Tenancy review for 10 Exbury Place in St Peters Parish, Worcester rented from David And Jean Cox

Landlord rating: 1

Landlord deceptively uses letting agents to initially rent the property but ‘tries’ to manage it thereafter themselves but clueless as to landlord repairing obligations and accessing and altering the property without notice, even destroying a lock gate.

Property rating: 3

Property is a fairly large bungalow, sadly let down by neglect and lack of property maintenance. On first glance it looks ok, however boiler is unreliable, disputes post tenancy as to who owns the path to the garden leaving the side and rear of the house very inaccessible and subject to crime. Landlord visits without notice.

Area rating: 4

St Peter’s is generally a nice area, however the property is located on a road very close to a busy Tescos so heavy traffic noise, lots of pollution, and refrigerated trucks parked on the road with engines running all night for the Tesco, queued up waiting to be ready to unload, and traffic noise at all hours as people visit Tescos. There is also a residential home for people with special needs so expect lots of screeching and screaming from that and their garden. It’s certainly not a ‘quiet’ property. Very inefficient heating and insulation so expect huge heating bills in winter.

Landlords also very deceptive, left garden maintenance equipment in all the photos of the shed, even on inventory however all were removed on moving in!

Noise nuisance have also had to be made due to the recent new neighbour next door who have been a nightmare, moved the toilet inside the property leaving a toilet vent pipe in the roof just metres away from an opening window of this property in the lounge so can’t open my window in summer without the smell of human sewage!

Landlord is known for visiting the property without notice (unlawful), and when they cannot get their own way make false police reports, which thankfully the police found nothing wrong and closed the matter and noted it so they ignore future reports.

Landlord also unlawfully removed my own padlock to secure the side gated access to the property leaving it vulnerable to burglary.