We have nearly been here a year and we love it. Landlords leave us alone - the last time we heard from them was six montgs ago when they took over from the letting agency in managing the house, when they rang to sort things out, mentioned that they had been past and loved what we had done with the garden and made sure we were ok. We don't bother them - our rent is always on time, we do repairs ourselves and have never asked them for anything. They are a young couple with a son of about 3, we have 2 daughters aged 2 and 5. They have moved in with his parents as the woman is starting up her accountancy business and they hope to rent out more houses in the future. Rent is £595 pcm, house is worth about £100,000, so they are covering their mortgage, unless they have an unusual one, but she is an accountant, so I would guess tgey have budgeted well.
We really, really don't want to piss them off. They are, by far, the best landlords we have had. We do have some relatively minor wishes, but hopefully they are reasonable, what do you think?
A longer contract - a year or even two
Minor repairs that we can't do, or permission to get a man in - ignition has gone on the hob, the upstairs toilet only flushes if you take the top of tge cistern off and pull the lever, one light keeps blowing so tge wiring might be dodgy
Permission to get a cat
Something to be done with the front room carpet - it is light cream, we have most of it covered with rugs, and I get the rug doctor every now and again, but it is so hard to keep clean. Cheap laminate, a darker carpet, anything. If they will sign us up for a 2 year contract, I'll happily pay either for a cheap solution or towards a more expensive one.
Are those ok? How do I broach the subject? Tbh, it is just tge repairs that really are needed, the other things are wishes. They would be great if we could have them though.