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who should pay for this damage; landlord or tenant?

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BarrackerBarmer · 29/09/2017 10:44

I wanted to canvass views on what is reasonable to expect in this circumstance. There is a good relationship between landlord and tenants.

A tenant is in a rented property shared with a friend as co-tenant. Tenant 1, who is in the Master bedroom with an ensuite bathroom, reports to the rental agency that manages the property on behalf of the landlord, that the hinge on the bathroom mirrored cabinet had become loose and one of the doors had fallen and smashed.

On a good faith understanding that this was just an accident, perhaps caused by a screw that had become loose over the year during the term of the tenancy so far, who should pay to replace the cabinet? Landlord or tenant?

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DarthMaiden · 29/09/2017 16:15

This happened in our en-suite.

We ended up having to buy a whole new cabinet Sad.

No lack of maintenance, it seemed to go from fine to falling off and smashing.

Not a LL/tenant situation but just adding because my experience of this was there was nothing obvious to fix before the door fell off and smashed. If similar then I can’t see how the tenant has been remiss.

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