Generation Rent claims landlords “silence” tenants in mouldy flats

Oh god not her again

What about Charlie, he has evicted his son and family from their tied cottage in the countryside ? Oh so callous evicting an unemployed man with his young family.

If I need a give a reason I will never get my properties back. There will be endless counterclaims and counter suggestions. For example the property needs total refurbishment. Tenants needs to move out so I can do it. The counter argument is they can stay living there. There’s no need for them to move out. Which builder will take that job on? I can’t even replace my flooring atm because they know my Nigerians won’t move their stuff to clear the room. More than one said in not so many words that they will just sit on their bottoms and wait for anyone else to do it.

These people live in La La Land.

Mould, the normal cause being condensation caused by lack of ventilation, open a window, how hard is that?

I agree, Andrew, mould is the new witchhunt. Does mould exist due to bad housing or bad management by the occupiers? In my case, it’s because the tenants do not look after the property
Jim Haliburton
The HMO Daddy

She was too young to have been in the job. She didn't have experience of what happened before when Landlords lost control of their properties.

Leasehold properties are more difficult to maintain due to the existence of the freeholder and other leaseholders. There has to be proper process for exterior repairs. Multiple quotes need to be obtained, the freeholder has to agree the work is necessary, other leaseholders have to be notified and given the opportunity of obtaining more quotes.
I've just been informed about water ingress in a chimney stack in a ground floor flat. A roofer reckons it's porous bricks and knackered pointing and as no one has an open fire removing the chimney would be the best solution. I'm just waiting for the written quote but from what he was saying it's going to be around £1500 to £2000. Then the freeholder will want us to pay a surveyor, get more quotes which will be much higher when the roofers realise they are dealing with a management company. Then there will be the management company override added on. So there won't be any change out of about £4000. At least one of the leaseholders can't afford to pay her share so the work will be delayed and all the while my tenant has a damp fireplace in his lounge.

It obviously goes without saying that anyone who has managed to organise their life so that they can purchase properties to rent out must be an evil, money grabbing scumbag sponging on the poor and unfortunate members of society. But how can generation rent be so thick as to not recognise that they are throwing the baby out with the bath water. Their constant (probably politically motivated) attacks on the private sector are resulting in the reduction in supply of good quality housing. Their battle should be with government, their ignorance has no bounds.

I lived in my ex local authority flat for a decade and so did countless other Tenants without condensation and mould problems. Then suddenly one pair of young women moved in and it became a real problem. They didn't acknowledge any of my written advice about how to deal with it. they didn't adjust their lifestyle, they just wanted to eat sleep and wash in a property then leave it all day with no open windows and no heating on while they went out and did their careers and their social life. but oh no! this is the landlords problem. they became a real pain and thank god they moved out but it left me with a big repair and redecoration bill. No other Tenant ever caused this problem. Condensation and mould is the tenant's responsibility, they need to read the terms of their lease and act responsibly.

Wow Nick, they sound like a nightmare 😱

Where u tube has military videos they are often accompanied by ambulance chasing legal people,which show cartoons saying l was a so cold referring to a cartoon soldier etc.

I prefer the ' Meat and two veg ' pronoun ;-)
Just don't think the Wokes would see the funny side of it Lol

I don’t know anything about nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives or logarithms well what would I do with them when I was 55ft under ground putting cast iron pipes under the Mersey king’s Tunnel, although I would give a good go at squaring Pythagoras.

Jo, now is your chance to have your say on leasehold reform.
The Ministry of National Statistics are currently doing a Survey on this for 3 months.
Strangely enough I was at a property when he visited, they had picked 25 properties at random, which they purchased from Post Office apparently as I understand it. Good luck.

I agree that tenants are responsible for the mouldy conditions in most cases. Prior to covid my son lived in the house with other students and we had no mould problems. During covid, the house was empty for 18 months and we had no mould problems. Then I rented the property to a group of nurses and I end up with mould everywhere, to the extend that it has even gotten under plaster we had to remove the plaster. The reason? These nurses thought that they would save money on heating by turning off all the radiators in the house and closing all the windows! The moisture also caused all of the fire doors to swell, as well. No matter how I explained it to them, when we visited, the rads had been turned off again. To top it off, they then complained because we had to "disturb" them to fix the fire doors and rebate the mould. I have given all of them section 21 forms to have them vacate by April. We then will finish repairs and sell the property. I spent over £50,000 to make this property a home when we bought it as my son was going to uni in Brighton and the places he had been living were tips! I can't wait for these nurses to try and find somewhere nice in Brighton that isn't going to cost them more than they are paying now!

We have two female tenants who dry huge amounts of wet washing with windows shut all day whilst working 14+ hours. They also flooded the kitchen with a washing machine hose leak and porch flooding from not shutting the front door properly, both mid winter and likely still trying to dry out. Now they're complaining about the inevitable black mould and dampness and claim that the flat is at fault. I check daily for open windows but they're still closed with water running down the windows and likely cold walls too. We're new to letting and have a pledge to actually reduce the rent after one year for the right tenants who we feel deserve it and need help. The previous owner also kept rent low for the right tenancy and it worked, for over ten years with no tenancy problems, so these two idiots have really lost out !