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Comments

Re: I think my landlord is legitimately a headcase

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: I think my landlord is legitimately a headcase

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: I think my landlord is legitimately a headcase

[ill_omened]

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).

Re: I think my landlord is legitimately a headcase

[(Anonymous)]

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.