You take the risk and I will take the tenant!

You take the risk and I will take the tenant!

11:22 AM, 30th October 2020, About 4 years ago 42

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I am constantly being approached by various Local Authorities to house single homeless people, something I am only too willing to do with certain conditions.

In summary, my reply demands a guarantor, for both rent and damage without limit, using the catchphrase “You take the risk and I will take the tenant.”

Nobody has taken me up on my offer.

Can I suggest that we all use this approach to Local Authorities trying to place homeless people then perhaps the message will get through.

David


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10:10 AM, 4th November 2020, About 4 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Dr Rosalind Beck at 30/10/2020 - 17:15
My LA has said they will sue me for eviction of a mentally ill tenant (relative) who I have housed for free for years - despite a letter from my solicitor that there is effectively no AST. That is one extremely irking situation, but because of it, my relative has been given the lowest council house bidding priority. The hospital has a charity who try to house patients who are stuck in mental hospitals, so that the beds can be freed up. It is fascinating. The council insists that he goes back to my rental house where he lived before. This isn't possible as the council have told the council-house neighbours that they 'can't stop him returning to the house because it is a private let' and they have developed a vigilante Facebook group threatening to 'take him out' and 'trash the house' because the council are saying they can't stop him returning. Forked tongue on the council's part. The charity is therefore trying to house him in a private let. I had offered to help until I realised that they were putting yet another private landlord - one without the legal defence of having offered rent free accommodation to a relative - into a horrendous situation where they may lose tenants above or below, be faced with damage and nuisance calls and so on. All of this is because mental health services are so underfunded, that when I have called them frequently over the last few years, they just say there is nothing they can do. The story is much more horrific than I can list here, but the point is that the LA are foisting these problems on private landlords without a care and then want to blame us when it goes wrong!

Peter G

17:27 PM, 13th November 2020, About 3 years ago

Reading Council were interested in my flat but wanted me to take on the entire responsibiity for the tenant, so I declined. These Councils are very silly as they could probably take out an insurance cover which small landlords like me cannot get.

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