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And, of course, as soon as he opens his mouth in any way that can be seen as supporting landlords there'll be screams to sack him as he's obviously biased!
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Laura Phillips
10 February 2022 15:39 PM
"overseen by Judges who are not experts in housing law " - never a truer word spoken - they don't understand what's going on and the tricks that they use.
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Laura Phillips
22 December 2021 13:26 PM
My tenants are all long-term and have asked permission to decorate (it's in their contract) - I've always said yes to them so long as it's reasonable i.e. no black walls and scarlet ceilings. They've always done a decent job - maybe I'm lucky, but as long-term tenants I think if it keeps them happy then why shouldn't they do a bit of sprucing up. My lets are all unfurnished as well so any furniture, etc., they buy is their own so I have no problems with anything they buy there.
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Laura Phillips
16 December 2021 10:47 AM
One of my properties is an 1860s mid terrace house currently rated E. to get it to a C I need internal/external insulation, cavity wall insulation (it's a bl**dy single skin brick wall - where do I put it!), floor insulation, new boiler, flue gas heat recovery device (whatever that is), solar water heating and solar panels. £28k-40k. Saving the tenant a whopping £200 a year! No way am I able to pay that much as the tenants would need to be rehoused during the work at additional cost to me (and loss of rent during that time). Not a chance - it'll go on the market when I need to review my properties.
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Laura Phillips
02 December 2021 10:22 AM
Shelter's R&A are freely available on their website (and I don't pretend to understand most of what it says). The latest one (2019-20) says Shelter’s Chief Executive is paid a salary of £131,315.41 - but that's buried in the vast amount of copy and of course doesn't include anything like pension contributions by Shelter, private health insurance, expenses, car, phone and whatever else they get. It also says they had in that time 112 full time staff, of which 30 (i.e. more than a quarter of their staff) are paid over £60k. Nice work if you can get it. And yet they rely on 'volunteers' who get paid nowt for the work they do while the bosses are raking it it. Disgraceful.
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Laura Phillips
01 December 2021 16:02 PM
1. My tenants have my contact details, and I have theirs 2. Safety certificates and EPCs have to be given at the start of the tenancy 3. For landlords using an agency then surely that's the best way of getting work done if needed and making sure all contact is therefore recorded and can be evidenced in dispute cases The only thing that might be of worth to a tenant is if the landlord has any convictions/conditions (I don't) so the majority of the question is pointless.
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Laura Phillips
11 November 2021 10:38 AM
I agree on EPCs. One of my properties was built in the 1860s so it's a single-skin brick wall. There's a small extension at the back which is double-skinned and this has cavity wall insulation which you can see from the plug holes in the walls. Yet when I've had the EPC done they insist I need to get cavity wall insulation. The assessor doesn't seem to understand the new part is insulated and they can see that, but there's no way I can put cavity wall insulation in a single-skin brick wall - it just falls on deaf ears. I've also had the same issue with solar panels - I had looked into that years ago but the house faces the wrong way and isn't suitable, but they still insist it's the only way to get it up to a 'C'. Without getting consistent advice and common-sense there's no way we'll ever get EPC certificates that really reflect the energy performance of a house.
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Laura Phillips
05 November 2021 10:37 AM
I've been renting out for over 20 years and only had to get rid of one tenant, currently one of my tenants is in their 14th year in a property. It suits them and I'm happy. They get a less than market rent because they've been there so long and look after the property well so I'm happy not to increase the usual market rate (but I do increase, just a smaller amount). Win-win all round I'd say. There's no need to long-term tenancy agreements, a tenant will stay as long as they're happy with the service you're providing or until you can evict them if they're cr*p tenants.
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Laura Phillips
05 November 2021 10:19 AM
I think the biggest 'con' of this article is the amount you'll save. After all, as LL you'll pay for the work to be done, but it's the tenants who save the money on their energy bills not you!
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Laura Phillips
13 October 2021 11:54 AM
Steve - I just did the same for one of mine - currently an E, following their guidelines it might make a B. Cheapest cost - £17,400 (and if living there 26 years to get the cost back) Priciest cost - £43,100 (and if living there 65 years to get the cost back) Of course, I'm not living there so the annual savings of £664 will be going into the pocket of the tenant. Somehow I don't think I'm going to fork out that much as if I sold it after the work was done I'd still be out of pocket!
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Laura Phillips
26 August 2021 16:11 PM
I've rented (both home and abroad) in the past and saved to be able to buy. Today's tenants can do the same if they put their mind to it (some just don't want to for personal and/or work reasons). If my tenants want to leave because they're buying good luck to them. I've been lucky so far with my tenants and will be sorry to lose them if this happens but life goes on and they're doing what's right for them at that moment in time.
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Laura Phillips
27 July 2021 14:34 PM
So when we kick the tenant out cos Fido's chewed the kitchen to shreds can we add a reference to their platform telling other landlords not to touch with a barge pole? I doubt it. How are they meant to provide references do they just ring their toys round and say if they think I'm a bad pet they'll tell you - oh, they've said nowt so I must be a good pet then! Smiling with halo around its head! As I'm not allowing pets I won't need to pay for a reference. End of.
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Laura Phillips
07 July 2021 17:18 PM
Tenants won't pay if they don't have to - look how they've been taking advantage of the covid situation - but landlords need to cover their a*ses and make sure it's clear to tenants that contents aren't covered. I tell my tenants that it's their choice to take out contents insurance but if anything happens then I'm not covered under the buildings insurance policy so they'll need to pay out of their own pockets to replace what they lose - and it's written into the contract they sign as well. I also tell them not to ask me to help out if anything happens as they made their choice and they have to live with the consequences. Thankfully, so far, none of my tenants over the last 20ish years have needed to make any claims!
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Laura Phillips
07 July 2021 17:11 PM
My phone has a massive 'SCAM ALERT!' notification showing whenever it's an incoming call from a number that makes lots of calls - was fun when one of them was BT - you'd think they'd be able to get their phone numbers recognised as non-scam :D But I'm with you Andrew - if I don't know the number I let it go to voicemail, if it's a scam then I block it. I have also been known to use Mr Google to find out where numbers are from - easy to do.
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Laura Phillips
17 June 2021 15:23 PM
Good for them - it shows not all tenants are feckless and some of them do actually know how to look after properties and budget to 'better themselves'. Always sad to see a good tenant go, but always happy for them if it's because they've bought somewhere. Assuming their mortgage provider/broker has done due diligence then even at 95 % LTV a mortgage holder should be able to afford interest rises as affordability has to be loaded for (I think) up to a 5% interest rate rather than the super low rates currently on offer. So, will Shelter, et al, continue to say we're preventing people from getting on the housing ladder - I think so, there's nothing that will stop their agenda of getting the PRS shut down. They can't see past their blinkered faces to realise the damage that will do to people who will never be able to rent from councils/social housing due to the extremely long waiting list this will cause.
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Laura Phillips
08 June 2021 11:16 AM
Solar panels - only work if facing in certain directions so why are they trying to get everyone to install them when the costs far outweigh any potential benefits when they're facing the wrong way. Low energy lighting - I don't expect to pay for my tenants lightbulbs - that's up to them! Insulating the hot water cylinder - I don't have those, my properties (and most properties I know about) have combi-boilers so pointless adding this to my list of things to do. Most properties these days come with double or triple-glazing. Those with single glazing are usually that old that it's either a) cost prohibitive to change or b) not allowed (e.g. listed buildings) increasing lift insulation - flats don't have lofts and my other property can't access the loft as it runs through the whole street without being separated from neighbour's (think Ken Barlow falling through the ceiling moving from his own attic to the neighbour's attic). Upgrading heating controls would actually mean installing new heating systems - you can't add things like NEST heating systems to older ones. Overall - a pointless article for me, and presumably most, landlords as we're always looking to keep the properties we own up to a good and healthy living standard.
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Laura Phillips
04 June 2021 14:50 PM
My EPC gave my property an E - but to get it to a C I need to install cavity wall insulation. It's a single-skin brick wall property from the 1800s - how the h*ll do they expect me to put cavity wall insulation in that! I've looked into internal and external insulation cladding but the costs of that are far more than the house is worth!
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Laura Phillips
04 June 2021 14:39 PM
But a lot of expenses have dropped during lock-down. Less travel expenses, less entertainment/holiday expenses, less clothes/hair/makeup expenses. I don't know about those who've been renting and racking up arrears but surely some of them would have been able to save money instead of bleating about how poor they are. And no, I'm not on about those who lost their jobs through no fault of their own, but even those on furlough should have been able to save some money. My daughter currently rents and she was furloughed then on maternity leave, but has managed to keep paying her rent because of everything else she hasn't been able to do that she would usually do (again, think days/nights out, holidays, day trips, brand name clothes instead of the same thing made in the same factory but without the name tag). She has gone down the rental route so she's not 'cadging off me' (her words) - I just wish tenants had the same values as her and stopped 'cadging' (i.e. blagging freebies and refusing to pay cos 'they don't have to') from landlords.
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Laura Phillips
01 June 2021 17:11 PM
“First, we must ensure that adequate housing standards and living conditions are applied to the private rented accommodation, in the same way they currently apply to social housing” I take it she hasn't been watching the ITV programmes recently highlighting how abysmal social housing conditions are. At the moment we - the PRS - are the ones who are providing decent (and in some cases way above decent) accommodation while the social/council housing is absolute cr*p and the people living there are at serious risk of health issues and possibly worse. Come on love, live in the real world for a while and you'll see that the PRS are not the problem - it's your council run accommodation and the so-called social housing/charities - everyone points the finger at us when we're actually held to a much higher account already.
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Laura Phillips
14 May 2021 10:13 AM
Sometimes agents are just as bad. A friend of mine was looking for a new tenant as her previous one (single mother with three kids on benefits who was a tenant for more than 10 years without a problem) decided to move closer to family. The agents tried to convince her to take a benefit applicant, single mother to four kids. When looking into the finances the applicant was going to be £200 short on the rent every month, without taking into account utilities, council tax, food, clothing etc., and the agents tried to push her into accepting the applicant. My friend eventually told them to shove it and she'd move to a different agent if that was what they thought was acceptable! I agree with her, can't afford the rent, never mind anything else and has no guarantor within the first month she'll be in debt and how long would it take to get her out with all the do-gooders and so-called charities saying you can't evict!
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Laura Phillips
19 April 2021 17:16 PM
I allow my tenants to redecorate - within reason - and, as they've been there over 10 years now I haven't had to think about professionally redecorating when they leave but it's saved me the hassle of tarting up every so often with tenants in situ
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Laura Phillips
15 April 2021 10:47 AM
I allow pets in my house but not in my flat - my property (and the banks ;D) , my decision. I will not be forced into allowing pets if I don't want to.
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Laura Phillips
15 April 2021 10:43 AM
Signed both - and tweeted them
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Laura Phillips
13 April 2021 15:41 PM
People who rent in Berlin are liable for minor repairs - so if they pull the curtain rail off or damage the shower they have to pay to fix it instead of expecting the landlord to do so like here. (Obvs. if the shower breaks down cos it's so old then it's the landlord who pays to fix it, but it the tenant does the damage they're liable.) Also, it's up to the tenant if they want a freshly decorated place or not to move into - they either have it decorated, in which case they have to redecorate before they leave (and that includes things like carpets) or they move in undecorated and if they do any decorating themselves that's up to them but they don't need to redecorate when moving out. And there's no obligation for the landlord to redecorate during the tenancy either!
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Laura Phillips
07 April 2021 15:08 PM
So you rent to a lovely couple who have a large dog with the relevant pet insurance. What's to stop them paying /cancelling the insurance once they're in so you haven't got any cover once they leave?
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Laura Phillips
06 April 2021 16:53 PM
We have landlords insurance (i.e. buildings) which includes landlords contents - and always tell our tenants it's up to them to insure their own contents as they won't be covered by us. If they don't get it then that's their problem if anything happens. Never had any complaints so far...
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Laura Phillips
24 March 2021 15:14 PM
Idiot!
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Laura Phillips
12 March 2021 16:04 PM
Please explain why they 'must demand' these improvements. If the tenant is happy with the property and what they're paying for rent and utilities why should they be forced to rock the boat. Improvements cost money - and the tenants won't be paying for those improvements up front. They can, however, expect rents to go up for the landlord to recoup the money he's forked out to make the changes. Nothing in this life is free - to paraphrase the song lyrics - if it needs to be done someone has to pay. And a landlord isn't here to provide free board and lodging, he's* here to make a profit by supplying someone who can't/won't buy a property with somewhere to live. * other genders available to be substituted here according to preferences.
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Laura Phillips
08 March 2021 16:43 PM
I wouldn't buy a house to live in without being able to visit and inspect it so why would someone renting be happy not seeing the property. It's easy to doctor photos to hide the muck and mould, broken cupboards, disgusting bathroom fittings, etc., no-one in their right mind would want to take that risk.
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Laura Phillips
05 March 2021 11:42 AM
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but aren't Unions one of the biggest investors in BTL properties/construction in the UK? I'm sure I read somewhere once that the TUC and Unite both have massive property portfolios?
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Laura Phillips
03 March 2021 16:06 PM
Touch wood (yes, I can be superstitious), I've not been affected by covid, and nor has any other landlord I know. The scaremongering is those with a different agenda trying to paint LLs as evil money-grabbers who don't care about tenants so they can try and bring in things like rent controls.
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Laura Phillips
03 March 2021 15:54 PM
"Howard Dawber, head of strategy at Canary Wharf Group, whose office complex currently has some 6,000 people on site instead of its pre-Covid norm of 110,000." I don't believe the Canary Wharf Group employs 110,000 people. Most likely their development can hold 110,000 most of whom will be paying the Group rent. Mr Dawber is more concerned people will continue to work from home and therefore there'll be less rent for him as people will give up or reduce office space leading to his Group having massive voids. Their own website says "Canary Wharf is evolving. As home to a diverse range of start-ups and corporates, entrepreneurs and financial institutions, public and private, retail and services; Canary Wharf is a thriving district for technology, finance, media and soon to be residential.". He's running scared of a loss in profit. I've worked from home since the start of the first lock-down and yes, I miss some things about the office, but I do like working from home - I'll be doing part home/part office working when things go back to what will be the new normal. If enough people in companies can/will do this then companies can downsize office space which will mean less overheads for them, and less commercial rents being paid like those paid to Canary Wharf Group.
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Laura Phillips
03 March 2021 15:51 PM
So they authorise the debit card and then a week or so before the end of the tenancy they empty the bank account, or even close the account completely. What happens then? The landlord has no chance of getting any money owed to him then!
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Laura Phillips
26 February 2021 15:42 PM
How about spending the money teaching (potential) tenants what their responsibilities are when renting - e.g. pay the rent on time, every time; keep the property in good order; don't use anti-social behaviour; don't do anything that's not allowed in the tenancy agreement; etc... If they know what's expected of them and the landlord before they sign that piece of paper we might, just might, all get along better.
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Laura Phillips
26 February 2021 15:40 PM
Why should I tell them who's in my property - isn't the census for the head of household? Also, what about people (like my parents) who don't have access to computers/smartphones. Does that mean I have to breach lockdown to go there and do it for my tenants/parents? Who thought of this ridiculous strategy!
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Laura Phillips
23 February 2021 15:44 PM
Students haven't wasted the money - it's a grant given to pay their rent, not their own money
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Laura Phillips
17 February 2021 15:05 PM
Seriously? Rents soaring? Not in my area they aren't! My rents haven't changed in the last two years - mainly because I have good tenants who look after the properties and what I charge at the moment covers the rent and other expenses. I would only look at increasing the rent if costs rose or I was looking to get a new tenant. Our local rag is showing that what I'm charging is currently what others are advertising their similar properties for so I get really annoyed at articles like this from publications that are supposed to represent real landlords sensationalising the information and giving the likes of Shelter and the Government another reason to bash LLs as we're all doing 'so well and raking it in'!
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Laura Phillips
17 February 2021 10:57 AM
Student loans are made up of a tuition fee loan and a maintenance Loan. The tuition fee is paid to the Uni and the maintenance loan (for living costs) is paid to the student. As far as I'm aware the student loans are still being paid so they are receiving the money from the Government (i.e. us via our taxes!) to pay for their accommodation - why aren't they passing it on to their landlords? Are they now paying their parents room and board instead? I very much doubt it - more likely they've splurged on the latest gadgets and put some away for a holiday abroad when we're allowed to go again. Unless the student isn't receiving any money then they should still be paying the rent on their accommodation. I'll bet when they left for lockdown they didn't take everything with them so they are still using the accommodation as a storage unit.
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Laura Phillips
10 February 2021 15:06 PM
I'm not going to use any zero deposit scheme - if the future tenant can't organise their finances to be able to put down a deposit then I doubt they'd be able to keep their finances organised enough to keep up with their rent payments. I'm not renting out properties out of the good of my heart, it's a business, pure and simple.
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Laura Phillips
08 February 2021 16:02 PM
If the fund is to clear 100% of arrears why can the landlords only claim 80%? Where's the other 20% going?
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Laura Phillips
05 February 2021 16:34 PM
Signed as well
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Laura Phillips
25 January 2021 10:33 AM
Sorry @Robert - I meant to say it's reducing costs for the initial tax return after taking a payment holiday. You are, of course, correct that payment holidays mean more interest charged and therefore more money paid during the life of the mortgage.
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Laura Phillips
19 January 2021 10:31 AM
Same here - what grants? I originally thought they were getting confused with taking payment holidays for mortgages, but that isn't a grant, it's just reducing costs for those LLs who've taken any.
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Laura Phillips
15 January 2021 15:07 PM
Surely if the student has possessions still remaining in the property they are still classed as resident as a LL is unable to rent to anyone else or remove the belongings? Therefore they are still liable for the rent.
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Laura Phillips
13 January 2021 16:19 PM
Surely logic dictates that if the student has possessions in the property they are still considered to be occupying it therefore they should be paying full rent. If they haven't occupied the property yet so have no possessions then they've entered into a contract so it should be up to the landlord whether they exercise any discretion around rent. By the same degree, if they haven't occupied the property and the landlord has found another tenant (assuming that's possible) then no rent should be due by the student and the contract declared null and void. However, the student cannot then expect to be allowed to occupy the property when 'normal service' is resumed. BTW, I'm don't have student properties or HMOs.
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Laura Phillips
13 January 2021 15:46 PM
They don't want to attend on a zoom call because the court will be able to see the massive flat screen TV, latest gaming console, top of the range mobiles and computers for every person in the house - showing they have money but don't want to use it to pay rent.
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Laura Phillips
11 January 2021 16:13 PM
If Martin Lewis is such an expert why doesn't he spend his time educating tenants on what their responsibilities are - pay your rent, pay your other bills, keep the property up to scratch, make sure you don't damage anything (e.g. ventilate to prevent mould), read the tenancy agreement and make sure you stick to the rules, etc.. And do all of this before you waste money on the latest gadgets, holidays (when out of covid restrictions!), etc. Once he's done that he might (just might) have a reason to stick his nose into what is our business, not his. Since when has a 'money saving expert' become an expert in the private rental sector?
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Laura Phillips
07 January 2021 17:23 PM
One of my properties is currently an 'E'. It is a mid terraced two-up two-down built in the late 1800s and is a single skin brick wall. EPC report says to get cavity wall insulation (how???), floor insulation, replace the boiler (which is only two years old) and use solar panels. Although they tell me to get cavity wall insulation that's just impossible but I suppose I could go for internal/external wall insulation. All of my EPCs say the average household produces an average of 6 tonnes of CO2/year. All my properties are well below this level so why are they deemed 'poor'. All of these alterations would not give me much change from £25-30k - this would take me twenty+ years to recoup. And I'm guessing that as these are 'improvements' rather than 'replacements' there'll be no way you can offset the cost on your tax bills. There is no way I can afford these changes to get it to a 'C', I'd be lucky to get a 'D'! So I'm guessing come 2025 I'll be selling up and another family will need to find somewhere else to live.
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Laura Phillips
29 December 2020 15:40 PM
It says above 'We offer an optional guarantee to protect landlords from having to repay the ARO if the tenants default' - but they fail to mention how much that is on top of their 15% plus VAT so mu guess is you'd be paying closer to 25% if you didn't want to run the risk of paying back the rent when tenants default! A quarter of the rent! You must be joking!
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Laura Phillips
23 November 2020 16:53 PM
Isn't it just the same living with family? You don't need to share with flatmates to have people hog the bathroom, 'forget' to change the toilet roll, hog the TV, etc...
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Laura Phillips
18 November 2020 16:48 PM
Back in the day ... People knew if they wanted something they worked hard and paid for it. No-one expected something for nothing. It's a shame today's snowflakes don't have the same ethic. They want it and they want it now, never mind that it's costing someone else not only their livelihood, but possibly also their own home and putting someone else's family out on the streets. No-one's allowed to take out a mortgage without credit checks and proof that they can afford the repayments. If you don't repay the financial institution will take your house off you. Same goes for buying a car on tick. Why should someone renting have additional protection that a home owner doesn't have? What makes them so special? If you can't afford it you can't have it. Simple. Life's not fair, some people fall into a deep hole through no fault of their own (partner's death perhaps) and it's only right that they get support where possible. But the lazy lay-about people we have today don't feel that they should work and everyone else should pay for their enjoyment. Give up the costalota coffees, top of the range mobiles, flash motors on the never never, holidays abroad. Stop living in the now and think about your future. If you can't afford one area look elsewhere, you don't have a God given right to live where you want, rather you should live where you can afford. Save your money and who knows, one day you may be able to buy a house of your own!
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Laura Phillips
16 November 2020 14:54 PM
If they do end up giving tenants loans (paid direct to landlord to make sure we get it and then taken off their UC money weekly until it's repaid!) what guarantee do we have that they won't claw it back the same as UC paid direct if it turns out they've claimed benefits fraudulently and weren't entitled to it? Or will they put a clause in that says if the tenant doesn't pay it back we'll be liable - I wouldn't put it past any government to do this! Then what happens to those who have tenants who won't claim the loan because they know if investigated their claim might be refused - how does the landlord get his rent then?
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Laura Phillips
20 October 2020 16:25 PM
Unfortunately Paul, the snowflake generation like to be spoon-fed everything and if they're not then everyone else is to blame, they don't want to take any responsibility for their own decisions - someone else 'made them do it'!
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Laura Phillips
10 August 2020 16:19 PM
Personally I'm only remortgaging if a Fixed deal I'm on is coming to an end and another provider can give me a better deal than my current one - and I'd assume that's what most landlords would do. Remortgaging is big BTL business as no sensible landlord will stay with the same provider for years if they can get a better deal elsewhere, it's not necessarily about increasing debt, more doing the best management of what you currently owe.
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Laura Phillips
23 July 2020 11:24 AM
And there will have been expenses as well for selling up - mortgages (if still mortgaged), solicitors, estate agents, searches/surveys possibly, and whatever else is involved with the sale of a property. This all comes off the gross before the net gain (or loss) is actually achieved
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Laura Phillips
18 June 2020 11:16 AM
But is there protection for the landlord if the claimant is making a fraudulent claim - or can the DWP still claw back from the landlord even though it's the claimant that's the fraud? I don't see any mention of clawback being directed to the tenant and not the landlord in these cases? Until there's a cast iron guarantee that the landlord cannot be subjected to clawback then I'm not interested in any tenants on UC!
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Laura Phillips
14 May 2020 17:18 PM
Just a thought - if we have to tell tenants when we're 'benefitting' from things so they can pay less why aren't we told when they get a pay rise so we know they can afford higher rents? Oh, silly me, I forgot we're money grabbing evil b*st*rds, the lowest of the low, and don't deserve anything, in fact we should be grateful that they're living in our houses even if they're not paying for it.
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Laura Phillips
29 April 2020 16:44 PM
As a landlord we are charged additional interest on the mortgage during periods of 'payment holidays'. If a tenant wants to benefit from a landlord's payment holiday why aren't we allowed to charge them the equivalent amount of interest on top of the missed payments for the remainder of their tenancy?
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Laura Phillips
29 April 2020 16:08 PM
@John And there's always the possibility of clawback from councils if the tenant is found to be claiming fraudulently, or their circumstances change and they're no longer entitled to the benefit(s)
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Laura Phillips
16 January 2020 16:01 PM
We've never stopped our tenants from decorating (within reason) and that may be why we've always had long-term renters, however we have not increased the rent because of that - we see it as a way to stop us having to do it ourselves. It's a win-win situation - they're happy and we have less work.
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Laura Phillips
01 October 2018 10:10 AM
Yes they do. I have been lucky in that the majority of my tenants have been long term, however I have had to evict one who decided after 8 years that she was no longer paying ret. No excuses, no reasons, just stopped. I would not want to be in the position that I take on a new tenant on the basis that they have rented long term previously only to find they've done something similar to another landlord. If I knew that up front through referencing I wouldn't accept them as a tenant. Everything seems to be far to weighted to benefit the tenants these days. I know there are some bad landlords, but there are also bad tenants yet I never read stories about how they should be dealt with and made to compensate (or at least pay up what's owed) to the landlords they ruin.
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Laura Phillips
08 June 2018 14:20 PM
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Changes to Renters Reform Bill after Easter
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