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Old_Git said:
Well you could argue the tenant lives in my homelookstraightahead said:Does your tenant have a key to your home?
This could be the root of the problem?
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Exactly my point. The tenant lives in their own home. It's not yours.Old_Git said:
Well you could argue the tenant lives in my homelookstraightahead said:Does your tenant have a key to your home?So your tenant has as much right to a key to your home. If you accept that as your starting point, it might change your perspective on their rights.7 -
Whilst there is a tenancy, even if rent not paid, the premises are tenant's home, tenant's property, merely landlord's investment - not landlord's home nor property.
Artful, landlord since 200011 -
The OP mentions an oil leak so i'm not sure there is any gas in the house. I don't think oil boilers require annual checks but you would think the tenant would want the leak repaired.dimbo61 said:Just be aware that you still need the Gas Safe engineer to carry out the Gas Safe checks every year.
Same with the EICR every 5 years to make sure the electrics are safe !
If your tenant refuses to allow access you must document that you have tried to carry out the Legally required checks and the tenant has refused you and the GS engineer or Electrician entry into the rental property.
You also need to communicate to your tenants that the checks are required and due for the tenants safety by letter, email, text, WhatsApp or smoke signals
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Introducing the word "property" in this context is confusing.
It is the residential property that the tenant occupies, yes. Their home.
But it is still the property of the landlord, an asset of theirs. Their house.
The problem arises because the OP is thinking in terms of "home" not being sufficiently distinct from the actual house.
Homes are not necessarily owned by the occupier, yet all houses have an owner.4 -
martindow said:
The OP mentions an oil leak so i'm not sure there is any gas in the house. I don't think oil boilers require annual checks but you would think the tenant would want the leak repaired.dimbo61 said:Just be aware that you still need the Gas Safe engineer to carry out the Gas Safe checks every year.
Same with the EICR every 5 years to make sure the electrics are safe !
If your tenant refuses to allow access you must document that you have tried to carry out the Legally required checks and the tenant has refused you and the GS engineer or Electrician entry into the rental property.
You also need to communicate to your tenants that the checks are required and due for the tenants safety by letter, email, text, WhatsApp or smoke signalsmartindow said:
The OP mentions an oil leak so i'm not sure there is any gas in the house. I don't think oil boilers require annual checks but you would think the tenant would want the leak repaired.dimbo61 said:Just be aware that you still need the Gas Safe engineer to carry out the Gas Safe checks every year.
Same with the EICR every 5 years to make sure the electrics are safe !
If your tenant refuses to allow access you must document that you have tried to carry out the Legally required checks and the tenant has refused you and the GS engineer or Electrician entry into the rental property.
You also need to communicate to your tenants that the checks are required and due for the tenants safety by letter, email, text, WhatsApp or smoke signals
The point about the leak, there never was a leak the tenant lied .martindow said:
The OP mentions an oil leak so i'm not sure there is any gas in the house. I don't think oil boilers require annual checks but you would think the tenant would want the leak repaired.dimbo61 said:Just be aware that you still need the Gas Safe engineer to carry out the Gas Safe checks every year.
Same with the EICR every 5 years to make sure the electrics are safe !
If your tenant refuses to allow access you must document that you have tried to carry out the Legally required checks and the tenant has refused you and the GS engineer or Electrician entry into the rental property.
You also need to communicate to your tenants that the checks are required and due for the tenants safety by letter, email, text, WhatsApp or smoke signals"Do not regret growing older, it's a privilege denied to many"0 -
Absolutely irrelevant in regards to the tenants right to change the locks.Old_Git said:martindow said:
The OP mentions an oil leak so i'm not sure there is any gas in the house. I don't think oil boilers require annual checks but you would think the tenant would want the leak repaired.dimbo61 said:Just be aware that you still need the Gas Safe engineer to carry out the Gas Safe checks every year.
Same with the EICR every 5 years to make sure the electrics are safe !
If your tenant refuses to allow access you must document that you have tried to carry out the Legally required checks and the tenant has refused you and the GS engineer or Electrician entry into the rental property.
You also need to communicate to your tenants that the checks are required and due for the tenants safety by letter, email, text, WhatsApp or smoke signalsmartindow said:
The OP mentions an oil leak so i'm not sure there is any gas in the house. I don't think oil boilers require annual checks but you would think the tenant would want the leak repaired.dimbo61 said:Just be aware that you still need the Gas Safe engineer to carry out the Gas Safe checks every year.
Same with the EICR every 5 years to make sure the electrics are safe !
If your tenant refuses to allow access you must document that you have tried to carry out the Legally required checks and the tenant has refused you and the GS engineer or Electrician entry into the rental property.
You also need to communicate to your tenants that the checks are required and due for the tenants safety by letter, email, text, WhatsApp or smoke signals
The point about the leak, there never was a leak the tenant lied .martindow said:
The OP mentions an oil leak so i'm not sure there is any gas in the house. I don't think oil boilers require annual checks but you would think the tenant would want the leak repaired.dimbo61 said:Just be aware that you still need the Gas Safe engineer to carry out the Gas Safe checks every year.
Same with the EICR every 5 years to make sure the electrics are safe !
If your tenant refuses to allow access you must document that you have tried to carry out the Legally required checks and the tenant has refused you and the GS engineer or Electrician entry into the rental property.
You also need to communicate to your tenants that the checks are required and due for the tenants safety by letter, email, text, WhatsApp or smoke signals5 -
Old_Git said:The point about the leak, there never was a leak the tenant lied ."he phoned my plumber to fix the leak".Is there an agreement between you, the plumber and the tenant where he can contact this plumber directly? If not you need to make him aware of who to contact to arrange repairs.2
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In my last place I rented I had a nightmare housemate. Among other things, one night I woke up with him standing in my bedroom (he is a man twice my size), another time he approached my boyfriend at the time to ask him intimate questions about our sex life. When he moved out, he took a lot of my things with him and left me with repairs and out of pocket. We were on a shared lease so after he moved I changed the locks. My landlord was VERY weird about me changing the locks, even though he knew the situation with the old tenant. Two days after I had changed the locks, the old housemate had been to the building - I couldn't change the locks on the shared front door, only the lock to the flat.
I don't know that I've nothing intelligent to say, just it's weird to me that a LL would want to be accessing someone else's home or to have keys to there. Your tenants don't know you, it is perfectly reasonable they don't want you having a key to their home. Would you be okay with them having a key to your home?0 -
My tenant has been renting from me for 6 years. They rarely see me , I have never used my keys to enter the house.Hannimal said:Your tenants don't know you,
Her father lives in the house directly behind and I have known him over 24 years ."Do not regret growing older, it's a privilege denied to many"1
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