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Is there a letting agent? Your landlords sound pretty unprofessional, seek advice from Shelter, document everything for the DPS when it comes to getting your deposit back and start looking to move on. No doubt your landlords want you out and will use tactics like this to make you feel stressed and disrupt your quality of life.

I'd ask them what date they visited, they should have given you notice and they can't just let themselves in to look around.

Hang on - they let themselves into the house and looked round when you weren't there? This is not legal. Please get some advice from Shelter. Some of the posters on this thread have posted incorrect advice. Make sure you have copies of correspondence, photos, etc about all of this. Is your deposit properly protected? Your landlords sound like unprofessional arseholes.

Your landlord has both reasonable and unreasonable points.

It is your responsibility to pre ent mould, even in a property that has a bathroom in the middle of the house. I have no idea why they build houses like that in the first place because bathrooms need windows, but even without them it’s still possible to prevent mould. Keep the door open, ventilate, and when the walls are wet after a shower, use a squeegee to remove most of the water.

You should expect to fix chips on woodwork like bannisters if you’ve damaged them while moving furniture and you probably should have asked for permission to replace the film in the kitchen even if it was a bit crap in the first place. But having a wooden, untreated cabinet under a sink in a bathroom that has no windows is ridiculous.

I have my bedroom and bathroom windows open all day every day, whatever the weather.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I hope you're not a renter!!! I definitely wouldn't want someone like you in one of my properties. Renters are living in someone else's house and need to remember that. I think it's just about being a decent human being. A lot of people who are renting can't afford to buy their own property and need to respect the house they're currently staying in belongs to someone else. If you know you have damaged something, then you fix it 💯 😜

I used to work in a Lettings Agency, so here’s my advice… firstly, do you have any photos at all of the property when you first moved in? This can shut down the whole conversation as it’s proof that you did not do the damage / shoddy workmanship that wasn’t going to last. If you ever rent again in the future this needs to be the first thing you do on the first day you move in.

Next have a refresh of your tenancy agreement - doesn’t hurt and may have a few things which stand out to you that you can use back in your response to the landlord.

Something else to include in your response is if you’ve ever asked for maintenance as this is proof you do care about the property and have pointed out the issues before the landlord brought them up.

You can easily include in your response that you need the landlord to make good of the mould, and you are considering reporting the mould issue to the council directly so they can investigate - which will totally put off the landlord from being on your back as the council are a nightmare for landlords (mould and health and safety issues are what they care about, and you need to first give the landlord a chance to put these things right - not at your expense).

Finally, anything which you can put right yourself (ie scuff marks) make sure you do so before you leave the property or the landlord will hire someone else to do so possibly at your expense (from your deposit) and it may be a lot more costly than what you can do it for.

Also, make sure you take photos of everywhere before you leave! Can’t turn around and add more to the list then. Also you may be able to claw back some of your deposit if you can show the house was good before you left. All the best x

I do. Every morning without fail sun , rain , snow. Lift blinds ,open windows in each room. Make a cuppa, shower, drink cuppa. Close upstairs windows except bathroom. That's open 24 7
Today once wind died down i opened them again from 11 until 2.30 ish. All by about 6 inches. Was lovely and fresh. Then put heating on for dcs getting home .

The mould is the tenants' responsibility when down to lack of heating and ventilation

Sounds like they are looking for excuses to get you out. I had a similar situation when renting a few years back, mould in the place and being told to do stuff in a certain way. After being harassed I shot back a letter to the agency quoting my right to “ quite enjoyment of the property” which is a legal right as a tenant, after more disagreements they tried after I moved out to withhold my deposit, which I wrote a furious letter to the tpc and got it all back. Bastards. Just push back, landlords these days seem to expect their tenants to tip toe around and sit on the end of seats. To me it sounds like you are juyst using the place, and also that the6 should be making it liveable ,

Do you have a contact? I'd be telling him off for going in to your house without asking you. That should be against the terms of the contract.

And I'd push back against all the rest, apart from the paint scuffs.

Sounds like he might be thinking about selling? You might need to have a look around to see what else is available.

The heating will not be the cause. Of course the outdoor temp is much colder. This is standard for all houses in the winter months.

If you like to do favours beyond your legal duties that's fine. But the point is, the landlord is the owner of the asset and is responsible for maintenance.

Would you touch up the paint in the supermarket if your trolley scuffed it? That would perhaps be the 'decent thing to do' too.

Landlord/tenant is a business arrangement. I have better things to do with my time than take on the other parties' responsibilities.

This.

Is your deposit protected?

the landlord is being an arse. Most of those things are due to wear and tear/bathroom not having enough ventilation/buying cheap.

Just read your update. Because your indoor temperature has to be so high the difference between that and outside is huge and that will lead to mould because of condensation.

I think it's the decent thing to do tbh. If you scuff up the banister or skirting board moving furniture, then you fix it - simple 😀

We do as well 🙋‍♀️ I have young kids in the flat so really funny about mould.

Most of that sounds like normal wear and tear. The burst pipe is the landlord's responsibility unless you caused the leak by doing something beyond normal use.

The only thing I think could be put at your door from your lit is the mould. Often it is caused by a combination of the property and lifestyle. The climate in the uk is increasingly damp and we need to live accordingly.