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Misrepresentation in Tenancy Inventory
DSSummerton
Posts: 1 Newbie
Hi all,
Myself and my partner have just moved into a new tenancy agreement with a first time landlord. The property is maintained by the landlord and the finances and contracts were handled by the letting agent (month on month).
The flat was advertised with full gas underfloor heating and since moving in roughly 3 weeks ago the heating has operated poorly and in the bedrooms does not work at all, leading to some chilly nights! We also have a carpet bug infestation and there was bare live electrical wire in the metal cabinet for the bathroom mirror (presumably powering the LED lights not connected). All of these issues I have reported by email to both the landlord and letting agent.
The landlord is trying to get me to now accept electric space heaters as an alternative to gas heating and will not pay for an exterminator for the carpet bugs, citing that some bug spray should just work.
I agreed to the tenancy with working gas heating and the property was priced above those in the area that are similar but have electric heating so the landlords 'solution' would leave me paying obscene amounts of money for electric heating in an above market rate flat. Adding to injury the carpet bugs and almost getting stung with 240v from a live mains wire has got me feeling very irate that the landlord is trying to pass the cost of flat maintenance onto me.
I do not want space heaters as this is not what I agreed to and a bug infestation is surely an uninhabitable property?
Please advise where I stand legally or if I can launch a civil case to get the tenancy wound down if the landlord doesnt back down?
Thankyou
Myself and my partner have just moved into a new tenancy agreement with a first time landlord. The property is maintained by the landlord and the finances and contracts were handled by the letting agent (month on month).
The flat was advertised with full gas underfloor heating and since moving in roughly 3 weeks ago the heating has operated poorly and in the bedrooms does not work at all, leading to some chilly nights! We also have a carpet bug infestation and there was bare live electrical wire in the metal cabinet for the bathroom mirror (presumably powering the LED lights not connected). All of these issues I have reported by email to both the landlord and letting agent.
The landlord is trying to get me to now accept electric space heaters as an alternative to gas heating and will not pay for an exterminator for the carpet bugs, citing that some bug spray should just work.
I agreed to the tenancy with working gas heating and the property was priced above those in the area that are similar but have electric heating so the landlords 'solution' would leave me paying obscene amounts of money for electric heating in an above market rate flat. Adding to injury the carpet bugs and almost getting stung with 240v from a live mains wire has got me feeling very irate that the landlord is trying to pass the cost of flat maintenance onto me.
I do not want space heaters as this is not what I agreed to and a bug infestation is surely an uninhabitable property?
Please advise where I stand legally or if I can launch a civil case to get the tenancy wound down if the landlord doesnt back down?
Thankyou
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Write to the landlord at the address you have for serving notice - you do have one, yes? - detailing the problems and ask landlord to repair the defects, particularly the electrics and bugs.
If nothing still gets done, complain to HSE about the electrics - imminent danger of death from electrocution - and to Environment Agency about bugs.
You could try borrowing a cyclone vacuum cleaner and going over the place slowly with that, may sort out the infestation.
Or try some sort of bug killer - spray it around, leave for a couple of hours then use the cleaner above.
If you use a liquid bug treatment, try it first on a small hidden area to make sure it does not leave stains and if not you're good to go.0
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