Student campaigners demand ban on guarantor requirements for tenants

The whole point of being a student is to learn, and learning about renting a property whilst part of that community is a great preparation for life in the real world.

Also a great opportunity for NUS to help members be successful tenants who knows what they are responsible for and how best to do it…

Student renters being required to have a guarantor is just one example of the new normal post RRB. Hardly surprising when landlords are expected to accept all the other letting risks.

There is a reason for needing a UK guarantor, or paying all the rent up front. International students who don’t plan to return to the UK, know how hard it is to pursue them for the debt. They can just refuse to pay and fly home, effectively getting free rent. I see it posted online, where a joint tenant has been left with the full rent and arrears because the other tenant left at the end of the academic year.

Back in the day when people used to pay their rent and didn’t have every activist telling them not to, the court system worked, etc guarantors maybe weren’t especially necessary. Now things have changed and landlords have to weigh up the risks.

Again back in the day before every Tiktok influencer was coming up with half baked advice on saving energy (which usually involves blocking up ventilation and drying vast amounts of laundry all over the house) mould and mildew didn’t tend to be such a problem.

If students don’t feel part of their community what effort to meet the neighbours have they actually made? How many have even realised their neighbours may appreciate an attempt at integration?

If housing costs are a major problem for low income students perhaps the universities should provide some means tested cheap accommodation. Certainly where I operate private sector student housing is far cheaper than anything the university or corporates offer.

If being a student landlord is such a money spinner, why doesn’t the NUS get in on the action?

They could use their considerable profit to borrow £millions to build a student accommodation empire. Maybe Generation Rent and Shelter (who don’t provide shelter to anyone) could join forces with the NUS and really turbocharge the student lets business.

No, I thought not. Too much like hard work.

The Government or individual universities could act as guarantors. That would help out the vulnerable students.

Ha!
The next thing they will be asking for is to ban paying rent for accommodation. They say “all property is theft!” and really belive it, so look out for more little steps towards a totalitarian state country. Slice by slice they are taking it all from you. If you vote for any of the major parties next time, then expect to be punished for trusting these liars and Con artists they call the govenment. We need change! We need to vote in Reform or UKIP, and kick these career politicians out of office. We need people who have run small businesses, or have worked on farms, or factories, and have not gone to Eton nor Cambridge, nor Oxford. Lets kick these leaches out for good!

Whilst many here rent to students I personally think that Universities should be providing Campus accommodation for all its students.

We may be having less of a housing shortage if the PRS was for those out of full time education.

How the young fall for the delusional lefties
Nothing more then indoctrination
How time changes when they realise majority of there hard earned wage goes to the people who cannot be bothered to work or have entered illegally into the UK

so just to make you laugh I have overseas students in one of my properties and they emailed me with a host of problems (given that English isn’t their first language but ! this is what I had to sort for them !)
lights don’t work – its a dimmer switch you have to turn it, to increase the brigtness
heating doesn’t work- the thermostats turned down
the smoke alarm went off and didnt turn off for hours – press the stop button
Brown stains in the toilet – use the bog brush and buy some bleach
curtain won’t close – use the cord

If family and friends of a potential student renter don’t trust them to behave responsibly, pay their rent and bills, to the point where they will act as guarantor, why should a landlord who doesn’t even know them?