{"id":136485,"date":"2023-05-03T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-landlord-has-left-me-in-a-flat-with-a-leaking-roof-for-a-year\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T13:13:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T06:13:14","slug":"my-landlord-has-left-me-in-a-flat-with-a-leaking-roof-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-landlord-has-left-me-in-a-flat-with-a-leaking-roof-for-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"My landlord has left me in a flat with a leaking roof for a year"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAfter botched repairs, I\u2019ve been living with damp and mouldI am a Southern Housing tenant and, a year ago, reported a leak in my bedroom ceiling. It was after three months of calls and emails to United Living, Southern Housing\u2019s repair service provider, that surveyors arrived and discovered a hole in the recently replaced roof. It took another four months of pushing from me before a repair was made. Within a week, the leak had worsened. A month later, the same contractor returned to repeat the job, but a week later it was leaking again. The contractor was called back. No work started.By now, there was damp in every room and I was optimistic when another roofing company came to do a survey. However, two months later, nothing has been done. The living conditions are now intolerable, but I have been told I would have to move indefinitely into a B&B or, if I want to be given a new flat, to leave my home town.SM, Brighton Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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