Off Topic Rented house

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Absolute rubbish mate, no such thing as squatters rights. A landlord has statutory repairing obligations that are cover by law. In the absence of a written tenancy agreement the default position becomes that as defined by the housing act. Also bear in mind that despite many things that could be agreed in a tenancy agreement no one can sign away their statutory rights in favour of someone else.
I think you’ll find there is m8, when I was training it’s absolute definition was termed adverse possession, it’s also correct that you have rights as set out in provisions defined in the landlord and tenant act and the housing act, but let’s not be pedantic.
 
He is wooden mate, like I have said he dismisses our written agreement said not worth the paper it was written on, dismisses his legal obligations, actual said no proof I am renting. I have no idea where the water is going but my trump card has to be his legal obligations. Hares a cracker, when I said the property has damp on the kitchen wall he sent a roofer out and they repaired a few broken tiles, he did not even come out and look at the property, last week on the phone he spent his last on repairing the roof, he was rather upset when I said it had nothing to do with the roof

The highlighted text has to be BS - you can (presumably) show proof of your rental payments into his account.