My landlord charged me £150 for replacing and ‘cleaning’ a lightbulb

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My landlord charged me £150 for replacing and ‘cleaning’ a lightbulb
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The charges were vastly reduced when challenged – but show the lengths some tenants have to go through to get their deposit money backEverywhere I have lived has been returned in exactly the same condition as it was when I arrived, and I’m lucky to have never had a single financial wrangle upon leaving any of them.

2017 was my first year after university, and I was living in a five-bed flat in the outskirts of Edinburgh. The first place to start is by acknowledging that a lightbulb, even a slightly larger than normal one, does not cost £100. This equates to a rate of £6,000 per hour – very skilled labour indeed. I shudder to think what this would cost now after the past two years of wage inflation.

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