New Landlord Association seeking pledges
Update: Please now email your pledges to [email protected]
For the past 18 months, I have mulled over the idea of setting up a new National Landlords association. I won’t bore readers to death explaining why. We all know how frustrated and sickened the community is with the other main associations failing to aggressively fight our corner and instead assist the councils implementing their rotten Selective licensing schemes. Enough is enough.
We could talk forever, but it is now time for action. I have held off taking this leap in the hope that somebody else would take up the baton. I completely understand the reluctance of anybody to get involved. Mark summed it up. A most time consuming venture.
As things stand now, the show is almost ready for the road.
I have set up the National Landlords Alliance. Before I go any further if the National Landlords Association wish to take issue with the National Landlords alliance, I say bring it on. Do it now.
Moving on Banking facilities are in place. I am prepared to act as CEO without salary initially to get the organisation up and running. The organisation will operate out of offices supplied by me on a rent free basis, until profitability can be achieved.
I have a PR/Secretary lined up who will join us subject to salary discussions. She has experience in the industry as well as a journalism degree and lobbying experience.
Following extensive negotiations over several weeks I have got agreement from the former National Chair of the FSB to also join us. Mr Allan has extensive lobbying experience including vast experience gained from negotiating with the former PM Cameron and Osborne, as well as dealing with the devolved Governments of Scotland ,Wales and NI. This would complete the team initially.
I also have organised a preferred solicitor to assist members. The individual I have in mind is a former local authority prosecutor.
We will not be selling courses or cheap smoke detectors. We will absolutely never assist councils implementing any scheme to the detriment of landlords. As regards document downloads, they are available from other sources.
We will be 100% focused on aggressively fighting the Landlords corner.
The fee to join would be £100 pa.
At this stage all I seek is pledges.
If the figures are right we are good to go. A word of caution however,and I don’t mean to insult regular contributors, but at this stage our biggest enemy is Apathy.
If we can get the pledges ie a min of 1000 members we have a new organisation.
The NATIONAL LANDLORDS ALLIANCE LTD.
Larry Sweeney
Update: Please now email your pledges to [email protected]
With everyone on board we will hopefully move rapidly to collating the membership required with everyone’s help
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Member Since March 2015 - Comments: 58
12:22 PM, 29th September 2018, About 8 years ago
LETS DO THIS !!!!
Member Since September 2013 - Comments: 178
12:27 PM, 29th September 2018, About 8 years ago
Yep….I’m in!
Member Since September 2018 - Comments: 13
12:31 PM, 29th September 2018, About 8 years ago
Hi Larry. Ive 30 properties and increasing (so about 60 tenants). I’m behind you and happy to pledge £100. Please let it concentrate on the following:
The selective licensing won’t stop and councils will eventually roll this out to every rented property, even studios, to make more money (the costs will get passed onto tenants ultimately).
Scrapping S24. I’m putting all my tenants rents up as often below market value to compensate.
Reduce the time and cost to remove problem tenants. Happy to work with CAB and tenants when in difficulty, but six months or more, plus huge costs to remove non payers isn’t acceptable.
Reduce the increasing administrative burden on landlords. An EPC needed before evicting someone. Never had anyone ask for one in the last 15 years.
As I said I’m in, an will put my name forward if committee members required. Good luck.
Member Since May 2016 - Comments: 415 - Articles: 52
1:15 PM, 29th September 2018, About 8 years ago
We will shortly be putting our email and website address on Property 118. We are dealing with regulatory issues then good to go. As regards Aims, objectives we will publish them on our website.
One promise from me. The days of putting up with non stop rants about Criminal landlords are over. Shelter we are going to take the fight to you with your £6000000 revenue and your £120k chief executive and your charitable status. We are not the NLA/RLA no more free passes.
Member Since December 2014 - Comments: 2
1:54 PM, 29th September 2018, About 8 years ago
Yes please, count me in.
Member Since October 2013 - Comments: 85
2:00 PM, 29th September 2018, About 8 years ago
Great idea. We need a Landlord’s Association that actually fights for landlords. I will join.
Member Since August 2015 - Comments: 1
2:01 PM, 29th September 2018, About 8 years ago
I’m in, great idea!
Member Since November 2013 - Comments: 32
3:13 PM, 29th September 2018, About 8 years ago
Count me in
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4:13 PM, 29th September 2018, About 8 years ago
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Member Since October 2013 - Comments: 85
5:03 PM, 29th September 2018, About 8 years ago
We need a tough organisation to stand up to the numerous haters. These days it’s even the Tories joining in.