Ok, I may be being ridiculous here so please tell me if I am, kindly. I know there are a fair few LLs on here so your opinions would be helpful.
I live in a flat which has a drive with a parking space for each flat. The spaces aren’t allocated but each resident uses the same one all the time.
When I moved in last year there was a skip in my space. It was there for weeks and it took several emails to get it shifted. The skip is the LL’s. He has a man come in a few hours a week to clear out a large garden area at the back of the flats. The garden area is not available to the tenants and the LL has said he intends to get it cleared and lock it up, so he has no intention of allowing the tenants to use it either.
Now the bloody skip is back, and it’s in my parking space again. I don’t have a car but I’m disabled so have people visit to help me etc, and they can’t park because of the sodding skip. This is a small residential street that seems to have more cars than residents so there’s never anywhere else to park.
Last year is gone now, there’s nothing I can do about that, but would I be U to ask for a rent reduction for the time the skip is here this time? I’m paying for that parking space. My rent is nearly a grand a month for a tiny flat so that space is a significant portion of the space I’m renting, it comes with the flat and was advertised as such, and the skip is not for mine or anybody else living here’s benefit, so I feel a bit aggrieved that I’m paying for a parking space I can’t use.
I’m actually moving out in just over three weeks, so I’ll definitely need my parking space then. If I tell the letting agent and the LL I want a rent reduction they might just get their arses in gear and get the bloody thing shifted. it’s already full, but it was full for several weeks before it was shifted last year.
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Whatisthisfuckery · 28/05/2020 13:20
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Am I being unreasonable?
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You are being unreasonable
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You are NOT being unreasonable
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