A Devon council is promoting a scheme to lease properties from private landlords to provide homes for those in need.
In exchange private landlords are being offered a package of support and help including financial incentives, secure rental income and hassle-free letting.
Torridge council is keen to stress the benefits for property owners, which include:
- A competitive rental income paid monthly in advance and guaranteed for the duration of the lease - even if the property is empty;
- No letting agent or management fees, as the council finds a suitable tenant and manages the property;
- No liability for council tax or utilities even when the property is empty, as the Council will cover these costs;
- No expense or hassle resulting from a tenant causing damage (accidental or otherwise), as the Council will arrange and pay for these repairs;
- A guarantee that the property will be returned to you in the same condition it was leased (excluding fair wear and tear);
- Guaranteed vacant possession at the end of the lease.
While all types of property are in demand, the council is particularly keen to hear about onebedroom or larger four to five bedroom family homes.
But the council is looking to work with any landlord and any size of property.
As well as looking for landlords to lease properties from, the council is also keen to stress their other role in helping landlords across the district to find suitable tenants, paying the deposit and rent in advance to minimise any delay for a landlord in letting a property.
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Desperation setting in.
Govetnment reaping what it has sown!
Remember Bicycle Repair Man on Monty Python?
Government is in a tricky situation now. Landlords quitting due to proposed EPC minimum standards and at the same time the geopolitical situation is likely to significantly ramp up the pressure to make the proposal law and encourage more LLs to leave. So Councils and private tenants will both be fishing in the same diminishing pond. What could possibly go wrong?
Well Selective Licensing is only going to muddy the waters further, and increase rents and decrease supply.
I think it's funny , my youngest daughter and her partner own a lovely Victorian terraced house in Plymouth , they have no problem getting good working tenants for that, what landlord in his right mind is going to take tenants from councils, they'll be trouble you can guarantee that.
As said above, desperation is setting in, and that is without any more rubber boat people and/or the Ukraine influx. They have shot the Golden Goose and those in the know at all the local levels know it full well. The EPC C (if it comes in as we think) will kill the market for the bulk of LL's who own flats or older terraced properties. They have no hope of getting many to sign up for this, i have to deal in my job with a lot of the type of tenant that the council would put forward, dealing with them in work is one thing, but to deal with them as a LL !!! Not a chance, i meet and have to advise LL's about what their tenant is doing and deal with their utter frustration and anxiety, i do not want this when i go home. So it would be a no from me.
Ahhhahahahahahhahahhahhhhaaaaa haaa-HAAAAAAAAA! LOL!!!!
Classic.
Stick it so far up your backside Torridge Council! After the way you and central Govt. have acted toward LLs, I hope you fail on every conceivable level.
Once again I will promote my idea (that eventually will be picked up as though it were some MPs own)...if you told all C.2m LLs that they could have CGT relief on any empty/derelict property they brought back into use for the PRS, you'd have a helluva lot of stock. Virtually overnight! And far quicker than building new houses. We all know of abandoned houses in our towns and cities that could be resurrected if only the incentive were there. If it were averaged at one property per LL (some will do none, others will do multiple), we would, within a twelve months, have over 11 years the supply of new-build property!! ELEVEN YEARS!!!
Somehow, corporate builders' shareholders getting almighty wealthy by slowing supply is better than 'enriching' greedy snivelling private LLs actually actively solving the housing crisis, whilst simultaneously (god forbid) making a few quid for themselves...
A symptom of a total lack of joined up thinking. The Government should be listening to Councils and Landlords rather than Shelter and Generation rent!
On the one hand, L.A's are beating and Licensing Landlords to death with Civil penalties and RRO's, and on the other hand, - have the audacity to approach us ' Cap in Hand ' !!!
When will Govt and the Tenant pundits realise the " Unintended consequences "
Well, intended or not, they're coming to a Town near you Sooooon !
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