Mick Roberts

80% of Brits would vote to pay no tax, they'd love the end result for 3 months. And then they'd regret it. Bit like Brexit.
Voting for the punitive regulations against us.
Voting to take away our only thing to why we give these people a home in the first place. If we are made to fight an extremely hard 2 year battle to get our property back which we ONLY LET THEM RENT, then we won't give them a house in the first place.... Read More

That's it, it's a burden now in't it.

Who's telling Angela Rayner we din't sign up to this years ago when we took these tenants on that wouldn't be able to comply with the new rules.

What I can't have MY house back when I want it? For whatever reason? It was called Rent. Not Give.... Read More

Very good.
You forgot the 4th Landlord who wants to sell, but can't be disloyal to his tenants, many who have been there over 20 years.
And this Landlord will eventually be bit.... Read More

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Shocking. Poor tenants paying for everything they don't want.... Read More

We need to provide dialogue support to Miliband & tenants. Cause tenants DO NOT WANT THIS.
Those that have new combi, windows doors etc.
DO NOT WANT INTERNAL INSULATION messing house up, making house thinner, increasing their cheap £200pm below market value rent.
Wake up Miliband. Come ask these tenants with EPC D all happy if they want the mess & higher rents.... Read More

I've had a few £4000 wet rooms done for disable tenants. One on 20 year old bathroom fine. And we gonna' use the wetroom, albeit new tiles etc. when 72 year old disabled woman goes.
And another few months after I'd just spent £1500 on new bathroom AAAhhhh.
But yes take these grants when u can. Keeps tenant there longer if that's what u want.... Read More

Ha ha love it

So Selective u can all F-off.... Read More

I'm being super selective.
If IF I keep any houses that coma available (which they don't AAhhhh), they go with Letting Agent who are super selective.
Maybe 15 years ago, I'd have to take HB. Not any more.

I don't get involved with the taking on any more, it's Letting Agent.

No way Jose, not approaching Councils to have my houses, promise u the earth then disappear.... Read More

Ooh yes that would be fantastic to be incorporated in.
And then there would be a record for Govt & Councils to wake up to
Ooh most damage caused by tenants, not Landlords neglect.... Read More

Forever tenant You have a point
The next point - Market conditions. I have always hated increases for this purpose. It basically sounds like you are trying to be a cartel by raising things to what you could. It is not a good look if your reason for raising rents is mostly "Because I can".

But then on the other side, why shouldn't a Landlord increase the rent 'because he can'? He didn't start this for fun. Ryanair get as MUCH as they can. If it don't sell, they reduce the price.

My tenants it seems prefer the lower amount for years, then cannot take the big jump ha ha.
Yes my tenants know theirs are cheap & also see all their mates CANNOT even get a houses at the highest rents.

But I'm with you, it does look wrong raising rents just cause we can. But I tell u my main thing in this when renting to new tenant. I have TO GET AS MUCH AS I CAN as I just don't know when the next Govt or Council attack is coming from.
Section 24.
New boiler new kitchen new windows Ooh Mick Roberts u got £890 Selective Licensing charge.
What for?
Cause him down the road has got a rubbish kitchen & back boiler.
Well go get him then. And mine are paying cheap rent. what do you think I'm going to do to that rent now? I end up taking out on the tenant to get back at u.... Read More

You telling me, I've inadvertently created a trap for my tenants in that they can't get anywhere nowhere near the rent they paying me. So they stop with me. AAAhhh when I need to sell a lot of my houses.
On the other side, lower rent means less swapping about every few years as happens with high rents.... Read More

The Council's change the rules constantly. AFTER you've took their tenant.
Plus when new staff member comes in, all original arrangements get chucked away.
I'm biggest private provider to Nottingham's Benefit tenants over 27 years, you'd think they'd ask me why-They don't.... Read More

I'd be up for MOT's in a perfect world. But how would it work to take into account tenants that damage stuff & damaged stuff 20 years ago.
It may only work for the perfect Letting Agent tenant.... Read More

Some comments I left elsewhere earlier.

Yes it’s a shame that in 2024, the biggest threat to tenants homes is Govt and Councils and the constant retrospective changes they keep imposing.

We’ll make em EPC A if u like, massive mould and condensation that sometimes hard to undo.

Well these houses weren’t substandard till Govt said EPC D no longer acceptable. Tenants very happy with em and the cheap rent they were.
All my tenants had a choice pay £600pm EPC D or I’ll buy you new build £1000pm EPC A and you’ll save £30pm on your gas bill. By the way the EPC D have already got new boiler windows doors etc.... Read More

Cllr JayNoHousingExperience cares about the quality of homes, yet he continues to take £890 off Landlords with already good homes so they now don't bother buying the tenant a new bathroom suite he'd agreed with tenant.
Well done Cllr JayNoHousingExperience... Read More

We know of Council houses now with massive faults.... Read More

That's good way of saying it
they have skin in the game and where a difficult and costly eviction could really stuff them up going forward.
As well know we ain't taking anyone slightly risky any more-The low earners tenants are REALLY losing out.

It's a recipe for disaster in Nottingham, Selective Licensing & UC.

The council’s head of housing, Mark Lowe, NOT RANG ME ONCE. I'm Nottingham's biggest private provider to Benefit tenants over 27 years. Not one phone call.

The new Chief Exec of Nottingham Council said she needs to change the Organisation.
Nottingham Council are completely toxic from the top which spreads down to the good innocent people at the bottom who did have common sense before they joined the Council.... Read More

Beaver,

I've been told by my EPC man mate on some of my 1920 houses with new boiler, windows, doors, TRV's etc. that the ONLY way to get to from D to C is with the internal wall insulation. Hope that helps, even if bad news.

And my one internal wall insulation done a year ago, we now got mould damp inside a cupboard-My builder experienced mate going to look this week.... Read More

My first internal insulation one under some of the new £6000 grants a year ago, we now have mould inside a cupboard-Got to check this week.
Not everything is as it seems Ed Miliband.
You got your C Ed Miliband, but woman now has mould-Someone please send him this.... Read More