@Les Dansonne said:
You guys rock!!! After all, she IS only a TENANT. With all her stuff all over COMMON PROPERTY too. She should definitely have to move it herself. You have all finally convinced me. Over and out.
What a cheap shot. It’s got nothing to do with her being a tenant. In fact we have suggested she asks for a rent reduction from her landlord to cover her costs and all the disruption. If she were an owner, we couldn’t even suggest that.
What do you want, Les? We tell her how it ISN’T? Tell her to fight this at the CTTT, in a battle that isn’t worth hassle and which she’s bound to lose (or at least not win any financial compensation)? Tell her to barricade her doors and not let the workmen in? And all because you think it’s ‘unfair’ (which it may be but that is not the point).
We try to give people the best advice we can based on how things are and not how we think they should be. If she asks her landlord, they might pay for the stuff to be moved.
If that fails she could admittedly go to Fair Trading and ask them to order a rent reduction but she’d have to consider the consequences of the Fair Trading route – a gamble that might end in her losing her tenancy at the first possible opportunity.