Landlord says council has ‘ditched’ a vulnerable tenant as clean-up bill mounts

Reply to the comment left by at 24/02/2026 – 12:12
Yes we end up not taking tenants that need help don’t we cause we can’t get em the help.

Reply to the comment left by JamesB 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 to buy that & make 20k on it. Not interested one bit cause some Council bafoon & some Govt will change the rules next week & come take the house.

Yes same here, hate the job. We doing more & more for much less & way more hours. New RRB that Govt property registration next per property-What?
As well as Licensing?
Ed Miliband You will spend 10k on EPC. Ed I don’t want the fxxking house as it is, I’m only keeping it for tenant, stop thinking some of us want this.

I’ll keep putting this on when people wonder why rents keep going up.

Keep spreading these words please.

WhyTenantsCan’tGetHouses

A background to why you tenants are paying extortionate rents and can’t get anywhere unless you earning a cracking wage-Blame the Govt and Councils you vote for because you like it when they give more regs & rules to the Landlord-Guess who pays for this? You do.

I’m the biggest private provider to Benefit tenants in Nottingham over 27 years and not once has the Govt and Council come to ask me What they can do for me, so I and my colleagues will take the people we used to take. I will add to this list as I remember more.

They wanted Pet deposits banned.
Cause we’d want £100 more in case dog did damage.
End of tenancy, dog did no damage, tenant got all deposit back.
2019 you banned higher pet deposits cause some tenants didn’t like it when dog did damage & didn’t get their deposit back.
We stopped taking pets.
2024 MP stood up in Parliament and called for Pet deposits to be reinstated cause tenants with pets couldn’t get accommodation.
You couldn’t make this up.
Description here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u54ouYTdNr7WaCPYW18Q_tZdlJr8-VwSUJpE0IcPf5k/edit?usp=drivesdk

They don’t want Landlords helping tenants with Benefits and they bought in Universal Credit which has zero communication with Landlord- We now don’t take Benefit tenants.

They bought in Selective Licensing on good Landlords with good houses. We put the rents up to cover it and now don’t take risky tenants.

Landlord can get fined £30,000 if tenant takes battery out smoke alarm and Landlord CAN’T prove that tenant did it.

Landlord can get fined £30,000 if renting 1 bed flat to single person and he/she moves his/her partner in unbeknown to the Landlord if the Selective License only has license for one occupier.

They started fining Landlords £5000 if they didn’t check tenants passport properly on Right to Rent checks-Landlords stopped taking anyone that had the slightest chance of being illegal immigrant. Innocent UK citizens suffered.

2015, they bought in that if Landlord CANNOT PROVE he/she has gave tenant boiler certificate, you can never get your property back. Even if had a new boiler 5 years later, Judge says Not bothered, u not having your house back. This helped the current bad tenant, hurts the next 100,000 tenants waiting for a home. A purely Anti Landlord measure to stop Landlord getting rid bad tenant or having his house back.

Oct 2024 Unison now wants a rent freeze. Ooh are we a charity are we? What other individual who sells or provides something is told YOU CANNOT charge a price u wish?

Oct 2024 the Renter Rights Bill is going to make it law, u can’t do rent increase unless use Section 13. Now for years, I’ve agreed informally with tenant ‘Ok £25 a month, u still £200pm now below anyone else.’ Job done.
Now, I’m totally full up with paperwork and rules and regs. I have no more time. Section 13 some more say only a few mins. It’s still 30 mins by time printed, filled in, signed, scanned, sent. Each one when u have lots of houses on top of Selective Licensing INSISTING we inspect each house every 4 months (two weeks solid just on inspections every months) is taking me over the edge. My existing tenants are going to have to go with Letting Agent who charge £50 for a Section 13. That’s £4pm extra on the rent. Along with the extra £80pm Letting Agent fee which gets rid of cheap rent was charity.

Sep 2024 Ed Miliband MP wants all houses to EPC C which will cost Landlords £5000 and increase tenants cheap rents. As soon he announced this, he made more tenants homeless. Few words on that here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eI7z29SNRCDLLwX6_0QQChrwTxZ4jGZw4UNybVYfD1s/edit?usp=drivesdk

Section 24 Tax bought in by George Osborne of the Tories who said it will only affect 1 in 5 Landlords-That’s over 2 million tenants put at risk of homeless. Landlords with tenants of 25 years are now being made homeless on this one action alone.

Oct 2024 I’ve heard there’s a part of the RRB that says we must give tenants our home address on paperwork.
Details of that here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v7aETrvz0j6CdS7LZwYukthZAbhNxLWRKR8qShi6Gok/edit?usp=drivesdk

Aug 2025 RRB

Aug 2025 Making Tax digital

Aug 2025 RRB getting rid of Section 21 so u can’t get rid of bad tenant which would help a good tenant get the house.

Aug 2025 NI on rental income, another retrospective change after you’ve already housed the tenant and agreed to keep their rent lower than others.

Feb 2026 RRB making us register every property & pay-As well as Licensing-On houses many of us don’t want & only keeping for tenanty anyway.

Every anti Landlord measure they bring in to they think will help the tenant has hurt the tenants massively.

Every time the MP’s talk an anti landlord measure, they’ve made more homeless and increased rents.

There is loads more

Reply to the comment left by Billy Gunn at 25/02/2026 – 01:45

Ha 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.

Here’s some of mine:

Someone wanted to see a few samples, so sent em these 5. This may open your eyes up to who’s at fault-Landlord or tenants?

https://youtu.be/i_HKaqYlHi4 Tenants from Hell Bulwell.

https://youtu.be/OzqVVRlZzE8 Tenants from Hell Bestwood Park

https://youtu.be/QcENHbgfMR4 Tenants from Hell Top Valley Nov 2010

https://youtu.be/_UvO8dmxGQQ Tenants from Hell May 12th 2010.

https://youtu.be/DzRIyfLHRn0 Tenants from Hell May 10th 2010.

https://youtube.com/shorts/BYEbPkEaz84?si=gO92VmEtBeqw67PE Tenants from Hell Bulwell Feb 2026

The rest are on http://www.youtube.com/mickroberts2006
I han’t done any for years.

The current aggressive tone from the government— wielding imminent fines and penalties through Councils against landlords, amplified by the one-sided rhetoric of subsidised tenant organisations—is producing the very outcome it should be trying to avoid. Instead of fostering collaboration, this approach is creating a dysfunctional rift between the key players needed to solve the UK’s housing crisis.

The result is a collapse of trust and cooperation. Landlords are losing the desire to partner with councils on joint ventures. Major developers are being deterred from building or refurbishing the hundreds of thousands of homes needed. At the heart of this reluctance is a growing belief among prudent landlords that they are being used and abused, and that the long-term policy direction is aimed at transferring their properties to tenant ownership.

This dynamic is deeply ironic. The government’s own Right to Buy policy sold off 2.4 million council homes—the ‘crown jewels’ of public housing—generating short-term profit but leaving the nation in a worse state than at any time since the Industrial Revolution. The current approach, pushed by ministers, think tanks, and tenant organisations, seems wilfully ignorant of these consequences and risks making the UK a laughing stock.

We are going through a phase where extreme leaders believe they have the answers, introducing legislation after legislation and piling on penalties. The real solution is far more simple and difficult: to sit down and negotiate a sensible, 50-year plan that actually works for all key players.

This is one of those horrible grey areas where the law and reality don’t line up. In practice, councils almost always go after the landlord because you’re the easiest lever they have, even if the root cause is a vulnerable tenant who should have had support in place.

I’ve seen similar cases where the only realistic option is to comply to stop the fines, then try to push back separately via complaints, councillors, or adult social care. It doesn’t mean the council is right, just that enforcement powers sit with housing teams, not social services. It’s deeply frustrating, but sadly not unusual.