Student House Hell - Need Advice

Hillwalker11 wrote: »

He didn't have to study medicine, no,maybe not but it was what he wanted since he was 5 years old and he worked his socks off to get there.

Also as far as being compensated with a huge salary and long holidays really? Last weekend he worked 4 12 hour consecutive night shifts followed by a 12 hour day because his consultant had a theatre list, so he was operating from 8 o clock Sunday evening until 7 o o'clock Monday evening.
While you were no doubt at home with your family for Christmas he worked 4 days of twilights 7 am to 11pm. He is a neurosurgeon, with 9 years of training to undertake and before you think he earns a vast salary, believe me with the hours he works, per hour it does not equate to vast!
He never has a lunch break and some days doesn't even get a drink.

I really feel for the OP, trying to study at Uni, whatever course you undertake, you should have somewhere decent to live and study, especially for that level of rent.

Good for him - he's worth his weight in gold. Must people don't have that type of stamina.

It's irrelevant if the LL does have a GSC, because if it is not provided to the tenants at the point of occupation, then the LL is committing a criminal offence. End of. No defence.
OP has not yet told us if the deposit has been protected, but if not, then that's yet another breach of the LL's duties, and I'd fully encourage the OP to sue at the end of tenancy for 3 times the deposit, which they will win.

So why should we be paying so much extra to basically improve and maintain the property when we already provide her with enough money?

I expect the lack of cooperation from your LL Could have to do with your attitude she's picked up on. You have no idea whether you're given her enough money. You don't know how much she pays in rent and/or taxes, and how much repairs are costing her.

Depending on where you are, what you pay is not a lot for student accommodation, my DD pays more than that up North and there are 5 of them.

Mould is more likely your doing. How many baths are there. 4vpeople showering every day possibly more, a dryer that goes on maybe every other day if no more, lack of open windows will be enough to cause a problem. It is your responsibility to ventilate the house appropriately even if it means doing things you don't want to do.

Waiting 10 days for hot water is not great but not totally unacceptable. I had to wait about that long as a home owner because I couldn't get one gas engeneer to come for 4 days and then the part needed ordering. It's a pain, but it happens.

As for the door, it doesn't make much sense. The lock broke, possibly due to one of you guys misusing it but the LL changed it and didn't charge you. You say it has t been done properly and then bring up something about the structure of the door which indeed, if the issue wasn't therecwhen you fist moved in would indicate that it's been cause by one of you guys being a bit too forceful with the door.

Sadly I think your pushy attitude might mean that your LL wants as little to do with you guys as possible. Ideally, you should ask her to come over, at a convenient time to her, to check the door and see what she thinks about the security. You can then come to an agreement all together as to whether she's get the full repairs, or not, in which case you can tell her that you'll change the locks whilst you're there and will put the current lock back when you move out.

By the way, my DD is studying Medicine and working PT, some evenings and weekends. A few of her fellow students do.

macman wrote: »

It's irrelevant if the LL does have a GSC, because if it is not provided to the tenants at the point of occupation, then the LL is committing a criminal offence. End of. No defence.
OP has not yet told us if the deposit has been protected, but if not, then that's yet another breach of the LL's duties, and I'd fully encourage the OP to sue at the end of tenancy for 3 times the deposit, which they will win.

So in that case almost every tenant could just say they weren't given a copy and win in court. The landlord's ability to show a certificate and claim he gave a copy would obviously count for nothing.


I let a house last year to a young couple, they locked both sets of keys in the house after a few days and expected me to drop everything and come and let them in. They didn't think they had to pay rent at the end of the month because they had paid the agent 2 months rent in advance, (ie deposit and 1 months rent) do you think they even read the tenancy agreement let alone knew about the deposit bonding or the gas safety?


Don't take everything posted on behalf of students as being accurate, the landlord may be at fault, but then again we are only getting one side of the story.

Comms69 wrote: »

No-one held a gun to his head and forced him

Quite an ironic statement from you