My Student Accommodation – A Couple Of Things To Be Weary Of When Looking

I have been letting my student accommodation for two months now. It is the first time that I have lived in private student accommodation after previously living in halls. I know many of my friends that love their student accommodation and after seeing their homes I feel quite envious.

I have to say that my housemates and myself have no one else to point the finger at about our student accommodation apart from us. We were quite inactive in starting our search for a house and left it to the last minute and therefore signed our student accommodation in a panic as we thought that we would otherwise not have anywhere to live.
The student accommodation we signed seemed quite good quality at first. Don’t get me wrong it wasn’t the best student accommodation we had seen and not the worst, well at the beginning. The building was average, the size of the rooms was reasonable, but as soon as we moved in everything just began breaking or just falling apart. Like I said before we have only been living in our student accommodation for a few months now but have bumped into soo many issues and our landlord just does not do anything about them. If he does try to sort something out it takes weeks if not months and even then the problem is most of the time not even fixed.
We have been to see advisors within the university about how to go about our issues with our student accommodation. We have taken the short-hold letting agreement in and a legal advisor within the university has told us that we have a worthy case to take our landlord to court for providing such a nasty and insufficient level of student accommodation.
We have had no working freezer, a faulty microwave that looks as if it is older than me. An oven that is unusable, as it smells of burring rubber. Only one out of three hobs function, which is not good when you live in a house of ten. We did start with two showers but one has broken so all of us share just one shower. The central heating has stopped working so it is colder in our house than it is outside, there is damp in almost every room, mould on the walls, broken sofa’s and a large draft that comes through the flimsy back door that does not lend itself to security. How is our landlord able to get away with providing us such a awful standard of student accommodation? I must note that none of these problems have yet been sorted out, replaced or resolved.

When you are looking for your student accommodation, do not panic, just remember that there are more properties than students need, so take your time and make sure you are well informed and go with a reputable landlord.