heben84
02-10-2011, 13:05 PM
Firstly, hello!
I'm really not sure if this is the right place for this post, so I apologise if it isn't.
I was advise to pop in here and ask a question in regards to something I'm struggling with at the moment. Here is my post from another forum:
I moved into my student house two weeks ago. Having signed for and paid rent on the house back in July, me and one of the other people I live with visited it every week to see the progress on the repairs and maintenance being carried out (it needed a lot doing to it), and we were assured we were the priority and it would be dealt with quickly. so 6 weeks later very little had happened and we ended up doing majority of the cleaning ourselves, provided new furniture as what we were given was dirty, covered in burns and some dubious stains, painted quite a bit, cleared the gardens etc... Maintenance's job seemed to start and end with hanging a bit of paper and painting everywhere magnolia. We asked for the front door to be secured too, and we had to do that ourselves as weeks after asking and with a few people moving in, we wanted it done.
So we're now two weeks in to term, and we still have one of the people living with us unable to move in as he has no bed and his room is a dumping ground for everything maintenance wanted to move, half of the rooms (there's seven of us in total) don't have all the furniture agreed in the tenancy agreement, there's damp in most of the walls, mushrooms growing in corners of door frames, we've found stickers that have been partly painted over talking about asbestos, there's a crack in the front window that needs sorting and this is just a small amount of the issues we have.
Does anyone have any idea as to where we stand, what we can do etc..? Are we just having too high standards for student housing or are we within our rights to complain? I've e-mailed the estate agent but he's stopped talking to us now, and won't respond to emails or phone calls, and he won't give us the details of the landlord.
Again, I'm sorry if this is the wrong place, and I know this is a landlords forum and not one for tenants, but I'm really stuck and was told you may be able to help.
Many thanks in advance for all your help and assistance,
Ben
I'm really not sure if this is the right place for this post, so I apologise if it isn't.
I was advise to pop in here and ask a question in regards to something I'm struggling with at the moment. Here is my post from another forum:
I moved into my student house two weeks ago. Having signed for and paid rent on the house back in July, me and one of the other people I live with visited it every week to see the progress on the repairs and maintenance being carried out (it needed a lot doing to it), and we were assured we were the priority and it would be dealt with quickly. so 6 weeks later very little had happened and we ended up doing majority of the cleaning ourselves, provided new furniture as what we were given was dirty, covered in burns and some dubious stains, painted quite a bit, cleared the gardens etc... Maintenance's job seemed to start and end with hanging a bit of paper and painting everywhere magnolia. We asked for the front door to be secured too, and we had to do that ourselves as weeks after asking and with a few people moving in, we wanted it done.
So we're now two weeks in to term, and we still have one of the people living with us unable to move in as he has no bed and his room is a dumping ground for everything maintenance wanted to move, half of the rooms (there's seven of us in total) don't have all the furniture agreed in the tenancy agreement, there's damp in most of the walls, mushrooms growing in corners of door frames, we've found stickers that have been partly painted over talking about asbestos, there's a crack in the front window that needs sorting and this is just a small amount of the issues we have.
Does anyone have any idea as to where we stand, what we can do etc..? Are we just having too high standards for student housing or are we within our rights to complain? I've e-mailed the estate agent but he's stopped talking to us now, and won't respond to emails or phone calls, and he won't give us the details of the landlord.
Again, I'm sorry if this is the wrong place, and I know this is a landlords forum and not one for tenants, but I'm really stuck and was told you may be able to help.
Many thanks in advance for all your help and assistance,
Ben