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Student housing is certainly a problem if fixed term contracts are abolished. I have a 5 bed student house and on several occasions a student has dropped out of Uni, stopped paying rent and gone home. Fortunately a letter to their parents, and the threat of a CCJ, quickly restores payments. Best, however, to make all contracts “joint and several”, meaning that the remaining student tenants are responsible for any shortfall. If they don’t cover the rent then it becomes deductible from the deposit at the end of the period. On a broader renting note, what business is it of Government anyway? A contract should be between consenting adults. If the contract is unacceptable then don’t agree to it….simple.
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28 October 2023 12:34 PM
Mould is nearly always simply the result of tenants failing to understand the causes of condensation. Showering, boiling kettles, cooking, drying clothes indoors and simply breathing. I was yesterday summoned to a flat after complaints of mould affecting a tenant’s health. Washing hanging on dryers in front of radiators. All windows closed and running with condensed water. Very heavy mould in bathroom and outside wall of living room. I asked the tenant where he thought that the water went when his clothes were drying. He just looked at me.
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16 October 2023 09:35 AM
I have had several tenants taking the cooker, washing machine etc. Police always say “civil matter”. Last tenant, after owing 8 month’s rent, trashed the apartment and took all the light fittings, leaving bare wires. “Civil matter”.
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31 August 2022 11:58 AM
Obviously it is essential that we do not spoil Christmas for our poor tenant who, of course, has taken full advantage of the covid regulations and the snail’s pace at which the Courts are now moving. We are a retired couple who rely on this rental to supplement our state pensions. Our tenant has now made no rental payments for almost 12 months, whilst boasting on Facebook of his wealthy lifestyle. The Courts, which were previously just slow, have now become virtually non-existent and impossible to contact. A Section 8 notice is now into its fifth month of process, the hearing was “postponed” twice, a hearing eventually took place three weeks ago, but we still await the written confirmation. Office staff “working” from home is the excuse. The online portal was last updated two months ago. The law is as good as useless.
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