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under the smoke screen of pretending to simplify the system, all they want to do is raise CGT. This is another attack on private landlords and will make more sell up sooner, exacerbating the already slumping property market, which Sunak hopes to save by a short stamp duty holiday of eight months. Dream on!

From: Suzy OShea 15 July 2020 13:01 PM

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We had an incidence of suspected COVID19 and insisted on immediate testing being carried out for both tenants. The tests proved that they were free of COVID19, thankfully! This was not a case of an eviction, just making sure we knew what to expect for the rest of the house-mates in an HMO. Social distancing continued to be practiced via a tenants WhatsApp group so they would let each other know when they were in the bathrooms or kitchen.

From: Suzy OShea 14 May 2020 08:57 AM

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Telephoning tenants is waste of time. e-mail or registered letter are the best means of communication. Of course many tenants are taking these three months as a rent holiday. However, many have also been laid off, or at the very best had their salary reduced whilst working from home. They should be given time to make up the arrears when things return to normal. Many teants will just leave rather than come up with the rent arrears! but Landlords can still blot their credit reputation if they go through the small claims court. this can be more useful than anything.

From: Suzy OShea 06 May 2020 08:17 AM

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Mortgage payments form only part of the budget. what about the rest of the costs, uutilities, being used in ever-greater quantities by tenants at home in isolation; Council tax; water rates; tv license; insurance policies; telephone charges with internet packages; cleaning and maintenance charges! All of these charges still need to be met! I don't see councils suggesting a Council Tax holiday or delayed payment, no any of the other companies that make money out of tenants. LLs are often just the intermediaries paying all these bodies. They make far less profit than people imagine and have far fewer reserves than governments and idiotic political parties imagine. Many of them have had to take on extra loans to have an emergency fund just to keep the heating and the lights on for their tenants! There is no such thing as payment holiday for anyone! All debts have to be repaid. and the poor sucker renting out to Coral betting shops ought to send them a request for their planned repayment plan for their missing rent, otherwise they had better start looking for new premises! I sympathise with tenants and small businesses but betting shops are just legally feeding an addiction which has grown in such proportions that it is a social blight! The government only allows it to exist because of the taxes they pay! So they don't care about gambling addicts either!

From: Suzy OShea 02 April 2020 12:15 PM

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our morttgage companies won't give us a 'mortgage holiday'. Any mortgage payments that they don't claim will be added to the mortgage along with the continually accruing interest, which is no longer even tax deductible! Although three months of lost income certainly will be tax deductible. Personally, I'd rather have the rent and pay the tax.

From: Suzy OShea 24 March 2020 10:38 AM

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When you see the poor quality of an academic issuing such idiocy, we now know how the education system is failing everyone. And we now see how easily the country has been deceived and gulled over Brexit! What about a term"s free rent fees for his students? Universities are some of the richest institutions in the country. Furthermore, i like the way he says that the rent holiday should be automatic, presumably with no burden of proof on the tenants to provide medical certificates that they even have the Corona virus? they may just have a cold or the flu. none of these illnesses last three months, so why a three month rent holiday! i hope his landlord kicks him out!

From: Suzy OShea 05 March 2020 13:16 PM

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All their cuckoos have come home to roost!

From: Suzy OShea 03 February 2020 10:36 AM

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Most holiday letting platforms take adverts at face value with no inspections at all. this can often result in the clients getting scammed and the letting site has no control, so inspections by councils to ensure such properties meet the minimum health and safety standards such as gas safety certificates, carbon monoxide alarms in rooms with boilers and gas hobs, smoke alarms in other parts of the house. regarding 'party houses' advertised on Air bnb, unless their nearest neighbours are half a mile away, these should be shut down with heavy fines. Business rates ought to be charged on Air bnb and other holiday properties in any case. So Air BnB benefits the local economy does it? Well hardly! Most people who have second homes in the country arrive from town having visited a supermarket en route. they hardly support their local shops because these offer less choice and their prices are higher. Local, long-term tenants do support the local economy.

From: Suzy OShea 17 January 2020 08:08 AM

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Well, if this extra government funding was only announced last Friday, 3/01/20, and the deadline to apply for it has already passed by Wednesday 9/1/20, then it is yet another example of this dishonest government's promises to help tenants. as with all their other promises which were just lies to fool the electorate!

From: Suzy OShea 09 January 2020 12:04 PM

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Ros Beck, Well said. Tenants with pets who rent any property that is a single dwelling must pay more rent to the landlord for taking out pet insurance to cover pest eradication and damage to furniture, carpets etc. House of multiple occupation are entirely unsuitable to accommodate tenants with pets. So if LLs don't want to be obliged to take in pets HMO is the way to go, if you can face the nannying service required!

From: Suzy OShea 04 January 2020 14:34 PM

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Paul Barrett, So true!

From: Suzy OShea 04 January 2020 05:16 AM

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Paul Barrett, Totally well said. Then we need a rogue tenants register data base which will allow LL to check any wrong-doing by the prospective tenant! perhaps if theirbad behaviour had really bitter consequences like being left homeless for monthson end these feckless tenants would change their life-styles and become more responsible for their debts and better, quieter and cleaner neighbours!

From: Suzy OShea 04 January 2020 05:13 AM

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I bet if they want to buy a flashy hand bag for £1500 they soon find the money then or don't care about the level of interest they pay on any card. Compare these interest rates to what everyone will be paying on their overdrafts come mid-March, when the EU banking regulations force interest rates up to nearly 40% and many businesses rely on their overdraft credit lines periodically. So this will stifle small business growth. why are we following this EU banking rule when we shall be leaving the EU on 31 January? Why are borrowing costs this high anyway when the base interest rate is just 1.5% and if you deposit your spare cash with the bank they give you a ridiculous 0.10%? The banks are free to screw everyone. This government needs to sort them out after brexit. They continue to be robbing banksters!

From: Suzy OShea 04 January 2020 01:05 AM

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totally idiotic abuse of powers to the detriment of provision of housing for tenants, probably motivated by jealous little jobsworths!

From: Suzy OShea 04 January 2020 00:42 AM

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I wonder what interest rate Ome charges the tenant to provide a deposit?

From: Suzy OShea 03 January 2020 09:57 AM

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In my AST it states that tenants must be prepared to do small jobs which any reasonable person would do. This covers changing ordinary light bulbs and staying at home to let in workmen to fix more serious repairs. They are also required to report faults immediately. I also employ a weekly cleaner who keeps a watch on the property.

From: Suzy OShea 01 January 2020 00:36 AM

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Can anyone be surprised at this award? look at the knighthood IDS is being given who as the architect of Universal Credit managed to triple the numbers of homeless people!

From: Suzy OShea 30 December 2019 11:56 AM

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Paul Barrett, Good advice. This banning order is good news since it is a step in the right direction. Will the local council now take charge of his properties and run them for him? I can't see that they will make his tenants homeless!

From: Suzy OShea 19 December 2019 10:36 AM

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Another half-baked idea from fluff-head Boris Johnson! All he cares about is winning votes no matter what the cost and the idiocy of the idea. How about making defaulting on rent a crime comparable to theft! How about making causing malicious damage to a landlord and other tenants equivalent to criminal vandalism and an imprisonable offence! Then we would not need no fault or any type of evictions because the bad tenants would be in prison. We might need more prisons though!

From: Suzy OShea 21 November 2019 08:12 AM

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Another example of a botched policy with the government playing catch up with their own standards. Dismantle it.

From: Suzy OShea 05 November 2019 00:26 AM

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The 'public' is happy with 'open Season' declared on PRS!!!!!!! Its just another example of our riven soCiety, which Brexit has and continues to fuel for any fool who looks no further than The divisive rabble-rousing headlines of the tax-dodging Tory media, some of whose owners live on off-shore tax-havens!

From: Suzy OShea 04 November 2019 15:52 PM

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@ S I Certain mortgage companies give mortgages to HMOs. So there is no need to let individual rooms and impair your mortgage conditions.

From: Suzy OShea 20 October 2019 17:00 PM

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From: Suzy OShea 20 October 2019 16:56 PM

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Good riddance to bad rubbish! I took out a package for over £400 with Upad a few years ago and they did not find me a single tenant. i found my own. But they refused to re-imburse me for their total lack of service. So this failure does not surprise me at all. Its no more than they deserve!

From: Suzy OShea 14 October 2019 07:29 AM

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Steve Sykes, i'm not sure. boris of the unmade bed head is equally appalling. parliament was open for six days and he suffered six defeats. He kicked out 21 of his own MPs and a further five crossed the floor to the Lib-Dems in protest at his blustering lies about Brexit being great for our economy, when all government reports only promise dislocation, disruption and disaster! as the head of a minority government, he could see Labour combine with other opposition parties to take over the agenda. They don't even need a general election to pass their more radical policies under a lame duck Conservative maladministration. If brexit ever comes to pass, I don't think the people will be very forgiving of Boris and I think a hung parliament is all he can hope for, sadly or not, because i think he is awful, even though I have been a life-long Conservative party supporter.

From: Suzy OShea 23 September 2019 14:58 PM

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The miniscule carrots offered as incentives in the above post are too tiny to consider appropriate compensation for all the work that goes into running a property. How such a move will affect the market is that badly needed property for families like flats and houses will suddenly be registered as houses of multiple occupation, where the multiple tenants have neither the motive nor the means to consider buying a property. How will this help families who are already struggling to find homes to rent? It won't! We all know why Mrs thatcher started the fire sale of council properties to council tenants. it was because years of under-investment by over a decade of Labour maladministrations had left most of them in such parlous condition that only encouraged repeated vandalism by the off-spring of such council tenants and Mrs T was not prepared to raid the tax-payers to pay for their refurbishment, which anyway would only have been a temporary situation. So she decided to cut government losses and sell which turned out to be a wise and popular move and turned around many grotty and dodgy areas with sink council estates. And after such a record of under-investment the Labour and to some extent the Conservative parties have the impertinence to accuse private landlords of not maintaining their properties, when they were the first to do this. What hypocritical cheats promising anything and totally distorting the truth to bribe their way into voters good books! Were it not for the often arduous and risky investment of private landlord with small or moderate portfolios the level of homelessness would be even higher than the staggering 400,000 across the country. This is because in the supposedly 7th wealthiest nation in the world governments of all political stripes have fled their duty to provide social housing to the most needy! Shame on them. So now having sold the family silver of their stocks of council estates, often to provide councils with the money for the daily running costs of their other services, since central government has cut their funding to the marrow, now the big idea in town is let's rob the poor private landlords of their property and force them into the same fire sale! Just shows in reality what politicians of all parties think of the economic effects of brexit that no government will have any money to give away to bribe voters, they have to do it on the back of hard working private landlords who are on-call 24/7 for any emergency any mindless irresponsible tenant might cause even out of jealousy that he has to pay rent for housing! Why are some British council tenants not more house proud of and socially responsible for the estates where they live? these their homes after all. You don't find this level of neglect in social housing in Austia. They have rules which they have to follow and they do. their council estates look like luxury blocks of flat in comparison to some of ours. this has been so since the 1980s. It always amazes me that young people boosted up the council housing queue and awarded a council property can even think of turning it into a crack producing and drug dealing den! Then they wind up homeless and on the streets, small wonder having wasted their opportunities. As far as i'm concerned i'll fight to keep what is mine, small though my port-folio is.

From: Suzy OShea 23 September 2019 12:37 PM

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I wonder what the terms of their so-called selective licensing are, which are on top of the mandatory HMO licenses?

From: Suzy OShea 16 September 2019 13:16 PM

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Agreed. Absolutely clueless! I've had good tenants stay for years after their initial contracts have expired and i have not even increased their rents to cover inflation because good tenants are worth their weight in gold. The idea however of discounting a tenancy from the initial asking price after the initial six months is utterly ridiculous! rents are currently keenly priced and the landlord has to have the flexibility to raise the rents if the interest rate rises, or the service charges are increased by more than the rate of annual inflation, which official figures invariably underestimate because they factor in things like bargain offers on holidays. Yep! We all include one of those in our monthly budgets don't we! Again this article is nonsense!

From: Suzy OShea 22 August 2019 15:23 PM

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Again, typical politician: promising mountains and delivering molehills. On the subject of pests in properties: central London is plagued by cockroaches. It has to be a team effort to get rid of these pests, which require regular monthly visits by pest exterminators who spray the floors and skirting boards of the properties. That means tenants need to arrange not only for access but to make sure that their flats are tidy and clean! That their food is stored in plastic or metal containers which allow no access to either cockroaches or rodents! That their standards of food preparation and clearing up directly after preparing food are faultless to leave nothing for the pests to eat. that they remove food waste daily for the same reason! That they don't buy mountainous bags of rice, popular amongst families of Indian/Asian heritage, cheaply from Uncle Ali and leave these to attract and bring in even more pests! I wonder how many of these tenants afflicted by pests can claim high levels of hygiene in food preparation! When I started in this business some 30 years ago, you could usually rely on tenants to keep the properties clean and tidy! Now, I makes sure that i 'provide' a weekly cleaner just to stop my property from getting wrecked. And don't even get me started on properties affected by bed bug infestations! these cost a fortune to eradicate!

From: Suzy OShea 20 August 2019 08:15 AM

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So obviously, 10,000 rogue landlords is a figment of their electoral imagination! This speaks well of the PRS!

From: Suzy OShea 20 August 2019 08:00 AM

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i don't care what this fascist government implements! I'll rent to whom I choose!

From: Suzy OShea 20 August 2019 07:54 AM

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Paul Barrett, I agree it ought to be. Supplying fake details on your CV is also a fraudulent crime! It seems employers are legally protected better than landlords, who everyone loves to hate and villify! Suzy

From: Suzy OShea 11 July 2019 00:26 AM

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Barry X, Sorry, I agree only in part with your assessment. For more than 15 years now, licensing of HMOs has been a legal requirement of certain properties which can house more than a limited number of tenants. For a landlord to wilfully ignore council commands, never mind requests to register his property as an HMO is idiotic, unless of course he wants to rent it out as a single dwelling! This obviously is not the case. In fact, Leon Hill can consider himself extremely lucky to have such a low fine, when the court could have imposed a fine of £20,000 alone., with all of the court costs and subsidiary fines on top. So the court far from being unsympathetic to Leon Hill, has in point of fact shown moderation in the application of its fine. Furthermore, as a landlord of HMOs, I can attest that councils require landlords to install smoke, fire alarms and sprinkler systems, 30 minute-resistant fire doors, and require modifications to kitchens, understairs cupboards etc! So if Hill has paid the fines and now agreed to fulfil his obligations by licensing his property and making the required changes, then this is not just a money extortion exercise. Hill brings private landlords into disrepute by obdurately flouting the law!

From: Suzy OShea 10 July 2019 12:05 PM

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Barry X, Io think you are misinformed about banning rent rises for three to five years. Rents can rise by the official cost of libing/inflation figures but not more, even if the tenant vacates within the three-year rental period and you find a new tenant, you can't raise rents by more than the annual rates of inflation.

From: Suzy OShea 01 July 2019 02:32 AM

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They do if they are on benefits: forced loan by the councils of six weeks rent whilst they sort out the admin. Then the rent is usually paid to the tenant directly and that's when they move out having defrauded the benefits Housing Department Office, the local tax-payers and the landlord. So some tenants are already asking us to pay their rent! Wakey wakey! Best not to take anyone on benefits. Sorry but this is the sad reality!

From: Suzy OShea 28 June 2019 13:01 PM

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Yup! And this government has not been giving value for money for years! i'd say time they were turfed out except that Corbyn and his gang are worse!

From: Suzy OShea 28 June 2019 12:50 PM

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Paul Barrett, I like both of your comments! This conservative maladministration started the the war and theft of LLs in the PRS. we would only be defending our livelihoods if we took the action you recommended! The only problem would be if a non-paying tenant would squeal! and i can see them doing that often! So, i think you are right. Its time to get out. This is what happens when Conservative ministers turn into Labour. they then make Labour even more extreme!

From: Suzy OShea 19 June 2019 17:07 PM

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S I And that was in a situation where the LL was officially living on the premised. Did he get rid of them after the three week notice period for lodgers?

From: Suzy OShea 18 June 2019 13:56 PM

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Sorry! The government has created this terrible situation by cutting housing benefits and insisting that the tenant must be at least two months in rent areas before they will entertain the idea of paying the landlord directly! Housing benefits offices themselves take between six weeks to two months from the submission of the claim to payments! The housing benefits departments effectively force loans on ndlords

From: Suzy OShea 13 June 2019 00:20 AM

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Arnie Newington, That was exactly what happened when a Labour government took similar action in the 60s. you would think that the Conservatives, the party of business and enterprise, formerly, would have remembered that lesson!

From: Suzy OShea 04 June 2019 10:43 AM

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Try National Landlords Association!

From: Suzy OShea 03 June 2019 17:59 PM

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I could say Worse about some English tenants. every nation produces shit!

From: Suzy OShea 02 June 2019 22:41 PM

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The government is quite happy with this sell-off. They'll get their hands on some serious tax money with the Capital Gains Tax to be paid, rather than the smaller amounts coming to them annually. The price of property will sink somewhat in the sell-off and those who buy whether residents or larger corporations that will take over the PRS will set it on a more 'professional' basis and charge accordingly.

From: Suzy OShea 02 June 2019 17:23 PM

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Much as i love animals, I definitely think tenants living in shared accommodation should have no right to keep them. Its cruel to the animals which sometimes get left behind when the tenant moves on! i had that happen in my house. If the tenant is renting a whole house and garden, then this is between the landlord and tenant. perhaps you could apply two deposits one for the tenant and one for the pet for which the tenant has to stand guarantor and pay!

From: Suzy OShea 31 May 2019 08:07 AM

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In the past two years businesses have been failing at record levels. obviously you have a trust fund parked in an off-shore tax-haven, so you don't care about a wrecked economy! Very few are in that fortunate position! perhaps you ought to look at the current economic problems and the even larger threatening economic problems a no deal departure would cause from the point of view of the majority and not the few who can ride out such turbulent times! that is what your advocacy of no deal departure promises, and even the MPs know this which is why they have quashed it. I hope you read your post before sending it. Such choice phrases like 'plunder the skilled workers of the world'. one would almost think you want to bring back the British empire. because this is a reverse form of colonialism! one of the reasons why we don't have enough British workers trained, skilled or unskilled is because like all western countries Britain has not been breeding at replacement levels. Furthermore, because having children is delayed by 10-15 years or more beyond a child-bearing age to produce healthy children, much of the stock is weak and sickly and will always depend on welfare to survive! the fact that they have welfare that allows them to idle their time away will only encourage them not to make the effort to learn whilst at school to achieve some qualifications to improve their lives and make a contribution to society.

From: Suzy OShea 31 May 2019 07:56 AM

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Paul Barrett, Well if you haven't noticed all the business failures in the past three years, with British Steel in Scunthorpe shutting, loss of 25,000 jobs and jamie oliver's restaurant chain shutting, loss of 1,300 jobs in the past week alone, then you must be walking around with blinkers and ear muffs on! Britain was doing OK before we joined the common market as it was called in 1973, was it? Almost bankrupt, riven by industrial strife, reduced by the powers workers' and miners' strike to a three day working week and burning candles and oil lamps in the evenings. that in your opinion is doing well is it for a civilised industrialised society? For shame! What hypocrisy! It was the impending bankruptcy of Britain that drove Ted Heath to be prepared to pool some of Britain's sovereignty, to join the Common Market! And he was right so to do, even though he knew that eventually the plan was to produce a federalist state of Europe, which by the way, still has not yet happened some 43 years later! So you believe in the sunny uplands of Britain as an economic independent state do you? i suppose you believe in the tooth fairy and unicorns too! I can tell you that the rebellion of so many MPs in Parliament against a 'no deal' departure means that it is as they say massively detrimental to Britain's economic survival! They don't want Britain to wind up like Greece where at the height of the financial crisis old pensioners lost half their pensions and many committed suicide because they had no way out! You in your brexiteer extremism don't care what the consequences will be. Well, if you are so worried about pooling sovereignty to advance good causes you had better promote rescinding britain's membership of the United Nations and all the joint treaties we have signed with other nations! Ban the free movement of Labour! It was just this source of plentiful, educated, motivated and moderately priced labour that helped with Britain's economic well being for the past two decades! it also helped to prevent the resurgence of union power which Maggie Thatcher did much to undermine with laws banning secondary picketing and requiring a vote of the members before a strike could be called. So we leave, labour becomes more scarce and the unions will resurge again. I don't think that is a good result for our society. That way anarchy and chaos lie! You have spoken of the benefits of reducing the arrivals of immigrants/migrants to Britain. Well, I've seen a reduction of migrants from the EU from 298,000 to a mere 50,000 last year, which you would welcome, except that their places have been taken by blow-ins from all over the world, with almost no control since the numbers of their arrivals have risen from a steady 300,000 to 561,000. How is this controlling our borders with your points based plan? And don't even get me started on the water taxis Britain's coast guard is forced to run to save the sinking boat people from camps like what used to be called the Jungle just outside Calais! Do you think these illegal immigrants, who obviously respect no laws and havew been forced to live live animals through desperation, do you think they are going to suddenly turn into hardworking law abiding citizens? Well, let me disabuse you of that notion immediately. I saw a video of just such an immigrant from Africa to Germany. He was already a criminal and he said that they were all in Germany to milk the system until it was destroyed and commit as much crime as possible. Why do you think AfD - Alternative for Germany is so popular? So instead of having some 298,000 hard working European migrants bolstering our economy both with their work and their taxes, we now have 561,000 blow-ins, most of whom are either direct drains on the exchequer or engaging in criminal activity and drug dealing! Good policy change that!!! Your points system works in Australia because geographically they are remote, and they are also prepared to imprison illegal immigrants in camps on Papua New Guinea, which earns well from the arrangement. Can you imagine what all the bleeding-heart liberals would say if we did the same with our illegals and kept them locked up on the Outer Hebridies? There would be demonstrations daily on the streets of London! So you care as little about the will of most of the Northern Irish to remain part of Britain as you do about the welfare of the British economy, including the welfare of the private rented sector. Well I think I know what most landlords on here will think of your ideas, that they are extremist brexshit. No one with half a brain cell would support Nigel Farage for PM without knowing a single thing about his policies! Your ideas are dangerous and its because there is such a vociferous minority that support brexit that Britain is in this mess!

From: Suzy OShea 30 May 2019 20:58 PM

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Did some idiot on here actually describe Nigel Farage as a business man? LOL! that blustering fraud cares only for himself. if he cared about business he would not have put his country through three years of economic depression! Especially in the property sector! And these dolts can vote! Promoting Nigel Farage politically is like turkeys voting for the advance of Christmas!

From: Suzy OShea 30 May 2019 17:28 PM

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My experience has been that i have had to halve the amounts I request for deposits because people who live in HMOs are not rich and often can't afford two months rent. So I either have to reduce the rent or the deposit, which is not mine anyway! I am dead against insurance companies trying to milk this vulnerability and satisfying no one!

From: Suzy OShea 29 May 2019 22:49 PM

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S I This was back in 2010 so no legal minimums banning box rooms then. The students drew lots as to which room they would get and there were reduced rents for the smaller rooms, as the people in the larger rooms paid more rent. however, even back then it was a legal requirement to have smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, which were not in the flat. i could have caused that LA a great deal of trouble but then it would have rebounded on the 'kids'.

From: Suzy OShea 28 May 2019 14:56 PM

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Sounds like you'll be fine Paul.

From: Suzy OShea 28 May 2019 11:49 AM

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Especially as they might want to go home for the long summer vacation!

From: Suzy OShea 28 May 2019 11:39 AM

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Paul Barrett, Good luck with the turf wars with your lodgers in your own home! Still you can get rid of them after three weeks notice!

From: Suzy OShea 28 May 2019 11:37 AM

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Steve Sykes, Yes, i would have refused to take it but my name was not on the TA, five other names were including my son's. When I spoke to him about it his excuse was that they had had great difficulty finding a flat that could accommodate five of them! So they had chosen this one out of inertia or the difficult logisitcs of getting five people to meet and view at the same time. The LA know this and take full advantage! To cap it all, my son who is 6ft 5” talk had what looked to me like the "broom cupboard" or the child's room! Great!

From: Suzy OShea 28 May 2019 03:46 AM

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Yes, my son moved into such a student shared flat in Mornington Crescent five years ago. The whole group moved into what was supposed to be a thoroughly cleaned flat. All I can say is that the cleaner must have been blind! I would not even have shown a flat in that filthy condition, never mind let it. So I put my team of cleaners in and got the toilet bowl white again and they did several maintenance jobs, like blocking a large hole in the wall in the bathroom next to the sewage stack, which was probably rodent alley for the block, treating damp and mould found in one of the rooms when they moved the wardrobe to clean behnd it. that would have affected the health of the young lad staying there and my son had the room next door. The oven was sand-blasted to get rid of all the burnt in grease and the fridge thoroughly cleaned and I had a smoke alarm and a carbon dioxide monitor fitted since there was no door between the kitchen and the only means of escaping the flat in the event of a fire. There were more things, but i shall not go on! Clearly the LA was failing in his duty of adhering to health and safety standards. My efforts cost me some £500 but it was worth it to know that the flat that my son was sharing was safe and clean. When they left, I put my cleaners in again and it cost £160 for a quicker job, which the families of the students were happy to pay because there was no objection to returning their deposits in full from the LA!

From: Suzy OShea 27 May 2019 10:32 AM

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The tenants in my properties like the services I provide such as cleaning, Sky tv and super fast internet. But then most of my properties are HMOs where very little collective responsibility exists.

From: Suzy OShea 27 May 2019 09:42 AM

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Sean Moore, Did you have to pay the £1,000 to pay for HMO registration? Suzy

From: Suzy OShea 27 May 2019 00:19 AM

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Its also despicable theft of Cameron's Conservative government to rule out that private landlords can no longer deduct interest payments from their profits. Every other business can do this except private landlords, because the governments want to drive us out of the market. They only want corporate landlords who will have to pay them Corporation tax and capital gains tax. so they are making the housing crisis much worse for the tenants.

From: Suzy OShea 27 May 2019 00:10 AM

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I have long since given up on expecting tenants to properly clean their rooms on departure or even during the week. This is why I employ weekly cleaners in my properties who also inspect the properties weekly rather than every two to three months. a lot of damage can occur in two to three months.

From: Suzy OShea 27 May 2019 00:00 AM

Suzy OShea
Jonathan Ash, Thank your for your contribution. Since the tenant signs the tenancy agreement agreeing to all of its terms and conditions, then that is a legally binding document between us. Otherwise what is the point of contract law? By signing the agreement the tenant agrees to accept these documents in PDF format sent by e-mail. The tenants signature is witnessed by my manager, whilst my signature is already on the page and has already been witnessed. I've signed up to do more courses this summer. You have given me an idea about including a clause to protect the activities of my cleaner/manager who is often at the house daily during the week, and even on week ends if she is showing rooms. This means that the house is well cleaned and maintained, but someone might get funny about it! What is N5?

From: Suzy OShea 25 May 2019 13:43 PM

Suzy OShea
Well what a nice advert Ms Griffiths has given us. She is hardly partial now is she? What she fails to acknowledge is that there are more rogue letting agents in this unregulated market than there are rogue landlords! last year, I attended a very useful National Landlords association course, during which it was stated that Landlords are entirely responsible for the errors of letting agents. that is the legal position! So since we are legally responsible for our own properties, which is only just, what is the point of paying vast up front management fees of 10-15% of the annual rent, when their varying levels of expertise and effort provide landlords with no legal protection? Better to make the effort to keep up with the legislation yourselves, chore though it is, and keep a copy of the current gas safety certificate on the notice board in the house or include a clause in your contract which stipulates that the tenant is happy to receive all the bonus documents, right to rent, EPC, current gas safety certificate in electronic format to their e-mail, along with their AST contract.

From: Suzy OShea 25 May 2019 10:57 AM

Suzy OShea
What business model does not regard the product it provides as a cash cow or a source of profit. We provide accommodation. We do not have charitable status since we are not running charities. So we have to have a secure business model that is profitable. Considering how many tenants can steal rent from landlords by not paying and walk away with impunity, if the landlord is lucky enough that they do just walk away within a couple of months, renting out property is a risky business. I, for one, have always managed my own properties and never used the thieving services of fraudulent agents, who charge money to inspect the property at the end of each tenancy which ought to be part of their management job for which the landlord pays them 10-15% of the rent! So i am glad about the fees ban. i am not glad about the idea of indefinite tenancies and neither are many tenants who often just want to rent for three to six months because they plan to buy somewhere! So how does giving such people a year's contract with a six-month break clause after which they can give a months notice help these tenants? It does not. Getting rid of no fault evictions will make getting rid of troublesome tenants much more costly since it will require court action now and witness statements from co-habiting tenants, which are as rare as hens' teeth, even though the complaints may be legion! And yet landlords are expected to police and evict tenants who engage in anti-social behaviour! What a ridiculous joke! Lets face facts: no landlord would want to get rid of any tenant who pays his rent on time, cleans up after himself and allows his neighbours to live quietly without disturbance! No marginal increase in rent is worth risking getting a tenant of variable reliability! So no fault evictions like no fault divorces are the landlords' only cost effective defence at getting rid of troublesome tenants. So without better safeguards for landlords to enable them to ditch troublesome tenants in the usual two month notice period, only companies with large profits and deep pockets will be able to shoulder this risk. Once such corporate landlords have cornered the market watch rents rise beyond your wildest dreams and watch the referencing requirements rise too. How will that help young people who have just moved to an area to take up work who have not yet established connections in that area? It won't, so once again interference by bleeding-heart ignorant liberals will make it even more difficult for young people to become independent. What this country needs is more council housing to provide moderately priced HOMES for settled families who want to live in an area and have security of tenure! The right to buy, whilst enriching some has impoverished the majority because governments whether right or left wing no longer want to shoulder this social burden! Well done fools!

From: Suzy OShea 24 May 2019 16:44 PM

Suzy OShea
yBefore the introduction of assured shorthold tenancies, it was very difficult to find properties to rent. If you had children your were almost forced to buy because no landlord would take you into their properties. Does this so-called Conservative government, the former party of business, want to see a return to that scenario? Even with section 21, it still takes two months to regain the bhproperty, which gives the tenant another two months of non-payment and far too long an opportunity to do even mote damad

From: Suzy OShea 23 May 2019 17:23 PM

Suzy OShea
This analysis is totally true! My business in London and the south west has been suffering for the past two years. Paul Barrett, You obviously don't know much about the East End of London, if you think that benefits-cushioned Brits will rise off their comfy sofas or beds at dawn to do menial jobs like cleaning! When it comes to competition for jobs, how come migrants who have to compete for expensive housing in London can undercut the established residents of London, already in cheaper accommodation, such as council flats or even houses? They can only do this if there is already a gap in the market which the migrants can fill, As they have been doing for centuries. That means many poor Londoners had long ago given up such jobs! Just as they no longer wanted to work for London Transport as bus drivers and conductors in the 50s and 60s which was why so many West Indians were recruited and imported to keep London Transport running. This is not new! From the 12th to the 14th centuries it was the Flemmish weavers who were imported and protected by the English kings, in the 17th and 18th centuries, it was the French huguenots. So London has always been a magnet for foreigners, and always richer for it!

From: Suzy OShea 16 May 2019 15:37 PM

Suzy OShea
Threatening to raise rents to cover lost fees is a double-edged sword and will only work as far as the market can bear it.

From: Suzy OShea 14 May 2019 17:38 PM

Suzy OShea
Dave Renfrew, Can you say why please?

From: Suzy OShea 14 May 2019 04:04 AM

Suzy OShea
Can't see the government raising UC by £100 per month!

From: Suzy OShea 09 May 2019 13:22 PM

Suzy OShea
However, if the councils have grants to help improve properties and then make the landlords be prepared to take in a tenant on a lower income, that could also help some landlords to improve the quality of their stock.

From: Suzy OShea 09 May 2019 08:29 AM

Suzy OShea
One aspect of the new changes to the tax system which could impact on the quality of properties dropping is that as a landlord you are only allowed to repair like for like and claim that as a taxable expense that year. If you actually go further and improve the facilities of your property for the tenants, you have to wait until you sell the property and claim improvement costs against your CGT liability. So now we really see the sincerity of this government in trying to improve conditions for tenants. They lie as soon as they open their mouths!

From: Suzy OShea 08 May 2019 14:33 PM

Suzy OShea
Mark Sesum, i agree with your points entirely. this 'report' is an insult to everyone's intelligence. And when they mentioned 'domestic hygiene' i really laughed. Who do they think is responsible for domestic hygiene except the tenants living there. Some are good and some obviously grew up in a pig-sty. That is why I employ cleaners on a weekly basis to keep control of the situation and prevent the arrival of vermin. sometimes even my efforts are defeated but I keep trying! And as for the comment about stairs, well perhaps landlords ought to erect ''baby-gates' on the landings to stop tenants falling down the stairs. What arrant nonsense. As for properties on offer on the Air BnB website: you can consider yourself fortunate if you get into the place on time and find it in good condition. a place i rented in central brussels four years ago had its wooden bed frame supported by a couple of bent forks! Consequently, when i sat on it, it collapsed. No money was ever refunded for my cancelled stay, neither by the owner no Air B n B. its my guess that all the unscrupulous landlords will head straight to Air B n B thus giving London a terrible reputation amongst tourists.

From: Suzy OShea 08 May 2019 14:16 PM

Suzy OShea
more scare-mongering! Its open season on private landlords because this maladministration is morally and politically bankrupt and facing annihilation at the next general election! May is more crooked than her crook back!

From: Suzy OShea 07 May 2019 14:04 PM

Suzy OShea
Andre, I'm glad to hear that your appeal was successful. this is not reflected in the article which makes it rather worthless and a spurious scare-mongering tactic. I wonder who believes that they would benefit from such a policy. Certainly not tenants.

From: Suzy OShea 06 May 2019 16:51 PM

Suzy OShea
I hope that your appeals are successful. It amazes me how councils who are supposed to ease the housing crisis can be so obstructive! this I believe is due to the signals that the Conservative Party has sent out that it is open season on landlords in the private rented sector. Its the last ditch appeal of a morally and politically bankrupt maladministration which wants to pretend to be more 'caring' and left wing than New Labour! No wonder Corby and MacDonald are pushed to socialist extremes, their own centre ground has been invaded by lying May!

From: Suzy OShea 06 May 2019 15:30 PM

Suzy OShea
This sounds like good news. I'll be putting it to the test in the next month and will let you all know how fictitious something called an average rent can be!

From: Suzy OShea 06 May 2019 12:18 PM

Suzy OShea
Paul Barrett, If you keep records of energy usage and you stipulate in the contract the minimum amount of energy usage required to keep the property mould-free. And the tenant still does not comply with these terms, which you can prove, then you would even be able to use a Section 8 to evict the tenant for destructive vandalism!

From: Suzy OShea 04 May 2019 17:52 PM

Suzy OShea
Hi Paul, I do the same! It has its rewards in unfathomable ways.

From: Suzy OShea 04 May 2019 16:32 PM

Suzy OShea
Paul Barrett, I totally agree with your comment above. Young people have more temptations, which advertising constantly pushes in their faces and fewer resources to pay for them. They are the first generation to grow up with the instant gratification of the internet. Small wonder then, if they have not developed required life skills, like thift, patience and perseverence! Whose fault is that? Their parents bear some blame too! Yes, everyone needs to be computer literate because this is our world today, but there are always losses and gains and consequences!

From: Suzy OShea 04 May 2019 16:19 PM

Suzy OShea
It depends what you put in the contract. I think perhaps it is more difficult for you because you are letting out single units or flats. mine is an HMO and all the tenants welcomed the fact that the house was regularly cleaned more often than once a week. However, as I said, if you include it as a regular weekly service and it is stipulated that they will provide unimpeded access to your weekly cleaner, provided that she comes at a regular time, no one can object to this and if they do well then you already know their quality and can head off future trouble by refusing to take them into you flat.

From: Suzy OShea 04 May 2019 15:40 PM

Suzy OShea
That is a risk which i combat in two ways: by placing a monthly limit on the amount of utilities for which I pay, £40 per month, per room, which is more than adequate to cover heating costs. Nonetheless, it makes them aware and they waste less energy! I am also blessed with the services of a wonderful 'house angel' who pops in daily to make sure everything is clean and tidy and no one is heating for the world. its an added cost but its worth it for the damage it prevents and other savings.

From: Suzy OShea 04 May 2019 15:02 PM

Suzy OShea
And said the voice from the darkened room in Westmonster, whilst we overload councils with all these rules let's cut their resources so that they don't have the money to implement them properly, so that will protect all of our MPs who are also private landlords.

From: Suzy OShea 04 May 2019 14:53 PM

Suzy OShea
What a terrible situation! And if tenants are paying their own utilities bills they won't open windows and won't heat adequately so mould develops. That's why I charge a higher rent and include utility bills to make sure that the place is properly heated and ventilated.

From: Suzy OShea 04 May 2019 14:46 PM

Suzy OShea
Tony's idea is sound. most industries have their lobbyists, why not landlords in the PRS. Furthermore, many MPs are also landlords so I don't see why we think that they are clueless! the only clueless politician at the moment is our PM Theresa May, who is trying to garner votes from generation rent with her clueless attacks on landlords. The Help to buy schemes help a bit, but short of that the only way youngsters are going to be able to afford a home is if they start small or in a cheaper area than they would typically want, build equity and move on from there! That is the way our parents got on the housing ladder and moved up.

From: Suzy OShea 04 May 2019 12:51 PM

Suzy OShea
I'm not sure that is a legal requirement if the owner resides overseas where british law does not run!

From: Suzy OShea 03 May 2019 16:57 PM

Suzy OShea
Paul Barrett, i shall try to discuss some of your points without lowering my debating style to the hostile and insulting style you have chosen to adopt. 1. When you write about S24 would you by any chance be referring to this benighted administration's paltry vote catching attempt to kill Section 21 which allowed landlords to regain possession of their properties within two months? isn't it typical of brexiteers that they always get their facts wrong? 2. On the one hand you state that the arrival of job-seekers from EU countries, who are in Britain to improve their prospects through honest work has led to growth in the private rented sector, with which I fully concur. Generally, i have found such tenants to be reliable and pleasant, both in paying their rents in a timely manner and in helping to maintain the property by reporting problems like mice etc, which a cleaner may not always see. This helps me to find a timely and effective solution! Now veering into the politically incorrect. I would rather house such hard working polite tenants who appreciate the comforts of a well-maintained home, than house some of our nastier home-grown varieties of weeds who come from a tradition of scamming and stealing from landlord and the tax-payers who fund the rental help schemes run by all councils, who treat the property and their neighbours with no respect and who from jealousy, only seek to destroy the environment provided for them in order to cause as much trouble as possible. if this is the variety of tenant with whom you will be sharing your home as lodgers, because you think that a lodger's letting license gives them fewer rights, good luck to you. Your health and sanity, never mind your finances won't last long! On the other hand, you blame the migrants from the EU as being instrumental in the government's decision to crush the section 21 clause! Let me just make one point here clear: itinerant migrant workers are not interested in setting up 'homes' in other people's property. They usually rent a room to keep down costs further so as to maximise their earnings. They can stay for as long as five or more years but ultimately they are ambitious and seek to buy their own property whether in their home countries or in Britain. May's pandering to generation rent is trying to encompass a different client, those who do rent whole properties such as flats or even houses and want greater security than the AST can provide. In that, I can't blame them, since moving is such a stressful chore. In Germany, three year contracts are the norm, with a break clause after one year. Even if the landlord 'benefits' by regaining possession of his property sooner, he can not put up the rent further than any inflationary increase between the start of the rental contract and its termination. Therefore landlords in Germany have no interest in shortening rental contracts or disposing of existing tenants to push up rents. It does not happen. It would be good to introduce such a system into the British rental market rather than making it more difficult to evict troublesome tenants. 3. Now I should like to address the myth of 'uncontrolled' migration from Europe. It always has been a myth since it depends on getting a job. If the economy is buoyant it will attract and employ more migrants. If it is not thriving those migrants will not come in the first place because they have other choices. None that I have met want to sit on social benefits, unlike many native Brits, who sponge off the tax-payers! Having done our best to discourage the migration of industrious, motivated workers from the EU to Britain who are content with moderate wages, though we have seen a huge fall in their numbers from 291,000 per annum in 2016 to a mere 50,000 in 2018, has this in point of fact led to a reduction in total migration to Britain? Far from it! This government has done nothing to impede the rise of immigration from the other four corners of the globe to Britain, since their numbers within two years have risen from the steady 300,000 per annum to 561,000 in 2018, leading to an overall annual increase in immigration from just over half a million a year to a 10% increase in just two years of an extra 50,000 annually, and it has led to an increase in their numbers of 85%. tell me please, how is this government using perfectly legal devices to control immigration to our shores. Do you think such new blow-ins won't be registering with our schools, medical centres and other welfare benefits programmes? Of course they will because that was part of their decision to come to Britain in the first place. There is a far higher portion of these immigrants whose only ambition is to sponge off British tax payers than there ever was amongst the EU migrants. This is due in part to their being housed in depressed areas of Britain where even the native British struggle to find a job, and it is also due to the restrictions placed on them in even seeking work, for which they are given a meagre allowance. Has anyone ever thought of a more stupid scheme: Britain through Brexit discourages fit and healthy young motivated workers who actively contributed to the NI and tax systems to replace these with others who are deliberately kept idle whilst their requests for asylum are reviewed? how is this controlling so-called uncontrolled immigration to Britain? And don't even get me started on the 800,000 illegal immigrants who have arrived in Britain since the French closed the jungle camp in Calais. these will just swell the ranks of homeless criminals and make our streets even more unsafe than they currently are. How Paul Barrett is any of this lack of governance by this fraud of a Conservative government controlling uncontrolled immigration to britain. It does nothing to control it and your dream of a points based system has already been sunk by the reality of the situation! Furthermore, I would be very reluctant to house any of these illegal immigrants from the third world, not only because it is illegal for landlords to do so, thank God, but because many of their cultural norms diverge from European civilised behaviour so far, as to make them impossible to house with 'normal' people! Once again, we see that the Brexiteer lie of wanting to control immigration to Britain has turned to deceitful ash in their mouths and greater crime on our streets for the rest of us to try and avoid. Brexiteers are treasonous wreckers of Britain. Some, were hoodwinked by the deceitful bilge they were sold into voting for this criminally run referendum, which had it had legally binding status would have been struck down for all the criminal corruption of the Leave campaigns! The fact that Britain is saddled with a bloody dishonestly stupid woman who chose to nail her colours to the criminally obtained tiny majority of the vote, but then tries to deliver a secret adhesion agreement in her Withdrawal Agreement is no more than brexiteers deserve. No wonder parliament has rebelled to try and save the economy on which we all depend as the most vital interest to this country! It would be grossly irresponsible of them to do otherwise! 4. You stated that the world does not owe landlords in the PRS a living, with which I agree! we don't seek 'a living from the world' but we do seek a fair playing field for all the work, time, energy and huge financial investment we have put into this sector to provide decent comfortable homes for a fair rate of return, which is our just right. The crushing of section 21 once again tilts the odds against decent responsible landlords so that only the dross and sharks will be left, and they certainly won't be in any mood to repair their properties if Labour wins and rent controls are introduced! Then the price of decent housing will be at a premium because of the scarcity and the rest will just decay into slum dwellings. What a great future for a country which only three years ago was the fifth largest global trading nation!

From: Suzy OShea 02 May 2019 20:45 PM

Suzy OShea
Steve Sykes: On what do you base this statement that Brexit is not the problem. Here are some brexit-related facts that have adversely affected my properties since this benighted referendum: 1. Migration from EU based job-seekers over the passed two years has dropped from 291,000 in 2016 to a mere 50,000 in 2018. 2. This is directly due to the following factors which are all brexit spawned! a) drop in the value of the pound due to brexit uncertainty; b) A more hostile environment in England due to the disgusting xenophobia unleashed by UKIP and brexit leading to numerous documented violent attacks even on foreign women for speaking in a foreign language on their mobiles! Disgraceful. c) Who would want to come to a country and invest years working there only to face possible expulsion after Brexit? This is why numbers of migrants from the EU have dropped from 291,000 in 2016 to a mere 50,000 in 2018. All these brexit-spawned factors have adversely affected my rental business for the past two years! So don't tell me that this downturn has nothing to do with brexit. that is just an idiotic bare-faced lie like so many of the lies spread by Brexit campaigners!

From: Suzy OShea 02 May 2019 16:21 PM

Suzy OShea
The threat of brexit has already driven down demand both in tenants looking for homes in HMOs and for investors. Yet still the so-called housing crisis persists.

From: Suzy OShea 02 May 2019 14:07 PM

Suzy OShea
More examples of how allowing only the market to regulate itself has resulted in profiteering by unscrupulous vendors, who ought never to have been permitted to sell houses without a 999 year lease or free-hold! Its yet another example of the lack of governance from this brexit-blinded maladministration! It would serve the profiteering vendors right if their so-called leases were cancelled and they were forced to provide freehold ownership to all house owners for the perimeter of their property. what happens beyond could then be held in common hold with an annual service charge to be paid by house owners to maintain the road and pavements.

From: Suzy OShea 01 May 2019 14:17 PM

Suzy OShea
Tony Dean, Please let me have the name of your credit checking agency? Please send details to suzyoshea@hotmail.com? Many thanks, Suzy

From: Suzy OShea 30 April 2019 15:23 PM

Suzy OShea
Ms Taylor, There are rogue agents, rogue landlords and a great many rogue tenants. I have had experience of them all, alas! When my son was seeking a shared flat with his student friends, competition was so high in London that the shark agent could demand what they wished. The so-called professional cleaning prior to move in must have been conducted by a blind person, since there was dust on all the skirting boards and electrical sockets, and neither the oven, the fridge freezer nor the toilet, a disgusting shade of dark brown, had been cleaned at all. These were just some of the things I noticed when I fetched the keys for my son. I was appalled that a flat in such a disgusting condition could even have been shown for letting never mind having been successfully let. Being both a responsible landlord and a hovercraft Mum, I put my own team of cleaners and maintenance people in, who took three days of scrubbing the loo to get it white again and also carried out maintenance jobs, like fitting a fire alarm that didn't spring into action at the first sniff of burnt toast, and blocking a large hole in the bathroom where the service pipes were, which was the rodent motorway in the block, and even treating one external damp wall with mould proof plaster, so that neither my son nor his friend would suffer the ill-effects of mould spores. That little house-warming gift to my son cost about £600. When they left, I had to have it done nearly again, because the group had been so neglectful that the loo once again was in a disgusting condition, and the well-intentioned efforts of one of the other mothers who came to help her son clean barely touched the surface. They were not a bad bunch of students but their cleaning roster left much to be desired. So I got my team in again, in order to protect all the students deposits, which were returned in full. What really angered me was that the agent was renting out this flat without the proper safety requirements like fire alarms, carbon monoxide alarms and wanted to charge the students for doing his own job of inspection of the flat. I refused him that since it was his legal duty to inspect the flat which was returned to him in far better condition than the students had received it from him. For my own rental properties, I have them professionally cleaned on at least a weekly basis. My rents are of course higher for this and other services and it takes longer to find tenants but, we always do in the end. Trying to reclaim such costs after the relationship between tenant and landlord has ended, possibly on a sour note, is a fool's errand. better to charge a higher rent for continuous cleaning during the tenancy. You have far fewer surprises that way and maintain the quality of your property because tenants are often reluctant to report faults, especially if they think that they'll bare the blame for that fault and possibly the cost. better to fix the fault quickly before it causes even more damage. however, what in your opinion should be done about rogue tenants, who deliberately don't pay their rent which is stealing and can cause terrible damage to the property before they leave? A national rogue tenants' register would be good, if they don't change their names by deed poll every few years. On the continent all householders are required to register their address with the police. You would be surprised to learn how much responsibility this encourages amongst all house-holders whether tenants or owners. i think that would be a fruitful change for Britain, if we could ever persuade the civil liberties warriors to see the general benefits to society such registration introduces.

From: Suzy OShea 30 April 2019 15:15 PM

Suzy OShea
Normally, i don't agree with a snooper's charter, but in this instance I think that this is correct. The RTB scheme was set up to spread property ownership, which has been hampered among generation rent because of the mismatch between high property prices and depressed wages and banks' lack of willingness to extend borrowing, despite having been largely bailed out with tax-payer funds. So these heavily discounted properties of course will come with restrictions and it is up to the buyer to inform himself of such restrictions before purchasing the property. Usually, his solicitor would have informed him of the restrictions on buying ex-council property. So this is a just policy, especially in rural areas where the housing crisis is even deeper.

From: Suzy OShea 30 April 2019 13:01 PM

Suzy OShea
Dear Retired Agent, If the transgressing agent refuses to pay by declaring bankruptcy, then are the owners of the properties not liable? A seminar of National Landlords Association, indicated that however the appointed agent transgresses, ultimately the landlord is responsible. I think this will have many landlords relying on agents worried.

From: Suzy OShea 23 April 2019 20:46 PM

Suzy OShea
So this couple paid £3,500 for a flat that they did not want but received only £2,000. What happened to the other £1,500. And are they now stuck in a minimum six month tenancy agreement which legally they can't break? So where is the remedy? On the other hand, I'd like to know where as a tenant, you can rent a two-bedroomed flat in Brixton for only £1,400 a month? Tenants need to apply a dose of reality too!

From: Suzy OShea 23 April 2019 15:57 PM

Suzy OShea
James Fraser: which person are you calling a bozo - David Alexander by any chance?

From: Suzy OShea 17 April 2019 01:00 AM

Suzy OShea
There is too much talk of a tenant's home. Yes! Its their home whilst they pay rent in a timely manner and don't abuse the premises by kicking in doors because they stupidly forgot to take their keys with them. Then its up to the land lord to secure the safety of the kicked in front door. When it comes to court for criminal damage the fine was ridiculously low, a mere £20 for the fine and no further action to be taken! Repair costs for the door £220. how does this in anyway discourage the tenant from committing more criminal damage in the future! The law and the punishments are toothless. that is why they are so regularly flouted. i just wonder how efficient this david alexander is as a manager if he thinks that landlords in the private rented sector seek confrontation with their tenants. they most certainly do not! Who needs the aggravation! The confrontation comes when the tenant abuses the landlord by stealing his rent from him - for any other theft, the thief would br facing a criminal record and imprisonment, why aren't these delinquent tenants? Or the tenant abuses the premises of the property and even the other tenants living at the property! That is when there is confrontation, and rightly so! Would shop keepers be criticised for arresting a thief that they found on their premises? They would not, they can even hire security staff to protect their goods and arrest the thieves. Yet landlords must take all the abuse the thieving tenants can throw at them, from rent theft, to abusing other tenants at the property, to criminal damage and any other form of anti-social behaviour, for which he is held responsible, legally! And the landlord can't even gain access to his property without sending written notice 48 hours in advance. he is obliged to take the costly and now increasingly extended route through the courts, when the law ought to be changed to have the tenant in arrears arrested and slung out on his ear and all his worldly goods confiscated in compensation for his rent arrears! That is how the laws ought to be changed, not making an already arduous and costly process for the landlords even more so!

From: Suzy OShea 16 April 2019 10:32 AM

Suzy OShea
This maladministration of May's has proved itself worthless on so many issues. now they just want tenants to carry on robbing landlords blind and make it even more difficult to get rid of them! Disgraceful!

From: Suzy OShea 16 April 2019 00:25 AM

Suzy OShea
Let the government build more hostels to house the homeless, with tiny stuidos as they do in France. let them shoulder this burden, not shove it inot the private rented sector. Many people who are homeless are on the streets for anti-social behaviour such as alcoholism, drug addiction, violence, mental health issues and total disregard for their own hygiene and those of others. They cannot share properties with others because they are anti-social. all the decent tenants will leave your property if you bring in such a hobo! And the damage to your property will be extensive. I know, I've had such an experience in Weymouth at least twice! Don't get involved with this. Wherever they go, they cause trouble and mayhem, and don't look to the police for help because unless there is a dead body, they won't bother to turn up! Yet the landlord is legally ultimately responsible for the anti-social behaviour of their tenants and can be sued. Don't touch these pestillential schemes with a barge pole! Or you wil live to regret it!

From: Suzy OShea 15 April 2019 13:20 PM

Suzy OShea
Yes. they even expect us to be immigration police. but have they posted photos on their benighted government website of the type of documents we are supposed to see? Have they offered any training for the policing they expect us to do! No! They just want this work done for free whilst they kick back with their top whack pensions in off-shore banks. Policing is the duty of the government no the private business wo/man. That's why we pay them tax but they prefer to pour it into bribes to the DUP to extend their worthless political lives! what a corrupt shower this government is!

From: Suzy OShea 15 April 2019 13:08 PM

Suzy OShea
So this from May, who a week after the Genfell tower disaster had to be shamed by the media into actually visiting the grieving, burned out and homeless tenants of Grenfell! Much she cares about tenants! Is this Brokenshire, well named, not the man who loosened building regs so much as to allow substandard materials to be used by contractors which lead to such a loss of lives in Grenfell? Or was that some other ministerial robbing bastard?

From: Suzy OShea 15 April 2019 11:34 AM

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