Hi,
My tenant went ahead to redecorate and repaint the inside of my small 2 bed flat (leasehold, purpose build type). She only told me afterwards she has done so and sent me all the receipts to ask me to pay for them. In fact she said she had seek legal advice and she is entitled to it. Among all the receipts there are items include 10 tubs of paint colour testers, and 20L of paint, 10 meters of sand paper and other items which I thought is excessive for a 2 bed small flat. Correct me if I am wrong, but is redecorating the inside of the flat my responsibility? I understand my responsibility as the flat owner is the maintenance of the building block/ structure, heater and plumbing and electrical fixtures such as cooker, washing machine etc inside the flat (I always pay the costs for those). Also since we are in a pandemic I can't even physically go to see what she has done inside. What is my best course of action?
To give some background info- the day she moved in to sign the standard AST tenancy agreement, I had the inventory clerk in to do a thorough inventory report with the condition of everything in the flat, which was already newly decorated at that point (around 5 years ago).
Any advice/ suggestions greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
My tenant went ahead to redecorate and repaint the inside of my small 2 bed flat (leasehold, purpose build type). She only told me afterwards she has done so and sent me all the receipts to ask me to pay for them. In fact she said she had seek legal advice and she is entitled to it. Among all the receipts there are items include 10 tubs of paint colour testers, and 20L of paint, 10 meters of sand paper and other items which I thought is excessive for a 2 bed small flat. Correct me if I am wrong, but is redecorating the inside of the flat my responsibility? I understand my responsibility as the flat owner is the maintenance of the building block/ structure, heater and plumbing and electrical fixtures such as cooker, washing machine etc inside the flat (I always pay the costs for those). Also since we are in a pandemic I can't even physically go to see what she has done inside. What is my best course of action?
To give some background info- the day she moved in to sign the standard AST tenancy agreement, I had the inventory clerk in to do a thorough inventory report with the condition of everything in the flat, which was already newly decorated at that point (around 5 years ago).
Any advice/ suggestions greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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