Landlords – Attack back?

If we made our property a serviced accomodation then they rent 6mths but per day i.e. say £20/day then new customers would not have any rights and its up to landlord if they get another 6mths. Take back control….

Interesting idea, thank you

We strike back.
ALL landlords give a s21 or s8, notice on the same day and for the same expiry date.
Then
1. Local Authorities and Government would have have to do something
2. PRS Landlords as a social necessity might be recognised as having rights as well as tenants
3. Show we are fed up with the constant landlord bashing

Reply to the comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 01/12/2022 - 11:08
I would definitely be up for that even though it would risk upsetting my tenants despite me explaining why.

I made mine serviced accommodation years ago! I vowed never to have tenants again. Not even a Saint. I do not like being treated like I was the scapegoat chasers in power! Screw them. They combine evil with sanctimony! If they love togue tenants so much then let them buy property and house them!!!!!

I understand the concept of all serving notices. In practical terms it will not work. One, the rogue landlords will not join in. Two we hurt the wrong group. Our own tenants. Who I assume if they are still tenants of ours are relatively decent tenants. Three it’s not tenants slagging us off - - at least not the good ones. The demonising comes from the media. The media brain wash the tenants who are borderline good or bad.
Hit the media source. Same as stop oil blocks the roads but we will not stop people getting to work hospitals schools. We will just hit the media and their stupid and oftener irrelevant news articles. Any article with sensitive content , children, racist, homophobic does not dragged in. There is enough out there to blitz and have an affect. If enough do it. No standing out with placards. Hanging of bridges. No strike. No affect on our good tenants. Just clog up the media networks. The media that every morning I wake up has something else to pun on me as landlord. I take responsibility for everything I am a landlord therefore it must be my fault the media tells me so. Even the Ukraine war is down to me. That badly parked BMW is me. It gotta be owned by a landlord cos it’s a BMW and the driver is clearly selfish. It follows it’s a landlord. Keep it light. Just blitz the media sources!

Reply to the comment left by dismayed landlord at 01/12/2022 - 12:49
What about withdrawing available properties for a whole month?
Zero availability, zilch NADA?

Doesn't hit existing tenants except those looking to move.

Gromit, How many properties is that? and then deduct those that will need to let theirs asap to avoid unwanted costs. Void periods are expensive where i am - no free CTAX months. Then the landlords who will charge more if there is no competition on the market. The selfish ones? We are not the mafia - we cannot stop profitering from the basic supply and demand. We are in competition with each other. That is why we are not strong enough to do anything. Do not rely on Ben from NRLA. Then consider the bad publicity for stopping decent renters from getting a PRS home? I have no intention of hurting tenants - they are not my target. I have had and still do have decent tenants. OK there been a few bad ones on the way - but thats the business we in.
Its this continual attack from the media. Shelter, Crisis, Acorn et al. They will reap what they sow and decent tenants will be the fall out. The very people they claim to represent.
Yesterday I sent comments to 10 media articles. All saying its the landlords fault. Includes one about the BMW parking. I received 15 back. Yes, some of those blamed me as a landlord but even those replies were jovial. Most got the message - how can a landlord be responsible for the BMW driver not being able to park. Keep it light - we are here t start are war. Just get the media off our backs and then maybe we can get something from the MP's.
Most these news unworthy articles get 30 - 40 replies. Even the really hard hitting ones about nurses pay attract only 100 - 150.
We (without using real names or email address) can send 1000 to 2000. It would take 20 minutes of sitting on your PC's/ tablets/ iphones. Target every non sensitive article. The media response pages are not geared up to that volume. We crash their web pages. Effects no -one, costs nothing, and all publicity is good publicity. I know some said that - think it was media man!
Yes our comments are naff that its down to landlords. Yes people will laugh. Others will agree it is our fault. Makes no differnece.
We get the fact landlords are out there and we are hitting back. Back at the media. The government can follow - if it wants.
I have no idea how to coordinate us to target an article but i am sure someone out there does. That would be even better. 5 - 6K hits on a web site.?? Even more.!!
No one should suffer (unless I have this completly wrong) except the media and right now that is what is getting under my skin.
I have been a good landlord - i'd like to carry on that way. but keep slagging me off and I might end up accepting the media image and become what they want.

Reply to the comment left by dismayed landlord at 01/12/2022 - 17:02
I appreciate not every Landlords would be willing to take the hit of loss of rent and paying CTax, and some Landlords will take advantage.
If more Landlords sell up those remaining will charge higher rents so this will be a fore taste of things to come.
Will it achieve anything? Will politicians even be aware? Will they act? Will Landlords just be demonised even more ?(probably}.
But there's very little else the Landlords can do, especially as they aren't a coherent body.

Any one have any better ideas.

Can things get any worse?

As I said its an idea but my voice on its own will not change it.

I can support it with a smaller example, I managed to close down a London borough in London internet. Not intentional. All over a missing bottle of washing up liquid. I sent a reply to a enquiry from a member of staff asking who had ‘nicked’. I replied ( not verbatim as I can remember) but the offender will only be approx 50 of the total staff, man / woman split, it went viral, the whole council internet crashed. I almost got the sack! Just a thought if enough of us can do something but not hurt tenants