Landlords could pay tenants up to two years’ rent for failing Decent Homes Standard as PBSA is exempt

Reply to the comment left by Stella at 23/12/2024 – 12:50
But remember, we voted out the last clueless bunch. Heads we lose and tails they win, the only way landlords can win is if it stands on its edge.

This would be a nightmare.

How many landlords have had house wrecked by tenants . Yet tenants are protected and allowed to pay £1 a month if anything.

Look at evictions claiming disrepair to delay.

Certain tenants will cause damage and want compensation.

I have just responded to an email . About damaged front door hob oven cupboards falling away from wall .mould etc

My response tenants partner kicked the door in awaiting for them to pay it.

Tenant smashed hob

Cupboards are very overloaded and needs emptied.

Four years on they have a carpet bug problem

Smoke alarms have been removed

But it is all landlords fault

I must have missed the bit about action against tenants, when they have wrecked a property, which previously complied with the decent homes’ standard?

Pennycook is equally as out of touch as the rest of this Government (and the previous Conservative lot) whose sole aim appears to be to destroy or decimate the PRS.

Time to be looking to sell I think.

Reply to the comment left by Neil Robb at 23/12/2024 – 14:02
You could not make it!

It will get even worse when these bad tenants are allowed to have dogs, cats snakes etc…

I’d sooner do time in prison.

It makes total sense to me that if the government demands safer and decent standard homes, they should first check the property check in inventory and educate the tenants how to live as a tenant or occupier in their homes, which is temporary and other people will stay there after them. If the tenants failed to take their part of tenancy then the government should pick up the bills for any work required as they are money coddling the tenants with the extraordinary rights to destroy the property, which can take months to put it right at a lot of expense. Not charge the LL, especially as they cannot provide any homes to the tenants retrospectively.

Reply to the comment left by David Lawrenson at 23/12/2024 – 10:40
Mussolini yes, he defined fascism as the melding of the corporate state, Hitler was totally anti corporatist, enthusiastic about private home ownership but limited to one, mortgage cancelled by 25% per child, strengthened intergenerational family farms and so the list goes on, in other words, history isn’t necessarily true or the whole truth, only what’s retold andca lot of that is arrant nonsense.

Reply to the comment left by David Lawrenson at 23/12/2024 – 10:40
Wealth and land grab in full swing!
This comes from above the world’s governments.
Get out while you can and obtain a bit of land to sustain your dietary needs.

Is being a Private Landlord now too risky .
A tenant smashes the property up .and the Landlord Gets the fine of £40000 for each category of HSSR it falls into. and the Tenant receives two years rent back . And its all decided by the Council.

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 by not heating and ventilating the property. The Council jobsworths then come along upon his complant and diagnose the damage caused by the tenant as structural damp? The landlord is then had over with a big fine.
This is a business that is just not worth bring in as this rubbish government radicalises landlords, farmers and small business. They’re just a joke really. What has Pennycook actually ever run …other than a bath?