Stoke – March 24, 2024
The electric kept intermittently tripping. We told the landlord and said it seemed to happen when the shower was on but a few mins after it had started so couldn’t be certain.
He came to repair after a week – he went on a rant at all of us for using the shower because water was leaking into the shower electrics and we could have died. Like, yes, but also it took you a week to get here, it isn’t just on us.
London – March 23, 2024
‘I don’t have any money’.
This was when the house I rented needed emergency repairs for the boiler that literally exploded one day, I’d also requested for the fence to be replaced as it had fully blown over and the master bedroom was covered in black mould due to ventilation and insulation issues.
They didn’t get out of it, in the end the council compelled them to fix it via the courts.
If you can’t afford to maintain a property to a habitable and safe standard, then you shouldn’t be a landlord.
Durham – March 23, 2024
At uni, the staircase of our shared house broke. The landlord claimed this was due to people being overweight, and so he shouldn’t fix it because it would happen again unless they lost weight! He said that if the heavier people swapped rooms to live downstairs, this wouldn’t have happened…
London – March 18, 2024
“It’s normal for a bit of rain to come in the house when it’s raining, houses aren’t supposed to be waterproof”.
Yeah sure buddy
Warwick – February 23, 2024
Landlord didn’t complete the property check-out for our student house until 6 weeks after we left over the summer, then tried to charge us £300 for gardening because the grass had grown too long.
Bristol – February 19, 2024
I started chemotherapy in December and let my landlord know that my partner would be staying with me for the foreseeable future to help since it’s making me super sick. Landlord’s response was to give me a section 21 notice on Christmas eve because he didn’t believe I would be able to pay rent while having chemo and said no to extending my lease while I looked for somewhere else to live. Now I’m sofa surfing and bouncing from couch to couch for as long as friends can put me up for which is no more than a week at a time. Can’t stay with my partner since they have a single bed in a house share of eight. Yeah sleeping on lumpy second hand sofas doesn’t help with chemo recovery or protecting cancer patients from getting sick
Bristol – February 19, 2024
Received an illegal eviction notice in early January. Got a lawyer and started legal proceedings and am VERY quickly racking up legal bills as the landlord refuses to respond to anything from my lawyer or court. Management company has sent someone into my flat for “maintenance” three times a week since which apparently includes taking photos of my belongings and “accidentally” breaking the boiler so I have no hot water. When challenged over sending people so often, they threatened to sue me for refusing entry. Also a few things seem to have mysteriously vanished more than once after maintenance came while I wasn’t in the flat
Sailsbury – February 18, 2024
I had damp in a property and the landlord said its because my baby was breathing. He said babies breathe faster than adults so that’s why the walls were damp. It turned out the basement that we never had access to was flooded up to rhe maintenance guys waist!
London – February 15, 2024
Storm in London a couple of years ago caused the roof to get ripped of entirely. Destroyed our entire bedroom and all our possessions. Took the landlord nearly 2 weeks to even start thinking about putting a roof on. Meanwhile we had to sleep on the living room floor with nowhere else to go with buckets.
Had told the landlord the previous year the roof needed replacing it was fucked. Actually tried to blame us for the wind from one of the strongest storms in London in decades ripping the roof of.
Manchester – February 13, 2024
Kitchen would flood when it rained. Floor became a grenade field of slugs. Would not recommend.
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Stoke – March 24, 2024
The electric kept intermittently tripping. We told the landlord and said it seemed to happen when the shower was on but a few mins after it had started so couldn’t be certain.
He came to repair after a week – he went on a rant at all of us for using the shower because water was leaking into the shower electrics and we could have died. Like, yes, but also it took you a week to get here, it isn’t just on us.
London – March 23, 2024
‘I don’t have any money’.
This was when the house I rented needed emergency repairs for the boiler that literally exploded one day, I’d also requested for the fence to be replaced as it had fully blown over and the master bedroom was covered in black mould due to ventilation and insulation issues.
They didn’t get out of it, in the end the council compelled them to fix it via the courts.
If you can’t afford to maintain a property to a habitable and safe standard, then you shouldn’t be a landlord.
Durham – March 23, 2024
At uni, the staircase of our shared house broke. The landlord claimed this was due to people being overweight, and so he shouldn’t fix it because it would happen again unless they lost weight! He said that if the heavier people swapped rooms to live downstairs, this wouldn’t have happened…
London – March 18, 2024
“It’s normal for a bit of rain to come in the house when it’s raining, houses aren’t supposed to be waterproof”.
Yeah sure buddy
Warwick – February 23, 2024
Landlord didn’t complete the property check-out for our student house until 6 weeks after we left over the summer, then tried to charge us £300 for gardening because the grass had grown too long.
Bristol – February 19, 2024
I started chemotherapy in December and let my landlord know that my partner would be staying with me for the foreseeable future to help since it’s making me super sick. Landlord’s response was to give me a section 21 notice on Christmas eve because he didn’t believe I would be able to pay rent while having chemo and said no to extending my lease while I looked for somewhere else to live. Now I’m sofa surfing and bouncing from couch to couch for as long as friends can put me up for which is no more than a week at a time. Can’t stay with my partner since they have a single bed in a house share of eight. Yeah sleeping on lumpy second hand sofas doesn’t help with chemo recovery or protecting cancer patients from getting sick
Bristol – February 19, 2024
Received an illegal eviction notice in early January. Got a lawyer and started legal proceedings and am VERY quickly racking up legal bills as the landlord refuses to respond to anything from my lawyer or court. Management company has sent someone into my flat for “maintenance” three times a week since which apparently includes taking photos of my belongings and “accidentally” breaking the boiler so I have no hot water. When challenged over sending people so often, they threatened to sue me for refusing entry. Also a few things seem to have mysteriously vanished more than once after maintenance came while I wasn’t in the flat
Sailsbury – February 18, 2024
I had damp in a property and the landlord said its because my baby was breathing. He said babies breathe faster than adults so that’s why the walls were damp. It turned out the basement that we never had access to was flooded up to rhe maintenance guys waist!
London – February 15, 2024
Storm in London a couple of years ago caused the roof to get ripped of entirely. Destroyed our entire bedroom and all our possessions. Took the landlord nearly 2 weeks to even start thinking about putting a roof on. Meanwhile we had to sleep on the living room floor with nowhere else to go with buckets.
Had told the landlord the previous year the roof needed replacing it was fucked. Actually tried to blame us for the wind from one of the strongest storms in London in decades ripping the roof of.
Manchester – February 13, 2024
Kitchen would flood when it rained. Floor became a grenade field of slugs. Would not recommend.