Dare it be said that we do not need any more homes? Reform UK rightly seems to think that there are millions of immigrants in England illegally or who just do not need to be here, if we trained up...
A third of the vote should not result in two thirds of the seats. The hypocrisy of the Labour Party is just grotesque. This government of no democratic legitimacy. So a tenant causes black and yellow mould throughout the property...
Agreed Reform has much more to offer. And why support the Tories when they have done so much damage to the sector and made such a mess of running the country..
Yes. I received a solicitors' letter out of the blue, alleging damp and damage to health. I had owned the property for 15 years without any such issue arising. The fault was with the tenants, not heating and ventilating the...
The problem is the first past the post electoral system for Westminster and English local government, where votes do not count equally and where a majority of MPs can be elected on a minority of votes. It can take as...
Is Angela Rayner more dangerous in her former role as shadow education secretary with no educational qualifications at all OR in her current role as shadow housing minister, knowing virtually nothing about housing and the basic mechanics of supply and...
What are the terms of the Landlord Licence the Council granted to you? Are you in breach or potential breach and, if so, in what respects? What remedy (if any) does the licence offer if you and the Council cannot...
Should we all now object to each CounciI's external auditor about these selective landlord licensing schemes? I have seen no proper business case for these schemes at the start or when they were cynically renewed and no proper statement of...
Beware. An unsigned contract might be binding anyway if it can be shown that the key components of offer, acceptance, consideration and intention to create an agreement are in place; and if the contract has been performed by the parties...
Interesting Jonathan. What is the legal case? What is the forum for challenging the selective licensing fees? Judicial review? First Tier Property Tribunal? Local Government Ombudsman? One authority I am dealing with just refuses to say.
The circumstances you outline indicate that unlawful sub-letting is taking place in breach of the tenancy agreement. You can seek to regularise the position by the additional "tenant" having to make application and go through the usual application process with...
Pets must NOT be foisted upon landlords. In leasehold properties there are usually covenants in the head lease prohibiting any pets. The bigger scandal here though is a constitutional one...Lord Bourne's Tenant Fees Act being originated in the house of...
I agree Bill but the problem is that it is our failed and utterly inadequate established political class and the equally inadequate laughing-stock Whitehall civil service who "designed" and "implemented" these flawed systems in the first instance. At almost every...
The County Courts are in melt down and COVID has only made matters even worse. I received an Order this week, made by the Judge on 14 July 2020, issued by the Court Office 2nd class on 24 July 2020...
I believe it my be the case that a contractual (as opposed to a statutory monthly) periodic tenancy continuing after the fixed period is NOT caught by the Tenant Fees Act, even when the periodic phase of the tenancy commences...
4th June 2025, 10 months ago
Yet more jobs for the Council jobsworths, funded ultimately by increased rental to the tenants and a further loss of available PRS housing stock.
Read More →27th May 2025, 11 months ago
Dare it be said that we do not need any more homes? Reform UK rightly seems to think that there are millions of immigrants in England illegally or who just do not need to be here, if we trained up...
Read More →28th December 2024, 1 year ago
A third of the vote should not result in two thirds of the seats. The hypocrisy of the Labour Party is just grotesque. This government of no democratic legitimacy. So a tenant causes black and yellow mould throughout the property...
Read More →27th June 2024, 2 years ago
Agreed Reform has much more to offer. And why support the Tories when they have done so much damage to the sector and made such a mess of running the country..
Read More →Reply to comment left by martin thomas at 06/06/2024 - 10:28
Reply to the comment left by Martin Thomas at 06/06/2024 - 10:28I couldn't agree more.
Read More →24th January 2024, 2 years ago
Yes. I received a solicitors' letter out of the blue, alleging damp and damage to health. I had owned the property for 15 years without any such issue arising. The fault was with the tenants, not heating and ventilating the...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Lou Valdini at 11/10/2023 - 12:14
The problem is the first past the post electoral system for Westminster and English local government, where votes do not count equally and where a majority of MPs can be elected on a minority of votes. It can take as...
Read More →11th October 2023, 2 years ago
Is Angela Rayner more dangerous in her former role as shadow education secretary with no educational qualifications at all OR in her current role as shadow housing minister, knowing virtually nothing about housing and the basic mechanics of supply and...
Read More →27th September 2023, 3 years ago
What are the terms of the Landlord Licence the Council granted to you? Are you in breach or potential breach and, if so, in what respects? What remedy (if any) does the licence offer if you and the Council cannot...
Read More →23rd February 2023, 3 years ago
Should we all now object to each CounciI's external auditor about these selective landlord licensing schemes? I have seen no proper business case for these schemes at the start or when they were cynically renewed and no proper statement of...
Read More →6th January 2023, 3 years ago
Please clarify the exact source of the 2013 regulation you are quoting. By the way do not trust these Council jobsworths as far as could throw them!
Read More →27th September 2022, 4 years ago
Beware. An unsigned contract might be binding anyway if it can be shown that the key components of offer, acceptance, consideration and intention to create an agreement are in place; and if the contract has been performed by the parties...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Jonathan Sandford at 31/08/2022 - 15:52
Interesting Jonathan. What is the legal case? What is the forum for challenging the selective licensing fees? Judicial review? First Tier Property Tribunal? Local Government Ombudsman? One authority I am dealing with just refuses to say.
Read More →7th May 2022, 4 years ago
The circumstances you outline indicate that unlawful sub-letting is taking place in breach of the tenancy agreement. You can seek to regularise the position by the additional "tenant" having to make application and go through the usual application process with...
Read More →12th September 2021, 5 years ago
Having seen Eddie Hughes' reply to my MP on a separate matter, I think EH would struggle to discern one part of his anatomy from another.
Read More →7th September 2021, 5 years ago
Pets must NOT be foisted upon landlords. In leasehold properties there are usually covenants in the head lease prohibiting any pets. The bigger scandal here though is a constitutional one...Lord Bourne's Tenant Fees Act being originated in the house of...
Read More →21st September 2020, 6 years ago
I agree Bill but the problem is that it is our failed and utterly inadequate established political class and the equally inadequate laughing-stock Whitehall civil service who "designed" and "implemented" these flawed systems in the first instance. At almost every...
Read More →31st July 2020, 6 years ago
The County Courts are in melt down and COVID has only made matters even worse. I received an Order this week, made by the Judge on 14 July 2020, issued by the Court Office 2nd class on 24 July 2020...
Read More →8th June 2020, 6 years ago
I believe it my be the case that a contractual (as opposed to a statutory monthly) periodic tenancy continuing after the fixed period is NOT caught by the Tenant Fees Act, even when the periodic phase of the tenancy commences...
Read More →24th January 2020, 6 years ago
This appeared to work when I tried it a number of years ago: spray down with industrial strength Roundup mixed with Diesel about 5:1.
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