Recent content by Ketzl

Thank you so, so much -- this is tremendously helpful!! Also, just to clarify once more for any other renters reading, you do not have the right to withold rent just because the house is in a poor state. This is a quote from the specific Citizen's Advice article that's been posted on this...

My partner of 14 years got seriously ill unexpectedly, I had to leave my job to take care of him, and we had to move to somewhere smaller in a hurry. We had to accept wherever would take us, and this is the ideal house for beggers who can't be choosers. In order to move now, I'd have to be able...

Just out of curiosity, unless by some bizarre coincidence you are my landlord, why are you being so rude to me? I already told you the problems were here when we came, so he would've had to decide he wanted us out before we even moved in...? Thank you very much. (y)

Just to clarify for any other renters reading, not paying your rent is illegal and would be grounds for eviction, no matter what state your house is in. Never stop paying your rent.

Well, it's been a problem since my family moved in over a year ago and has got worse and worse all year, and nothing was touching the wall – not furniture or boxes – until this winter. The boxes are touching the wall now because the windows don't close properly (broken when we came, like so many...

Some time ago now. Several months at least. I'm not totally sure what sort of wall it is...it's brick mixed with large rough stone (it's a miner's terraced house). The handyman who came round said there was lime in all the walls round here. Yes, by me. Sorry, I didn't make that clear -- I...

I rent my house, and for a long time the gutter against one wall was completely broken, and I couldn't afford to fix it. It finally got fixed, but left the wall with extremely damp patches, and bits of the wall keep flaking off where it's damp. Recently, a handyman came round to do a different...