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What Are my Housing Association Repair Obligations and Requirements?
As an occupant you do have a certain amount of obligation to keep where you live clean, safe and neat, your regional authority or housing association also has a lot of repair and upkeep commitments.
Social Housing proprietors are responsible for the majority of repairs in your house, including any damage or disrepair impacting:.
the structure/exterior of the building i.e. the roof, walls, windows and external doors.
central heating, gas fires, fireplaces, flues, ventilation and chimneys.
supply of water, pipelines, sinks, toilets and baths.
external drains and guttering.
gas pipes, electrical circuitry and any devices provided i.e. if a cleaning machine is offered the property owner is likely accountable if it breaks.
common areas like lifts and entryways.
If you live in a house of several occupation or an HMO, your property manager has much more obligations for fire and basic safety, water system and drain, gas and electricity and waste disposal.
These must be detailed in your occupancy arrangement, which our Housing disrepair solicitors can help you understand if you seem like you have the right to claim versus your proprietor or social housing association.
We can send someone over to inspect the damage to your house if you live in social Housing to assist us assess if you can make a claim.
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What Is A Housing Association?
No guide to making housing association problems would be complete without a complete description of what a real estate association is. These are non-profit making business, which own several homes, and are in the business of leasing these residential or commercial properties out.
Where a personal proprietor may only have one or a handful of properties, a real estate association might potentially be leasing hundreds at a time. All of the earnings made from renting goes towards keeping and improving the residential or commercial properties, in addition to extending the residential or commercial property portfolio. Real estate association homes that are rented to low-income groups is typically offered the name social housing. It is the in fact non-profit making organisation you would make a claim for housing association compensation versus.
We can help you with housing association compensation claims, call us on the number down at the end of this guide to find out how we can help you.
When Could Make A Complaint About Your Housing Association?
Choosing just when to make a problem to your housing association will boil down to simply how bad the real estate disrepair really is. If it is the middle of winter season and the main heating system has actually broken down, you will want to complain rapidly. In your tenancy agreement, you will find info about the optimum timescale that your housing association has to repair certain types of repair work. If this optimum timescale has not run, then you should be reporting the need for a repair work, rather than making a grievance about a repair not being carried out.
We can help you claim for real estate disrepair from your real estate association. Call us on the phone number down at the end of this guide to continue.
