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Gareth Thomas

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This is all driven by the evil UN Agenda 2030 SDGs on a scam called climate change. I never appreciated how far back this all started. The UK Energy Bill has also tightened the noose for anyone that doesn’t agree with the group think and doesn’t believe there is a crisis.

From: Gareth Thomas 17 April 2024 17:02 PM

This licensing rubbish is merely Labour (mainly) councils restricting the rights of individuals to make a living and all part of the United Nations Agenda 21. Read the book by Rosa Koire called Behind the Green Mask: UN Agenda 21. What is happening in the U.K. and around the world is right out of the UN Agenda 21 playbook.

From: Gareth Thomas 03 April 2024 07:21 AM

I am NOT being party to global coercive behaviour under the scam of totalitarian control using climate change as the driver. That’s what WEF has done with the global corporations, education systems, national politicians, local council politicians, NGOs and young people. They’ve infiltrated everywhere like an octopus with tentacles in every aspect of our lives.

From: Gareth Thomas 13 January 2024 21:41 PM

"The rationale is clear – an EPC is essential to enable tenants to make informed choices about their expected energy costs of living in a rented property. This is particularly relevant at a time when household budgets are significantly constrained. The Scottish government is predicting that 46% of households in the private rented sector (PRS) will face fuel poverty this winter." What a word salad of utter tripe. An EPC might be a D or E or even an A or B but if the tenants are stupid and open the windows to let the hot air out and keep the heating on 24/7 then their bills will always be high! Common sense needed here.

From: Gareth Thomas 23 December 2023 11:00 AM

It’s starting…communism like North Korea on the way.

From: Gareth Thomas 17 November 2023 17:21 PM

They’re not experts. They only want this to happen because they have their nose in the trough and will make bank!

From: Gareth Thomas 27 October 2023 19:26 PM

It’s ROGUE for FS, not ROUGE (a red powder or cream used as a cosmetic for colouring the cheeks or lips.). Jeez!

From: Gareth Thomas 11 October 2023 12:18 PM

Agree. He’s so weak.

From: Gareth Thomas 02 October 2023 22:05 PM

Why is IWI or EWI so expensive Gibbo? If either is added to a solid wall 1910 built house converted into flats pre 1991 building regulations how can we be sure the installer won’t make mistakes that make the property damp?

From: Gareth Thomas 28 September 2023 13:58 PM

Clearly Martin has zero idea of the financials and a basic cost benefit analysis. If a tenant can afford the rent and the heating bills then they should be allowed to choose a D rated property. Those that can’t afford to heat their homes should choose a C or above if it bothers them that much. To be honest it’s all a ploy by the elites and the globalists to force private landlords out of the market under the guise of their spurious climate change woke ideologies as planned by them at their club called the World Economic Forum. Climate Change is always going to exist. Global warming will occur but not for the reasons they are portraying ie blaming us. I don’t see Klaus and co slumming it on public transport…chauffeur driven cars and private jets all the way for them. Anybody that supports this miserable-it’s and tyrannical agenda is assisting in the genocide of the middle and lower working classes and the poor and should be in prison (all the politicians).

From: Gareth Thomas 03 September 2023 00:37 AM

Councils should be suffering huge fines too and the money raised split and shared amongst landlords with EPC D or less properties to help get the EPC up to C.

From: Gareth Thomas 01 August 2023 07:34 AM

Sequestration of private property, you will own nothing and be happy. Communism on its way…..

From: Gareth Thomas 26 July 2023 08:41 AM

Martin Gibbons…is it this guy at vital property solutions? Linked In profile “martin-gibbons-84b5b110”. If so at least he’s not a troll/bot account but definitely has a vested interest in taking our money for overpriced work to save very little.

From: Gareth Thomas 23 July 2023 08:23 AM

Gibbo. The basic economics don’t work out for expensive “solutions” like heat pumps or EWI or solar roof panels e.g. £14,000-£20,000 to install a heat pump to save (modelled) energy costs of £200 per year. If the tenant is worried I’d rather give them a discount of £200 off their rent. What’s really happening is the costs for this scam climate change agenda are being heaped on to private individuals owning property for letting in the hope they sell up. The race to retrofit all older properties up to an A rating EPC which, if they don’t they won’t be able to rent out the property, will cause an unbelievable crash in house prices and yet another massive transfer of wealth from private investors to large corporations ready (with funds from cheap bank borrowing) to hoover up the excess. They’ve not started on privately owned properties yet to my knowledge (unless they have via the back door using finance as the stick) but one day when that comes in the financial ramifications will be gargantuan. Only THEN will the population wake up to what’s going on…the biggest power and private property grab in the history of the modern world. The renting classes are already suffering massively as a result of the climate change scam in many different ways (section 24 introduced to raise more taxes!).

From: Gareth Thomas 23 July 2023 08:16 AM

Buy them off of us at full market value and we pay no CGT on the sale as an incentive. We get to keep the profit tax free. That might tempt us.

From: Gareth Thomas 17 July 2023 08:12 AM

No! No! No! How many times need it be stated for him to understand?

From: Gareth Thomas 05 July 2023 09:44 AM

Someone in that housing association needs to face criminal charges for manslaughter in this very sorry case! You can’t tell me that turning off the supply didn’t lead to the death of that poor man. Terrible abuse of power.

From: Gareth Thomas 15 May 2023 08:17 AM

Too late for 2 of my tenants. S21 done ages ago…one eventually left after sourcing another property and one just need to invoke court bailiff.

From: Gareth Thomas 09 May 2023 21:13 PM

They believe the climate change hype and not seeing it for the hoax that it is. Likely there’s profit in it for them somewhere.

From: Gareth Thomas 18 April 2023 08:05 AM

Oh bully for you! C and D are just fine. The EPC calculations are simply wrong and inconsistent across the board. I’d rather give the tenant a discount on the rent of the cost of the so called savings per the EPC and let to people who CAN afford to hear and eat. That means nobody on benefits, no low paid workers, only workers on average pay. It is what it is.

From: Gareth Thomas 15 April 2023 20:51 PM

I might be wrong, but Jason sounds like a very bitter, jealous and aggrieved individual with an axe to grind. I wonder what his situation is and how he ended up in it. It’s regrettable he clearly doesn’t understand the workings of the property market and the lenders’ criteria requiring borrowers to be able to afford their mortgage. In the late 80s/early 90s it was a painfully time for many that had to go bankrupt and walked away from their homes before they were repossessed due to sharp interest rate rises. The lenders don’t want the same to happen again.

From: Gareth Thomas 31 March 2023 07:43 AM

From: Gareth Thomas 17 March 2023 13:44 PM

Common sense at last. Run for PM…I’d vote for you.

From: Gareth Thomas 15 March 2023 07:37 AM

Glad o got my S21s in before the end of it. One down, one to go. Way to go fascist tenant groups.

From: Gareth Thomas 28 February 2023 08:10 AM

Is it ONLY Labour controlled councils introducing property licensing?

From: Gareth Thomas 17 February 2023 22:37 PM

I like this idea much better.

From: Gareth Thomas 27 December 2022 09:24 AM

This is true. I worked with Crisis, took on 3 people previously homeless, one did fine, one was a pain in the arsenal cost me money to evict but didn’t damage the property or steal rent money from me whereas the last one was the dirtiest human being I’ve ever come across, cost me money to evict AND stole £7500 rent money by lying through his back teeth about everything to everyone. Never again. People have too many problems…I just want to house people that can cope with their own lives and not make themselves a problem for me. Sound harsh? Well I have my own problems, why should I have to be the carer of other peoples problems! If anyone wants my problems please get in touch. No? Thought not.

From: Gareth Thomas 27 December 2022 09:23 AM

Tesco price of milk was £1 for 4 pints of semi-skimmed and I believe in less than a year it’s now £1.65! Surely the Baroness must know this 🤦‍♂️

From: Gareth Thomas 21 December 2022 07:17 AM

It’s all a ruse to help Xero and Quickbooks make massive profits whilst causing major headaches for us. I don’t pay monthly for my bookkeeping software presently, one off payment of £29.95 about 20 years ago and it does the job well. It’s no longer supported by Microsoft (MS Money…so easy to use). Much easier than the other two I mentioned before. And…no ongoing costs.

From: Gareth Thomas 19 December 2022 21:37 PM

The Government are probably being lobbied hard by online accounting software providers like Xero and Quickbooks because they want us to pay all those yummy monthly fees! What a massive increase in profit those companies will see. From my research so far I’ve been unable to find a suitable alternative interface that’ll accept returns using a good old spreadsheet. My accounts are “digital” already but just not in a format that interfaces directly with HMRC!

From: Gareth Thomas 16 December 2022 08:03 AM

Sometimes just failure to apply for a license. No monies from fines go towards repairs or maintenance. The landlords effectively get hit twice. Cost of fines plus cost to put right things that are found to be wrong.

From: Gareth Thomas 09 December 2022 09:44 AM

It doesn’t matter what the real issues are that’s forced a landlord to issue S21 the media will always twist things to make the landlord out to be a greedy tyrant. It’s just not worth engaging with them as it will backfire on the landlord.

From: Gareth Thomas 05 December 2022 08:11 AM

Not having a piece of paper (a licence) somehow puts tenants at risk? How? Were there other issues? That’s what they should concentrate on, not the fact they weren’t aware of yet another unlicensed property.

From: Gareth Thomas 27 November 2022 22:27 PM

Agreed. This is a classic emperor's new clothes scam trying to make us all rush out and spend tens of thousands of pounds for very little return on investment (savings in energy costs) all so that if we sell up the new first time buyers (or other buyers) will choose our property to buy over others. The Santander report is based on a tiny sample of the population.

From: Gareth Thomas 12 October 2022 09:13 AM

" Reduce eviction powers for landlords whose tenants are in arrears". I wonder if Labour will acknowledge there should be some kind of reasonableness surrounding arrears, for example some kind of de minimus limit on what arrears figure means a landlord must be allowed to go ahead as the tenant will NEVER get back up straight. I have two DWP tenants that due to the cap have now got arrears of circa £20,000 and it all built up just before and then during the pandemic so I've not gotten around to starting eviction proceedings, until now.

From: Gareth Thomas 26 September 2022 10:14 AM

Good point...has merit and I would love to see this explored. The problem is the Greens and the Assessors and the Government and the manufacturers of solar panels, air source/ground source heat pumps etc etc all have their own agenda and won't listen to this sensible suggestion. Pains me every time I read this EPC C by 2030 rubbish...it's just going to be impossible to achieve and at an impossible cost to the owner of the property (not the user of the property who would be the actual beneficiary of any improvements).

From: Gareth Thomas 15 August 2022 07:55 AM

Common sense suggestion at last. I just wish this could get through to council workers! Tell the tenants that the landlords will be required to provide the tenants’ forwarding addresses or those of their parents and let’s see how responsible shifts and they grow up faster!

From: Gareth Thomas 01 August 2022 09:02 AM

No, just no! The charity should keep their nose out of our business and concentrate on the social housing sector issues!

From: Gareth Thomas 29 July 2022 06:56 AM

Nobody knows what they’re doing! The manufacturers and installers of heat pumps are biased and simply selling them to make profit. Fair enough but the technology is rubbish and isn’t going to be cheaper overall and save us any money. If a tenant really wants one then they can damn we’ll pay for it.

From: Gareth Thomas 15 July 2022 21:12 PM

People talking up ground source and air source heat pumps are doing so to support their own agenda (their business success, their profits and personal net worth). Millions of properties are unable to have these devices fitted so traditional boilers or electric heating are the only other options. I say hurry up and build some mini nuclear power stations around the country then electricity prices are cheaper and we can all go electric.

From: Gareth Thomas 20 June 2022 08:27 AM

The rise in S21 notices being issued is a direct response to the threat of removing that option to Landlords. I’ve had to do this to protect my position in cases where there’s no rent arrears but the tenant has breached the contract in other ways that are arguable by tenants/judges and burden of proof is on me. Other cases are in arrears so when I’m ready they’ll go via S8.

From: Gareth Thomas 27 April 2022 12:04 PM

We can pass the message on by adding it to AST contracts but in no way is it or should it EVER be up to landlords to be responsible for the inaction of their tenants. The tenants are humans and responsible for themselves, like I don’t expect anyone to force me to recycle or dispose of waste properly…it’s down to me! Such a nanny state we have now!

From: Gareth Thomas 18 March 2022 07:40 AM

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