suimhneach
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ok this is a long one, i have been living in rented accommodation (same house) for over 4 years. Living in a rural area with not much choices as to houses available for long term rent. Lots of things wrong with this house and over the years i have written to the landlady asking to have things that needed fixing fixed. But every letter was ignored.
This year she dropped by for a visit no warning but really that didn't bother me as i thought she was there to do something to improve the house. I was wrong.
One day arrived home from work to find a huge hole in the driveway unable to bring the car in and there were workmen who told me she had hired them to build a wall. they dug the hole inthe road and left came back 3 weeks later, so had to park on the side of the road for 3 weeks.
Anyways wall was built, its not something we ever asked for there were more immediate porblems that needed fixing but they were all ignored.
So about a month ago i lost the rag and sent her a letter asking her to either reduce the rent or to fix what needed fixing with the house. She turned up at the door two weeks later with a few pages out of a rental agreement, we never in all the 4 years we are there got a rental agreement or receipts for rent or a rent book nothing and she shows up with this and asks me to read it and that she would ring in a few weeks and we could sign it.
Now this rental agreement is just a few pages stapled together saying the landlord has the right to enter the property at any time and that workers working on behalf of the landlord can enter the property i know this isnt a standard rental agreement im not that stupid, but where do i stand what can i do as i said there are no other houses to rent long term i have spent the past two weeks looking and to to avail.
This year she dropped by for a visit no warning but really that didn't bother me as i thought she was there to do something to improve the house. I was wrong.
One day arrived home from work to find a huge hole in the driveway unable to bring the car in and there were workmen who told me she had hired them to build a wall. they dug the hole inthe road and left came back 3 weeks later, so had to park on the side of the road for 3 weeks.
Anyways wall was built, its not something we ever asked for there were more immediate porblems that needed fixing but they were all ignored.
So about a month ago i lost the rag and sent her a letter asking her to either reduce the rent or to fix what needed fixing with the house. She turned up at the door two weeks later with a few pages out of a rental agreement, we never in all the 4 years we are there got a rental agreement or receipts for rent or a rent book nothing and she shows up with this and asks me to read it and that she would ring in a few weeks and we could sign it.
Now this rental agreement is just a few pages stapled together saying the landlord has the right to enter the property at any time and that workers working on behalf of the landlord can enter the property i know this isnt a standard rental agreement im not that stupid, but where do i stand what can i do as i said there are no other houses to rent long term i have spent the past two weeks looking and to to avail.