Dear Polly Neate of Shelter – I agree with you!

Dear Polly Neate of Shelter – I agree with you!

9:43 AM, 25th September 2023, About 8 months ago 29

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Dear Polly Neate,

It’s not possible to contact you directly as you, (Shelter), don’t allow contact through your website unless it’s to complain about a nasty landlord.

(For clarity, I’m a landlord with a small portfolio and I look after my tenants – indeed, they are happy to rent from me)

I would also point out that whilst I count myself as a good portfolio landlord, my annual income is far less than your salary and I’m supporting renters by renting homes to them which you are not. So who’s really helping the homeless?

However, for once I agree with you, (partially), or rather your manifesto. We do need more social housing, but 90,000 a year won’t cut it. You’ll need a lot more than that. But that’s as far as I can go. More regulation is totally unnecessary. There is already enough legislation available to deal with rogue landlords, but the councils won’t use it. Any additional regulation / legislation will only penalise the good landlords who are supplying good accommodation already because they’re the only one’s who will comply. And that only causes rents to go up in the first place.

You could have a go at some of the biggest social landlords of course who are patently ignoring the Housing Ombudsman and the number of notices they’ve been handed for failures to comply, but I guess we’re an easier target.

Whilst you’re screaming blue murder for all the people being made homeless every 10 seconds, you completely fail to acknowledge the vast majority of good landlords supplying good accommodation to good tenants.

Landlords do not evict tenants who are non-abusive, pay their rent and generally fit in with the local community. When you do your, (obviously unbiased), surveys to all the poor tenants, why don’t you add the data regarding the reasons they’re being evicted? What percentage of evictions are to law-abiding, rent-paying, neighbourly tenants?

You’d be taken far more seriously if you stopped your crocodile tears for all these poor souls who are being treated so badly. Perhaps you could even donate some of your vast salary to a homeless organisation? (I wouldn’t donate to Shelter though – they don’t actually supply any housing to anybody.)

Thank you,

Richard


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Paul Essex

18:52 PM, 25th September 2023, About 8 months ago

What is Shelter's official position on the migration crisis - this is removing housing and other accommodation options far more quickly than the landlords they love to hate.

Their silence on the issue speaks volumes about their actual position which is not related to the tenants at all.

Russell Cartner

19:11 PM, 25th September 2023, About 8 months ago

It would be a whole lot better if everyone on here emailed this to there local MP and gobsh##e Gove, because it means nothing putting it on here
Sunak is back tracking because a lot of people have already made there feelings clesr to there local MP's just follow suite

Teessider

20:08 PM, 25th September 2023, About 8 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Paul Essex at 25/09/2023 - 18:52Hitting the nail on the head. People aren’t mentioning it for fear of being labelled racist.
If the woke brigade get their way, asylum seekers will only be housed in detention centres for 28 days.
What happens after 28 days? Are they returned to France or will they amplify the housing crisis?

JamesB

22:12 PM, 25th September 2023, About 8 months ago

I like the letter. Every time I see the boo hoo please subscribe monthly money raising ads from Shelter about poor people being given s21s through no fault of their own (reality- being evicted without being openly blamed for something) it makes my blood boil.
I literally just finished SIX MONTHS putting a house right where I lost thousands in unpaid rent and damages to the house, but chose the s21 route because I thought it would be quickest and least confrontational method of eviction. Thanks in part to Shelter that was an error tooas they encouraged the tenants to lie which then meant a hearing and 15 months more pain. Maybe I should send her the video of the reality of one of these sob, sob, did nothing wrong evictions.

Darren Bell

0:34 AM, 26th September 2023, About 8 months ago

How are shelter not investigated? They seem to be good at taking but giving nothing in return other than a bit of dodgy advice.

Russell Cartner

4:06 AM, 26th September 2023, About 8 months ago

To make any difference at all,if you have a complaint you should email your local MP and especialy that gobsh##e michael.gove.mp@parliament.uk
Rishi Sunak has been changing his mind on a lot of things lately thats down to people lobbying there local MP's telling them they will not vote for them at the next election due to there anti landlord policies.
Shelter is a looney left organisation as is Generation Rent

Alan

9:35 AM, 26th September 2023, About 8 months ago

Well said Richard.
I fail to see as a landlord, what Shelter actually do, or what their purpose is.
If they actually housed people then maybe they would understand the landlord’s situation

Teessider

11:38 AM, 26th September 2023, About 8 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Sheridan Vickers at 25/09/2023 - 10:47
£48million could provide homes for 500 x desperate families in my part of the world. That’s just this year’s revenue and without any need for mortgages. With 75% LTV mortgages, it’d be 2,000 additional families that Shelter could house.

Im sure they’d be the best landlords ever.

And that is just this year. How many families could they house if they’d used most of their revenue since the 1960s to directly house vulnerable people?

Instead, the money is spent on huge salaries, fancy hotels, generous expenses and ridiculous publicity stunts.

We need to remember that Shelter, just like any business, exist for their shareholders and their shareholders alone.

Sheridan Vickers

12:55 PM, 26th September 2023, About 8 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Teessider at 26/09/2023 - 11:38
They're just conning folk to believe they do good. All they're good for is begging people for money to prop up their millions and would give nothing to some poor family or person in order to rehouse them. They definitely should be investigated and the rest of them also for their one-sided laws. I've been led to believe that we had the best and fairest legal system in the world. There's nothing fair about tenants being given the right to withhold rent and damage someone else's property and ruin a landlord's life. I don't know how they're getting away with it. Justice for landlords.

JB

14:13 PM, 26th September 2023, About 8 months ago

I do not want any of the tax I pay to go to 'Shelter No One'

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