Student Accommodation UK – A Couple Of Things To Be Weary Of When Looking For A Property
I have been renting my student property for nine weeks now. It is the first time that I have lived away from home in private student housing after previously living in halls. I know many of my friends that love their student flat and after seeing their homes I feel quite doubting.
I have to say that my housemates and myself have no one else to point the finger at about our student house apart from ourselves. We were quite inactive in starting our search for a suitable house and left it to the last minute and therefore signed our student accommodation in a dash as we thought that we would otherwise not have anywhere to live.
The student property we signed seemed quite descent at first. Don’t get me wrong it wasn’t the best place we had seen and not the worst, well at first thought. The building was average, the dimensions of the rooms was reasonable, but as soon as we moved in everything just began breaking or just falling apart. Like I said before we have only been living in our student house for a few weeks now but have bumped into soo many issues and our landlord just denies the problems exist. If he does try to sort something out it takes weeks if not months and even then the problem is most of the time not even put right.
We have been to see people within the university about how to go about our issues with our student property. We have taken the short-hold letting agreement in and a legal advisor within the university has told us that we have a decent case to take our landlord to court for providing such a terrible and insufficient level of housing.
We have had no functioning freezer, a faulty microwave that looks as if it is older than me. An oven that is unusable, as it smells of burring rubber. Only one out of three hobs work, which is not good when you live in a house of four. We did start with two showers but one has become faulty so all of us share just one shower. The central heating has stopped working so it is colder in our house than it is outside, there is damp in almost every room, mould on the walls, broken chairs and a large draft that comes through the delicate back door that does not lend itself to security. How is our landlord able to get away with providing us such a awful quality of student accommodation? I must note that none of these issues have yet been amended, replaced or resolved.
When you are looking for your student accommodation, do not panic, just remember that there are more properties than students need, so take your time and make sure you are well informed and go with a reputable landlord.
I have to say that my housemates and myself have no one else to point the finger at about our student house apart from ourselves. We were quite inactive in starting our search for a suitable house and left it to the last minute and therefore signed our student accommodation in a dash as we thought that we would otherwise not have anywhere to live.
The student property we signed seemed quite descent at first. Don’t get me wrong it wasn’t the best place we had seen and not the worst, well at first thought. The building was average, the dimensions of the rooms was reasonable, but as soon as we moved in everything just began breaking or just falling apart. Like I said before we have only been living in our student house for a few weeks now but have bumped into soo many issues and our landlord just denies the problems exist. If he does try to sort something out it takes weeks if not months and even then the problem is most of the time not even put right.
We have been to see people within the university about how to go about our issues with our student property. We have taken the short-hold letting agreement in and a legal advisor within the university has told us that we have a decent case to take our landlord to court for providing such a terrible and insufficient level of housing.
We have had no functioning freezer, a faulty microwave that looks as if it is older than me. An oven that is unusable, as it smells of burring rubber. Only one out of three hobs work, which is not good when you live in a house of four. We did start with two showers but one has become faulty so all of us share just one shower. The central heating has stopped working so it is colder in our house than it is outside, there is damp in almost every room, mould on the walls, broken chairs and a large draft that comes through the delicate back door that does not lend itself to security. How is our landlord able to get away with providing us such a awful quality of student accommodation? I must note that none of these issues have yet been amended, replaced or resolved.
When you are looking for your student accommodation, do not panic, just remember that there are more properties than students need, so take your time and make sure you are well informed and go with a reputable landlord.
