Reply to the comment left by Markella Mikkelsen at 11/08/2025 - 11:54Feel for you as I’ve had a number of situations of non paying tenants and a useless court system to deal with over the last 15 years. I’m getting...
It is absolutely no surprise whatsoever that there are thousands of unlicensed HMO‘s in London. There are up to half a million illegal immigrants living in London- so where are they living?. They can’t take normal tenancies or join any...
This will never be solved until everyone stops talking about building more houses and deals with the cause - uncontrolled population growth through legal and illegal migration. How can u allow over a million people to come to the U.K....
Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 05/04/2024 - 12:25Not quite right - Serco are recruiting pre landlords to house asylum seekers to help lower the amount of hotels being used by government.
There’s one glaring omission from this article regarding the increasing number of people looking for rental property - the high level of immigration - 600,000 last year alone, one of the reasons we have such a housing crisis.
Shelter- Government - everyone continues to avoid the simple truth - to solve the housing problem we need to reduce and stop the uncontrolled population growth - drastically reduce immigration and remove those that have no right to be in...
I know someone working with the Afghan refugees- they say that some of them are turning down perfectly good houses because they want bigger houses ur in a different area- they seem to have an “entitled to” attitude - some...
If we controlled our population there would be no crisis. How can u allow 600,000 people enter the country in a year when there is already a desperate shortage of accommodation?
Another solution maybe is to control the amount of people coming into the U.K. - immigration over the last two years is likely to be 1million - where are they all going to live?. When I have a property available...
Can you image the potential anti social behaviour issues this will create - houses full of young men hanging around with nothing to do and whose cultural views and behaviours are very different from from ours
Peter, let me give you one piece of advice to save you a lot of stress and financial cost – insist on home-owning guarantors for all your tenants, or a very good insurance policy. It will reduce your applicants as...
Housing crisis cause - 1 Government have encouraged landlords to leave the sector by tax,legislation,and licensing. 2 immigration continues at an unsustainable rate - 500k in one year. = fewer homes being chased by more people- rents go up. Housing...
I went through a period where I used to rent rooms to benefits tenants in HMO’s. I had a good relationship with the local council and they would bring the tenants to me, and provide interest free deposit loans to...
I used to own a hmo and took in dozens of homeless individuals over a 5 year period- a lot of them on behalf of the local council. I stopped this and sold the property 2 years ago purely because...
Reply to comment left by Markella Mikkelsen at 11/08/2025 - 11:54
Reply to the comment left by Markella Mikkelsen at 11/08/2025 - 11:54Feel for you as I’ve had a number of situations of non paying tenants and a useless court system to deal with over the last 15 years. I’m getting...
Read More →2nd August 2025, 8 months ago
It is absolutely no surprise whatsoever that there are thousands of unlicensed HMO‘s in London. There are up to half a million illegal immigrants living in London- so where are they living?. They can’t take normal tenancies or join any...
Read More →11th May 2024, 2 years ago
This will never be solved until everyone stops talking about building more houses and deals with the cause - uncontrolled population growth through legal and illegal migration. How can u allow over a million people to come to the U.K....
Read More →Reply to comment left by DSR DSR at 05/04/2024 - 12:25
Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 05/04/2024 - 12:25Not quite right - Serco are recruiting pre landlords to house asylum seekers to help lower the amount of hotels being used by government.
Read More →6th April 2024, 2 years ago
When are these people going to get the maths - U.K. renters + huge levels of uncontrolled immigration = not enough homes
Read More →23rd March 2024, 2 years ago
Insist on a home owning working guarantor.
Read More →24th February 2024, 2 years ago
It’s quite simple - control immigration
Read More →20th January 2024, 2 years ago
benefit fraud is happening on an industrial scale - unfortunately the decent honest tenants have to go through these checks to find the cheaters
Read More →18th November 2023, 2 years ago
There is a house near us that’s been empty for two years, the previous owner died intestate. This process needs speeding up
Read More →11th November 2023, 2 years ago
There’s one glaring omission from this article regarding the increasing number of people looking for rental property - the high level of immigration - 600,000 last year alone, one of the reasons we have such a housing crisis.
Read More →23rd September 2023, 3 years ago
Shelter- Government - everyone continues to avoid the simple truth - to solve the housing problem we need to reduce and stop the uncontrolled population growth - drastically reduce immigration and remove those that have no right to be in...
Read More →22nd July 2023, 3 years ago
I know someone working with the Afghan refugees- they say that some of them are turning down perfectly good houses because they want bigger houses ur in a different area- they seem to have an “entitled to” attitude - some...
Read More →16th July 2023, 3 years ago
If we controlled our population there would be no crisis. How can u allow 600,000 people enter the country in a year when there is already a desperate shortage of accommodation?
Read More →13th May 2023, 3 years ago
Another solution maybe is to control the amount of people coming into the U.K. - immigration over the last two years is likely to be 1million - where are they all going to live?. When I have a property available...
Read More →6th May 2023, 3 years ago
Can you image the potential anti social behaviour issues this will create - houses full of young men hanging around with nothing to do and whose cultural views and behaviours are very different from from ours
Read More →30th April 2023, 3 years ago
Peter, let me give you one piece of advice to save you a lot of stress and financial cost – insist on home-owning guarantors for all your tenants, or a very good insurance policy. It will reduce your applicants as...
Read More →24th April 2023, 3 years ago
There’s a simpler solution - control immigration and demand drops
Read More →10th April 2023, 3 years ago
Housing crisis cause - 1 Government have encouraged landlords to leave the sector by tax,legislation,and licensing. 2 immigration continues at an unsustainable rate - 500k in one year. = fewer homes being chased by more people- rents go up. Housing...
Read More →2nd January 2023, 3 years ago
I went through a period where I used to rent rooms to benefits tenants in HMO’s. I had a good relationship with the local council and they would bring the tenants to me, and provide interest free deposit loans to...
Read More →19th December 2020, 5 years ago
I used to own a hmo and took in dozens of homeless individuals over a 5 year period- a lot of them on behalf of the local council. I stopped this and sold the property 2 years ago purely because...
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