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From:
Suzy OShea
18 May 2023 18:50 PM
Dog waste can ruin prepared or restored wooden floors more than it ruins carpeted and lino floors. I don't think removing the floor coverings protecting your floors is a good idea at all. Charging an extra £300 a month for a pet is a very good idea.
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Suzy OShea
18 May 2023 18:40 PM
These criminally corrupt idiots never learn. I think they ate deliberately trying to make everything worse to give Labour more to do when they win, because they know that they sre now unelectable.
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Suzy OShea
12 May 2023 12:12 PM
Have lots of cash set aside? Most PLLs would have to borrow further. Tenants won't repay arrears, they'll just move out and leave PLLs with the debt.
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Suzy OShea
11 May 2023 17:40 PM
Why should house prices go down when all other costs are rising?That makes no sense. I would prefer not to sell in a sinking market.
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Suzy OShea
11 May 2023 17:31 PM
Interest rates do follow each other. Or else there would be another devaluation of the pound.
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Suzy OShea
11 May 2023 17:13 PM
Curbing inflation by raising intetest rates only works when you have a booming economy. In the depression we are in it will just depress the economy further, which may affect inflation, but by then the patient may be beyond cure.
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Suzy OShea
11 May 2023 17:07 PM
The reason people are dependent on cheap money is because they are forced to be because their basic living costs outweigh their incomes ad they have done since 2007/8. Despite government lies we have not recovered from this crash. Now this criminally corrupt government, started by the Twerp Truss, is weaponising inflation even more against the people which it will reduce to serfs with no right to demonstrate or protest the continuing deteriorating conditions.
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Suzy OShea
11 May 2023 17:03 PM
Always the way! British or landlords residing in Britain get hammered by the law because its easy to implement whilst holding companies can skirt the law and are immune to prosecution.
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Suzy OShea
08 February 2023 12:25 PM
All great and pertinent comments above. If the tenant is sharing a house with other tenants their lives are not sufficiently stable to take on te responsibility of a pet, therefore, they are not responsible tenants with pets. Also, if the property has no access to a large secure garden the place is unsuitable to pets. Furthermore, sometimes I think I am running a nursery for my tenants. I don't want to wind up running a zoo for abandoned pets, as I once had a cat abandoned at my house, and I had to arrange its rehoming, after of course having to put right the damage to the pee-soaked carpets and clawed doors. Sorry to say this but most native tenants in England are not responsible for themselves, never mind a pet. Foreigners are more responsible than Brits.
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Suzy OShea
08 February 2023 12:18 PM
If rents include utilities, then the first thing landlords need to do is to install electricity and gas metres in their properties. This is daylight robbery by the SNP!
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Suzy OShea
07 September 2022 07:06 AM
Hi Ellie Edwards, I like your comments. However, regarding consultation of landlords in the PRS, was the NRLA not our representative? Suzy
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Suzy OShea
29 June 2022 11:01 AM
Karen Blake, I sympathise with your actions and have similar tales of woe and huge debts from tenants which rarely get repaid. You tried your hardest to help this man, so you have nothing for which to reproach yourself. In future, your generosity must be more limited though!
From:
Suzy OShea
07 June 2022 19:30 PM
Surely such a ceremony can't be legal!
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Suzy OShea
26 April 2022 09:29 AM
Very well said,
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Suzy OShea
22 April 2022 06:33 AM
Whether in England or France, i've had bad experiences with dishonest agents. I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole!
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Suzy OShea
22 April 2022 06:29 AM
Yes, more social or council housing needs to be built. But if you trust Mayhem May or lying gove to deliver this, nothing will happen! This government needs to stop hammering PRS landlords and help them instead!
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Suzy OShea
21 April 2022 07:43 AM
You can all thank this government for these 'undesirable consequences'. Their new laws and regulations have caused many landlords to flee the PRS and use their properties in other ways. Meanwhile, this two-faced, hypocritical government puts almost no money into building new social housing which forces vulnerable tenants into the PRS, which is not where they should be! Landlords are running a business. Not charities for the homeless. That is for councils and the government to sort out!
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Suzy OShea
14 April 2022 06:52 AM
Andrew Townshend, Why will the government evict in 2028 please?
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Suzy OShea
07 April 2022 07:46 AM
Landlords are already fleeing the PRS. Their demands will only drive more people out and drive up rents and homelessness. Why are they too stupid to see this. As part of broken Britain, local councils have been deserting the provision of subsidised housing for the 43 years. The government does not want to know and Kahn just tinkers at the edges and makes his scant efforts look enormous.
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Suzy OShea
07 April 2022 07:32 AM
If you break the law the punishments are draconian. They could even effectively confiscate the house and run it as an HMO themselves and provide the landlord with whatever is left of the rent once all the maintenance costs have been deducted. You can be guaranteed that this council would not be asking for the full market rents obtainable so the landlord could be left with very little.
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Suzy OShea
05 April 2022 01:02 AM
I have HMOs and though the tenants can be good and show an interest in gardening, this rarely is the case. So, just as I have the house cleaned twice a week, I also have the gardens maintained. I charge accordingly and no one complains about the higher rent for the services.
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Suzy OShea
05 April 2022 00:54 AM
Simon Logan, Don't bank on the government not being able to steal your property. They can already steal nearly one third of the profit equity in the property, once you sell, so they win there. Secondly, they could always use compulsory purchase powers to steal our properties at extremely low prices, often known as nationalisation, if they declare housing to be a national emergency. They would devolve the administration of these compulsorily purchased properties to either housing associations or the local councils. Its cheaper for them to do this rather than build news estates of council dwellings which quickly descend to dens of criminality!
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Suzy OShea
05 April 2022 00:46 AM
If fixed Ta are abolished along with break clauses, then LLds will have to include clauses in their TAs that say rents must rise annually in line with inflation. Otherwise you could have a tenant in situ on the same rent for five or ten years.
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Suzy OShea
05 April 2022 00:39 AM
Who finds the title of this article misleading? When I first read it, it implied that the LLds would have to carry the increase in utilities for some weeks? Why should we do this? On a second reading there was the argument put forward that to cover the "lump sum of hundreds of pounds" some suppliers are demanding up front, the LLds should set up extra monthly direct debits for the tenants to cover this sum. Two questions, when utility companies buy in gas supplies a year in advance how are they allowed to demand extortionate up front fees to supply gas etc? Secondly, why should the LLds be responsible for paying this sum if the contract is between tenants and utility suppliers? Does anyone on here also regard this as yet another government stealth tax on consumers? Yes, the gas and electricity prices are rising but the government is allowing these utility companies to behave like bandits, robbing their customers blind, only to haul in huge amounts of money in windfall taxes on these companies, when it suits them so to do, say in a year. That will not lower the prices of utilities to previous levels for the benighted customers, but it will swell the coffers of the government in easy to collect taxes!
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Suzy OShea
05 April 2022 00:24 AM
(St) Robert Brown And what happens when the rise goes above 54%? Lockdown also kept everyone house bound and consequently using more energy. From last summer to this spring, before the prices rose, extra energy consumption had caused a 44% increase in utility bills. This was covered by the provisions I had already made with a monthly figure in the rent of £60. Then in the spring my monthly payments rose by £255 in the price guarantee scheme I got for one year. How is this an increase of 54%. This has nearly doubled my utilities bill. So I am obliged to pass on this monthly increase to the tenants with the warning that if they waste energy unnecessarily and spend more than the new monthly provision of £118 per month they will have to pay the difference.
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Suzy OShea
05 April 2022 00:00 AM
I have HMOs which rules ban both children and pets because they can't be properly cared for in an HMO. If one asks to have a pet another will and pretty soon i'll be running a zoo as well as an HMO! Not possible! I think that the only way to go with single dwelling properties is to get estimates for refurbishing, refurnishing and recarpeting the whole property, should it require this, add 20% to cover inflation to these costs and divide this cost up over the length of the tenancy as an increased rent. If there is not such damage, the pet owner could get back double their deposit on moving out as an incentive to responsible pet ownership. I had someone who brought a dog into his room and caused £900 worth of damage. He turned the under bed storage space into a cage for the dog, thus weakening the bed by stripping out some of the wood. The carpet of course had to be replaced and the whole room deep cleaned. This was a tenant who ignored the terms of his TA which clearly said no pets. Then on another occasion, a tenant requested permission to bring in a cat. I furnished a cat-flap to the back door. Then the tenants left, leaving the cat behind. The poor thing was so traumatised by this that she started attacking the other tenants and had to be removed to a cats' home. No to pets!
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Suzy OShea
04 April 2022 23:43 PM
This is hardly surprising since the rents in social housing are cheaper than in the PRS, with the consequent drop in quality of housing and service to sort out repairs! You only get what you pay for in life. You can't expect the service at the Ritz if you are only paying for a Premier Inn.
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Suzy OShea
10 February 2022 07:52 AM
Isn't it sad that everyone but this corrupt idiotic government can see the rotten consequences of abolishing section 21?
From:
Suzy OShea
10 February 2022 07:43 AM
Two points here. The energy rebate of £200 is repayable to the government at a future point. Therefore why should it be passed on to tenants who are paying rent which includes both council tax and utilities. If the landlord has to raise the rents for existing tenants to cover the shortfall of their original monthly utilities allowance, then the £150 council tax rebate can be taken into account against any rise to cover the utilities. But there is no reason to do this with the energy loan of £200. Because by the time the government comes to recover that loan, these tenants may well have moved on. Even if they have not, they won't take kindly to the landlord trying to claw back any loans by raising their rents mid-term. I wish the MP Meg Hillier would think through this situation before pronouncing on it.
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Suzy OShea
08 February 2022 06:53 AM
What about a national register for rogue tenants? Such a register would be much longer than the proposed rogue landlord register! Rogue tenants are thieves and sometimes commit criminal damage. That would help Lls trying to get references.
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Suzy OShea
03 February 2022 11:11 AM
Rent Dodgers or thieves are the right names for these crooked scheisters! So glad that the law eventually prevailed in a common sense way! But it is disgraceful that they managed to stay in the property for what could have been nearly three years, depending on when they actually stopped paying rent in 2019. The legal system is completely broken if you have to wait this long to bring such an action to court. Yes, I know that tenants have been given a free pass thanks to the government not wanting lots of homeless people spreading COVID and thus turning landlords into housing charities which also invalidated any insurance policy they may have had to protect them against unpaid rent. It would have allowed these tenants to save a hefty deposit, stolen from the landlord. I hope their credit rating is wrecked too so that they can't just walk away with the money they have stolen. It is this sort of situation which victimises good landlords and encourages rogue landlords to criminally evict such thieves.
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Suzy OShea
26 January 2022 16:53 PM
People seem to have forgotten that in the past two years rental income in city centres, especially in London, lost about 30%. Now they are starting to recover but factor in the increases in utilities and landlords will be struggling to achieve pre-COVID and rampant inflationary levels. This is not even counting the extra expenses this government keeps piling on Landlords. The truth is that Landlords will charge what the market can bear. Fewer properties caused by the sell-off driven by greater regulation, heavier taxation and this criminal government forcing Landlords to act as Housing charities for six months and more per struggling tenant will all drive up rents. But no government whether local or national wants to return to building social housing for the poorer people because the social problems and maintenance costs of these council estates are horrendous. That also contributes to the scarcity. The government cutting universal credit payments also causes rises in homelessness, in all its many forms, whether couch surfing at friends and family, sleeping in cars or tents to sleeping and dying on the streets! This government's policies are murderous! If there is civil unrest, dump it on the government's door step, you know partying no 10!
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Suzy OShea
21 January 2022 17:23 PM
Does anyone think that figure of £4 billion will go anywhere near paying to fix these problems? It's pie in the sky! A sop to the ignorant members of the public who are impressed by what seems to be big sums of money. Good luck to Landlords wanting an ever shrinking piece of this miniscule pie. The only parties responsible for this are the Conservatives who were in power and loosened buildings regulations to enable. Developers to incur lower costs when building blocks of flats. Those costs saved went straight to their bank accounts.
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Suzy OShea
21 January 2022 07:30 AM
What everyone seems to have forgotten is that many flats in central London and other cities saw decreases in rents of up to 30% due to the various lockdown. Of course rents are no rising fast, especially in these areas. Factor in the huge increases in gas and electricity prices and these rents aren't even returning to pre-COVID levels. So they don't take into account the large inflationary rises in the past two years.
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Suzy OShea
20 January 2022 16:51 PM
Michael Foley, HMOs are generally shared houses or flats. That's what it stands for House of Multiple Occupation. Properties shared by newer than 4 people so far are not classed as HMOs. That may change in the future. Such flats could be let on. A group lease and do not need to include utilities. But most HMOs do and the tenants prefer it that way.
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Suzy OShea
20 January 2022 16:43 PM
With our own PM disregarding his own laws on COVID isolation regulations, viz his defence of Dominic C*mming's trip up noth to GlaxosmithKline's HQ for sales talks and party-gate, why should Landlords who are adversely affected by non-paying tenants follow the law! Personally, I would have put his possessions into storage and stuck him in a cheap B&B for a few nights, which might have prevented the prosecution. Non-payment and willfully destructive tenants can make anyone ill, including their house-mates. Sometimes they have to be removed for the public good! Law or no law!
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Suzy OShea
20 January 2022 13:40 PM
How interesting that all these surveys just talk about rent increases without mentioning that properties in central London in 2020 were hit with a 20-30% reduction in rental yields thanks to the dislocations caused by COVid19. Added to that, this Tory government forced landlords to bank roll their non-paying tenants and extended the notice period from an already onerous two months to six months, which may yet happen again, depending on the conditions of this or future pandemics. If you include utilities in the rents landlords are facing more than 100% increases in these charges due to extra usage as everyone stays home and heats all day and night and the huge increases in the price of gas due to its scarcity. Then there are all the other costly changes in required of Landlords. Small wonder that some rents are now recovering ground lost to COVID's depredations in 2020. Whether they have actually returned to or gone beyond COVID-year levels remains to be seen. I suspect not given the increasing costs.
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Suzy OShea
06 January 2022 09:31 AM
I love animals and sometimes have been persuaded to allow a cat or a dog to stay, even in an HMO, which expressly forbids the keeping of pets or children at the property. Sadly, it has always ended in misery for the pet, who despite assurances from the tenants, was abandoned by them at the property and had to be taken to an animal shelter to be re-homed, I hope. Before that final act, I had to deal with tales of the cat becoming aggressively territorial with some of the other tenants. Pets, even cats, need outside space. So only landlords with houses or ground floor flats with access to gardens should even consider their property as being a suitable home for pets. Cats love to roam and their mental health suffers if they can't get to some outside space. Tenants are not always the most reliable and responsible home-makers. Pressuring landlords into taking in tenants pets just sets up trouble for the future.
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Suzy OShea
06 January 2022 09:16 AM
Terry Sullivan, These idiotic politicians don't care to consider market forces because they are not subject to them, even in years when tax revenue drops, like the years since brexit. They just invest new taxes and pretend to pay them into urgent and popular causes like social care for the elderly. What has not been said is that in central areas of many British cities rents fell by as much as 30% because of furloughing and loss of entertainment due to the shut downs. With a gradual return to nearly normal conditions there is now more demand than supply so of course rents are starting to regain some. Of the ground lost due to tenants having fled the areas during the shut down. They still have not reached pre-shut down levels though. This is the inaccuracy that thrives when politicians only concentrate on rises without looking at the full picture.
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Suzy OShea
18 November 2021 11:02 AM
Who expects support from this execrable criminally corrupt government sucking up to generation rent to extend its worthless life at the next general election? Only a fool would do this. Especially with dishonest Gove now in charge, by Jove! This corrupt government actively encourages criminal behavior of rogue tenants by keeping the courts understaffed so that the waiting time stretches to a year to get a case heard and then there is another six months to get bailiffs to act. Unless criminal damage carries a prison term instead of a tiny fine, criminal rogue tenants will carry on and expand their activities. It's clear that this government wants private landlords with small portfolios out of this business because they can't easily keep tabs on them. That is one of the reasons why the new legislation is becoming so onerous and the landlords can be robbed blind at will. It's open season on landlords and has been since the removal of section 21 was mooted. Once the private rental sector is almost exclusively in the ownership of large companies that can afford to lobby government for laws that give them greater power of eviction over criminal rogue tenants, things will change, because otherwise they will desert this sector/service too. Then homelessness will explode. The question is, which small-holders of properties can afford to hang on?
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Suzy OShea
20 September 2021 20:32 PM
What a load of piffle! Where are Richard Branson's reserves Eh? He is a billionaire who splashed out millions on researching space travel but he has still applied for government help to meet his wages bill. There is no help for landlords, just temporary deferment of mortgage debt which shortens the remaining time to repay this debt. Many landlords have small portfolios with limited amounts of reserves. with the downward pressure on rents these past six months and the ban on even renting out empty property from March to June, there are precious few reserves left. Why don't you go back to the golden dream of rich landlords and fairy dusted rents, instead of commenting here!
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Suzy OShea
21 August 2020 09:51 AM
Anyone who buys property in these uncertain times is a fool!
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Suzy OShea
19 August 2020 09:30 AM
with fewer people coming to London, it isn't surprising that rents are falling and tenants have changed their priorities, driven by COVID19. Fewer people coming to London is one of the negative consequences of Brexit.
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Suzy OShea
10 August 2020 09:42 AM
Many people still want to live in central London Andrew Townshend if it means they can walk or cycle to work when offices reopen.
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Suzy OShea
07 August 2020 12:40 PM
Corona Virus has hit everyone financially. For how much longer does this government insist on making landlords provide forced loans to tenants and governments by housing these tenants for free. If this is the case then they must make the banks offer lines of credit to Landlords.
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Suzy OShea
23 July 2020 10:41 AM
Paul Barett, You are totally right! Politics is irrelevant in business! But it is everyone's right to hold what political beliefs they please! We have all been stung by the feckless, disruptive, destructive, violent and thieving tenant. therefore, our business model to avoid such state-licensed criminals is a basic human right of self-defence! We must rely on our own means of self-defence because this excrable, corrupt, tyrannical brexiteer government has declared open season on the smaller private LL. Someone on here lamented the councils' broken system and inefficiencyI! Its all part of the government plan to discriminate against the jobless, who for too many decades have made more money milking the system than they could ever earn, especially if they have children. On Cameron's watch, he exposed how the average tax-payer was being ripped off by the determinedly unemployable and the soul food of UC with all its penury and painful delays was set up! Since this then is the chosen discriminatory mechanism by consecutive Conservative governments to force the career bone idle to work, is it not our bounden civic duty, as upstanding citizens and tax-payers who pay for this system, to support the governments initiatives to force people back to work. Restricting the choice of property available to unemployed tenants, is merely maintaining government policy to discourage tax-payer funded idleness!
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Suzy OShea
15 July 2020 12:26 PM
Elizabeth beckett, Totally agree with your comments! This is a worthless study without having classified types of property researched. Every political party should learn if you mess with the market, it will bite the tenants because scarcity always raises prices! But rents in many parts of London have been falling since the lock down! So this study just spreads lies.
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Suzy OShea
29 June 2020 16:09 PM
Jahan Khan, Re adjacent properties requiring the same safety tests: you can't demand this if neighbouring properties are private homes.!
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Suzy OShea
19 June 2020 12:42 PM
Mark Wilson, Always the Doomster! Still were you not advocating to let tenants live in our properties for free a short while ago? Well if the rents fall so far they'll hardly be worth collecting.
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Suzy OShea
29 May 2020 12:23 PM
Mark Wilson, My son was in student flats for three years and you are right that often the agents treat them badly: they fail to provide the most basic health and safety equipment such as smoke and carbon monoxide detectors; they leave repairs like missing grid panels covering bathroom pipes undone for ever, this allowing rodent infestations in the property: they don't stick to legal limits for sizes of rooms: worst of all there is no inclusion of a six-month break clause in any of their tenancy agreements, such as I and I'm sure every responsible landlord includes in their tenancy agreement, which would have allowed the tenant to quite legally give one month's notice in February/March and move out without legal threats and demands for lost rent. However, on the other side, financially students have been affected the least since they are supposed to be able to survive on the grants/loans provided from tax-payers' money for that purpose. Any money they earn from part time jobs which may have been lost is extraneous to this calculation! Going back home to live off Mum and Dad is therefore their choice and if their parents have stood as guarantors then the landlords ought to be able to collect the rent. If there is no clause in the contract about a force majeure altering the situation, like the damage of a hurricane or a fire having made the accommodation uninhabitable, then I don't see how this can be whistled up suddenly to justify the unjustifiable! If students or their parents win this case, they will be creating a rod for their own backs in the future, since many landlords will leave this niche market and refuse to take students. This will create future scarcity and ultimately drive up rents. Furthermore, are students who live 'in hall; i.e. in student accommodation provided by their universities allowed to skip their rental obligations? If they are not getting lectures, tutorials or the services and resources of student libraries are they allowed to refuse to pay tuition fees for the time of the lock down? I think you could be on a slippery slope here and the government had better set limits to its presumption on landlords' charity or else they and we the tax-payers will have even larger bills to face for the Corona virus bail outs. This government has already printed nearly £63 billion to cover the requirements of the current lock down which will shortly be lifted, though economic life will take some time to return to anything approaching normality. Now this pack of criminals wants to print nearly another £300 billion to fund further dislocation caused by brexit which will very conveniently be laid at the door of the Corona Virus. This is all fraudulent but I would expect no better from this pack of jackals!
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Suzy OShea
26 May 2020 16:29 PM
Totally agree with Andrew Townshend's post. With more pressure from unions for rental holidays, this needs to be resisted.
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Suzy OShea
13 May 2020 10:22 AM
This is definitely a welcome step. now they only need to add council tax, insurance and utility charges! Which also need to be paid!
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Suzy OShea
19 March 2020 09:12 AM
So far, no banks are offering mortgage holidays on BTLs! So to survive, LLs have to take on large loans to keep going for how long, we don't know!
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Suzy OShea
18 March 2020 22:32 PM
Mark Wilson, The reality is more homelessness and a drop in property values as more private landlords are forced by debt to sell. Only large companies have the reserves to keep going for three months or more! And who is to say that this epiDemic will not return next year?
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Suzy OShea
17 March 2020 15:05 PM
Oh Really! well, I have not noticed this rise in East London, where the situation is becoming so desperate that some landlords are offering 90 % off the first weeks rent! So where do you get your information?
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Suzy OShea
26 February 2020 13:11 PM
it just goes to show how the government has lost and continues to lose tax revenue from companies moving to EU countries as brexshit hits! So now they are scraping the bottom of the barrel in trying to scare up more tax from private landlords, many of whom run their properties on a shoe string!
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Suzy OShea
24 February 2020 10:44 AM
Whenever governments interfere, its bad news for that sector. and since we are now governed by av owed criminal clowns, chaos is all that one can expect.
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Suzy OShea
18 February 2020 12:17 PM
well, one of the tell tale signs to watch out for is a huge spike in your electricity bill because they often use powerful electric lights to being on the plants. this happened in my house and it took me over a year to pay down the increased debt.
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Suzy OShea
13 February 2020 15:52 PM
Yes, Well for many years, rent increases have been below inflationary levels with some areas seeing falls in rents charged. with a growing scarcity of rented accommodation, such increases are only to be expected!
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Suzy OShea
12 February 2020 10:08 AM
what becomes difficult for elderly to budget for are the long-term increases in rent if they don't have generous pensions. We all know that the state pension is just soul food and would never cover rent as well as other living costs. Rents in retirement communities are higher because there are added services like wardens. yet buying in these communities also involves very high services charges for similar reasons. My advice if you have a large house that is too large for you to cope with, keep a spare room for a carer which you may well need and rent out a couple of rooms to defray future costs. Its a far better option than paying vast sums for retirement homes. Don't like the idea of 'sharing your home with strangers'. Well, what do you think you'll be doing in a retirement home where the dwellings are split into flats? if you get a bad neighbour, it can make your life miserable and you have absolutely no control. Keeping lodgers in your home who turn out to be noisy or anti-social, you can evict them in three weeks. most large houses could even have enough space to provide your own ground floor flat with bathrooms adapted for the elderly. Making the upper floor a shared rental space with a kitchen is not difficult. Employing a cleaner on a weekly basis for both premises means you retain ultimate control over what goes on in the shared rental space and can defray the cleaning costs of your own flat as part of the maintenance charges. if ever you came to sell your house, some tax would be due on the part used to generate income, but this is better than other alternatives.
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Suzy OShea
16 January 2020 10:06 AM
They would be in a much more worrying situation if they had bought a home, having put down a deposit of £20,000 or more and then were lOoking at losing this because their jobs were under threat and they could not pay the mortgage! Home-owners are usually much more indebted than tenants in the private sector because they are usually paying off debts on furniture too! When are people going stop playing the 'poor me' card and take some responsibility for their decisions in life!
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Suzy OShea
15 January 2020 10:42 AM
Mark Wilson: what do you think the purpose of a trade body is but, amongst other things, to lobby government for better terms for LL in the PRS? So when all the small landlords have sold up to either home buyers or to larger corporate landlords, do you think that there will still be as much rental property available as before? And if not, how will all the now homeless tenants be housed? Or is this conservative government planning to build more social and council housing with all the maintenance costs for the future that this entails?
From:
Suzy OShea
02 January 2020 19:08 PM
Would that also apply to the CONservative party?
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Suzy OShea
21 November 2019 12:21 PM
The damned conservative governments have caused this housing crisis, their speculating friends have profited from it, and no doubt donated to the party for the privilege, and now the Conservative party, desperate for votes after nigh on a decade of misrule is scapegoating the private rented sector for their own evil policies! of neglect!
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Suzy OShea
22 August 2019 12:16 PM
What a load a load of 'brown nosing' rubbish from ARLA. Glad I don't belong to this traitorous organisation! Have they forgotten who they are supposed to be helping and representing? Furthermore, I can't think of a single responsible landlord who would not be happy to give his new tenants a one year contract! So what is all this nonsense! its just the f*cking Conservatives trying to make political capital out of a desperately needed resource - housing! And the main reason for this housing crisis is both the lack of investment in social housing by both local and central governments. Central government is even more to blame because their austerity budget cuts to local governments have left them so poorly funded that they can't even maintain the estates of social housing stocks they have. Thus, these estates fall into such disrepair that they can only be demolished and sold to property developers - who will make far less provision for social housing
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Suzy OShea
22 August 2019 12:04 PM
For many years it was a legal obligation to dispaly the current Gas Safety Certificate on a notice board in the property. When did this legal obligation change to issuing it with the tenancy agreement and the 'How To Rent' booklet?
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Suzy OShea
04 July 2019 10:07 AM
Let's hope that who ever is elected will be listening!
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Suzy OShea
03 July 2019 16:20 PM
Given the corruption of this government over Brexit and other issues, I don't think Generation Rent will be fooled into voting for the CONservatives any time soon!
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Suzy OShea
08 May 2019 13:25 PM
Yet another example of this corrupt administration's and other MPs continuing expenses scandal. Little has changed since the last one! Disgraceful! And now they want private landlords to have to house delinquent tenants for months on end before getting a resolution and having to pay lawyers through the nose to get an eviction. An eviction letter cost me £750 two years ago! Luckily the tenant left!
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