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Small business owner, family man and small portfolio landlord with more than 20 years' experience and fewer than 3 properties held outside a limited company.
"Working very hard to provide essential family accommodation."
Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 04/06/2026 - 08:43
Reply to the comment left by Paul Essex at 04/06/2026 - 08:43You'd struggle to get that service as an owner-occupier. I use an agent and generally the service is good. But it's not perfect. The last time I received a...
Read More →Reply to comment left by David Fox at 04/06/2026 - 15:16
Anybody with experience of running a small business or with experience of letting out commercial property could have foreseen this. But that doesn't include most labour MPs. There are some new prat-falls that landlords are going to have to avoid....
Read More →Reply to comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 04/06/2026 - 14:32
Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 04/06/2026 - 14:32My experience of renting to tenants on benefits when I did it was that they would be claiming child benefit, housing benefit or other benefits and they would ALSO...
Read More →Reply to comment left by JB at 04/06/2026 - 13:19
I don't think anybody actually knows how the courts are likely to view the Renters Rights Act as nobody seems to have much experience of dealing with the courts under the Renters Rights Act yet. That may be why you...
Read More →4th June 2026, 8 hours ago
Of course it wasn't just a warning from landlords. The National Residential Landlords Association warned that the courts weren't functioning correctly in 2025. Labour refused to publish the justice impact test of their Renters Rights Bill on the courts. https://www.property118.com/government-refuses-to-reveal-renters-rights-bill-court-impact-assessment/...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 03/06/2026 - 17:41
There is recent government guidance on antisocial behaviour. It was published in 2025: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68cacba7995dfd01bff0c027/2025_ASB_Statutory_Guidance_updates_final_version_1.pdf The 'relevant bodies and responsible authorities' (you'll find them on page 9 under section 1.1) are: Key bodies: • Councils. • Police. • Integrated Care Boards...
Read More →Reply to comment left by David at 03/06/2026 - 15:12
I'm guessing that's correct, except that if a landlord is trying to remove a tenant because for example the tenant is not looking after the property, or is causing a problem with antisocial behaviour, if the landlord is struggling to...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Narbeth at 03/06/2026 - 14:28
Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 03/06/2026 - 14:28I agree with this and I think that this is critical. As a landlord your rights are limited to a landlords' inspection having given 24 hours notice. That 24...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Luke P at 03/06/2026 - 14:02
Reply to the comment left by Luke P at 03/06/2026 - 14:02With section 21 (no fault evictions) gone and if a six-month limit on guarantor liability didn't get implemented in the Labour Renters Rights Act I guess that means the...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Luke P at 03/06/2026 - 13:38
Reply to the comment left by Luke P at 03/06/2026 - 13:38OK so that means then that a guarantor's liability is potentially unlimited? I've also only read on this site that a social housing provider is still permitted to pay...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Derek STOBBS at 03/06/2026 - 11:58
I think there are a lot of questions. If it's only six months max then presumably that means that even if all tenancies are periodic the guarantor's liability didn't just become unlimited and most questions relate to the fact that...
Read More →Reply to comment left by David at 03/06/2026 - 11:40
There were a lot of changes. The Labour Renters Rights Act is nothing like the rental reform bill the conservatives were proposing. And there were last minute changes....I was aware that the proposal to ban guarantors was ditched. So does...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Derek STOBBS at 03/06/2026 - 10:28
Aaah....I see. That's very helpful information. So the extent of the risk for the guarantor is effectively in perpetuity as all tenancies are now periodic, but limited to six months rent. The outstanding questions then are what does the guarantor...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Derek STOBBS at 03/06/2026 - 07:22
Really? Six-months? That's interesting....the Renters Rights Act is new and I didn't know that bit yet. I thought that a guarantor could still guarantee the rent the same as before. Bit of a shame that because when I used to...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Sheridan Vickers Rudkin at 02/06/2026 - 15:59
Reply to the comment left by Sheridan Vickers at 02/06/2026 - 15:59Labour refused to publish the results of the justice impact test of the Labour Renters Rights Bill, now the Labour Renters Rights Act, on the courts. At the moment...
Read More →Reply to comment left by David at 02/06/2026 - 14:52
Could be, and I don't know how mortgage providers or insurance companies view them. My own mortgage company wouldn't let me rent out to asylum seekers or to homeless people (not that I'd want to, although some landlords can and...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 02/06/2026 - 14:23
Ian Narbeth has more experience of that kind of thing than I do and Ian has said that before the Labour Renters Rights Act, if you had a guarantor, if the tenant didn't pay, typically you contacted the guarantor, the...
Read More →2nd June 2026, 2 days ago
That's an important point. Under the Labour Renters Rights Act landlords are likely to be able to need to review and increase the rent to market rent, or in line with inflation, annually; even though previously many landlords did not...
Read More →Reply to comment left by David at 02/06/2026 - 13:04
So if that's correct then potentially the guarantor might have to act as a guarantor in perpetuity. And as forever is a long-time that means the age, the assets, and possibly the estate of the guarantor become a more important...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Narbeth at 02/06/2026 - 11:52
Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 02/06/2026 - 11:52Out of curiosity, what credit-referencing criteria do you apply for guarantors, as opposed to tenants, and have you tightened these up as a consequence of the Labour Renters Rights...
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