The Penalties For Breaking Landlord Laws

I note from your examples so many of these could have been avoided, but they failed to comply with improvement notices. I also note that when the tax man is involved there's a hefty jail sentence!

i noticed from one example that its the same position i am in with my landlord, i have a baby girl who is always poorly because of the damp rooms throughout my flat. i have told my landlord to fix the damp throughout my whole flat which she has failed to do. the damp has got worse now and it has ruined alot of my household things. it has ruined my baby cot and my bed. the landlord said it was my fault that the damp is coming through all the walls and she is now saying im not aloud my deposit back for when i move out in just a few weeks. what shall i do?

Hey Amy,

What a load of bunny balls your LL is talking! How can it be your fault the damp is coming through the walls? I suggest you contact your local councils housing officer or the citizens advice office asap so they can advise the best way forward.

Jools

I am currently in a situation with my landlord where they havent provided gas safety checks for three years and failed to secure my deposit into an AST scheme. We contatcted the appropriate authorities and all that has happened is they told them to secure my deposit straight away( even though it was 3 years late) and told her to produce gas certificates, which she went to one of her friends and got back dated ones. Now I've been served with a section 21 for questioning her actions and have to find somewhere else to live. The way it looks to me is as long as a landlord acts when you shop them, they can get away with whatever they want.

I have been screwed over by many of the above so called laws - this country does nothing to help the tenant, it is all to protect the scumbag dodgey landlords. All of the above is good in theory but unhelpful in reality.

I love the way everyone is saying the landlord is the winner on top of all this. My mother rents out a house, her tenants are constantly behind on rent, always paying late, refuse her entry to inspect the house, and refuse her entry to get the gas certified. Then when she serves them with a section 8 they refuse to leave, so they go to court 6 weeks later and the case gets adjourned for 2 months. The tenant has now gone to environmental health saying that there's mould in the house (none of which has ever been mentioned to my mother otherwise it would have been dealt with) and also saying that the gas should be certified when it's not her fault that the tenants are refusing entry and she can't gain access to get it done.
So far everything that has gone on in our situation is all on the tenants side. My mother has never been unreasonable with these people, in fact she gave them a month off so they could get new carpets, she was lenient with them redecorating the house without permission and with them having pets.
And now she can't get them out because the law is all on the tenants side. Yes there are some awful landlords out there, but in this instance there are some awful tenants. She never asked for a deposit because they couldn't afford it and she didn't ask for a month up front because they were on benefits and couldn't afford it. And look where she's ended up,

Hi guys I have paid £375 for water pump,paid rent short,recently paid £265 deducted this from rent for work on boiler,landlord not serviced boiler for 4 plus years by the owner is a professional footballer oh also paid for last service 4 or five years ago rent also goes into his account each month is he paying capitol gains tax .. Any advice gratefully received

I have been a prompt paying and reliable tenant for the last nine years. We were lead to believe by the letting agent that the landlady was up to date with gsc, but no. We found out that she has never (in our tenancy had one even though she replaced the boiler a few years back.
She has never taken responsibility for the leaking roof that has now saturated the wall that adjoins where we live, the flat down stairs and the butcher shop below that. Saturated to the point of being able to run your fingers through it like blancmange. This has caused further damp to the entirety of the communal stairwell access from the top to the bottom, therefore rendering that access in and out of the building unsafe and not fit for purpose. The Freeholder is likewise completely uncaring in regard to this property and to make matters worse, broke the locks off the front door and left it open to any passersby in a very busy road. This blattant disregard for tenant safety, when complained about, fell on deaf ears of the landlady and the freeholder. To make matters worse, they charged the guy in the downstairs flat for their workment to come and break the locks on the door. I personally had to make the scene safe by actually screwing the door shut.
We now have only the rear fire escape stairs at the back of the building to go in and out of the property.
last Feb the landlady (leaseholder) finally pulled her finger out to get a GSC, then last month gave us our notice to vacate. She still continues to use our address as a postal dumping ground without prior arrangement and also has been booking builders to enter the property to estimate and/or carry out work and again, with no prior arrangement, notice or just damned polite consideration.
We've got less than a month to find something else suitable near our childrens schools that we can afford which is nye on impossible just now. We are hard working parents that are trying to teach our children about how stuff works in the world. "Listen kids, this is how NOT to be a good landlord should you ever find yourself in the position to be able own anywhere."

Everything I read goes on about a Gas Safety Certificate and we must issue one to our tenant however we have no gas at the property but there does not seem to be any provision for this, what are we supposed to do.

After my landlord served me a section 21 (4/20) I found out the central heating was fitted without a boiler compliance certificate in October 2017 the month before my tenancy began. No safety or efficiency certificates were given until August 2020 when he then served me a section 13 with a rent increase of 45%. What can I do?