I'm putting this out to the court of Mumsnet.
I've lived in this flat for coming up to 3 years. I share a garden with the tenant upstairs. We both have the same Landlord.
We have a shared garden which is accessed by a gate on the road, I do not have my own entrance from my flat into it. In this garden is a huge shed. All the houses here were given these sheds by the housebuilders when the street was built several years ago. When I moved in I noticed this rotten shed with a hole in the roof and asked the upstairs tenant about it. They told me that it was nothing to do with Them, they weren't paying anything to get rid of it, they didn't use it, they only used the garden in the summer to sunbathe.
I had downsized from a large split level which I filled with stuff, so everything went in plastic totes and was put in the shed, we bought a huge tarp and nailed it over, and over the last 3 years I've gone through it all and got rid of most of it. However the tarp failed, we've replaced it twice, it's failed again and everything is now soaking wet inside - but it's in plastic boxes.
It's obvious the shed needs replacing. I'm happy to buy a shed for my own use and put it in its place, but I do not see why I should dispose of a completely rotten 12x10 foot shed that was like it when I moved in - at my expense! The quotes I've had have ranged from £300- £500! The tenant upstairs is resolute it's nothing to do with them and my landlord says it's up to me and the tenant upstairs to dispose of it as it's a shared garden and was put there by the housebuilders and not them. So I'm stuck and quite frustrated.
Am I Being Unreasonable to propose dismantling this shed and putting all the wood up against the back wall of the garden, leaving it there and putting my new (much smaller) shed on the concrete base in its place?
Thanks