My Student Accommodation – A Couple Of Things To Recall When Looking

I have been letting  my student accommodation for seven weeks now. It is the very first time that I have lived in private student accommodation after previously living in halls. I know many of my friends that love their student accommodation and after seeing their homes I feel quite doubting. 
I have to say that my flatmates and myself have no one else to condem about our student accommodation apart from ourselves. We were quite inactive in beginning our search for a suitable house and left it to the last minute and therefore signed our student accommodation in a rush as we thought that we would otherwise not have anywhere to live.
The student accommodation we signed seemed quite conventional at first. Don’t get me wrong it wasn’t the best student accommodation we had seen and not the worst, well at the beginning. The building was okay, the size of the rooms was acceptable, but as soon as we moved in everything just began breaking or just falling apart. Like I said before we have only been living in our student accommodation for a few weeks now but have come across soo many problems and our landlord just does not do anything about them. If he does try to sort something out it takes hours and hours if not months and even then the problem is most of the time not even fixed.
We have been to see people within the university about how to go about our problems with our student accommodation. We have taken the short-hold letting agreement in and a legal advisor within the university has told us that we have a decent case to take our landlord to court for providing such a poor and insufficient level of student accommodation.
We have had no operational freezer, a faulty microwave that looks as if it is older than me. An oven that is unusable, as it smells of burring rubber. Only two out of four hobs work, which is not good when you live in a house of ten. We did start with two showers but one has become faulty so all of us share only one shower. The central heating has stopped working so it is colder in our house than it is outside, there is damp in almost every room, mould on the walls, broken chairs and a large draft that comes through the flimsy back door that does not lend itself to safety. How is our landlord able to get away with providing us such a poor standard of student accommodation? I must note that none of these issues have yet been sorted out, replaced or resolved.
When you are looking for your student accommodation, do not rush, just remember that there are more houses than students need, so take your time and make sure you are well informed and go with a reliable landlord.