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77 Glencoe Road Sheffield S2 2SG

MAN/00CG/HMF/2019/0062 · Sheffield · decided 10 Mar 2020 · rent repayment order

old rules
OffenceUnlicensed HMO
LandlordIndividual
Applicants1 tenant
Rent£380 per month
Period the order relates to11 Jun 2017 to 23 Oct 2019
Maximum the tribunal could award£4,560; £849 then deducted for utilities
Amount the tribunal ordered£3,711 (1 applicant)
Share of the maximum81%, from the two figures above
RulesOld rules (offence before 1 May 2026): maximum 12 months' rent.

Read from the PDF automatically. Amounts are totals for the decision, across all its applicants.

From the tribunal's reasons on the amount

at least December 2019. … It had not been included within the tenancy agreement and subsequent requested for this information had gone unanswered. … This was in breach of the GDPR legislation. … When he had bought the house they were in working order, the house having been refurbished prior to him buying it. He accepted there were constant problems with the alarms and he endeavoured to repair them on a number of occasions. When attending the Property, he frequently found the tenants had removed the batteries. After further investigation, he had found an issue with a circuit breaker that had been repaired and had resolved the problem. He confirmed he had not sought professional help with the issue but had tried to remedy it himself over a period of many months. … He had wanted to repair the washing machine but accepted that leaving it in the Property for 11 months was inappropriate. He had gone to the Property to deal with items that had been left by former tenants and the overgrown garden. He had not been able to remove all the garden debris and it had remained at the Property until approximately 4 weeks prior to the hearing. … However, due to personal circumstances, he decided to sell the Property and had hoped to do so in a way that would leave the tenants in occupation. He had visited the Property in May 2019 and had informed the tenants of his decision. …

An extract from the part of the decision that sets the amount. To keep people's names out, any sentence that might contain one is left out (marked …). The full reasons are in the original decision.

The original

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