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Pat Gan

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The tenants can only pay a certain amount, after that they either give Landlord trouble and get kicked out, end up in some doggy B&B through the council decide they don't want their children to live with addicts and move to rogue landlord's property or move to cheaper options with same rogue landlords. Which ever route they take the system will push these people to rogue landlords as that is all they can afford. So as long as you have people in this desperate situation rogue landlords will flourish. The reason this will not be dealt with is simple - it is mostly immigrant communities where this happens.

From: Pat Gan 20 December 2019 10:01 AM

A landlord's register will be a way to make money for the councils. Croydon council charges around £750 or £800 to put you on their Landlord's register. You fill this form online and pay. After couple of years you will get a letter saying that your application has been accepted and you are in the register. It is only a way of making money out of landlords and nothing else.

From: Pat Gan 19 December 2019 23:24 PM

Daniela, I laugh out of desperation than anything else. This country is divided by class or class based ideology. You as a landlord fall into the middle or upper class category in their eyes. It doesn't matter what this type of person does you won't be liked by the common public. This lady is in the situation she is in because she didn't cooperate with the council in fixing what ever she had, not because she was doing this. I can say this without knowing anything of this case other than what is in the article. If the council have no program of advising and working with potential landlords from the start, some will become rouge and some will become good landlords.

From: Pat Gan 19 December 2019 16:11 PM

As a landlord, when I see such headline news I just laugh. The Judiciary are blind, the councils are lazy, powerless and useless, people are sleep walking like zombies. Britain needs cheap labour and rely heavily on immigrants. Where do you think these imimgrants live? They live in such over crowded houses. The agents will rent say 3 bed house to 3 people, let's say a couple and their relative, they will sublet and no body cares this happens. When such a slum tenant becomes a landlord or when landlords see they can make more money as in any event these people are going to sublet anyway, they will run it as an unlicensed HMO. When law-abiding landlords contact the councils about HMO, usually the only point of information is what ever they have on their website. When you apply, they take your money and don't contact you for months or years in some cases. I say these problems are created by the governments of the day and the councils, which intern is elected in by the people of this country. If I form a group that targets such slum homes and sue the councils, the landlords and the lead tenants. I can create a housing crisis, labour crisis and may be a recession?? As for this fine, if they employ the right lawyers, may get it reduced too as happened in a case in Birmingham. I think, every time such case ends up in court, the council must be made to pay 50% of the fine and costs for not having the correct procedures in place to stop this problem.

From: Pat Gan 19 December 2019 09:49 AM

That won't happen as the council will end up housing the main tenant and pay for poor depressed tenant whereas the landlord will pay otherwise has a home that will pay.

From: Pat Gan 30 November 2019 20:52 PM

solution is simple, problem is governments and councils, so money spent is money wasted.

From: Pat Gan 05 November 2019 11:43 AM

Not that simple. Some people don't have passports and some people are arriving with home office documents etc and are being discriminated against by the industry. So these people simply are being forced to go to doggy landlords. The root of the problem is same - the governments and local authorities inability to do their jobs.

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From: Pat Gan 28 September 2017 12:34 PM

They should be looking improve the BTL products available for ltd copanies

From: Pat Gan 25 January 2017 11:15 AM

No body is regulating anyone, the councils don't check the properties they are licensing. It is a Pathetic excuse to raise money.

From: Pat Gan 25 January 2017 08:47 AM

Problem in UK is the politics and useless civil servants that work for the various government bodies. What is the point of licensing, when they don't check the property when you license it? No body goes after land lords who don't license the property Council uses this as a way of collecting more money from Law abiding Citizens and offer nothing in return.

From: Pat Gan 25 January 2017 08:44 AM

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