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 February 2018 - Comments: 27
2:25 PM, 2nd October 2018, About 8 years ago
There we have the first priority of this initiative to get a reasonable number of Landlords to pledge before we consider taking it any further.
We can debate how many landlords there are in the UK some articles say 2.5 million in a recent post on 118 Mark Alexander proposed 1.5 million as a potential maximum that could pledge.
The last time I checked 18000 people had signed the petition against landlords stamp duty and section 24 and that costs nothing.
Until we break the apathy or reach the landlords this is going nowhere. Maybe we need a bit more anti landlord taxation and legislation before landlords rise up to protect their profession and reputation.
I hope I am wrong and in case people want to judge I paid 250 into the section 24 judicial review case and whenever I have asked for advice on 118 I made a contribution.
I don’t understand the apparent apathy and have not found anyone yet who can explain it.
Member Since April 2014 - Comments: 306
2:33 PM, 2nd October 2018, About 8 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Christopher Marsden at 02/10/2018 – 14:25
Well said Christopher. We can only but hope other Landlords take notice & join rather than bury their heads in the sand, and we keep meanwhile spreading the word to e.g. letting agents etc to get them to urgently spread the word to their clients/members.
Member Since May 2016 - Comments: 415 - Articles: 52
2:41 PM, 2nd October 2018, About 8 years ago
Hi everybody. To answer queries re numbers, we have had over 20k reads and as Luke said approx 170 pledges here. I can also confirm that other work is going on in the background on recruiting more members. This is going ahead, we are going to have a new organisation and I will be immenintely posting the Alliance email address here for everybody who pledged to contact us with their contact details. We are working very hard to make this a reality.
Member Since January 2016 - Comments: 73
3:36 PM, 2nd October 2018, About 8 years ago
Larry, I have already made my pledge but at the risk of sounding a little gung ho if it means getting everything up and running would it be worth considering a higher fee or do you think that would put LLs off? I think it is very important to get this up and running – some clout is what is needed in the industry and I think once the initial organisation is in place others will see the advantage and come and join.
Member Since October 2013 - Comments: 804
3:39 PM, 2nd October 2018, About 8 years ago
I am happy to pledge more
Member Since March 2017 - Comments: 38
3:42 PM, 2nd October 2018, About 8 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Douglas Barley at 02/10/2018 – 15:36
We have no clout with a low numbers of 180
Member Since May 2014 - Comments: 4
3:58 PM, 2nd October 2018, About 8 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Neil Patterson at 25/09/2018 – 09:50
I pledge £100
Austin Langtree
Member Since September 2013 - Comments: 474
4:28 PM, 2nd October 2018, About 8 years ago
Sadly the apathy that is being talked about is a fact of life. Like Christopher Marsden says who can explain it? I can’t but it’s prevalent. Why with the West Brom case where getting lenders affected on board was necessary did it prove so difficult? It was so blindingly obvious why they should join the action but fear, “not wanting to get involved etc” prevailed. It’s the same here. Why every member of this forum – how many are there? – has not pledged to join beats me. Of course on no names no packdrill basis there are a lot of members here who have got plenty to say on other topics but are noticeably absent as pledgers right now. Still let’s press on.
Member Since October 2018 - Comments: 71
4:44 PM, 2nd October 2018, About 8 years ago
I’m in
Member Since May 2016 - Comments: 415 - Articles: 52
7:04 PM, 2nd October 2018, About 8 years ago
Hi all ,point taken about a higher fee, but i dont see why great people who pledge here should pay for those who cant be bothered. I want to keep the fee as low as possible and to those who offered more , thank you it is appreciated. As i said we are working in the background on recruiting more but I said from the outset Apathy is a real problem and that is exactly why central government, councils and the media think they can keep treating landlords as the “whipping boy”. Lets be patient we have waited, we are not going away. We are working 24/7 to make this a reality,