Landlord is telling me I have to pay for a wall I didn't break

Picture would help.

It sounds like a regular crack on the outside wall that develops overtime as the foundations and house move, this happens to a lot of properties and should be the landlords responsibility to fix, although most people dont bother unless it becomes apparent its causing a hazard and/or getting worse.

Also tell him to swivel on the professional cleaning, as long as its not a total mess, thats his respinsibility for general upjeep on wear and tear.

The dead leaves part just shows how much of an ass your landlord is.....

I'm a student living in a shared tenancy in the UK. My landlord knocked on my door today and pointed out there is a large crack in the wall that seperates my house from the street. He said that myself and the rest of the tenants would have to pay for it.

What kind of rights do we have here?

Is the landlord responsible for paying for some wear and tear?

My landlord was also angry that there was a lot of dead leaves that have collected in the drive way,

and he has also said that the bathrooms will be professionally cleaned,

and that we will have to pay for them also

Did you or any other tenant cause the damage? If not then you wont have to pay for it.

Loads. Ignore your landlord and claim back your deposit from the protection scheme when you leave.

Landlord is responsible for paying all wear and tear.

Some days I'm angry at the moon. It is just as irrelevant as your landlord's anger over fallen leaves.

Good for him, if he wishes to do that.

Were they professionally cleaned before you moved in? Will you be able to clean it to the same standard before you leave?

Hi, I volunteered at Shelter over the summer- a Housing Legal Advice charity.
Under s.11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 a Landlord is responsible for the following:
the structure and exterior of your home, for example, the walls, roof, foundations, drains, guttering and external pipes, windows and external doors
basins, sinks, baths, toilets and their pipework
water and gas pipes, electrical wiring, water tanks, boilers, radiators, gas fires, fitted electric fires or fitted heaters.
These repair responsibilities can't be cancelled out by anything your tenancy agreement says. Also, your landlord isn't allowed to pass on the cost of any repair work to you which is their responsibility.

Make sure you write to your Landlord and state what his legal obligations are. Inform him that if you are illegally charged for the damage you will seek to escalate the situation to a court hearing (just to shake him up).

Landlords/Landladies know their obligations and they know not to mess with people who know their rights.

I hope this has been helpful.

All the best!


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No we didn't damage it. He called me today and I had a discusson with him about it. He persisted with the idea that we broke it, but none of us own cars so I can't imagine how someone could think that we could have done it (someone actually came round later today who said he'd been asked by the landlord to come here and check the garden and the wall. He said it definitely looks like a car backed into it). The landlord then said that one of our friends must have done it when we were having a party. We haven't had a party since Feb, and none of our friends drove here anyway. I told him that we have people who just park in our driveway, and that we've told them not to do it many times. Tonight someone was parked in our driveway again, and we sent him a photo of it. The driver who did it this time is someone who we have told off a couple times before, and there is also a lot of other people who do it so it would be difficult to stop all of them. However, he responded to the photo we sent him by simply saying we should try harder to stop people doing it.

He claims that this crack in the wall is not wear and tear. I asked him if he would pay for damages if a car crashed into our house, and he said yes, and then I asked him how this is different. Of course he just argued that we did it ourselves (this was before I sent the photo).

During the phone call he actually threatened to kick us out if the driveway wasn't tidied by tomorrow.

I actually found out that it is required in our contract that tenants pay for professional cleaning of the bathrooms when the contract ends, so I'm ok with this.

Then you didn't cause the damage and so are not liable for it. Landlords are responsible for maintaining the structure anyway.



Why are you even arguing about it now? Have you moved out? Requested your deposit back?




Lmao. So he's threatening an illegal eviction now? Ask him to put that in writing





The contract terms have been proven to be unenforceable. You only need to return the property to the same state as when you moved in. Was it professionally cleaned before you moved in? Can you clean it yourself back to that standard? If yes then you do not need to pay for professional cleaners.

Thanks for this! Just to clarify the last point, when the tenancy agreement says that tenants must pay for professional cleaning when the tenancy ends, is that an unfair term? I believe the bathrooms were professionally cleaned before we came in, but I've no way to be certain.