What would be fair?

jimmii

After negotiations that took waaay too long we finally got keys to a new unit last week. We had a survey completed and have the photographic condition written into the lease.

When we got in and turned the lights on we got nothing! We found a letter from the power company saying they had come on and disconnected the power at the start of November but apparently no one on the landlords side had been made aware of this!

So far the power company have agreed the debt isn't ours and are happy to reconnect so today they turned up to fix it and they can't as whomever installed it covered up the bit they need to access! So now we have to wait for a joiner to come fix that so the engineer can turn it back on. It's been a bit of a disaster!

So in the lease it doesn't specifically mention the power (you would obviously assume you had electricity!) but in the photos the surveyor took the lights are obviously on so it is recorded as being part of the condition. We have contacted our solicitor and are waiting to hear back but what would you think was reasonable here? Do you think our rent free period should be extended by the number of days we're without power or is it just tough luck?

Gloomtastic!

No. 1 rule. If you don’t ask, you don’t get!

jimmii

For sure! We've asked the solicitor to send that over to their solicitor. There are two landlords and they both live abroad it's been such a slow process waiting to hear back about anything very frustrating! To make it worse it's retail too so every extra day closed now is absolutely killer!