Rent control activists play the mental health card

I feel depressed whenever I have to pay Inland Revenue tax on turnover, not profit.😡 As for rent controls, all you are doing is making good landlords sell up. That reduces the number of properties available which increases rents. Do you not understand that?

Landlord raised the rent? don't all other suppliers of food, goods and services raise their prices then?

They are slippery suckers 🤷‍♂️😱 the onslaught is relentless 🫣 in the end I think it will come in. 🆘

If they get mental problems renting, try being a Landlord!

Of course everything for mortgage payers is hunky dory without a care in the world

Well done LRU, you have probably prompted a few more landlords to sell up, compounding the misery for even more tenants. Have you also noticed that the Gov is not effectively replacing rental housing?

An epidemic of mental health woes over paying rent? Try being a landlord with mortgage interest rate hikes and a non paying Tenant who trashes your property. These whining children have no idea of what stress or anxiety is when you read the horror stories of the Hell some tenants inflict on decent landlord.

'Housing system runs on private profits'. Yes, it needs, otherwise no landlords, no private housing. Cry to the council to build more affordable properties. It is a known and proven fact that the council do not care for their tenants complaints to improve the properties or administer and manage let properties and tenants effectively. There are a lot of good landlords effectively looking after their properties and the tenants, sometimes at a loss, depending on the type of tenants. The tenants need to take the responsibility of paying the rent on time and looking after their homes. They are happy to pay for rising costs of food, travel and other amenities. But they complain about rising rents. Apart from high interest rates, taxes, there is increased costs of building materials and cost of labour that the landlords have to pay to maintain these homes for the tenants. All these expenses cone from the rent. Usually there is a small amount left over, which is often used for private use or kept for future ongoing repairs. It is the landlords who do various activities for the let properties, that can give any tenants or any council officials, mental health issues, 10 times more than renting and just be responsible for monthly rent.

The government, so called charities, like shelter and generation rant and bad tenants are responsible for ongoing increases of rents. They ain't see the shortage of homes, yet. A lot more shortages are coming the tenants way within the next 5 years. The government can only force landlords to do their bidding for a short time. Selling off properties to the owner occupiers is huge incentives for landlords. This is because Labour government will kill off the PRS.

I know of an 81 year old landlord in Glasgow, desperate to sell and get shot of rogue tenants who only got possession on his third attempt. He was asked if he didn't have any relatives who could manage or get an agent or if he could manage the sale with the tenants still in.

He needed a strong letter from his GP to prove HIS mental health was suffering.

Tough. Home owners move into to fixer-uppers. They have to make do. All these tenants want a palace. And compensation if they don't get it. They can move on to the street if they want.

Mental health has replaced the back ache, it used to be Doctor I can't work because I have bad back ache, now it's my mental heaith as an excuse

I have mental problems. I have to wait 8 months to get my property back. Waiting for this stupid country to function properly with going through the court system. Paid a few thoudand in legal fees. Not being able to give notice due to retaliatory eviction. Defending a fraudulent compensation letter. Endless trips to meet builders due to non-uk nationals not knowing how to live in a property properly. Mould, broken window and door handles. Now it's empty. I am decorating it before sale. Then I have CGT to pay. A lot considering no inflation is allowed and this stupid government prints money likes it's going out of fashion causing inflation.

Who is there to hold my hand, and stroke my back and tell me everything is going to be okay. That the government is going to steal from others to give to me?

I feel depressed when I pay my mortgage, and the thousands of pounds in stamp duty when I have to downsize, some of these clowns have no idea what side their bread is buttered

Bekka Double-Barreled is moaning about having to move every 18 months or so at a cost of around £1000 each time.

Perhaps she should try being nice to her landlord and stop being a pain in the posterior?

Finger trouble!

I'm sure that paying for increased prices for groceries, council tax, energy bills and everything else that has gone up adds to the problem but its only landlords that gets the blame for it as tenants know that they can stop paying rent and live rent free and get away with it.

Energy companies can switch off your supply, shop lifters get taken to court, and get a slap on the wrist, landlords seem to just get fined for not helping the non paying tenants and get blamed for the mental health of the tenant.

The whole of the UK is in a mess, the government has really messed up the country, Labor will finish off the job when they get into power.

Sounds like a Jim'll Fix It letter from a 5 year old in the 70s, completely lacking understanding of how the world works and expecting something extraordinary to happen for them at someone elses expense.

Reading these comments, it seems a shame that landlords hate tenants so much. Tenants who ultimately do nothing else but pay them money (yeah sometimes they're problematic as well as landlords-nobody's perfect).

Personally, I don't know a landlord who would move a property every 6 months to a year - so the landlord cannot know the implications on mental health of constantly loosing what most people consider home (most people don't consider their car or street a home). Most people also do want to own a home - no one wants to rent under these conditions in the UK. It's NOT a choice.

Also never met landlord who would not complain about their job (not to mention the general view is taking care of property is not considered a job). If landlordism is so draining, expensive, unfair etc, there are also plenty of other things to do in the world.

The issue is not raising prices - the issue is by how much. Compare to energies, food and other bills, 60-80% of income goes to the rent monthly. That is not a way to save money. Not to mention the properties are often in appaling conditions - construction issues leading to mould, cold homes with no insulation etc. Something considered standard in Europe, in UK some kind of luxury.

It seems landlords don't view tenants as human beings. Lack of converstaion between both sides leads to resetment and doesn't solve the issue.

Lauren. I like most of my tenants, the ones I hate are the ones that don't pay and/or damage my properties by growing mould, smoking, sub letting or bring a pet in without permission. I think I have every right to hate those ones, as for having to move every 6- 12 months surely that is the fault of the tenants themselves, good tenants are welcome to stay as long as they like in my properties and I have many that have lived in my properties for years, I would think most landlords would agree with me

Lauren, Sorry if you have had a bad experience with landlords but nothing could be further from the truth in general.
Tenants are our Customers and Friends as much as Government hates that fact divide & conquer is the game.
That’s why they devised so many Regulation to drive a wedge between us. The Government is no friend of the Tenants either forcing up Rents 30% by Regulation by grabbing the money for themselves, nice friends aren’t they.
All my Properties are good and very affordable or at least they were until the the Government decided to take Billions from the Tenants the end user as always suffers. There was never any such thing as moving every 6 months. That was the minimum term allowed by law for Assured Shorthold Tenancy .
That was nearly always renewed or extended by issuing a further Mutual Contract before Periodic were introduced which meant the Contract continued on the same basis month by month if you paid monthly until one of the Parties gave to other notice. So don’t listen to this rubbish about moving every 6 months, not forgetting most landlords were Tenants themselves. Mould & Condensation is down for to the Culture and life style of the Occupants don’t try pin that one on us. I invite you to re consider your views, we do everything possible for our Tenants to enjoy their Stay and I was always sad when they left, sometimes like loosing a friend.

Ellie just one observation an Assured Shorthold Tenancy Contract is a minimum of 6 months & a maximum of 7 years and not as Google says unless they are making Laws.
Assured Tenancy is different altogether more like if you let to a housing Association long term but like a lifetime Tenancy that they are going to lumber us with ( sitting tenants) make no mistake about that.

If the LRY were fair, they would conduct a survey and ask just WHY landlords are selling up. Never a balanced view from any rental groups though. Just keep vilifying the Landlords for the media spotlight. Oh well at least soon they will have nothing to complain about when we have all sold up.