You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. You have received a letter from your landlord, Mr Matthews, asking you to renew your contract and pay more rent. You are happy in the property but the landlord has not been maintaining it well. Write a reply to Mr Matthews. In your letter: • indicate your intention to stay • give information about the maintenance issues • explain what you would like the landlord to do now. Write at least 150 words.

Dear Mr Mattews, I am writing

this

letter to request you have some maintenance work done for the building. I have been your tenant for more than a decade and I am very much satisfied with

this

place.

Moreover

, my residence is ideal for me to live in since it is quite near to my office,

therefore

it just takes me only half an hour to get there.

Also

, the rent, I have been charged for

this

house, is within my budget and can be affordable for me.

However

, with reference to your

last

letter, you wanted to renew my agreement and increase the rent as well. With your due respect, I wanted to bring it to your knowledge that I have no issue with your decision but there are a couple of maintenance issues which I have been facing since

last

year.

Firstly

, there is a leakage on the roof of my apartment. As a consequence, the water drips from the top whenever there is rain.

Furthermore

, the building needs to be painted as it was

last

painted when I made the

first

contract.

Finally

, one of the doors of the kitchen cabinet has broken down

last

week and needs to be changed on an urgent basis. You are requested to send the maintenance team to get the work done.

Also

, please offer me an alternative place to reside until all the work is finished. Yours Sincerely, Arsalan Farooq