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Will say until I am blue in the face - there is adequate legislation currently in place to protect both sides. Its a lack of the use of it that causes issues.
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Stephen Chipp
29 February 2024 09:29 AM
The Bill is the most dramatic change to the rental sector since the Housing Act in '88 and revised in '96. The language is akin to the 70's and many many landlords are thinking the same in terms of 'what's the point?!'. Its a perfect storm and there is every protection for tenant and landlord under current law - just no enforcement......
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Stephen Chipp
12 September 2023 11:31 AM
Received an email from landlord with 6 units last week which I forwarded to our Conservative MP. He is leaving the sector as has worked out that if he pays his capital gains and Company Tax he will be still better off putting the money in the bank and earning from the interest without the hassle. His exact words were 'I am a good landlord and am sick of being demonized by the Government.' These flats will likely be individually sold and the tenants having to move out - where do they move to when we are getting 20 applications per available property due to a shortage of stock?!
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Stephen Chipp
12 September 2023 08:52 AM
What is not stated here is the near daily 'press' barracking landlords and I already have clients that state that for the meagre returns they are simply looking to offload properties and put their finances in the bank. I am afraid politics (more tenants than landlords so therefore more votes from tenants) in my cynical view is doing an awful lot of damage to the sector. The current legislation has more than enough safeguards for tenants and landlrods if it is only enforced properly. The government need to think very carefully about the sector as if there is mass exodus where do the tenants go? In Brighton and Hove my understanding is that there is 17k people on a waiting list for social housing......
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Stephen Chipp
17 November 2022 08:46 AM
What a terrible headline and article...if you are going to write that tenants have been 'stung' by agency fees (illegal now) and legal fees (what on earth are they for in lettings for the tenant?!) then at least provide some examples!
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Stephen Chipp
23 November 2021 08:44 AM
Agreed; and without the regulation that I spend considerable time on ensuring I am compliant. All anyone wants from the Government is a level playing field and AirBnB is not that!
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Stephen Chipp
15 November 2021 08:47 AM
I like what you did there Tonty! lol No chipp I can assure you - just a genuine frustration with the press around evictions etc from GR, Acorn and Shelter as it would appear from their viewpoint there are 10's of thousands of landlords itching to evict their tenants. The evidence just does not support this. Most tenants are happy with their landlords and agents and they have numerous avenues to pursue rogue players in the market. That is not to say there are not bad agents and landlords and I am all for proper regulation of the sector!
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Stephen Chipp
12 March 2021 09:07 AM
They are not going to be satisfied until tenants can live rent free paid for by the multi millionaire landlords (just a little note - vast majority are single property landlords!!) and having butlers thrown in for good measure. As the comment above states - when all the landlords have pulled out of the industry, leaving only the ruthless larger landlords hoovering up property and not caring a jot about you protesting, because you wont know where they are - don't come crying because you have nowhere to live!
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Stephen Chipp
11 March 2021 08:48 AM
I am in Brighton and Hove. I have a client who has had no rent for 12 months, the tenant is causing serous disturbance to everyone else in the building and he has been told by the Court in Brighton that they don't know when they will enforce his possession order. How is that fair?!
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Stephen Chipp
10 February 2021 08:52 AM
I think I am going to sell my business and work for shelter. Why should I continually work my backside off with all of my landlords complying to the mountains of legislation that has come into effect in recent years (as do most agents and landlords by the way) when I could simply sit in office and throw hand grenades such as this? I would love to see the survey questions...
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Stephen Chipp
07 October 2020 08:43 AM
So basically do what the rest of us are doing - put a finger in the air and have a good guess as to what might happen!!
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Stephen Chipp
28 September 2020 08:44 AM
I see people claiming that you should perhaps offload 'dud' properties to avoid C rating in 2030 - problem in a town like Brighton is that my energy assessors state there is not a cat in hells chance of many getting to that standard. As for the Council looking at the private sector I find this a joke as I can guarantee you that their own council stock does not comply anywhere near to the standard - which if course legally they do not have to.....
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Stephen Chipp
03 September 2020 09:46 AM
Absolute essential piece of legislation that is once again not drafted correctly by people who have no knowledge of the sector. I had meetings with my electricians who advised that the new law does not match the 18th Edition standards for testing. The UK Government also did not factor in that we have lost 4-5 months of this year with contractors now playing catch up on normal maintenance!!
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Stephen Chipp
20 August 2020 09:20 AM
So basically he was a good landlord who fixed things when broken and ave a reasonable rent - but yeah that's right slag him off because the cleaning was not to your standard, which by the way was mostly taken from landlords and agents hands when the deposit legislation came in!!
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Stephen Chipp
19 August 2020 10:09 AM
I dont read this as only 'emergency' maintenance can be done but all maintenance as long as proper process is followed...?! In fact it seems to suggest even if someone is symptomatic contractors could attend in an emergency?! Does anyone read it differently?
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Stephen Chipp
25 March 2020 10:27 AM
That's fine asour offices are closed but our payments run from one PC (we are an independent letting agent) and we cannot remote access to pay through Barclays.net - what do we do? Can the accounts department - one member of staff - go in? We cannot not pay our clients when we do receive rent!
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Stephen Chipp
24 March 2020 12:42 PM
And yet the vast majority of tenants are happy - clearly the people making the decisions in this Country did not do their due diligence on choosing agents and landlords! A tad worrying!
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Stephen Chipp
30 January 2020 09:26 AM
£2500 is a 'tough line'?! This is why rogue landlords keep getting away with poorly maintained properties. That is likely to be less than a months rent received for these 'shocking' conditions!
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Stephen Chipp
09 October 2019 08:59 AM
My annoyance time and time again is that every new piece of legislation comes in and good letting agents and landlords comply but bad agents and landlords do not. We do not need this mass of legislation - we need proper enforcement of existing legislation.
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Stephen Chipp
13 September 2019 08:41 AM
Also missing the fact that currently I can act as an agent under section 21 but have no standing in Court to do so under section 8. Lots of my clients are overseas meaning a solicitor will have to be employed adding massive cost to what should be a simple process.
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Stephen Chipp
12 August 2019 08:46 AM
So the landlord wants to refurbish a dated property to increase the rent and bring it up to market value. Cannot use section 21 and has to use section 8. I cannot represent my client so if they are not local have to employ solicitors. A recent section 8 cost my client circa £5k - will the government be looking at solicitors fees next? Thought not.....
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Stephen Chipp
04 July 2019 08:50 AM
Handy little tool but you have wonder about the abilities of landlords and agents who cannot work out 5 weeks worth of rent!
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Stephen Chipp
04 April 2019 08:34 AM
I would love for the politicians to take a much closer look at all Council owned stock and see if they comply with the vast amounts of legislation the private sector have to abide by.....
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Stephen Chipp
26 March 2019 08:45 AM
Great news and I would simply add that the vast majority of landlords nationwide are 'decent law abiding people'. Sadly there has just never been enough prosecution of the bad agents and landlords.
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Stephen Chipp
24 January 2019 08:42 AM
When I bought my first house my wife and I stayed in for nearly two years to be able to save for our deposit. We screwed a penny till it screamed and as others have said I guess it just is where your priorities lie. It is harder of course but not impossible.....
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Stephen Chipp
17 December 2018 11:51 AM
Stealth tax and nothing more. If Councils and the Government put as much effort into prosecuting the bad apples and less into new schemes to hound landlords out of the sector we would not have the issues. In my experience I could tell you on one hand the bad landlords I would refuse to do business with but literally hundreds of tenants I would never rent to again. Its the numbers game - there are more tenants than landlords and its a vote catcher.
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Stephen Chipp
01 November 2018 08:42 AM
Just love these companies who manage from a building miles away without ever seeing any of the works they instruct on their clients behalf. I work in Brighton and there is a Managing Agent based in Leeds that manage a building I have a flat in! Suffice to say it is one of the worst managed blocks in the town!
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