Old Landlord Refuses To Do Repairs, Ends Up Going Bankrupt

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mattstaff
Nov 11, 2019 12:00 AM EST

This old landlord refused to play nice and make some repairs for a tenant. They proceed to get reported to the environmental health team, have to sell all their equity, and eventually declare themselves bankrupt to pay for all the fines. Ouch. Should've just done the dang repairs! 

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    Text - r/ProRevenge u/UnIOveddarkness 1d + JOIN Landlord made me live in squalor now she's bankrupt So here's the story of my previous living situation which was at best horrendous. I moved into a, what I thought at the time was a lovely 3/4 bedroom house with a nice offset garage and garden, perfect for my family consisting of myself, my partner a d my 3 kids.
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    Text - Well a few weeks into moving in the problems started to arise, we moved in just before Christmas and the weather was awful, torrential rain in fact, which is when we discovered the horrendous leak in my roof. I mean water teaming through the roof, into the walls and down my windows, resulting in all my pots and pans having to sit in my window to collects said rain. We then ended up realising we had a leak through the roof in my daughters room after she was awoken by rain dripping on her w
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    Text - we discovered over the course of the time we lived there that the electrics had never been checked and often shorted out. The gas pipes were under regulated minimum gauge and when the heating was on we couldn't power the gas cooker or visa versa, the decking out the back was rotten and when stood on it just snapped, there was a 4ft drop underneath this, a gas safety check showed that the combi boiler was broken and condemned but they still refused to replace it, the heating system could n
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    Text - I eventually got fed up and reported it to the local environmental health team. They came out to inspect the property and raised concerns over the kitchen floor which was warped and a major trip hazard, we also discovered from this visit the 4th bedroom which was in the loft was illegal due to how it had been done, no insulation no heating bodged electrics. So the local environmental health team handed an order over to the landlord to repair all these in a 3 month period, it didn't get do
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    Text - 2 years later I've just found out through a close friend the council proceeded to complete the jobs themselves and the landlord has now been declared bankrupt due to this, her house is being put up for auction, she will receive nowhere near what she needs to pay off her debts and has had to give up her other houses due to bankruptcy laws meaning she can't own equity, not even a decent car.
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    Text - If only she'd put the rent I was paying into fixing her house it wouldnt have gone this far. I'm not sure what's happened regarding the illegal goings on, the gas and electrical problems that were never properly upkept, but I like to hope she got punished in some way or form. TI,Dr. Old landlord wouldn't do repairs, I reported her to environmental health and now she's had to sell all of her equity and declare herself bankrupt to pay for the fines and repairs forced upon her. EDIT: paragra
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