Problems with your house/apartment?

may.jane

dampness?
leaks?
poor quality accomodation?

want to speak to people in the Waterford area who are currently experiencing issues, such as those listed, with their rented accomodation...

let us know if you fit the bill,

thanks

MitchKoobski

Fewk off and scout your stories somewhere else....

may.jane

just to clarify - i do not work in the media - it's a bit of research i'm doing for a national charity.

Sully

Following discussions with the OP, I have decided to re-open this thread. The person is representing a national housing charity whose aim is to secure a right to housing, who for some reason do not wish to be named. But, if someone names them, it wont be removed.

Any queries, please PM me. If you have the time, feel free to share your stories with the OP.

Blaaa

A house in lismore park, for a box room 75 a week, damp patches in the celling.

Money owed on ESB and gas that landlord hadn't cleared.

Massive amounts of rubbish left in the house and back garden from previous tenants landlord refused to get rid of.

Landlord expects tenants to pay for plumbing problems that already existed.

Fridge and cooker not working.

Investation.

Intimidating and threatening landlord.

Expects 5 people to live in a small house where the kitchen and living area are not big enough to fit. ( living room turned into bedroom)

Turn up at the house at weekends without letting anyone know and leave themselves in and they have spare keys to the bedrooms and enter when they want( as they have reported about untidness etc.. )

RoyalMarine

blaaa, contact the PRTB. Check if the landlord is registered.

If not, then speak to the PRTB about what you can do to fix the problems.

Ledger

Blaaa wrote: »

A house in lismore park, for a box room 75 a week, damp patches in the celling.

Money owed on ESB and gas that landlord hadn't cleared.

Massive amounts of rubbish left in the house and back garden from previous tenants landlord refused to get rid of.

Landlord expects tenants to pay for plumbing problems that already existed.

Fridge and cooker not working.

Investation.

Intimidating and threatening landlord.

Expects 5 people to live in a small house where the kitchen and living area are not big enough to fit. ( living room turned into bedroom)

Turn up at the house at weekends without letting anyone know and leave themselves in and they have spare keys to the bedrooms and enter when they want( as they have reported about untidness etc.. )

Knowing from experience, (parents rent out a house), that landlord is 100% in the wrong, and if I am correct (but don't quote me on this) if the fridge or cooker isnt working, you may have every right not to pay the rent.

House must be in working order when you move in, any existing problems are the landlord's responsibility, and existing bills are his to pay, NOT yours.

There is clearly a serious health risk here, this is also unacceptable bordering into illegal.

It is illegal for a landlord to enter a house which is being rented out without permission of the inhabitants. Prior notice of inspections must be given.


My advice:

Tell him your going to report him if the problems are not fixed ASAP. You and your housemates must have a united front on this issue.
Refuse payment of rent until all these serious problems are sorted:

• Infestation
• Rubbish
• Cooker and fridge
• Pre-Exisiting bills paid
• Plumbing
• Over crowding

Landlords like this make me sick, taking advantage of students because they reckon they can intimidate them because in reality most do not realise they're rights.

may.jane

Your landlord is in the breach of the minimum standards detailed in the Housing Regulations, 2008.
However, with-holding rent is deemed a breach in your obligations as a tenant.

There are other ways in which to deal with this situation. Check out www.threshold.ie for further details, or assistance.

flames

may.jane wrote: »

Your landlord is in the breach of the minimum standards detailed in the Housing Regulations, 2008.
However, with-holding rent is deemed a breach in your obligations as a tenant.

There are other ways in which to deal with this situation. Check out www.threshold.ie for further details, or assistance.

Threshold do nothing but tell you to contact EHO who totally ignore e.mails, i live in a house with bad damp from leaking roof, cooker not working properly, no water pressure, a large hole in kitchen wall for heating installation and i have actually seen a rat come in through the hole, cat now spends night in kitchen, walls are full of cracks some which start downstairs and run up through the bedrooms, i have twice sent a 3 page detail to landlords agent but the answer i get is sorry but landlord is broke. i've been told i could be waiting 8 years for a council house and recently both myself and daughter have been sick with chest infections.

Aoifey!

There are a few small problems inside my actual apartment, but nothing serious. The biggest problem is in the apartment block. We live on the top floor (4th), and there are only 8 apartments in the block - 2 on the top floor. The button on the top floor to turn on the light in the stairs is broken. We have to go down the first flight in darkness when walking down the stairs. Its not too bad, but fairly dangerous, especially if you're wearing high heels. But I guess that only effects me as I'm the only girl in the top floor.

I know it might not seem very big, but it gets really annoying.