Simple solution: don’t have tenants! Pick rich students and make them pay one year up front! Check that they have serious homes to go back to. Thus you will not be making them homeless when the term ends! Or: put...
Here’s how it works - if you are a Tory : 1. you make life difficult for ordinary decent landlords . 2. You drive many out, reduce supply , increase rents, dish out crocodile tears! 3. Rich landlords buy up...
There is a small town , Aldeburgh; it’s by the sea. Very expensive and full of second homes. My friend has one. He told me that one of the tradesmen he uses complains that if the holiday home people cleared...
Right now I am keeping one luxury central Cambridge flat empty. And yet I get applications weekly! I no longer give a damn! BTW my tax bill will reduce too!!!! Up yours chancellor!
I would let it out for 90 days and then let friends and relatives use it for visits - unpaid! Meanwhile I would tell the council that I an doing this precisely because I want to lessen the supply of...
“These grounds are likely to be abused by some landlords “. So what? Why is it abuse if you no longer want to rent out your property? As long as you stick to the original agreement! If an owner (note...
Reply to the comment left by dismayed landlord at 15/03/2024 - 14:17Yes! The poor lady went to jail. So unfair. He had driven her to distraction and she could not get rid of him. Mental cruelty! Everyone acknowledged that.
The government doesn’t care about tenants: it simply wants to avoid taking responsibility for them. So bash the landlord! Imagine if landlords flooded the market and prices went down leading to millions of Tories in negative equity!! Yahoo!!
The only good thing about this silly policy is that it will cause a reaction from landlords and a dystopia for councils and tenants. I say good because things have to get bad before the govt wakes up!
Fully agree! The root cause of the housing crisis is the usual one: you have people with no empathy who convince themselves that they know “the street”! They know nothing! You might as well describe a wine to them and...
The tories are as stupid as Labour. I already left the AST sector as it already is : today! There is no way I would be a “normal” landlord; not now! I will be ecstatic when it all goes arse...
There will be a greater housing problem: the government and Shelter are causing it, They pass the buck to the landlords! They wipe their hands of it! Cowardly, irresponsible, stupid!
Reply to the comment left by Cider Drinker at 10/03/2024 - 08:11It’s cynical! It’s like paying traffic wardens on results so that they book you for being 1 inch over the line! It’s about money and costs and convenience to...
S21 was introduced for a purpose. It gave landlords the confidence to take a risk and house people! But the rental market was then buggered by the moronic tories and so they try get out of jail measures. All they...
I know of one landlady who shot her tenant! I’ll bet the council was secretly relieved. If all tenants and landlords were forced to be good there would be no problem!
Reply to the comment left by Frank Jennings at 08/03/2024 - 10:59You are so right! I will now never let to anyone but the following: a very rich foreign student who is only here for a year and who has...
13th April 2024, 2 years ago
Simple solution: don’t have tenants! Pick rich students and make them pay one year up front! Check that they have serious homes to go back to. Thus you will not be making them homeless when the term ends! Or: put...
Read More →21st March 2024, 2 years ago
It’s so transparent!!!
Read More →21st March 2024, 2 years ago
Here’s how it works - if you are a Tory : 1. you make life difficult for ordinary decent landlords . 2. You drive many out, reduce supply , increase rents, dish out crocodile tears! 3. Rich landlords buy up...
Read More →20th March 2024, 2 years ago
There is a small town , Aldeburgh; it’s by the sea. Very expensive and full of second homes. My friend has one. He told me that one of the tradesmen he uses complains that if the holiday home people cleared...
Read More →18th March 2024, 2 years ago
Right now I am keeping one luxury central Cambridge flat empty. And yet I get applications weekly! I no longer give a damn! BTW my tax bill will reduce too!!!! Up yours chancellor!
Read More →18th March 2024, 2 years ago
I would let it out for 90 days and then let friends and relatives use it for visits - unpaid! Meanwhile I would tell the council that I an doing this precisely because I want to lessen the supply of...
Read More →17th March 2024, 2 years ago
“These grounds are likely to be abused by some landlords “. So what? Why is it abuse if you no longer want to rent out your property? As long as you stick to the original agreement! If an owner (note...
Read More →16th March 2024, 2 years ago
What a scam!
Read More →Reply to comment left by Graham Rann at 15/03/2024 - 14:17
Reply to the comment left by dismayed landlord at 15/03/2024 - 14:17Yes! The poor lady went to jail. So unfair. He had driven her to distraction and she could not get rid of him. Mental cruelty! Everyone acknowledged that.
Read More →15th March 2024, 2 years ago
The government doesn’t care about tenants: it simply wants to avoid taking responsibility for them. So bash the landlord! Imagine if landlords flooded the market and prices went down leading to millions of Tories in negative equity!! Yahoo!!
Read More →14th March 2024, 2 years ago
The only good thing about this silly policy is that it will cause a reaction from landlords and a dystopia for councils and tenants. I say good because things have to get bad before the govt wakes up!
Read More →Reply to comment left by Jeremy Johnson at 14/03/2024 - 16:01
Fully agree! The root cause of the housing crisis is the usual one: you have people with no empathy who convince themselves that they know “the street”! They know nothing! You might as well describe a wine to them and...
Read More →14th March 2024, 2 years ago
Everything would be sorted if they just built more homes.
Read More →14th March 2024, 2 years ago
The tories are as stupid as Labour. I already left the AST sector as it already is : today! There is no way I would be a “normal” landlord; not now! I will be ecstatic when it all goes arse...
Read More →12th March 2024, 2 years ago
There will be a greater housing problem: the government and Shelter are causing it, They pass the buck to the landlords! They wipe their hands of it! Cowardly, irresponsible, stupid!
Read More →Reply to comment left by Simon Gear at 10/03/2024 - 08:11
Reply to the comment left by Cider Drinker at 10/03/2024 - 08:11It’s cynical! It’s like paying traffic wardens on results so that they book you for being 1 inch over the line! It’s about money and costs and convenience to...
Read More →9th March 2024, 2 years ago
S21 was introduced for a purpose. It gave landlords the confidence to take a risk and house people! But the rental market was then buggered by the moronic tories and so they try get out of jail measures. All they...
Read More →9th March 2024, 2 years ago
Common sense was removed from housing policy years ago! It’s banned!
Read More →Reply to comment left by Thomas O'Mara at 08/03/2024 - 21:31
I know of one landlady who shot her tenant! I’ll bet the council was secretly relieved. If all tenants and landlords were forced to be good there would be no problem!
Read More →Reply to comment left by Frank Jennings at 08/03/2024 - 10:59
Reply to the comment left by Frank Jennings at 08/03/2024 - 10:59You are so right! I will now never let to anyone but the following: a very rich foreign student who is only here for a year and who has...
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