Can you end a tenancy early?

[mishymashy]

DD and her DP moved into what was called a newly renovated flat in June. So far they have had to deal with serious mould coming through the freshly painted walls, blistering paint due to the external walls being saturated, the windows open constantly because of the vile smell (think boys changing room/toilets) and to top it off the toilet has been flooding 2 inches of crap and water because the upstairs flats pipework has been routed through theirs and caused a massive blockage which has taken a week to sort out meaning they had no bathroom or loo for 4 days. The toilet is currently perched in the correct place but not been fitted back in professionally. DD had to stay here for part of last week due to a severe tummy bug which i'm sure is linked to the raw sewerage pumping out everywhere.

We have had loads of rain here and the property is just getting damper and damper so goodness knows what will happen come winter.

The work that needs doing to get the property up to scratch is not surface work, it will need stripping back, having had experience renovating houses myself after buying a money pit by accident No amount of anti mould paint is going to sort it out.

The landlord seems in no hurry to get anything done and just sends her DH out to have a look and tinker around.

Can you get out of a tenancy legally or are they stuck there. The property is not run by the management company who DD went through, they just found the tenant (DD) so i'm not sure what their responsibility is or if they dont have any.

Any advice would be appreciated on where DD stands legally.

[MousyMouse]

contact the environmentl health team of your council, sounds like a bad problem and your dd's landlord needs a kick up his arse.
also contact shelter who are very good at advising. also the landlordzone forum can give a wealth of information.

[mishymashy]

Thankyou, i hadnt thought of environmental health. We were hoping the landlord would finally take charge over the weekend and put in place some real dates of when work would be done but now that the loo is sorted DD hasnt heard a thing from them. The problem that caused the sewerage will happen again if they dont rip it all out and start again disconnecting upstairs but it doesnt look as though that is going to happen any time soon.

I will look at landlordzone.

thanks again