Our lease for the house we are renting is finally up and we are move out. To be honest, we should never have moved in but you live and learn.
We believe the house is a health risk to live in. The landlord seems like an Ok guy, but he is just not willing to spend any money on it. His attitude is its nothing that a lick of paint will not fix. Here's a list of things we have brought to his attention that needs to be fixed:
1. Leak in the roof (now temporarily fixed for the second time since we moved in). However allot of water has got into the wall of the spare room and 2 months later the wall is still damp to touch. The landlord thinks that he can just paint the wall. He claims that the roof is now fixed, even though the builder that was working on it told us that it was a temporary solution that will last a few months.
2. Loose tiling in the shower has resulted in the shower leaking through the living room ceiling. Again he used quick fix solution; polyfiller (that is now coming loose). It needs to be retiled (the tiles are actually rotten and crumble on touch).
3. A sparking plug and loose wires around the plug. And another plug that trips the fuses if you use it. The landlord said that since he had an electrocution in a couple of years ago to check the place out it should be OK.
4. The radiators are run off gas and the system is old. When I asked him when it had been last serviced he did not seem to know. We warned him that there is “fumy” smell when the heating is on and recommended he get this checked out. Our experience with him as a landlord suggests that he will not get this done.
We are delighted to leave and move on. However we have concerned about the next tenants that may move in. When we moved in the place was freshly painted so there was no evidence of damp/stains from leaking. The plug with the loose wires was hidden behind a couch. The landlord said he was getting a new shower unit in etc. Therefore he is well practiced in glossing over the problems.
We were wondering if there is any point in reporting him to PRTB?
We believe the house is a health risk to live in. The landlord seems like an Ok guy, but he is just not willing to spend any money on it. His attitude is its nothing that a lick of paint will not fix. Here's a list of things we have brought to his attention that needs to be fixed:
1. Leak in the roof (now temporarily fixed for the second time since we moved in). However allot of water has got into the wall of the spare room and 2 months later the wall is still damp to touch. The landlord thinks that he can just paint the wall. He claims that the roof is now fixed, even though the builder that was working on it told us that it was a temporary solution that will last a few months.
2. Loose tiling in the shower has resulted in the shower leaking through the living room ceiling. Again he used quick fix solution; polyfiller (that is now coming loose). It needs to be retiled (the tiles are actually rotten and crumble on touch).
3. A sparking plug and loose wires around the plug. And another plug that trips the fuses if you use it. The landlord said that since he had an electrocution in a couple of years ago to check the place out it should be OK.
4. The radiators are run off gas and the system is old. When I asked him when it had been last serviced he did not seem to know. We warned him that there is “fumy” smell when the heating is on and recommended he get this checked out. Our experience with him as a landlord suggests that he will not get this done.
We are delighted to leave and move on. However we have concerned about the next tenants that may move in. When we moved in the place was freshly painted so there was no evidence of damp/stains from leaking. The plug with the loose wires was hidden behind a couch. The landlord said he was getting a new shower unit in etc. Therefore he is well practiced in glossing over the problems.
We were wondering if there is any point in reporting him to PRTB?