I have always been led to believe that if a property contained whtie goods then the Landlord was responsible for their repair. Having just read some case from the TDS I am now beginning to question this.  The sme applies for TV aerials, if one at the property when a tenant moves who is responsible should this fail and a new aerial is needed

What are your views on this subject. 

May I ask why?

I have just let my property to a married couple who are bringing the wife's retired mother to live with them.
The tenancy agreement is in the husband and wife's name, but my insurance company say that the mother will need to be on the tenancy also. I have noted that she will be living in the property at the end of the agreement, is this sufficient or should I have done things differently?

can someone tell me how to get an agent to do repairs that have been started in July, but have never been completed and keep getting told the matter is being dealt with???

I have just taken on a client with a PST tenancy can I change this over to an AST and if so what notice do I have to give

Freelance journalist seeks horror stories about You Let (glasgow letting agency) from people with stories to tell.

Michele, start taking whatever you need to chill, you might be in for the long haul.

 I am at the end of an eviction process for our tenants to whom we let the flat out of sympathy/ kindness and because it had been empty for a couple of months; Eviction process started long after it was probably due, down to non payment of rent (after 2 years succesful). If your tenant says she will move and she does, be thankful. You can check her credit rating and position with the gas/electric suppliers, or maybe that's metered. to check her integrity. You are not responsible for unpaid gas/ electric. She is entitled to change the locks, but must give you reasonable access  24 or 72 hour notice, after which time you are entitled to legally enter, with or without her present (though I guess you need new keys!) Check your contract. Don't have nightmares about this, we had been succesfuly letting for 10 years and then........from 2004 .My tenants rent had had been irregular for 3 years but then dried up with all sorts of hardship pleas. We issued a section 8 and 21 notice in October 07 for tenants to quit by 17 Dec or go to court. they didn't, we went to court, 7th Jan. they didn't, they were given a CCJ and got a 14 day notice to quit and repay over £2000 back rent and costs. Still nothing but excuses. Bailiff instructed (due any day now but it couldbe 2-3 weeks) that's when the fire happened (but they didn't tell us). Firemen rescued some animals and a cat died. So the place is uninhabitable and I think they have taken whatever stuff they want, including light fittings and fire surrounds and it looks abandoned with an untaxed car on the plot. Still no keys handed back, but we have access. So I contacted the gas/electric supplier to discover that they too are owed hundreds of pounds. We have no recourse unless we want to issue further proceedings at our cost, also unrecoverable.  We don't actually have legal right of access unless the tenants surrender their keys until the Bailiff officially takes over. Aagh!  Then we can start all over. The "accidental" fire might have been a blessing in disguise as at least we have insurance and the place wants gutting.........so if your tenant goes and you lose a couple of months rent finding good tenants, be happy. The contracts set to protect us are actually worthless against a bad tenant. The experience tells us to: get a big deposit, really take time to know your prospective tenant and understand that your contract is worthless against a bad tenant! (and probably unnecessary for a good one) I just wish you good luck with it. ..and does anyone have any ideas how to create a tenant black list which protects future unsuspecting landlords?
I think we should all fit electronic key entry systems which only work if bills are paid and landlord has the master key!.............fromChris (becoming wiser), with distraught wife learning to cope with it

Hi, I have a problem with my tenant to whom I gave 2 months notice to move out by 1st March 2008. 

I have two agents that I have instructed to find me a new tenant and have been made aware by both agents that my tenant will not allow anyone into the property even though she has arranged viewings well in advance.  I told the agent to go into the property with the key and she has either changed the lock or added another lock to the front door.

She is also not moving out on 1st March and has informed me that she will be moving out on 8th March 2008.

Has anyone any advice please?  Is there anything I can do to get her to allow viewings in the property and also what I can do about her staying in the property longer than legally allowed?

Regards,
Michelle

Hi

I've been doing a lot of reading, as we where also wanting to withold rents.  Although you can, i personally wouldn't recommend you do that.

If you go on www.letlink.co.uk it gives you a break down of all the acts that you as a tenant are covered by and tells you what the best steps are, to take within the law. 

Last thing you want, is for the landlord or agent to get one up on you.

Seriously go on the website, its fantastic

Hope all works out for you

We have been without our gas boiler for approx 18 months,  meaning we've had no heat source or hot water. we verbally contacted our landlord but he insisted we paid to get it fixed, then he would give us the money back (we have no written contract).

After much research i now discover it is his obligation to fix.  The issue is, we are now moving out.  However we are bitterly fed up with him

Although we can not prove we contacted him to make aware of the situation. if he had maintained his legal obligation of doing gas checks annualy (which we can prove he didn't) this would have been picked up then and resolved.

Does this help us in our case, of trying to make a claim against him, specifically against not fixing the boiler?

Any help, advice, feed back would be so genuinly appreciated.

Thanks in advacne
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