sally_sheff Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 not sure about legalities but would it not be good to have a site where bad tenants could be named and shamed (and indeed landlords!) i have just had a very unfortunate experience with a tenant and would not wish anyone else to fall for this plausible person. i received a text message from her stating heating not working - sent up the plumber within the hour - received a call from plumber (also a friend) stating house was filthy and stunk - decided to pay a visit - only to find a strange man who stated he was renting a room. the house was indeed filthy and left a taste in the back of my throat for hours afterwards. she had stripped a room of wallpaper, leaving chunks in the wall - the house was used as a dossing place - just mattressess and heaps of clothes and junk on the floor, bathroom was rancid. days later the tenant finally made contact and it was arranged that both she and her sub tenant vacate the property - i was left to clear all her junk - including LAST year's xmas tree which had been left rotting, and pile of cat pooh - no landlord deserves this person - i hope the inconsiderate bitch reads this - she will know who she is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallBuilder Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 For several years I was a landlord, basically renting my house out as I was working out of Sheffield. I thought long and hard about this venture and decided a 'bond' was a must even though I knew my first tennant quite well. My second tennant two years later was an unknown but I asked for letters of recommendation from her previous landlord and also from some-one who had known her for a while and was prepared to give me a land line phone number. Even then I was mildly worried so popped in every six months or so just to ask if everything was okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squashie28 Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 Sorry for your bad experience with the dodgy tenant, it amazes me that some people dont have the common courteousy to respect anothers property. I really dont blame you for wanting to name and shame, I would be really tempted myself. How people can live in dirty, smelly and filthy conditions is beyond me. Did you get her to compensate you for any damage? Its people like your dodgy tenant that give us all a bad name but I can assure you that not all tenants are that low, I myself am a council tenant and plan to look for private rented accomodation in Sheffield for me, my partner and 6 year old son around March time, so I would only be too grateful to find a decent and fair Landlord. I hope you manage to get your property back to the standard it was before. Regards Joanne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobsyouruncle Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 i have a private landlord, and i pay my rent on time too, never had any bother wi him or him wi me. found him nearly 3 yrs ago, after we were evicted due to some guy who lived abroad, we were renting his house, and the money we payed monthly was supposed to be used to pay the mortgage repayments, unbeknowst to us it was nt done so, so the abbey decided to repossess the house, and cos we were only tenants we didnt have a leg to stand on, so we found our present landlord thru the star newspaper, rented out a flat to us, sold on the property 2 yrs later, new landlords served us with a possession notice after 2 weeks, gave us a month to go, and our landlord gave us this place, mind you i did put a nail thru a water pipe within the first 24 hrs!!!!ooopps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vexxd Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 didnt you notice anything about her when she came to look round? i would of thought you could spot a weirdo like that a mile off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Finding a decent landlord can be so hard, I find. So many people buy property to let, with any clue on what your obligations are as a landlord. My current landlord's solution to everything is that my boyfriend and I should have a go at fixing anything that breaks ourselves! I mean, we are good tenants, and if anything breaks, which is outside our experience to fix, we call her. The other week the light in the kitchen went (not the bulb) and the landladys solution? Get the screwdriver out and have alook myself! I think too many landlords out there look at the rent coming in as money in their pocket, rather than using it as an investment in the property. Which leaves the poor tenants living in substandard conditions... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sally_sheff Posted January 10, 2005 Author Share Posted January 10, 2005 this tenant came across as being a nice person, hence we did not inspect the property as we should have done as we wanted it to feel like it was her home - a warning to other landlords never to take people on face value! Quite clearly the way she looked did not reflect the way she lived - how anyone could live in such filth is beyond me. the first time anything went wrong (the heating) we had the plumber out within the hour (who was the person who informed us of the filthy conditions!) - the reason the pilot went out on the gas boiler? - she had not paid her gas baill, had had a prepayment meter installed (without permission) and had run out of money, hence the pilot light went out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Originally posted by sally_sheff this tenant came across as being a nice person, hence we did not inspect the property as we should have done as we wanted it to feel like it was her home - a warning to other landlords never to take people on face value! Quite clearly the way she looked did not reflect the way she lived - how anyone could live in such filth is beyond me. the first time anything went wrong (the heating) we had the plumber out within the hour (who was the person who informed us of the filthy conditions!) - the reason the pilot went out on the gas boiler? - she had not paid her gas baill, had had a prepayment meter installed (without permission) and had run out of money, hence the pilot light went out! And it's people like this, as I'm sure someone has said already, who give decent tenants a bad name! Oh, if only the nice landlords and the good tenants could get together, and leave the rest of the scumbags to rot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobsyouruncle Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 yes i agree, if ever we had a problem we rang our landlord and tried to get it sorted. doesnt seem to be a problem in our new place as its fairly new. (except for a nail thru a waterpipe the day b4 we were due to fly abroad), but he got it sorted whilst we were away, had even solved the original problem i tried to fix which created the bust pipe to start with!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sally_sheff Posted January 11, 2005 Author Share Posted January 11, 2005 i think it is such a shame that some landlords (myself excluded) cannot appreciate that tenants have the right to a decent standard of living for which they are paying for and i think it is right that property should be maintained to a standard that they themsleves would expect to live in. I think it is also a shame that there are such bad tenants around such as I have just had that do not respect the property they are in - i cannot believe that anyone can live in such squalor - perhaps it is tenants such as this that do not give a landlord the incentive to spend on their property just to have it wrecked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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