Hoping for any advice on this please.
We rent a house out, don't turn profit at all (it fact we made a loss £700 on it last year) but it usually pays for itself. Anyway, we used to live in the house and when rented out initially we left the dishwasher in place and described in original tenants contract as being 'gifted' which means if it breaks down we are not obliged to replace it. Three sets of tenants later and it has finally started playing up.
We used a different letting agent to find the latest tenants, and now discover he hasn't made it clear on the last tenancy agreement that the dishwasher was 'gifted'. It is listed on the inventory as being present in the kitchen, but nothing more is mentioned. We assume this was discussed when he showed the tenants around at the viewing stage. This letting agent has now gone bump so we have no comeback with him unfortunately.
Are we obliged to buy a new dishwasher under these circumstances?
We are not in a financial position to do this unless we absolutely have to legally, and even then we will have to put it on our personal credit card as we are struggling .
Any landlords who can please advise as we don't know where we stand.