I have to say that my housemates and myself have no one else to blame about our student house apart from ourselves. We were quite inactive in beginning our search for a suitable house and left it to the last minute and therefore signed our student housing in a race as we thought that we would otherwise not have anywhere to live.
The student accommodation we signed seemed quite superb 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 size of the rooms was acceptable, 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 accommodation for a few months now but have encountered soo many issues and our landlord just does not do anything about them. If he does try to rectify something it takes hours and hours if not months and even then the problem is most of the time not even put right.
We have been to see representatives within the university about how to go about our issues with our student housing. We have taken the short-hold letting agreement in and a legal advisor within the university has told us that we have a good case to take our landlord to court for providing such a poor and insufficient level of student accommodation.
We have had no operational freezer, a faulty microwave that looks as if it is older than myself. An oven that is dangerous, as it smells of burring rubber. Only one out of three hobs work, which is not ideal when you live in a house of nine. We did start with two showers but one has now stopped working so all of us share only one shower. The central heating has stopped working so it is a lower temperature in our house than it is outside, there is damp in almost every room, mould on the ceilings, broken chairs and a large draft that comes through the fragile back door that does not lend itself to safety. 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 problems have yet been sorted out, replaced or resolved.
When you are looking for your student accommodation, do not race, 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.
