New BBC1 Programme about Landlords

New BBC1 Programme about Landlords

8:38 AM, 11th May 2017, About 7 years ago 146

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My name is Grace and I am a TV Researcher working on a new BBC One programme about landlords.

The aim of the programme is a journey which will allows landlords to improve their knowledge of today’s rental market – and their own properties – by experiencing them first-hand as a tenant. It is also an opportunity for the landlords to explore and reflect on how the rental market is changing in Britain and what challenges come with that – for both landlords and tenants. We are fast becoming a nation of renters and this is an interesting (and hopefully fun!) way of exploring the rental market. How is the market changing? How are tenants’ demands changing? Do expectations and demands rise with prices?

We are looking for successful landlords with different stories and reasons to want to get to know their tenants and properties better, by spending a week as one of their tenants. It’s important that the landlords go on a personal journey and are genuinely interested in finding out what it’s like to be a tenant in today’s market and we are looking out for interesting stories to justify a landlord moving into their rental property for a week. So that might be, for example, wanting to explore how their own lives and expectations have changed from when they were a renter, it might be that their business has grown to such a degree that they feel removed from their tenants and properties and would like the opportunity to go ‘back to the floor’.

We are not looking for extremes, we do not want to include the stories of bad landlords or indeed bad tenants, we want to showcase reality and bridge the gap between landlords and tenants by reflecting the actual renting market as it is.

Could you pass on the info to landlords you are in touch with that might be interested?

Kind regards,

Grace

Editors Update:

Please note Grace has now left the company and is no longer contactable.


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NW Landlord

10:28 AM, 13th May 2017, About 7 years ago

I've got a great story of an officer from the ministry of justice coming up from London advising my polictial asylum seeking tenants who I bent over backwards to help due to them being lovely people who paid the rent on time up untill there funds dried up. Anyway he advised them to sit tight as it would take months and months to evict so basically have the landlord off. It is worth noting the tenants refused siting how good we had been to them and are still paying me the three months that I let them live there for Free whilst servicing the mortgage. My dad was that enraged he is pursuing this vigorously I told him not to bother take it on the chin as this is the modern Britain ran by toffs screwing the ordinary man into the ground Great Britain my axxs

Monty Bodkin

10:46 AM, 13th May 2017, About 7 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Mick Roberts" at "13/05/2017 - 06:44":

Go on Mick, get thee sen on t' telly lad!

You're exactly what they are looking for to twist into an evil rich landlord vs poor misunderstood tenant exposé.

Just because you know exactly how your tenants live and know a thousand times more about it than any BBC media studies graduate, shouldn't put you off "experiencing the journey first hand".

terry sullivan

11:06 AM, 13th May 2017, About 7 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Kathy Evans" at "12/05/2017 - 16:38":

gideon is an earl in ireland?

Robert M

11:08 AM, 13th May 2017, About 7 years ago

62 comments on this thread, and although Grace has spoken to Mark, she has not responded to ANY of the comments on here by other landlords. If she really wanted to show how the programme would be fair and balanced, surely she would be posting a response to the points raised?

NW Landlord

11:10 AM, 13th May 2017, About 7 years ago

BBC may have told her not to wouldn't suprise me

Kathy Evans

11:43 AM, 13th May 2017, About 7 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Robert Mellors" at "13/05/2017 - 11:08":

I think she'd have run away by now if she has any sense, and possibly tried HPC for some willing tenants.

Anne Nixon

12:01 PM, 13th May 2017, About 7 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Mike McDonagh" at "13/05/2017 - 10:19":

Great post Mike! I would just add that another result of what national and local government are doing to the PRS will be to cause many landlords to exit the market leaving those tenants unable or unwilling to buy their own property with a shrinking stock of rental properties to choose from. Supply and demand would then dictate a rise in rents and those least able to cope financially will be going to local authorities for help.

Anne Nixon

12:37 PM, 13th May 2017, About 7 years ago

I imagine that by now Grace is finding landlords an unhelpful and aggressive bunch and to speak to her in our defence I would say this. . .

Grace - imagine you had spent your working life diligently and conscientiously putting together what you believed were great programs - you were proud of the work you produced, you truly believed in what you were doing and felt that the public derived massive benefit from it when suddenly it was on the front page of the papers that programs made by people called Grace were utter gibberish, the general public all muttered about the programs being mindless rubbish of no use to anyone and not fit to be aired on TV and there might even be a question raised in parliament about how 'Grace' programs were a waste of the money paid by licence fee payers.

"But no, I make great programs!!" you would protest, "I put my heart and soul into my work - I researched everything thoroughly and I studied and worked for years perfecting my craft to produce work of the highest quality possible for my audience".

You would understandable feel aggrieved that the standard of your work was derided and you would feel hurt at being accused of only being in program making for the money, of being a greedy rip-off-merchant who tries to fob off the viewing public with any old drivel.

If you are able to envisage yourself in that scenario then you have had an insight into the world of the landlord and you may now understand why we are not flocking to participate in your program.

Anthony Endsor

12:40 PM, 13th May 2017, About 7 years ago

If this was what it said it was, (which it most likely isn't!) I would be delighted to take part, simply because all my properties are kept in excellent condition and I would be very happy to spend a week living in one of them. If in return the tenants told the truth about me as a landlord I would be happy also, as they are all very happy with the properties and me as a landlord. So if this is the BBC trying to bring landlords down further (it is!) then it wouldn't work with me, but I'd be happy to take part 🙂

Jan Martin

17:42 PM, 13th May 2017, About 7 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Mark Alexander" at "11/05/2017 - 10:48":

Yes I totally agree too .
I am experiencing extra costs because of Shelter . Costs that when I win my court case will
be given to the defendant to pay .A court case that if shelter was doing its job properly would be guiding their client in the sensible common sense way in order to avoid more costs .

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