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 November 2013 - Comments: 158 - Articles: 1
11:40 AM, 25th September 2018, About 8 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Larry Sweeney at 25/09/2018 – 11:33
“drive the others to the wall” … but where else will we get our smoke detectors? 😉
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11:43 AM, 25th September 2018, About 8 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Joe Robertson at 25/09/2018 – 10:29
Im in
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11:44 AM, 25th September 2018, About 8 years ago
I would willingly join too.
When I was building my portfolio I told my kids not to tell anyone because of the ridiculous stigma applied to being a landlord. Now I feel proud to tell people what I do. We work hard & look after our tenants, that’s the message that should be shouted from the rooftops.
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11:45 AM, 25th September 2018, About 8 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Joe Robertson at 25/09/2018 – 10:29
Im in
Member Since June 2015 - Comments: 29
11:47 AM, 25th September 2018, About 8 years ago
Count me in. Shared to Gainsborough Landlords Group. We have selective licensing here, WLDC outsourced the running of it to The Homesafe Scheme which is run by the NLA rep for Hexthorpe. So much for being the Landlords voice!
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11:50 AM, 25th September 2018, About 8 years ago
I am on board
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12:03 PM, 25th September 2018, About 8 years ago
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12:37 PM, 25th September 2018, About 8 years ago
Count me in
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12:39 PM, 25th September 2018, About 8 years ago
Count me in
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12:54 PM, 25th September 2018, About 8 years ago
What great timing! Was just about to cancel DD for the waste of money I pay to the NLA each month. Would love to join…?