Landlord Alert - new How To Rent guide to be issued Friday

Won’t need it, the tenants I have now are my last.

• Shane Sutherland
• 14 March 2023 13:00 PM

Same here... No more tenants for me.

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Another pointless document only produced to give Landlords another opportunity to slip up and not comply.
Two years for it to be updated?
I am sure if 'we' were to take that long to update our processes that someone would soon fine us huge amounts of money.
I thought you could just look on social media for all the changes to legislation posted by all the knowledgeable and up to date keyboard warriors

• Tricia Urquhart
• 14 March 2023 10:31 AM

I agree - if you haven't read this before you sign your contract it's too late! It should be given to schools to educate kids before they try to rent.

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• Robert Brown
• 14 March 2023 10:52 AM

Tricia

Sorry - but school kids are already woefully short on the basic 3 R skills and don't need time wasted on being further brainwashed by leftie teachers on their "rights" - which will anyway have changed substantially before they have grown up and need to rent.

I'm happy to help destroy the planet by giving tenants huge amounts of paper that they will never read but I don't want my taxes wasted on teaching them to be better informed rebels and malcontents whilst still at school!

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• Andrew townshend
• 14 March 2023 11:35 AM

Robert, my son and 2 daughters used to tell leftie school teachers where to get off as does my grandson (11) however my granddaughter (8) to totally brained washed by them and believes every word, hopefully she will wise up as she gets older

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• Robert Brown
• 14 March 2023 16:09 PM

Andrew

As the young son of a coal miner I thought all teachers were posh, rich and right wing - only changed my mind when I became those things and saw how they tried to brainwash my own kids.

Incidentally even my staunch socialist dad thought the welfare state had lost its way before he died in 2005 and despised the workshy who were cheating the system he had fought all his life to achieve when even working 50 hours a week didn't protect the working class from poverty and starvation.

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New HOW 2 RENT guide to be introduced this Friday, first introduced in 2016 and changed about 8 times since its like they haven’t a clue what they are doing and haven’t all outsiders, the countless number of those I have had printed and thrown away because they keep changing it, as if Tenants didn’t know how to Rent and everything on their phone please go away

I am at Landlord event today in Central London. huge crowds hardly get into some of the Seminars, well sponsored everyone promoting their business all on the back of landlords without LL’s they haven’t a business all of this was created on back of Section 21 that they are now getting rid of and no Private letting whatsoever before this. I was told today we are 2.8m landlords housing 9m Tenants but they are going to remove the very foundation of all. S.21.

More nonsense released by the Government. Is this really news?

A few other things being forced on landlords, you must have pets which is none of their Business it should be between landlords and Tenants.
You must take Benefit Claimants or it’s discrimination, how can this be its nothing to do with Colour, it more like discrimination against LL forcing him to take them.
You are loosing control over your Rented House. You can only get it back if you want to live in it or sell it but then you must sell, none of their Business what we want to do with it. We didn’t need their advice when we bought or get any financial support from anyone, what now gives them the right to dictate to us, again none of their business. I first heard tho crap moted at a landlord meeting by a little guy of Indian extraction from the Department 8 years ago and here we go now making it law.
Another thing from today’s event forcing in a Redress Scheme another quango, there’s no one to Redress us, just more administration by people carving out another
lucrative business for themselves,

• Nick Van Hoogstraaten
• 14 March 2023 15:21 PM

Exactly. In summary it's all crap. Nothing in favour of the landlord. The one who BUYS and OWNS the property but then needs to hand it over to anyone who lands here in a little boat with no money only claiming benefits, with 6 kids and 4 dogs and they can stay FOREVER. Cause as much damages as they like especially mould. Paying the rent is optional too.

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Another thing we were told at one of the Seminar, landlords are a greedy and ignorant bunch ?.
Said we make between 3/5% but disqualify this, how much we pay on Mortgage, what gearing or whether loan free or allow for Licensing and Compliance. Are they counting income or profit.
They reaffirmed over 200’000 landlords have left the Sector, wants to increase supply but everything they are doing
is designed for opposite to happen. I interrupted but was invited to wait for question at end but only a couple of lame duck questions allowed at the end. I wanted to know why they were getting rid of S.21 before which there was no private lettings and who now housed 9m, they have no answer but still doing it

• Nick Van Hoogstraaten
• 14 March 2023 16:16 PM

They are all chasing after votes. It's fashionable to bash landlords. No one appreciates them. It's political suicide to support landlords. Gove's an arrogant ****** who just wants to turn everything upside down.

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Perpetuation of their own valueless jobs………what concerns me in this article is what are they going to advise tenants to do re smart meters. Are they using Hot to Rent as a vehicle to promote move to smart meters because I hate them and ask my tenants not to change to them. Fortunately all my tenants dont like them either!

• Andrew townshend
• 14 March 2023 21:35 PM

Agreed, but a lot of my tenants, past and present, have done so, once there're in there're in , no way back

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• Robert Brown
• 14 March 2023 22:37 PM

A lot of the original ones are no longer smart as tenants have moved to other energy suppliers.

What a waste of our money fitting these under false pretences!

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• catherine wright
• 15 March 2023 05:30 AM

@Andrew Townsend - bl**dy british gas installed one in one of my houses last year without permission because tenant owed them money. They agreed to change it back but wanted in region of £190 to do it. I went to Octopus who agreed to do it but once I was with them said they werent making them anymore and they didnt have any (not true) but I had date and name of person who promised it so rang back again and spoke to different operative who finally agreed to do it - but it certainly was a fight and they didnt want to

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I have those Smart Meters in my Home but don’t work and can’t have them replaced because I have them.
British Gas installed them about 8 years ago, after a couple of years I realised they charging me more than the market so I switched to another who gave me a better deal but said they couldn’t use BG meters, so now I am stuck with them for ever more even though I switch again to EDF then got too smart and pushed their prices up and keep giving them readings, now switched to Octopus which I
thought would be ok but again they contact me for readings. According to Martin Lewis last night I will still be paying more because I give readings. Any of those supplier are not contactable that I have come across. All hiding behind technology messing about with recordings and can’t ask the question you want and takes half a day to achieve nothing.

Just read an article where a large London HA portfolio has been deemed poorly maintained and over priced. This is where the government needs to be looking