Posting here for traffic, to be honest, because I need a handhold.
I am really struggling.
Me, my mum and my 7 year old son moved into a house together about a month ago. It's privately rented.
Everything has been pretty good in the house to be honest. Very minor repairs needed.
However, it's been pissing it down with rain today (as it has been in many places) and, lo and behold, my mum's bedroom has sprung a giant fucking leak in the ceiling! Okay, no problem, I'll call the letting agency and ask someone to come out and have a look at it. So they sent someone out (a general repairman). He then needed to call a roofer because he could see that something on the roof had a crack in it or something. Roofer came, and he did a temporary repair until he can come out and properly fix it. The top of my mum's bedroom wall/part of the ceiling is still wet, but it's stopped leaking. Woohoo.
But I've been having panic attacks all day because of it, because the roofer said he'll need to ring the landlord and ask about repairing it because of the potential cost. So now my brain is in panic mode, because what if the landlord says no? Then we're stuck in a house with a roof that could start leaking again, with no money to move into a new house if it all goes to shit.
The letting agency said the house was new on their books when we came to view it, so it's very unlikely that they knew about these issues beforehand.
I just need to be told that everything is going to be okay, because we left one shitty situation and it feels like we've moved straight into another.
Sorry for the ramble. I'm just so tired x