Nightmare Accommodation!!
Like many students I’ve recently moved to student accommodation and to put it nicely, it’s awful. The carpets are completely stained, the ovens/dishwasher/toaster don’t work, scuffs and blue tac marks on most of my walls, and one of the showers has black mould. When I went into the kitchen, we found out that neither ovens worked as the knobs were falling off and unturnable, and then when I went to turn on the right most oven the panel came loose, exposing the wiring in the back. I emailed them in regards to the ovens about 7 days ago (because we could hardly cook any food besides stuff on the stove and just wanted the ovens to work at least given the amount I’m paying) and they told us today that they need to replace both ovens and that they’d relocate us to other rooms in the meantime. This is when I found out that my housemate is only paying £105/w whereas i’m paying £119/w, even though I only have a “bronze” room and he has the “standard” room (which is meant to be better.)
Is there anything I can do about this?? I don’t want to keep paying more when I shouldn’t have to, and I feel like I should get something back for most of the appliances not working?
Is there anything I can do about this?? I don’t want to keep paying more when I shouldn’t have to, and I feel like I should get something back for most of the appliances not working?
(edited 8 months ago)
Reply 1
The onus is on the landlord to fix everything that is provided as per the contract. If they are offering you temporary accomodation with all the basics covered and fixing everything then that is all they are obliged to do. Of course, the temporary accomodation should be short term and if they are moving you fora longer period then it should be a similar room as per contract like bronze for a bronze. If the landlord is doing everything then they will not give you a rent reduction but you can always ask.
Can't say for your roommate. May be they have a standard room but it is possible that it is smaller or different than the normal standard rooms they have so they might have got it cheaper. If your landlord is university then it is possible that your friend is on rent reduction because of special circumstances. For some accommodations a standard room is lower than bronze so not necessarily better.
Can't say for your roommate. May be they have a standard room but it is possible that it is smaller or different than the normal standard rooms they have so they might have got it cheaper. If your landlord is university then it is possible that your friend is on rent reduction because of special circumstances. For some accommodations a standard room is lower than bronze so not necessarily better.
Reply 2
Original post by Justcurious_yr12
The onus is on the landlord to fix everything that is provided as per the contract. If they are offering you temporary accomodation with all the basics covered and fixing everything then that is all they are obliged to do. Of course, the temporary accomodation should be short term and if they are moving you fora longer period then it should be a similar room as per contract like bronze for a bronze. If the landlord is doing everything then they will not give you a rent reduction but you can always ask.
Can't say for your roommate. May be they have a standard room but it is possible that it is smaller or different than the normal standard rooms they have so they might have got it cheaper. If your landlord is university then it is possible that your friend is on rent reduction because of special circumstances. For some accommodations a standard room is lower than bronze so not necessarily better.
Can't say for your roommate. May be they have a standard room but it is possible that it is smaller or different than the normal standard rooms they have so they might have got it cheaper. If your landlord is university then it is possible that your friend is on rent reduction because of special circumstances. For some accommodations a standard room is lower than bronze so not necessarily better.
ok thank you!
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