This 30 days has to be in the contract. There is no other law imposing it to the landlord so if it is not in the contract then unfortunately as I wrote earlier you can not really demand it. So first to clarify, is it in TA or is not?ajita wrote:I read the contract and there was nothing mentioned exactly about my situation..but understood that with in 30 days landlord have to attend all the repairs at landlord's expense.But my concern is if this 30 days will be over then? Can we complain against it? coz by seeing his response..we are not feeling like he is going to rectify all the issues.So what should we do?
Yeah I acknowledge deduction from rent is also a breach of contract, but in circumstances such as these if the landlord is given every time and opportunity, I personally would take that course as a last measure. The problem as we have seen from other cases is trying to recover back money. SCT appears good in concept but useless in practice. Therefore deducting from rent is the only way to overcome the problem of how to recover the fund back from unwilling/irresponsible landlord. Once again, I only suggest this after exhausting all cooperative options, allowing reasonable time to the landlord, and OP pls understand this is also a breach of contract to deduct from rent (but given the circumstances I don't see how landlord can do anything, if he makes a SCT claim, then you just counterclaim with the maintenance list, receipts as well as all the correspondence. Add on top compensation for the period of time property was not in the condition promised at time of contract etc).x9200 wrote:Give the landlord enough time. These 30 days is still going on and typically (I don't know the exact phrasing in your TA) it is for you to report the issues needed to be fixed. In other words it is reasonable to expect it will all take longer time than these 30 days but then if nothing is being fixed or at least arranged within a week or so after the 30 days period is over, then IMHO it would be time to act.
Deduction from the rent: be careful with this, many TAs prohibit from doing so and if yes, it may be considered as a partial payment of the rent with all possible consequences.
For other points, I agree with the previous poster: collect some quotations and send it to the landlord. See how he is going to react.
If all fails, then the mentioned Small Claims Tribunal that should be able to authorize you to deduct it from the rent even if this is forbidden by the wording of TA.
Inventory list: have you photographed all the place in details at the hand-over time? If yes, don't worry about the invetory list.
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