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As a buyer I'll knock them off my offers, but will insist on seeing proof of any other offers as set out in law. But where ever possible I simply won't deal with such Agents. If you do view such a property, take a good hour or two, drive the agents nuts. And if the property is not exactly as described demand money back if need be small claims for False Description, they won't want to keep having claims to deal with. Stupid money grabbers.

From: John Adams 28 July 2021 08:23 AM

And how many in The Lords?

From: John Adams 26 July 2021 10:31 AM

Part of the problem is that many LA have sold off the admin to the likes of Serco, and so one hand doesn't know what the other is doing. These schemes fail as a consequence and just used to make cash.

From: John Adams 21 July 2021 08:04 AM

I don't see why rent should be repaid to the tenants because he didn't have an HMO licence, a fine to the Council but they weren't evicted or suffered because of it. Yes he failed to fix the shower but £11k? Totally disproportionate.

From: John Adams 21 July 2021 07:44 AM

Not sure anyone be they from Swindon or Sudan, would be wanting to pay rent to live in a windowless railway arch at the back of a garage. The guy is an out and out sc**bag.

From: John Adams 20 July 2021 11:59 AM

632 Repossessions including Mortgage defaults in the first 3 months, hardly an avalanche and how many of these were for pure rent arrears, as opposed to driving the neighbours up the wall, drug dens, and various other scenarios? How many were local authorities having to evict? I suspect that if you had an actual breakdown of these numbers the truth is as a business a landlord doesn't want to lose a good tenant and will work with them to get the rent paid up. The reality is these folk live with mummy and daddy and learnt only the politics of envy at the University of Corbyn. The idea that they are owed something for nothing has become ingrained in society, and it will come home to roost if PRS becomes Corporate, I can't see the likes of John Lewis, taking on any of these folk who are protesting.

From: John Adams 20 July 2021 11:53 AM

6 Unrelated people would be an HMO...

From: John Adams 20 July 2021 11:41 AM

Unfortunately, these schemes are becoming widespread, but they don't serve the published purpose of removing bad landlords, they simply become money-making schemes for local councils who then don't actually carry out the inspections. If they were a reasonable fee subsidised by fines for those who are in serious breaches and have had past warnings, we might get somewhere, but rather like Parking Tickets the claimed purpose is superseded by the money-grabbing potential.

From: John Adams 20 July 2021 11:38 AM

Don't make excuses for people who know what the law is, and could have killed 10 people. The fact is he could provide accommodation that is safe and profitable to him, but he chose to make a fast buck. These people are the reason the PRS gets a bad name, and we need them locked up.

From: John Adams 20 July 2021 11:32 AM

If you are going to put an end to these people doing this, you have to make the fines truly significant along with custodial sentencing. In this case a fine of £50,000 and 3 years in prison would have been a far better warning, than what is probably less than 4 months rent.

From: John Adams 20 July 2021 11:29 AM

Fly-tipping is unforgivable, however the current systems of Council Tips having restricted hours because of Covid (Who knew Covid was the only highly infectious disease one could catch at a rubbish tip?) and the increasingly complicated and ridiculous domestic recycling schemes that are turning gardens into Bin parks are not helping. Common sense needs to be applied to the refuse and recycling system, otherwise, the country is going to disappear under one big rat-infested fly-tip.

From: John Adams 21 June 2021 11:32 AM

Funny how comments get switched off, the reality is that Councils are quick to condemn PRS Landlords, but faced with the facts that they and successive governments have failed to build social housing they now come cap in hand. Perhaps the PRS landlords in Bristol should make those facts very clear to Bristol Council.

From: John Adams 21 June 2021 11:25 AM

I agree, and there are many property types and areas the banks are simply not going to want to take on. Certainly, be interesting to see what they do when they have defaults, and properties where the tenants are trashing the place, or anti-social but at a level that can't be easily tackled, but generates complaints from the residents. Lloyds will quickly realise that they are going to have to stick to serviced Riverside apartments, and not the run of the meal stuff that makes up 99% of the PRS.

From: John Adams 21 June 2021 11:18 AM

Majority of these schemes have not provided better housing conditions or driven out rogue landlords. Instead they are just propping up the Councillors tea and biscuit fund. If these schemes were low cost, involved actual inspections and dealt with both rogue landlords AND bad tenants, they might have legs, but I might as well live on Mars to believe a Local Authority could do that especially when the evidence is that many local authority and housing association property is neglected and tenants struggle to get issues resolved being trapped in the points system for moving out.

From: John Adams 14 June 2021 07:20 AM

Until the Government comes up with a coherent Energy Grant strategy for all housing nothing is going to be achieved in terms of improvements and energy use. It is farcical that new build Property is still not required to have Solar panels and instead they are pushing Heat Pumps when the UK has so many older properties that already lack space due to the plethora of recycling bins and will become extremely expensive to heat using these systems.

From: John Adams 04 June 2021 09:03 AM

You can see it now... Mediator "So why are you looking to evict your tenant?" LL "The industrial waste pile they are accumulating in the back garden, the all night parties, the rent not being paid for the last 6 months, the harassment of the neighbours by their "children", shall I go on?" Tenant "Well the LL didn't buy me any bin bags, and I work shifts so that's why I have late night parties..." Mediator "So the rent arrears?" Tenant "I ain't got any money, because they stopped my benefits..." Case Dismissed....

From: John Adams 09 April 2021 10:46 AM

I agree that the likes of China and India, will likely counter anything we do for many generations, but that's not a reason to make homes more energy efficient. What is needed is a fair and properly run grant scheme for these retrospective improvements. The issue at the moment is the rating system, a property with a "D" from 10 years ago, may now not reach a "D" due to the changes in assessment, which makes the whole thing a movable feast and unaffordable.

From: John Adams 09 April 2021 10:35 AM

What i find incredible is that the Government is still allowing developers to throw up houses that do not incorporate measures such as Solar PV, Triple Glazing, Rain Harvesting etc and other measures that are much easier at construction than retrospectively. In many areas of the country there are old pre-war terraces and back to backs that simply can't be fitted with Heat Pumps or Solar technologies and simply giving exemptions is not the answer, a proper grant scheme run by the local authorities to cover at least 75% of the upgrade costs or repurchase and rebuild is needed.

From: John Adams 09 April 2021 10:29 AM

Whilst regulation is needed to ensure standards and safety are maintained, the constant anti landlord campaigns by the likes of Shelter (Surely a conflict of charity and politics) make availability and rental increases worse, they simply fail to comprehend that many people do not want to either own a home with all the expenses incurred, or require flexibility due to their careers. Driving Private Landlords out of the market is going to result in even higher prices, and larger unaccountable organisations in their place. A quick scan of local news, will show many many tenants in damp mouldy and dangerous conditions - that are LA and LHA properties, where getting any kind of recompense or remedy can take months, Shelter seem to forget that...

From: John Adams 09 April 2021 10:10 AM

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