This was hands down the worst rental experience that I had ever had. The advice that I would give anyone who is moving into a rental is to make sure that when you get the keys, you have a very thorough look around and make sure that everything is in working order and that the place is clean. It is quite easy to get swept away and just have a brief look over. When you move in and there is anything at all that doesn't seem right, then take photos. Lots of photos. This is important for putting together evidence and will help to save you money when you move out by making sure you get the deposit amount that you expect. My wife and I had to spend a day cleaning the place before we could move in. The carpet upstairs in one of the bedrooms was damp and mouldy and so we had to get a carpet cleaner to sort it out. We also had to clean and hoover the entire place, and there were cobwebs everywhere. There was even mushrooms growing in the cupboard (see picture) The heating wasn't working, which meant there was no hot water. The property hadn't been tested for legionnaires since 2017, even though it was empty for months before we moved in. Some of our neigh ours thought that it may have been over a year that it was empty. The oven didn't work. The TV didn't work. One mattress was covered in stains that were so bad it looked like it had been soiled. The landlord wouldn't take the mattress out of the property and so we had to store it in the living room. The second mattress was so cheap, you could feel every spring and we had to store that one also. The furniture in the living room was dirty and covered in dog hair. There were child drawings on the walls. The flooring was rotton in the cupboard and it had to be replaced before the water heater fell through the floor. The upstairs bathroom was reeking of damp which meant that we had to buy cleaning products for the sink and shower drains. We had to move out for the first week and wait for legionnaires test to be carried out and for them to figure out how the heating and hot water worked as the landlord wasn't bothered. We were charged £136.80 for cleaning, even though the place was far cleaner than when we arrived. We weren't offered any discount as a result of us moving in and then having to move out for a week. Also, someone was in the property without our permission to clean up the mushrooms in the cupboard downstairs. We weren't notified that someone was coming. The garden was covered in weeds and the grass was over a foot high. The garden is very small and yet it was so badly maintained that it took my wife and I four hours to get it to a tolerable standard. There were mice in the property which meant that we could only use a few of the kitchen cupboards as there was access to most of them from the back. There was panels off the back some of the units, which didn't help much. One of the kitchen cupboard spaces was filled with cobwebs and dead spiders when we arrived. This was one of the largest kitchen cupboards as well. The property cost £1100per month and so it wasn't exactly cheap. Thankfully we were in less than 2 months. Being in a property like that when you have two children of primary age, was awful. I naively thought that renting a property of that value would reduce likleyhood of issues but I was quite wrong.NegativeResponsiveness, Quality, Professionalism, Value
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