Labour’s housing policies will push more kids into poverty
Author: Mick Roberts
8th December 2025, 3 months ago | 1
Mick Roberts
Council’s selective licensing team says landlords CAN break the rules
Author: Mick Roberts
10th September 2025, 6 months ago | 7
Are the Labour Party about to cut red tape for landlords to help tenants?
Author: Mick Roberts
18th March 2025, 12 months ago | 6
Ban on pet deposits means all pet owners lose and all pet owners pay!
Author: Mick Roberts
13th March 2025, 1 year ago | 39
The government and councils moving the goalposts cause homelessness
Author: Mick Roberts
26th February 2025, 1 year ago | 23
Nottingham City Council wants to strip landlords of licences, yet their own houses are shocking
Author: Mick Roberts
29th January 2025, 1 year ago | 38
Electric vehicle manufacturers can’t meet government ‘EPC’ targets yet landlords are expected to
Author: Mick Roberts
28th November 2024, 1 year ago | 17
The government are on cloud nine when it comes to selective licensing
Author: Mick Roberts
7th September 2023, 3 years ago | 8
Shelter admit 10 million landlords rent good homes
Author: Mick Roberts
13th October 2022, 3 years ago | 1
Can I really house the Ukrainian People? I want to, however…..
Author: Mick Roberts
14th March 2022, 4 years ago | 60
My Open Letter to Shelter who are calling for Section 21 to be banned & prosecuting Landlords who don’t take Benefit tenants
Author: Mick Roberts
10th March 2022, 4 years ago | 40
A Conservative MP who listens to Landlords and may stop thousands being homeless
Author: Mick Roberts
4th March 2022, 4 years ago | 0
A Labour Councillor admits Selective Licensing not effective
Author: Mick Roberts
4th March 2022, 4 years ago | 5
If I put my houses in my tenants name would I be exempt from onerous retrospective legislation?
Author: Mick Roberts
1st December 2021, 4 years ago | 37
Tenants, more bad news for you – The MP for Welfare delivery doesn’t know how you get paid
Author: Mick Roberts
10th November 2021, 4 years ago | 6
Tenants – It’s getting worse unless you see both sides and write your MP
Author: Mick Roberts
22nd October 2021, 4 years ago | 58
Tenants – This is probably the second joint biggest reason why you can’t get a house and why you’re paying extortionate rents
Author: Mick Roberts
11th October 2021, 4 years ago | 27
Landlord Haters wanted Pet deposits banned – Now they wish to reverse that decision
Author: Mick Roberts
2nd September 2021, 5 years ago | 18
How do I increase the Lease on my 4 Nottingham Council flats?
Author: Mick Roberts
9th August 2021, 5 years ago | 30
Mick Roberts
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One of biggest HB Landlords in UK.
Sticking up for tenants from constant Govt attacks on Landlord, which impacts on tenant.
Sticking up for tenant from Landlord & surprisingly tenants point of view. If Govt & Council bashes Landlord, this really hurts tenant with extortionate rents.
5th March 2026, 2 weeks ago
That's what's happened to me. Letting the tenant pay 3k pa below market rent. They don't ask for ote and I ain't doing ote (except safety standards) at that cheap rent. Backfires on me, as 20 years later, get the...
Read More →5th March 2026, 2 weeks ago
This video I did for Ed Miliband explains why EPC to C will make most tenants worse off. https://youtu.be/ijMxRyuCGKI?si=aZsQr2GMDfbYbiG4
Read More →Reply to comment left by Mark Alexander at 27/02/2026 - 12:04
Reply to the comment left by Mark Alexander - Founder of Property118 at 27/02/2026 - 12:04No, it all stinks. Good job u giving this advice & helps out so people can do something about it to lessen the blows if...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Mark Alexander at 27/02/2026 - 11:25
Reply to the comment left by Mark Alexander - Founder of Property118 at 27/02/2026 - 11:25So if you've have just passed away with no gifting, you'd (or they) just have to pay the IHT?
Read More →Reply to comment left by Mark Alexander at 26/02/2026 - 20:59
Reply to the comment left by Mark Alexander - Founder of Property118 at 26/02/2026 - 20:59Crikey, so u gift the say 200k house with 100k gains & pay £24k CGT. Then if u pass away 1 year later, they'd have...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Billy Gunn at 25/02/2026 - 01:45
Reply to the comment left by Billy Gunn at 25/02/2026 - 01:45Ha ha worse. Wow. Yes how can the council not blame the tenant & fine us for tenants rubbish? Council house if tenant does rubbish, they blame the tenant....
Read More →Reply to comment left by James Brand at 24/02/2026 - 19:38
Yes your story is getting all too familiar. Yours worse with a 500k house, mine are only 100-140k. Ha ha yes same here, 29 years now I've been doing it. People say What's up with you Mick u don't want...
Read More →Reply to comment left by at 24/02/2026 - 12:12
Reply to the comment left by at 24/02/2026 - 12:12Yes we end up not taking tenants that need help don't we cause we can't get em the help.
Read More →Reply to comment left by DSR DSR at 24/02/2026 - 12:06
Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 24/02/2026 - 12:06MP when he seems me does say if if the story is in the local media, Why didn't they just talk to u Mick as he hates to see...
Read More →21st February 2026, 3 weeks ago
So here's me story when I caught fleas from a tenant. I was sitting in her kitchen filling forms in, some'at was getting me, biting me, I was jumping. I filled the form in again, I jumped again, the gal...
Read More →8th February 2026, 1 month ago
He wants tenants to have affordable homes? What about those that have cheaper rent that are affordable now, and with these measures, he's now making their homes unaffordable?
Read More →3rd February 2026, 1 month ago
If I've understood you right, Yes one house I was prepared to sell with her in for 110k, she wasn't playing ball, had to evict, spent £2700, got £140k for it. Sold several 20k cheaper with tenant in & they've...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Derek STOBBS at 02/02/2026 - 12:35
Yes, I've bought many with tenants already in, we took more of a risk then, now the paperwork has to be super tight excluding those less perfect tenants. Yes, when my tenants tell me they must have paid off my...
Read More →Reply to comment left by DSR DSR at 02/02/2026 - 09:47
Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 02/02/2026 - 09:47About 85% Landlord colleagues & Landlord investors through Estate Agents. Some Landlord mates have said they having 10 & only had 3. Some say having 4 & only had...
Read More →31st January 2026, 1 month ago
I know tenanted properties sell for less. I've sold 27 so far since May 2025. And 85% of em tenanted. And approx 20k below value each one. Some a lot less with the damage the tenant has done over the...
Read More →29th January 2026, 2 months ago
He says We have engaged with landlord and tenant groups. Well the tenant groups hasn't engaged with my tenants who wish to ask them What do you think is going to happen to my home of 22 years where I...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Joanna Fear at 28/01/2026 - 14:00
Reply to the comment left by Joanna Fear at 28/01/2026 - 14:00I second that.
Read More →Reply to comment left by John Taylor at 27/01/2026 - 10:08
You start with Ofgem, then Trustmark, then woe betide u if u have no paperwork cause they've sent it all to tenant & she's moved out. The whole system needs overhauling & including us Landlords, the very people affected.
Read More →Reply to comment left by Peter Merrick at 25/01/2026 - 08:57
Reply to the comment left by Peter Merrick at 25/01/2026 - 08:57Yes, they proper thick. No one EVER comes to ask the tenant WHAT they would like? Those that haven't got a problem & happy & paying below market rent....
Read More →Reply to comment left by DSR DSR at 23/01/2026 - 13:01
Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 23/01/2026 - 13:01Problem is many of us spend money in the meantime. Or panic Or sell Or tell tenants rent going up, I've had enough.
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