Just posting this here and will request my AIBU be deleted as think it might be better asked here.
Has anyone been in a similar situation, I really feel exploited by all of this but wondering if I'm being a drama llama before going to CAB/Shelter and my concern is more for people renting this room after me than me. I just want to move on and forget the experience!
I moved in as a lodger to a house a year ago, I was in a rush due to the lack of places to rent near my workplace and needing somewhere in the town centre due to a health condition (so ease of getting to work) the house seemed nice, I had a look around and everything seemed in working order; the landlady lives in her own flat attached so thought great it won't feel too intense but was happy to be in a sharing situation and all that entails.
There was a large water mark on the bedroom wall and when I asked about this she said it was not damp and some stain? Fast forward a few weeks I moved in and the room is awful; plaster dust constantly falling down onto my belongings, I wheeze if I spend more than a day or two in there studying etc, then this wet patch starts to grow across the wall and looks to be penetrating damp.
She then admits the room has always been damp and she had trouble renting it! I feel really annoyed at all of this as I ended up having to stay elsewhere whilst looking for somewhere else to live as I became very ill as I have a long term condition which affects my lungs.
I understand rights are thin on the ground for lodgers but isn't this very deceptive or do I just have to suck up that I paid rent for a place that wasn't fit to live in? It's now advertised just after I have left with no pic of the damp room and at an eye watering amount of rent!
Thanks for any advice.