There Are Two Sides To Every Coin Jezza.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/general-election-labour-promises-to-tackle-dodgy-landlords-11869820
What about dodgy tenants?

[NellieMay]

There is no way I would want to be a landlord these days!

[ToraToraTora]

me neither nellie, got out of that game.

[cassa333]

I have had four tenants so far and two have been an absolute nightmare.

I bent over backwards to accommodate them and they did nothing but shaft me.

There are ‘slum landlords’ about but there are also scum tenants as well.

[Togo]

I should think that being a landlord is still a viable business option as long as you only take tenants that are Tory voters. :))

[theshedman]

My son rented a flat for a while and one of the tenants in another flat in the same block left doing a moonlight flit but before leaving poured quick drying concrete down the toilets and sinks so there are dodgy tenants around as well as landlords. Both need tackling.

[Old_Geezer]

Both need regulation unless it's overly heavy handed. To highlight one side whilst ignoring the other is bad policy. Sometimes I think it's a strategy to put existing rental properties on the purchase market. But given all the paperwork and obligations when selling, not to mention triggering capital gains, hardly surprising if rental properties just stay empty.

[CrapAtCryptics]

I agree - we`ve all seen the aftermath of bad tenants and the amounts of rubbish, damage and filth they leave.

[Mamyalynne]

There are indeed two sides to everything, I have been a private tenant for forty years and it can be hell to get what is clearer something urgent and often dangerous repaired/replaced.

I am in the luxurious position of having an old Assured Tenancy and my home is inspected should a rent rise be applied for.

It can and has gone down rather than up following these inspections.

So regardless of Party Politics both sides of this coin need addressing.

[Mamyalynne]

* clearly. not clearer

[Gromit]

I have known bad tenants as well as bad landlords.

I do not see the logic in rebutting Labour’s pledge to tackle bad Landlords because some tenants are also at fault. The bad landlords problem needs addressing. And bad tenants need sorting out. I have never been a landlord, but have friends that are. Fortunately their tenants seem to be good and long stay. Maybe I am being naive but if a tenant does not pay then they can easily be got rid of by law?

[TheDevil]

"There is no way I would want to be a landlord these days!"

Why not? Property constantly going up in price, if you're lucky to be a land lord you may own 3+ homes, each raking in over half a grand each month in rent not to mention the actual property price increasing. If you can't keep these properties up to living conditions then you aught to be penalised.

Why would you support landlords who don't provide adequate conditions?

The majority of landlords that I have experienced have been more than adequate. However, I have had one landlord who did everything he could to be cheap and awkward. It can make life frustrating, one situation I was in, I replaced a door because it needed replacing. A paint job wouldn't have done the trick. I replaced this door and the landlord charged me for the door, despite informing him that I had no intentions of taking the replacement door with me when I left.

The guy was a nightmare.

[david small]

There are stupid greedy lazy people onboth sides of the fence. Personally I would never buy to rent as I’ve encountered some absolutely appalling tenants. I have also experienced some dodgy cowboy landlords.

[ToraToraTora]

gromit: "Maybe I am being naive but if a tenant does not pay then they can easily be got rid of by law? " - it can take 6 months especially if kids are involved. Despite what many think most landlords are not rich, they need the rent to pay for the loan they have on the property. More than lost rent though is the tenants often trash the place.

[Gromit]

// More than lost rent though is the tenants often trash the place. //

That did in fact happen to a friend. She used a letting agent to lease the property, and did not see her new tenant herself. If was clear from day 1 that the tenant was trouble. It was a nightmare for my friend, unfortunately she did not do due diligence and it came back to bite her.

[Bazile]

Watch - 'Can't Pay We'll Take It Away'

It often has both sides of the story

[ToraToraTora]

baz, I remember 1 episode where the bloke being kicked out lived like a king but never paid his rent, the flat was full of opulence he had dozens of top of the range suits etc. When the high court bailiffs showed up to boot him out he offered to pay and they said, too late, we are not here to collect we are here to get you out. So out on his ear he was.

[TheDevil]

The program “Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!” is very insightful.

[TheDevil]

ToraToraTora - “So out on his ear he was”

And rightly so.

[Bazile]

I think i recall that one , Tora

[Ken4155]

B oth sides of the coin, here; I decorated for a local landlord for a number of years and the corners he used to cut were unbelievable, some downright dangerous. He would often bypass the electricity to carry out renovation and redecoration work and sometimes tenants would be in the property 2 or 3 months before he would send someone to 'make it right'. At one time he had about 100 houses on his portfolio - he was a 'paper' millionaire - but because he never properly vetted would-be tenants, he was ripped off several times. And the state some of the houses were often left in made my skin crawl when i went to price them for redecoration. Faeces on the walls, chokingly strong smell of stale urine in bedrooms, used hypodermic needles everywhere. Then Burnley introduced a Good Landlord And Agent (GLAS) scheme and he ended up selling many of his properties at Auction Houses.