Jaap Rademaker
Jaap Rademaker
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21st February 2026, 4 months ago
While the majority of tenants are normal, over the years there will be one that is not normal but weird, aggressive and plain crazy. It’s statistics. You don’t want that one “to know where ypu live*. Tenats are not in...
Read More →21st February 2026, 4 months ago
While the majority of tenants are normal, over the years there will be one that is not normal but weird, aggressive and plain crazy. It's statistics. You don't want that one "to know where ypu live*. Tenats are not in...
Read More →18th October 2025, 8 months ago
Never touch these Serco contracts !! They make Serco wealthy but not the small landlord..... serco gets 4000 per person per month and onpays only 400 to 600 per person on to the landlord. They write a strangle contract so...
Read More →5th April 2025, 1 year ago
Finally a good approach! Where can we all join with a say 100 pound contribution to help With this derailing ? Power to Landlords ! Indeed I have always felt strongly my rights were being trampled, being treated so differently,...
Read More →22nd March 2025, 1 year ago
Can you imagine if she wrote an article about women being leeches, not working but sitting at home just nagging their men for more holidays, then divorcing them and grabbing half of everything they have and 80% of their income....
Read More →20th April 2024, 2 years ago
Let me write out the future for you .... This is an incredibly good article and the comments are even better. Journalists and politicians please all read this and you have all the perspectives from a tenant and landlord perspective...
Read More →13th January 2024, 2 years ago
Dear dear 118 news team. Can you mention inflation rates in all your articles immediately after "rent rise". Rents are not rising faster than inflation. Inflation means money is becoming worth less. In real terms, rents are going down. Explain...
Read More →13th January 2024, 2 years ago
What is it with these paralysed politicians - just build more houses !!! Whoever is in charge - you must build more houses and you can just relax idiotic planning - oh hey, that's ruled by councils that don't need...
Read More →13th January 2024, 2 years ago
I have an HMO in London. Had a foreign guy, Latin American with Spanish passport rent a room - foreigners are usually great tenants by the way. Suddenly -- there was a girl living in the room with him, and...
Read More →10th December 2023, 2 years ago
Rents are not "soaring" - they are only just keeping up with inflation. But journalists like exciting headlines. Why don't they write food prices have gone up by 15%. And costs for landlords, their taxes, their mortgage burdens have gone...
Read More →10th December 2023, 2 years ago
And can journalists also focus on making noise to BUILD MORE HOUSES and remove ridiculous planning hurdles ? now that will actually solve the real problem ! and bring rents down. I so wish journalists and politicians had a brain.........
Read More →10th December 2023, 2 years ago
There is 8.4% inflation over the entire year so in real terms RENT HAS NOT INCREASED at all. Can JOURNALISTS PLEASE UNDERSTAND AND MENTION INFLATION. thanks
Read More →2nd September 2023, 3 years ago
In the UK from October to April the air is so moist, ventilation will not help. Keep windows shut, and run a DEHUMIDIFIER, all problems solved. Also as air is dry, less heating cost. Watch some youtube videos... only one...
Read More →8th April 2023, 3 years ago
Why are landlords singled out and discriminated against, as the only ones that must get more energy efficient ? Why not force everyone with a home to do more about energy efficiency. As for me - endless insulation, double glazing...
Read More →8th April 2023, 3 years ago
Inflation is running at 14% - why do Khan and all the other politicians not understand INFLATION ? Inflation indices have been doctored and changed to bring them down - even with that inflation is 10.2% officially. I have two...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Giànluca Portadibasso at 27/02/2023 - 15:22
Reply to the comment left by Giànluca Portadibasso at 27/02/2023 - 15:22Yes everyone seems to have forgotten that pandemic government/bbc just costing landlords rent - and no journalists report on things like that, very odd, they get more satisfaction or...
Read More →25th February 2023, 3 years ago
Do politicians realize that having one tenant not paying - when of course the landlord must keep paying the mortgage - endangers dozens and dozens of tenants as the landlord can go bankrupt ? After Covid the government has created...
Read More →25th February 2023, 3 years ago
Landlords just trying to recover from pandemics where politicians tell tenants they can have a rent holiday as landlords get a mortgage holiday (yeah right...) leaving big losses ..... courts are as dilapidated and slow as NHS so s 21...
Read More →25th February 2023, 3 years ago
12% inflation means rents are becoming lower in real terms. Please explain to journalists and the public sleepy NRLA. Landlords have made less and less Osborne EICR EPC licensing by councils with ridiculous requirements. Landlords bled dry with taxes, extra...
Read More →25th February 2023, 3 years ago
Dear news team can you help all landlords by educating journalists and the public about inflation. Inflation is running at 12% so that in real terms rents ARE NOT RISING AT ALL. Interest rates for risk free bank deposits are...
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