Landlords face rising challenges amid new legislation claims NRLA

‘Landlords face rising challenges ‘ is a headline unlikely to give any reaction other than glee to the charities, the NRLA needs to be more assertive. Something like.

‘50% of tenants likely to be made homeless due to government meddling’

Pussyfooting around will help nobody.

Completely agree Paul.
The NRLA really do need to get some new people running the show.

They have tried to be soft on the issues in the hope that they will get some kind of influence heard. However, they are being made to look fools and I think have damaged their own reputation as an organisation that supports good landlords and the PRS.

Most insitutions out there, including the Labour government, have not yet joined the dots:
Struggling Landlord = Homeless Tenant

It needs to be spelled out. I agree with the comments above.

Some great words & points in there I’ve added to my list:

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 digitial

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

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

Any change in PRS sector not matter how bad will bring training income for NRLA courses/ templates. NRLA are sales company and only pay lip service to lobbying.

Most of us probably bought our properties prior to first attack on Landlords by Osbourne. We have successfully provided Good Homes to millions of people who have been happy with Private Landlords. I believe 85% was mentioned.

Now its getting impossible , millions of tenants could loose there homes due to The Government , and Councils war on Landlords. Death by 1000 clip boards.

Reply to the comment left by a Northernpleb at 12/08/2025 – 18:33It actually is a death by 1000 cuts.
I believe I have been a good landlord for 30 years with literally hundreds of tenancies in that time. I have put up with a lot of bad tenants over the years, worst amongst them – the burnt out 4 bedroom house due to a cannabis factory, another house with non paying house trashing benefit tenants etc, yet somehow whilst that was all surmountable I feel that the government’s continuous meddling isn’t.
I no longer have the energy for MTD, at the same time as looming massive EPC expenditure to save tenants 50p, and the nightmarish RRB along with the daily onslaught of the threat of new fines, new licencing schemes etc whilst now making real terms capital losses on my houses and ever diminishing net income whilst inflation is yet again out of control.
I feel I have no choice but to throw in the towel as a landlord and am in the process of doing so, one house at a time. Weird really because fundamentally all I do is provide expensive family homes that I have bought and paid for (eg £600k plus) to decent families, in return for a net yield of about 3% and I am always on call for any issues. I guess that’s just not enough, so others can take over, if they like.

This is one of the reasons I have now left the rental sector. I have gotten so fed up with the legislation, taxation and landlord licenses that I decided it was not worth the hassle anymore.
It took me 6 months to get rid of my tenant and that ended up going to court as the ‘council’ told him to stay put, his reason was that he couldn’t afford anywhere else.
Why should the honest landlord who looks after their property and tenants be penalized for the crimes of rogue landlords.
Shelter and any other champions of the RRB, you’ve only got yourselves to blame for rising rents.
I’ve now sold up, put my money in a bond and am earning about the same with no hassle. The government will say that small time landlords don’t have an effect leaving the sector but you add all of us together and you can take care of the tenants who can’t afford anywhere to live.
I’m out and I won’t be going back in.
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Might as well go into landlord electrical testing, maybe I’ll have less responsibility and more money.