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jimmy watkins

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You should be ashamed of yourself it's people like you who give private landlords a bad name

From: jimmy watkins 17 July 2020 10:25 AM

Fair enough I know London is expensive I still think it's over priced but that is my opinion, the entire market is over inflated. Also the calculations for affordability on a regular mortgage is so it of date it's ridiculous according to rental affordability I personally can afford over 1100pcm in rent yet would only be able to afford a mortgage with repayments of 470pcm that is why I have such strong views on regulation of the rental sector

From: jimmy watkins 16 July 2020 20:08 PM

Well I'm glad you're leaving maybe look at stocks and shares it's a good time to invest at the moment as the covid crisis has pushed a lot of prices down, personally I only buy shares that pay dividends and reinvest the dividends in to more shares, compounding is a much better way than ripping tenants off

From: jimmy watkins 16 July 2020 19:59 PM

But a blanket ban is not the answer meet with the person talk to them and not just about their ability to pay rent but who they, their interests what their aspirations are. Some people can't work for legitimate reasons, one of my friends has severe fibromyalgia and rents when she had to move it was so hard because of the standard no benefits, it's the approach that needs to change as many have said it's a few bad apples that give the rest a bad name, you should not be allowed to turn a person down without meeting them and seeing past lines in a page

From: jimmy watkins 16 July 2020 17:59 PM

I agree in principal with landlords deciding on the person but in my experience they don't. The last time me and my partner we trying to move because we had been offered jobs paying more money, btw we both received promotions within 3 months in our new jobs we were told no because we have a cat a lot. Most would not consider us because we would be in a probation period with our employers. Those who did consider us had all our information and took a couple of weeks to think about it then said no, with no regard for the impact on our lives and not a single one met with us. All went through agents and made a decision on bits of paper. If a landlord wants to decide who to rent to fine but make the decision on the person not on what a piece of paper says. We eventually did meet our lovely landlady, we pay more than letting agents said we could afford but it's a beautiful house the first month we moved in we completely redid the garden with the permission of our landlady. If you go through an agent you don't get the chance to say yes or no. There needs to be a cap on rents so that renters can afford to save up to buy their own property, high rents only prevent those who are on low wages from owning their own home that is what needs to stop.

From: jimmy watkins 16 July 2020 17:26 PM

Landlords need to have laws put in place to regulate them, the amount they charge for rent is ridiculous, the government state no more than 35% of a person's income should be spent on rent, landlords end up taking in most cases more like 70%. It's disgusting how they behave, and they have no idea of the impact it has on the tenant landlords should not be able to refuse to let a property because someone has a pet, or children or if they are on benefits, how dare you presume to control other people's lives it's immoral and wrong the sooner private landlords have caps put on the amount they can charge the better, they also need only one rule of you have a property to rent and someone is in need of housing they can rent it if you don't like it sell up find another way to go on a power trip.

From: jimmy watkins 16 July 2020 16:15 PM

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