Armley tenant Tristan McKenna claims he has been plagued by “hellish” maintenance problems while renting in Leeds over the last three years.
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00:00So my name is Tristan McKenna, I live in Armley in Leeds. I've been renting this
00:05property for three years through Linley & Simpson but through a private landlord
00:09and for those three years I've reported numerous maintenance problems which
00:15never get resolved. We waited two years for a leaking window to be resolved, we've
00:20been raising issues with the boiler for three years, it constantly needs
00:23repairing. We're currently without a working gas hole because a gas leak that
00:27was reported on the gas safety checks for four years was never looked at and
00:31has now reached a point of failure and on top of that they've increased my rent
00:34by 25% over the last three years. This street and this area in particular is
00:40quite dangerous, we have a lot of serious crime and literally I think last week we
00:45had an armed robbery at our local convenience store which is less than one
00:49minute walk from this house which made the national news because guns are
00:53possibly you know imitation firearms were used but it was still an armed
00:56robbery on our doorstep. I've seen baseball bat riots, there was a gentleman
01:00stabbed outside the property. At one point over the summer, just gone over the
01:06last summer, we were calling the police every three days.