I am being serious here guys; my sister rents and she has a real tight-a*se landlord. She has a gas space heater that has no thermastat and she is forever having to turn it on-off to regulate the right heat. Is there any way she can do something to it so it can't be repaired with spare parts? That way she might get a new one...

Calling any gas fitters

plasticine. It is guaranteed to destroy everything.
Seriously though, my mum's landlord only replaced an old oven once it blew up. This oven seemed to be from the 60's so I think it died of old age.

Complain to the tenants tribunal - I'd say heat is one of the essentials and you can't rent a place with out essentials. Or take advantage of the provision in tenancy laws. I think there is one that says in emergencies tenants can pay up to a few hundred dollars for repairs themselves and demand it back from the real estate/landlord as long as whoever fixes the heat goes along and says it was an emergency - that would have been better done in cold cold winter nights maybe.

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Originally Posted by troi

Complain to the tenants tribunal - I'd say heat is one of the essentials and you can't rent a place with out essentials. Or take advantage of the provision in tenancy laws. I think there is one that says in emergencies tenants can pay up to a few hundred dollars for repairs themselves and demand it back from the real estate/landlord as long as whoever fixes the heat goes along and says it was an emergency - that would have been better done in cold cold winter nights maybe.

When a landlord leaves there property in the hands of a Real estate agent we nominate a price that if somthing needs to be fixed asap,( somthing of the essentials like water heating ect) that it can be done thru the agent without our ( the landlords) permission and we will then re enburse the agent. Id be taking a trip down to the real estate agents and having a talk to them and see what can be done.

Mind you my tentant was in my house without heating for a good part of winter ( he had an open fire) ...i get this call " Lisa we were curious the duct heating isnt working and we dont know where to turn it on" i was like have you looked under the house?? its in the corner on the left....try lighting it!!!"