{"id":126944,"date":"2022-06-06T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T08:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/our-landlord-kept-refusing-to-fix-the-damp-or-do-repairs-so-we-sued-him\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T15:40:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T08:40:14","slug":"our-landlord-kept-refusing-to-fix-the-damp-or-do-repairs-so-we-sued-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/our-landlord-kept-refusing-to-fix-the-damp-or-do-repairs-so-we-sued-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Our landlord kept refusing to fix the damp or do repairs. So we sued him"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt turned out that our deposit hadn\u2019t been protected and the house was unlicensed. We won \u00a315,000Like lots of tenants, my housemates and I had a bad experience with our landlord. We lived for months with damp and mould, endured his reluctance to carry out basic repairs, and were messed around when it was time for him to return our deposit. Unlike most tenants, we took our landlord to court \u2013 and won \u00a315,000.In November 2020, as we settled into a winter lockdown, our landlord told my housemates and I that we would have to leave as he was looking to sell the property. The next thing we knew, we were spending hours in the garden in our coats and hats, watching people view our home through the living-room windows like sad animals in a depressing renters\u2019 zoo. \u201cThese are the current tenants,\u201d the estate agent would say as we bared our teeth at a succession of clean-faced young professional couples. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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It turned out that our deposit hadn\u2019t been protected and the house was unlicensed. 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