New Landlord Association seeking pledges

New Landlord Association seeking pledges

8:30 AM, 3rd October 2018, About 6 years ago 386

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Update: Please now email your pledges to Info@landlordsalliance.co.uk

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 Info@landlordsalliance.co.uk

With everyone on board we will hopefully move rapidly to collating the membership required with everyone’s help


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Darrell Choppen

20:53 PM, 2nd October 2018, About 6 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Larry Sweeney at 02/10/2018 - 19:04
I'm in as well

Richard Adams

21:47 PM, 2nd October 2018, About 6 years ago

I asked earlier how many members does this forum have? Must be plenty? Is there a means to contact directly all those who have not pledged £100 asking them to do so, or at least say why they won't?

AJ

7:06 AM, 3rd October 2018, About 6 years ago

Is this idea posted on all the landlord social media groups ?

Grant Harris

8:02 AM, 3rd October 2018, About 6 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Neil Patterson at 25/09/2018 - 09:50
I'm in.

Laura Delow

8:05 AM, 3rd October 2018, About 6 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Larry Sweeney at 02/10/2018 - 19:04
You are to be commended Larry as a stalwart, determined & committed individual. I take my hat off to you. You are also spot on about the fact if we act in haste we may lose speed/impact. There will always be uninformed landlords about today's threats or the threats hiding around the corner who through ignorance "think" these current/future threats won't hurt them, or they just want to leave the good fight up to others (apathy, laziness etc), or may be they are the few who believe landlords should be singled out to pay for the housing crisis. We are a bag of Allsorts. Nevertheless as of yesterday we still have circa 170 pledges in just 3.5 days with many more landlords/agents out there who still don't know about this new union & it is therefore the responsibility of us 170 to get this message out to as many landlords as possible. I contacted 3 letting agents, 2 of whom I know have joined the pledge (shame on the 3rd agent) of which I know 1 is sending an email to all their landlord clients to read this post in the hope they'll also pledge/join as they know a if a landlord feels pain they will also suffer greatly.

Monty Bodkin

8:26 AM, 3rd October 2018, About 6 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Richard Adams at 02/10/2018 - 21:47
or at least say why they won't?

Don't shoot the messenger (I signed up long ago) but one reason for professional landlords not to sign up is because we are all in competition with each other. Fewer landlords means higher rents and/or pick of the best tenants by those surviving.
AKA, I'm alright Jack.

Take a few landlord issues;

S24 A tax on turnover is a disgusting anti-capitalist tax for any right thinking businessman, but I've worked round that now. And I'm already preparing for S24B.

Selective Licensing We all know it is a scam but I've bought mine now. Due to the way the racket is set up, new landlords will have to pay double what I did in 2 years time and triple in 3 years. Not to mention the time and expense applying and complying. (Rogue landlords don't bother of course).

Universal Credit I've nearly got rid of all my DSS tenants.

EPC rating F & G All mine are D+

HMO's and the new classification I only let to single households now.

Tenant fee ban I only charge a minimal amount anyway so won't miss it.

DPS, RTR, HTR and the 1001 other pieces of pointless red tape I keep on top of it all and have slowly built up my knowledge over years. Gawd help someone starting out in this minefield today. 90% of it is of no benefit to decent tenants but it does help to thin out the landlord competition.

Quite frankly, I'm surprised at the high level of support Larry has achieved. He's done an excellent job.
I thought there'd only be about a dozen of us, just enough to put the wind up the kilt of the useless associations that claim to represent us. If this has achieved nothing else, at least now they might pause for thought before jumping into bed with the next local authority licensing scam.

Neil Patterson

8:51 AM, 3rd October 2018, About 6 years ago

Important Update from Larry: Please now email your pledges to Info@landlordsalliance.co.uk

With everyone on board we will hopefully move rapidly to collating the membership required with everyone's help

ICO number A840796

Hugh Jass

9:07 AM, 3rd October 2018, About 6 years ago

I'd be interested...

Neil Patterson

10:04 AM, 3rd October 2018, About 6 years ago

Please email existing pledges above as well as new ones to

Info@landlordsalliance.co.uk

John Curtis

10:19 AM, 3rd October 2018, About 6 years ago

Count me in.

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