Standards of Living accommodation

This article  is quite interesting and highlights a number of isssues in terms of the current standards of accommodation in Malta

http://maltatenantsupport.weebly.com/bl … the-bottle

I think the most telling paragraph in this article is and should serve as a warning to all who live and also to all those who are contemplating a move here is this...........

"What’s been troubling me is this: landlords have made the most of the complete liberalization of the rental market. Bil-Malti, is-sidien tad-djar għamlu festa, dawn l-aħħar snin. Iffangaw, u kif. Rents are sky high. Standards of rental accommodation are abysmal. Tax evasion is rife. Landlords are mostly unprofessional and often abusive.Tenants feel sordid every month when they hand over huge amounts of cash to their landlords. Most tenants are on the extortionate summer residence tariff. Most tenants do not have access to their own Arms bills. Most tenants do not have access to the Arms redress mechanism. The electrics and plumbing in most properties are shocking. Many properties have a problem with black mould. Deposits are unjustifiably retained by most landlords, who seem to think that they have a right to that money, no matter what. Rental contracts tend to be of 1 year, with the result that the rent goes up every year or you’re out of the property, out of the community you were building roots in, on to the next property. Contracts are mostly tenant-unfair"

SO THE WATCH WORD IS CAVEAT EMPTOR - - LET THE BUYER BEWARE - ALL IS NOT SWEETNESS AND LIGHT IN WHAT YOU MAY THINK IS A LOVELY PLACE TO HOLIDAY - so please do your research join the tenant groups etc and be 100% sure its what you want.... work is hard to get and hard to do - wages are low, accom is now unaffordable and of poor quality unless you can afford over €1000 a month. Landlords abuse the tenant-landlord relationship.