Open Letter to Landlords and Shelter

Open Letter to Landlords and Shelter

11:30 AM, 19th October 2018, About 6 years ago 30

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Landlords, Our sector is under attack like never before.

Politicians and pressure groups who want to tax and regulate the PRS out of existence are causing unbelievable hardship for tenants. The new UK tax on turnover goes against all the basic norms of accountancy rules. I wish here to address all the P118 readers who have read about our new Alliance and not pledged.

Email us at info@landlordsalliance.co.uk and pledge your £100.

Our Members who have pledged have responded very firmly to those who have raised concerns. For the avoidance of doubt we intend to stop the media hysteria about bad landlords and ensure that legislation is reviewed as a matter of urgency. The vast majority of landlords are hardworking tax compliant citizens providing much needed shelter and building a pension for their future so they are not reliant on the state.

On the other side we have ignorant politicians “Charlatans” jumping on the band wagon to curry favour and votes on the back of out right lies. On the watch of the major landlord organisations we have had sect 24 imposed as well as selective licensing. Time to employ a new Guard as we face the next new threats. 3 year tenancies and the danger of massive shortages of choice for tenants, with rent controls. Mobility will be the casualty of rent controls.

To those that may be worried about the new alliance and question the £100 membership, let me say this. Luke P is one of the most respected members on this forum run by Mark and Neil. Any of these three are welcome at any time to inspect the books of the Alliance, review membership, examine any rent paid for the offices which I have supplied for free to date, as well as paying upfront for IT and web infrastructure out of my own personal capital, and finally to confirm that I as promised will take no salary initially as CEO. I may change my mind in the future, but for now I work for free and that also means taking no dividend. The invitation to be reviewed at any time by Mark, Neil, Luke or a few other trusted members known personally to me stays open indefinitely. Obviously we will not give access to confidential data to anybody and our privacy statement will reflect that.

Finally Landlords, Please come off the sidelines and onto the pitch, join us and let us go in to battle. Join the Alliance now and take positive action.

I now extend an open invitation to Polly Neate CEO of Shelter. Polly I will commit to working as CEO of the Alliance without Salary for one year. It is an honour and a privilege to do this,as it is a just and worthy cause.

I call upon you to forgo your £120k salary for 12 months and I will meet you anytime anywhere to see how together we could change the narrative. I really hope Polly that you will do the right thing. Surely if Shelter want to help tenants, it would be a good idea to present an honest balanced informed view, rather than misleading the public. Polly feel free to contact me at any time if you wish to take me up on my proposal. Just return one year of your £120k salary to the taxpayer. We look forward to a positive response.

Kind Regards
Larry Sweeney CEO National Landlords Alliance.


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Adam Hosker

16:22 PM, 20th October 2018, About 6 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Luke P at 20/10/2018 - 11:45
Residential Landlord Association (RLA), National Landlords Association (NLA), Landlords Guild, Landlords Union and Landlord Alliance.

Individually a small voice(s) together an influential one.

The RLA Articles of Association is online ( https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02869179/filing-history ). Id read from this your efforts would be better placed, getting those members of P118 and Landlord Alliance to put a nominated person down as there proxy vote. With the numbers behind one member force the issues within the RLA? Take up a board membership to continue that direction.

Perhaps the same at the NLA whilst your there, get them to merge resources, members and influence.

Either way, wish you best of luck in your efforts.

Luke P

16:49 PM, 20th October 2018, About 6 years ago

Incredible…everybody not involved got something to say.!

AA

20:03 PM, 20th October 2018, About 6 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Luke P at 20/10/2018 - 16:49
Not involved because … what is being proposed in terms of the fight back is somewhat …. flaccid . It may have passed you by but pistols at dawn and Queensbury rules do not apply anymore. Fair meaningful discussions over a cup of tea ….hah. These days you go for the jugular and pound your opponent into the ground so he doesn't even think about getting back up.

Setting up a website ….very 21st century. Here is a better idea. A big poster on the M25 at a busy point. SHELTER £60M Budget. HOMES PROVIDED 0. CEO SALARY £120K. MONEY FROM TAXPAYERS …. Now something like that - here's my £250 !

Monty Bodkin

20:34 PM, 20th October 2018, About 6 years ago

Care to say how the big landlord associations have been "influential" on the recent attacks on landlords?
They've done me more harm than good.
They don't represent me.

Mark Shine

21:09 PM, 20th October 2018, About 6 years ago

Does anyone know how what the membership numbers are for some of the smaller regional LL associations like iHowz for example? I’m not 100% sure, so please don’t shoot me down, but I do wonder if Adam is right... that yet another competing LL association ‘might’ prove counter productive in terms of further dilution? If not been done already, is it worth considering approaching some of the smaller LL associations in the first instance to discuss if there is any possibility in somehow joining forces to gain a louder combined ‘voice’ vs TPTB / GR / Shelter / hpc / guardianistas etc?

Larry Sweeney

21:47 PM, 20th October 2018, About 6 years ago

Hi AA.
I have had readers comment that they do not want to join us because we appear to be far too aggressive, you rekon that we are too flacid
Weak like the other lackeys who claim to represent us. We have not oficially launched yet, but we have attacked Shelter non stop on twitter. Yes I know a twitter attack never wiped anybody out but look at our approach , it is nothing like the approach of the appeasers. Come and pledge. Surely you can see that with the numbers we can take the fight to them. Surely you can also see that we cannot disclose our tactics on a public forum. Stop whinging. Stop the negativity. Join us . Pledge we need you and if you have any agressive tactics that we could use, I want to hear your ideas. Now get on and pledge.
Info@landlordsalliance.co.uk

Mark Shine

21:59 PM, 20th October 2018, About 6 years ago

I might be talking nonsense, so please forgive me if I am, but just thinking aloud 💭...
If partnerships were formed with the smaller existing LL associations (and potentially some of the larger ones too) a certain % of the new members membership fee could go to them and the remaining % would go to Larry and team for a much needed focused approach?

Steve B

7:50 AM, 22nd October 2018, About 6 years ago

Here’s my 2p worth... there are doubts about what Larry and his team can accomplish and there may be those who don’t agree with his tactics but consider this... we surely must all agree that at least he is prepared to have a go AND he’s prepared to do something for nothing to get it all started. I’ve pledged £100 and really want him to succeed but you know what, if he doesn’t then it was worth the money to HELP someone with a bit of backbone have a bloody good go!

Annie Landlord

10:45 AM, 22nd October 2018, About 6 years ago

I would advise landlords thinking of pledging to the new alliance to just follow them on twitter for a time: National Landlords Alliance Ltd @landlords_ltd
Tweets to date have ridiculed Labour, supported Farage, thrown down the crazy gauntlet for Polly Neate to give up her salary, regularly repeated the mistake that all of Shelter's £60 million income is from taxpayers and got into ridiculing the (very few) responses to tweets rather than making salient points. Its all pretty worrying

Luke P

11:45 AM, 22nd October 2018, About 6 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Annie Landlord at 22/10/2018 - 10:45I am a big supporter of Larry, but do agree the Twitter feed is a mess. However...Larry is doing this single-handedly and has little experience of Twitter. In time (subject to hitting the initial 1000 pledge target), we may be able to get a media/PR bod on-board and straighten that out, but this will not be possible without the support of others. I don't suppose any of us are professional PR people and certainly have never started a nationwide landlords group before, so let's give it time and give it a chance to find its feet. You don't wake up one day being a Twitter expert or know how to push a brand new association.

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