I am renting a semi-detached house privately through a letting agent and need some advice regarding my responsibilities as a tenant. Both my neighbours on each side have had construction works recently. I was concerned about some of the works so I informed the landlord out of courtesy as I thought the works would affect his property but I was mostly ignored and told in indirect terms to be considerate of the neighbours so I only reported issues afterwards which directly affected us as tenants like rubble left on our side during the works.
Both the neighbours replaced their fences facing our property and apart of other issues I have also noticed that during the fence replacement one of the neighbours has attached the fence to our garage wall where previously there was a gap of a few inches. This is the unattached side though they have extended their property right to the boundary so has an attached effect near the garage. As far as I know the fence should be on their own land and not attached to anything on our land but due to the past experience I am reluctant to report this to the landlord and will only report issues that are legally my responsibility. What's the worse that can happen if the landlord finds it later, can he blame me for not reporting it at the time? I am planning to move out in the next year or so, so don't want any issues that might affect me getting my deposit back.
Both the neighbours replaced their fences facing our property and apart of other issues I have also noticed that during the fence replacement one of the neighbours has attached the fence to our garage wall where previously there was a gap of a few inches. This is the unattached side though they have extended their property right to the boundary so has an attached effect near the garage. As far as I know the fence should be on their own land and not attached to anything on our land but due to the past experience I am reluctant to report this to the landlord and will only report issues that are legally my responsibility. What's the worse that can happen if the landlord finds it later, can he blame me for not reporting it at the time? I am planning to move out in the next year or so, so don't want any issues that might affect me getting my deposit back.
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