Re: Landlords are eeeevil
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: June 14, 2003 12:16PM
I can't see any reason why you shouldn't qualify for legal aid. And if you do, it will start being very expensive for your landlord to keep a running argument with you, as he will have to answer your solicitors letters with his solicitors letters, and that gets expensive.
There's nothing wrong with using the law to settle a dispute. If two people can't agree, they need a third to settle the matter. That can be perfectly amicable. 'Ok, we don't agree --- well let's have someoene else settle it then' is where it all begins. That does not imply being nasty to the other party. It just costs a lot of money if you have an income, and nothing if you don't (up to a limit, the details of which I can't remember, but isn't likely to apply in your case).
A lot of people just have no sense. Your landlord has done work under duress to bring things up to a minimum standard below which he should have been ashamed to offer the place for rent. The only increase he is due is from trying to let a property that would only go to someone who doesn't kick up a fuss, to being able to let the same property more easily. If it weren't for the state paying the bills, he would have been getting a lot less given the condition of the house.
In recent years I have for perfectly innocent reasons had far more to do with solicitors than I ever expected. I find them refreshing. When people complain about solicitors, they are really complaining about the inadequate briefing given their solicitors by their malcontent opponents (in my opinion). No, I'm not a solicitor!