tiredoldbroad wrote: »

please read my replies, the bill was being paid bit by bit while they were investigating, the kitchen sink and bathroom back up were because they was not a back stop or something, there are over 30 spotlights or whatever they are throughout the place they have not blown but slowing dimed and stopped working altogether.

The spotlights are instead of bulbs. The tenant changes light bulbs not the landlord. If you didn't want to change this many light bulbs you should have rented somewhere else with fewer. The lights were there when you viewed.

babyblade41

One of the many reason I retired from being a LL.. well virtually anyway.

I lost count of the many times I got asked to change the bulbs and subsequent conversations about how it is not my responsibility to come and change them for them..jeez some would literally wait for days without them .

I once had a similar problem with a tenant with blockages so I called in Dynarod (other good drain unblockers out there too) and everything was blocked with wet wipes.

I'd hate to think if some of the tenants I had had their own place and who they'd call then.

OP, rent comes above anything else, not even food. Horrid trying to cook on a camping stove in a tent !!!, also when talking to utility companies , in fact any company you should always take the name, date and time when you made the call, keep all the emails in a separate file so they are altogether and as you should have had a meter reading on entrance to the property and subsequent meter readings you submitted then your bill on the correct tariff should be fairly easy for the company to work out.

Just been through the same thing with BG after recently moving , I called once a week for the last 3 weeks as the supply hadn't gone into my name on the correct tariff

Finally quoted who I spoke to and on what day and the time plus my online welcoming letter via email accepting me on the correct tariff and all was rectified fairly quickly

Told to ignore previous bills and received the correct bill via email and DD set up.

I'm not sure why it had taken so long , it can be a pain but it's money and it has to be sorted ASAP

jonnygee2

I'd hate to think if some of the tenants I had had their own place and who they'd call then.

They'd probably post on this board asking whether they could sue the estate agent / seller /conveyancer / neighbour etc for the repair bill.

babyblade41

jonnygee2 wrote: »

They'd probably post on this board asking whether they could sue the estate agent / seller /conveyancer / neighbour etc for the repair bill.

More than likely... if I scroll through a few years post I could possibly find some ex tenants who ask for a rent reduction as they have had no light bulbs for a week and then complain because the shower is blocked :rotfl:

Tiredoldbroad

Cakeguts wrote: »

The spotlights are instead of bulbs. The tenant changes light bulbs not the landlord. If you didn't want to change this many light bulbs you should have rented somewhere else with fewer. The lights were there when you viewed.

Interesting response

Tiredoldbroad

Thank you Babyblade41, I have done all the above, and changed the lights when they first started going out, have every name date and time of all calls, but have come to understand there is a major issue with the electrics, hence why they are coming to do a check, unsure of all the technical details on a lot of these things but learning fast, working my but off all the overtime I can get to pay arrears, hoping within next month to be clear. Still trying to figure out the fuse box just know my last rental was not like this and wished my landlord had not passed cos would still be there

Tiredoldbroad

HampshireH wrote: »

The energy company have nothing to do with your fuse box.

You need to be more proactive. Utility companies won't come to you.

There is an energy forum on here. I recommend going on there with your tariff details and the dates and readings that you have supplied whatever company you are with.

So who is responsible for the fuse box, this is why I am asking advice as I do not know who is responsible