Rent Reduction due to lack of central heating?

scrummy_mummy_2

For tenants on fixed term tenancy agreements, there are 3 ways for a LL to raise rent...1. By way of a rent review clause in the Tenancy Agreement2. By agreement with the Tenant3. By Notice under Section 13 of the Housing Act 1988.Under 1, clauses that 'allow' the LL to increase rent as he sees fit, will be void. Most standard tenancy Agreements do not include rent review clauses because rent is usually increased by the tenant signing a new Tenancy Agreement. Fiar clauses are also difficult to draft and so they are not usually included in standard tenancy agreements.It is not possible to increase rent during the period of a fixed term tenancy unless either there is a valid rent clause (unlikley!) or the tenant agrees to the increase (even more unlikely!)...either way, if a rent increase is agreed the usual way to record this is to formally sign a new tenancy agreement.To raise rent on a statutory periodic tenancy, the LL must1. Agree the increase with the tenantor2. use Section 13 of the Housing Act.For more details visit https://www.therentservice.gov.ukIt is a complicated area but the bottom line is that there are controls over how much and why a LL can put the rent up....if you are a tenant and the LL puts the rent up, or tries to....read up on it first and if you agree that the rent increase is fair and justified....request a new tenancy agreement to formalise the arrangements.

Generali

Presumably you can move out in a month or so. I'd call the agency and tell them that you're going to put your notice in and move out on xx if the boiler isn't sorted by yy date.

I'd put it in writing and also state that as the LL is in breach of contract in your opinion by not fixing the boiler that you would like them to use the deposit to pay the last month's rent (assuming it's not protected which it should be).

The LL will never fix anything. Has he got a gas safety cert even?

dunnomate

Sounds good advice to me !

poppy10_2

iolanthe07 wrote: »

What a lot of molly-cuddled moaners we've all become! I grew up in the forties and fifties and central heating was unheard of then for ordinary people. You often woke up to ice on the inside of the window. So what

Windows? WINDOWS???
You must have had a really luxurious upbringing. In my day, none of us had windows. We just had holes in the wall. Ordinary working folk like us couldn't afford glass.

Generali

4 Yorkshiremen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

seven-day-weekend

I too think that if the accommodation is advertised as having central heating it should all work.

However, if the Landlord is agreeing to have it fixed, then that's all he/she can do at the moment.

We have the opposite problem.

Our UK house is lived in by our son and two lodgers.

When we went there last summer, we intended to upgrade the central heating by putting thermostats on all the main radiators.

However the lodgers' rooms were so full of junk we couldn't do the ones in their rooms as we couldn't reach properly. In the one room we couldn't even SEE the radiator!:eek:

So we decided theirs could be turned off altogether and they could freeze.;)

ModernSlave

Hi All

I emailed the agency when I returned from Christmas holiday asking about the rent reduction and haven't heard anything back yet.

I think we're going to move out when the lease ends in July.

DGJsaver

ModernSlave wrote: »

Hi All

I emailed the agency when I returned from Christmas holiday asking about the rent reduction and haven't heard anything back yet.

I think we're going to move out when the lease ends in July.

Youve just given yourself the best advice on the whole thread

Sod that landlord all warm in spain and get somewhere decent with a decent landlord

good luck

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

... heat rises, the upstairs would get warm like that.

heat doesn't rise - warm air rises!