Landlord spoilt my holiday
I just came back from a midweek 4 days holiday spent in Ham Bottom in Taunton. The house was fantastic except for the following:
1. The horrible smell of the chemicals used to clean the draineg which we had to up for few hours as soon as we arrived.
2. Many dead wasps at far end of the swimming pool.
3. Insufficient light in the dark barbecue room.
4. The sauna needs almost 1 hour to heat up.
5. Washing machine's door is cracked and the dryer does not work. How do you expect to dry the towels.
6. Chopping board in the kitchen is rotten and has fungus and mold.
7. Unpleasant landlord who completely ruined our holiday. As we are leaving the house he told my daughter who was the last to leave that we are like a pig leaving the house filthy and accused us of stealing the table lamp from the dining room. Also told her not to come back again anymore as we are not welcome. I came back to confront him and told him he should be talking to me not to my daughter. His words to my daughter disheartened her and spoilt our holiday as we smell racism in his words. As for his table lamp we borrowed it from the dining room to use it for the dark barbecue room to see what we were barbecuing. So we left it inside the barbecue room and forgot to put it back. As for the house left filthy is untrue it's only the kitchen plates which we used for our last breakfast but we did not wash them because he told us on the first night "Do not clean anything as we will do so. You just enjoy your holiday". At the end he apologised for his rude commentary to my daughter but it wasn't strong enough as he kept saying he never had the house as dirty as this time and this is again untrue. My wife found a rotten chopping board full of mold with Ham Bottom embroided on it which was hanging over the kitchen sink.
You do not say to your tenant such words because they simply did not clean the plates or the kitchen table. We paid almost 2k for the house which is a hefty amount of money and then he accuses us of steeling a £15 table lamp!! We came to this lanlord's 2 houses more than once yet he syas these things. Very disappointing.
8. The landlord is inconsiderate to the privacy of the tenants. On the second night we asked him to provide us with charcoal for the barbecue room. He came from the kitchen door instead of the front door. My wife and my two daughters were there. Also to come for the kitchen door you have to pass by the swimming pool which lies at the back of the house. I said to him you shouldn't do that as my wife and daughters might be swimming. Seems to me that he has no consideration to our religious and cultural values.
If it was someone else he would have given him not more than 1 star for what the landlord said at the end to satisfy his revenge.
But I am a religious person who fears Allah the All mighty so I have to say apart from that the house was very good.