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Frances Burkinshaw

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Hopefully this Bill will help to root out rogue, bad landlords. It may not work well however unless there is a strong, well manned government body behind it - a body that will take up a case when a tenant reports poor living conditions and follow through. If the tenant has to take action himself it may not work as generally speaking people are frightened of taking someone to court, especially a landlord. This has been the case with deposit legislation. It would carry so much more weight if there was a body to act on behalf of the tenant. Tenants will be frightened of losing their home if they take action themselves even though we now have new legislation to cover this. Who is monitoring these rogue landlords? Nobody I fear - local authorities simply do not have the funds or the man power to follow up complaints - if they did all this good legislation could be properly implemented and would have 'teeth'. Yet again it is down to money.

From: Frances Burkinshaw 22 January 2018 09:43 AM

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