Claims of 'hellish' maintenance issues at Leeds rental property dating back three years

Armley tenant Tristan McKenna claims he has been plagued by “hellish” maintenance problems while renting in Leeds over the last three years.

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00:00So my name is Tristan McKenna, I live in Armley in Leeds. I've been renting this

00:05property for three years through Linley & Simpson but through a private landlord

00:09and for those three years I've reported numerous maintenance problems which

00:15never get resolved. We waited two years for a leaking window to be resolved, we've

00:20been raising issues with the boiler for three years, it constantly needs

00:23repairing. We're currently without a working gas hole because a gas leak that

00:27was reported on the gas safety checks for four years was never looked at and

00:31has now reached a point of failure and on top of that they've increased my rent

00:34by 25% over the last three years. This street and this area in particular is

00:40quite dangerous, we have a lot of serious crime and literally I think last week we

00:45had an armed robbery at our local convenience store which is less than one

00:49minute walk from this house which made the national news because guns are

00:53possibly you know imitation firearms were used but it was still an armed

00:56robbery on our doorstep. I've seen baseball bat riots, there was a gentleman

01:00stabbed outside the property. At one point over the summer, just gone over the

01:06last summer, we were calling the police every three days.