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It's a single 40watt energy saving bulb. Have you ever priced the upkeep on those things, for what we're talking maybe an hour on the outside extra usage a day?

And it's because we're talking about a woman who has never had heating on in the house - which is single paned windows, and got cold enough in the winter I could literally see my breath. Hasn't fixed my broken window - we're talking a crack running along it from end to end that you could run thick string through, for over a year (crack was there before I arrived).

Refused to fix the internet when it went down for up to weeks on a time, despite being a router reset, and a couple months ago turned it off, despite it being explicitly provided in our contract.

Threatened to charge us all for waterdamage, when it had been repeatedly previously highlighted to her that the flooring and sealant in the bathroom was in dire need of repair, and exactly what an easy fix it would be (she could have avoided 'thousands of pounds' of damage with ten minutes with polyfiller).

Knocking on peoples doors to shout at them about trivial bullshit at 2am, none of which was time critical. Petty shit like oh noes someone had left dishes unwashed.

Oh and her crowning achievement, when bailiffs knocked down the front door to reposes things to pay for whatever bills she had unpaid, a tenant paid to get the front door fixed as the landlord hadn't gotten it replaced in a reasonable time frame and moved out taking the cost to fix the door out of her last rent payment. She explained why this was. The landlords response before anything else was to go to her workplace with the police.

And a load of other shit that doesn't come to mind right now.

Another anon wants to know, why are you even still there, then? I'd be gone if my landlord was like that.

It's cheap and in an excellent location in a nice area (station is in my backgarden).

But yes, I'm looking into alternatives.

Yeah, sometimes location and price just aren't worth it.

And before people make the assumption that she's in financial difficulty or something which explains the behaviour. I doubt it. She owns a number of properties in a very expensive area of one of the most expensive cities in the world.

Just remembered. She didn't install fire alarms until the issue was seriously pursued. And still hasn't installed them downstairs. And the corridor is full of crap. Total fire hazard.

Edit: lol and she legitimately came up and with her daughter took the light bulb despite the fact I'm sitting here typing. The daughter kept telling me 'who are you' and saying 'you have to realise what you're paying' for when I pointed out my issues.

..the daughter was asking who you were? You're a tenant, obviously...?

She might not be broke, but she might just be downright cheap and/or lazy. :P

As in 'who the fuck are you', like the colloquial you're nothing to me sense.

They're still talking downstairs. You know I'm sitting on the staircase (there is literally a space of about four feet you can get internet), come on, how does it not strike you that I can hear you.

I genuinely don't think they get the legal implications of being a landlord (at one point she tried to enter a tenants room without prior notice before a renting agent stopped her, like whut).

God this is going to be such a fucking mess.

lolwut

can you sic the fire department on her? building code people? tenant rights?

maybe there's a landlords' association or something? Most cities should have one of those.

a landlords' association would probably support the landlord, though.

OOOOO, I had a land lady like that!

She got dinged by the health department for $80000 in fines for failing to provide decent living conditions! :D

Seriously, contact the health department, or whatever the British equivalent it. Those guys are RELENTLESS. Also, least in my city, it's illegal to provide housing that doesn't meet a certain standard.

Plan on it.

I've really busy recently. But in my spare down time I'm going to properly look into the relevant departments.

We looked into one group (she was breaking some city renting laws, and we explicitly have the evidence to prove it - except they were only willing to do the investigation their way), but they were bloody useless.

Document, document, document. Keep correspondence, dates of the correspondences, email photos of neglect and damage - like the hazardous couches in the hallways, take photo evidence of how much dust is on them in addition to their placement in the hallway. Even if organizations cannot take your evidence as proof, they might be able to use them as a bases of their investigation.

http://www.ehow.com/how_8381499_report-slumlord-landlords.html

Citizens'
Advice
Bureau

Ring your nearest CAB immediately and ask for an appointment to discuss your landlord and living conditions. They're pretty swamped these days with people in financial difficulties, but they'll steer you where you need to go. They'll tell you what the danger areas are, tell you who to contact and how, even help you find legal aid if you need it. They will give you solid advice, so phone them. Find out where your nearest one is.

This is UK-specific advice.

Thanks, will do.

Wow. I gather you're in the UK; here, no landlord could get away with renting out a dwelling that doesn't have a functioning furnace (assuming it's a place that gets cold enough to need one), or with failing to turn on the heat if it was spelled out in the lease that heat was the landlord's responsibility. And she could lose her letter of compliance if she didn't carry out repairs like replacing broken windows and doors.

And knocking on your tenants' doors at 2 a.m.--unless they are having a loud party that's been the subject of a complaint--is just not on. Although of course, maybe that's what you were doing.

I should add, landlords probably get away with it where rental housing inspectors are overworked or corrupt. But not if the rental housing code is being enforced as it should be.

There's heating (radiators), but she did't turn it on.

Or maybe she did but for such short periods, at such a low temperature it had no effect. I mean the seeing my breath isn't an exaggeration - at the coldest I could literally see the condensation in the air whilst sitting in my chair.

And it wasn't a party or any previous noise complaints. We haven't had a single one. I mean she knocked on my door at 02:05 to complain about dishes having been left unwashed (they weren't even my fucking dishes!) and at a later point almost exactly at the same time about lights having been left on (I was up and sorting something out in my room for five minutes but she had no way of knowing that).

If you haven't already, I'd say now is definitely the time to check into books and online resources spelling out tenants' rights in your locality, and check your District Council's website (or whatever your closest unit of local government is) to see if they have an office in charge of rental housing standards or tenants' rights. Intuitively, I'd guess that most if not all of your landlord's behavior is unprofessional and probably illegal--under US landlord-tenant law, it sure would be--but you never know where there are loopholes in the law that someone can exploit, so it's good to know the exact extent of your rights.

In the US, this book is sort of the Bible of tenants' rights:

http://www.nolo.com/products/every-tenants-legal-guide-EVTEN.html

I don't know if there's something comparable for the UK, but you'd think there would be.

Good luck.

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