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Hitches and Glitches and the like - who pays - tenant or owner?

october21468

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Latest post on 03 September 2011 - 13:09

We are looking to move shortly to a villa in Meadows and DH has asked me to find out about maintenance contracts.

Up til now our LL has always paid for all major and minor maintenance (albeit at times not very professionally carried out lol), but something in my waters tells me this won't necessarily be the case in a Meadows villa!

I guess it also depends on the LL, but I'd be interested to hear if anyone has any feedback on this.

Also, is H&G reliable? I don't think I've ever heard anything negative about them.

Thanks!

Cheeky Monkey

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Latest post on 26 September 2011 - 23:47

These landlords are such cheap ******** here! :( boo hoo, not all of us are cheap bleepity-bleeps (not 100% sure what you put since it was ***ed out, but can probably guess! :D ), some of us are lovely, honest!! We have a gold maintainence package, pay for any repairs that need doing promptly and without quibble, charge slightly less that the going rent rate for the area, tenant is even a facebook friend of DH's...! Have you got a villa that I can rent from you?:) Sorry, only got the one that we lived in for a few years before we left Dubai with DH's job... :) that's why we look after it so well - it was our home, not a cash cow, and wanted a family in it that would treat it like their home too. I guess that's the difference between most landlords and us! :)

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spongemonkey980

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Latest post on 26 September 2011 - 23:42

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Cheeky Monkey

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Latest post on 26 September 2011 - 23:37

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spongemonkey980

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Latest post on 26 September 2011 - 23:27

These landlords are such cheap ******** here!

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Sanddy_Dogg

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Latest post on 04 September 2011 - 16:13

Sorry, I didn't read properly and saw the word "month". Need more sleep...

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Buy me a Pony36483

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Latest post on 04 September 2011 - 16:03

Fairycakey you sound like you have a very reasonable landlord. We have been renting this villa since 7 July, moved in 4 August. From the beginning we had a list of things to be fixecd which then grew once we moved in and discovered the stuff that you wouldn't notice by looking - air con that didn't work in one room, electrical power point in the kitchen, missing key to door to garage etc, etc. Numerous phone calls to the LL's Agent and still no movement. We will give it another week given it's been Ramadan, and then decide whether we should take it to the next level or just suck it up. Our neighbours (who have the same landlord) have told us about the maintenance company, so I guess the precedent is set there, that it will be our cost and our contract to take out. :-/

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fairycakeyumm21878

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Latest post on 04 September 2011 - 15:06

I wouldn't do it...my LL said she LL get a contract if we wanted but we have decided to call out jim LL fix it when needed and will e mail bills to them so they can pay us back....they seem much better then any of the other companies.

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Buy me a Pony36483

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Latest post on 04 September 2011 - 15:03

No, per annum - per year! I believe you have to sign a contract for a year. The contract is simply for their labour though. If they require equipment you still need to pay for that. <em>edited by Buy me a Pony on 04/09/2011</em>

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