Tenant Fiddling with the Electrical Installation in a Rented Property.

I was sat in a housing association house having a cup of coffee with the lads whilst undertaking void maintenance.


I said that some of the tenants really took the p*** the way they messed about altering their rented homes, one of the lads said that they had assured tenancies, so could treat them like their own homes, to which I replied that doesn’t mean they can take the wall out between the lounge and the kitchen to create one big room. The other lads looked surprised and said they had not realised the tenants had taken the wall out and I was right, that was over stepping the mark.


One house on that estate required repairs costing sixteen thousand pounds to rectify the tenants DIY work after they were eventually moved out, all the windows had to be replaced because they cut slots in them to bring TV cables into every room.


Andy B.

I was sat in a housing association house having a cup of coffee with the lads whilst undertaking void maintenance.


I said that some of the tenants really took the p*** the way they messed about altering their rented homes, one of the lads said that they had assured tenancies, so could treat them like their own homes, to which I replied that doesn’t mean they can take the wall out between the lounge and the kitchen to create one big room. The other lads looked surprised and said they had not realised the tenants had taken the wall out and I was right, that was over stepping the mark.


One house on that estate required repairs costing sixteen thousand pounds to rectify the tenants DIY work after they were eventually moved out, all the windows had to be replaced because they cut slots in them to bring TV cables into every room.


Andy B.