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Invasion Of Privacy
Anyone else hate having strangers in their home?
Being a council tenant, I have to have a tenancy 'audit' once a year. Had one this morning, whereby a council official visits, asks loads of questions and looks into every room of my flat to check that all is well.
I hate it. Feel like my right to privacy is invaded.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I had to do it as a landlord and had it done as a tenant and both times found it a neccessary but very uncomfortable experience. I suppose best to look at it positively in that you have a council flat and not at the mercy of a slum landlord who will never come around, but will also never do any improvement work.
Sharon it is not a waste of time. Once when doing a visit when I worked for a letting agency, I noted twelve mattresses in the living room and six mattresses in each of the bedrooms of a two bed terrace being rented by a 'couple'. Landlords private or Housing associations, have to check to make sure the property is safe and being used for residential purposed for the appropriate amount of people. All this affects the Insurance a landlord has to take out on a property -the respectable good landlords that is.
Council officials have the right to inspect their tenant's property but must give at least 24 hours notice (they can enter without notice and force entry in certain circumstances). It is a criminal offence to obstruct them.
Tenants must also allow the compulsory 12 month gas inspection if they have mains of gas.