If large organisations like this with thousands of properties can’t get landlords to act properly what chance does an ordinary tenant stand?
I get charity support for my housing so I sign an agreement with said charity who get rented properties from private landlords. Housing benefits pays my rent. They moved me into a damp flat without proper heating and I’ve spent the last year and four months asking them to get it fixed. One night storage heater gets so hot it burns you when you brush against it and the other doesn’t warm up at all, apparently they’re safe to use to the repair man who came in sept didn’t condem them. The damp rampent in my flat is my fault for not having it on and now my furniture is rotting because even the carpet is damp. The charity won’t move me again which is fair enough but the landlord won’t fix the heating and I don’t have a £100 a week to run a little plug in heater in one room. This is my second winter without proper heat and last year the damp carpet killed a wardrobe than nearly fell on me. So now I’m looking in storaging everything before the damp/mould kills my clothes, books and furniture which I’m an idiot for and should have done it last summer. And yes I tried to go to the council but the charity said they were dealing with it and then told me off for going over them. I don’t know how normal people deal with crappy landlords.
Yuck. How come some of these UK homes are so disgusting?
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If large organisations like this with thousands of properties can’t get landlords to act properly what chance does an ordinary tenant stand?
I get charity support for my housing so I sign an agreement with said charity who get rented properties from private landlords. Housing benefits pays my rent. They moved me into a damp flat without proper heating and I’ve spent the last year and four months asking them to get it fixed. One night storage heater gets so hot it burns you when you brush against it and the other doesn’t warm up at all, apparently they’re safe to use to the repair man who came in sept didn’t condem them. The damp rampent in my flat is my fault for not having it on and now my furniture is rotting because even the carpet is damp. The charity won’t move me again which is fair enough but the landlord won’t fix the heating and I don’t have a £100 a week to run a little plug in heater in one room. This is my second winter without proper heat and last year the damp carpet killed a wardrobe than nearly fell on me. So now I’m looking in storaging everything before the damp/mould kills my clothes, books and furniture which I’m an idiot for and should have done it last summer. And yes I tried to go to the council but the charity said they were dealing with it and then told me off for going over them. I don’t know how normal people deal with crappy landlords.
Yuck. How come some of these UK homes are so disgusting?