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David Price

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If the DWP paid the landlord direct then fewer properties would be empty, no need for draconian powers of confiscation.

From: David Price 21 October 2020 07:59 AM

ACORN is " . . a member-led campaigning organisation supporting & empowering low-income communities across the country to fight for a better life." Perhaps all landlords should join ACORN as we are now a low income community thanks to all the government legislation.

From: David Price 09 September 2020 10:45 AM

Will the last landlord switch off all the lights, pay the utility bills, council tax, licencing, check the electrical supply, get gas certificates, buy a begging bowl and join all the deposed tenants sitting in the high street with a mangy dog. No doubt some do-gooder will direct him or her to the nearest foodbank. This government really has lost the plot.

From: David Price 09 September 2020 10:40 AM

Heaven forbid that a wicked landlord should increase the rent to cover additional costs.

From: David Price 07 September 2020 16:55 PM

The one size fits all AST is not ft for all purposes, a fixed term should be binding on both tenant and landlord and should only be extendable by mutual consent. Section 8 is not fit for anythng bar rent arrears and even then it is barely adequate, proving for possession on antisocial behaviour grounds is near impossible. Section 21 was good and would have been fair to everyone with the addition of a free text box giving the reason for possession. If tenants knew that they could be evicted in two weeks for persistent non payment of rent it would focus their minds and I believe considerably reduce antisocial behavior, for the two usually go together.

From: David Price 28 August 2020 19:35 PM

I love the expression"talking out of the wrong end", so apt.

From: David Price 01 August 2020 12:12 PM

"Generation Rent now demands the government should: - promote the Green Homes Grant to private renters with an easy way to access their Energy Performance Certificate and identify potential improvements;" How much easier could it be to access your EPC than going to the web site and entering your postcode. Just shows the lack of knowledge of Generation Rant.

From: David Price 01 August 2020 11:21 AM

By all means let tenants have the right to ask for improvements BUT only when they are completely up to date with their rent. That will focus a few minds.

From: David Price 01 August 2020 11:07 AM

I will never put up "No DSS" signs for I know it should be "No DWP". How can anyone be expected to house people who they know have no obligation to pay? Yes benefit tenants are welcome to come for an interview but they will have to have a property owning guarantor and direct payment from the DWP, in writing, from the outset (before a tenancy is issued) and in perpetuity. Simples.

From: David Price 31 July 2020 11:20 AM

About as tempting as thumbscrews!

From: David Price 24 July 2020 16:15 PM

Who cares about home providers?

From: David Price 24 July 2020 16:08 PM

I was pleased to read on the internet that Shelter is now prepared to act as guarantor for Benefit tenants, a move which gives the charity much needed credence.

From: David Price 24 July 2020 10:16 AM

Come back Peter Rachman, all is forgiven! (For those lacking in education this is intended as an ironic commnet)

From: David Price 22 July 2020 11:52 AM

Let us look at the positives in this. No sane landlord will take benefit tenants - defined specifically as those whose sole income is from benefits - so any such tenant who has a property better stay and behave for they will never get another one.

From: David Price 22 July 2020 11:28 AM

Shelter's attitude may make agents covertly less likely to let to benefit tenants whilst overtly welcoming them.

From: David Price 15 July 2020 08:14 AM

"What do you expect me to do" said the tenant who introduced a large aggressive dog shortly after signing a specific agreement that he was not permitted a pet. "have him put down?" "Yes!"

From: David Price 09 July 2020 10:20 AM

Let us hope that Baroness Altmann starts a trend of realisation that the PRS is actually needed and is good for the country.

From: David Price 09 July 2020 10:07 AM

Many years ago scientists extracted Haemoglobin from fossilised dinosaur bones.

From: David Price 03 July 2020 13:27 PM

balanced, pragmatic; words not in the GR vocabulary.

From: David Price 26 June 2020 09:45 AM

Really cynical Nikki.

From: David Price 19 June 2020 14:40 PM

Abolishing section 21 will mean nobody can rent without a property owning guarantor or rent guarantee insurance, thus excluding most benefit tenants. Is this really what the govenment wants?

From: David Price 01 June 2020 08:02 AM

Landlords improve, tenants trash. It will always be so until there is a penalty for trashing a property, for antisocial behaviour and rent arrears. My motto for tenants 'behave or be homeless'.

From: David Price 27 May 2020 18:05 PM

Rather than cash why do councils not just offer rent guarantee, in full and in perpetuity with no catches and damage guarantee. Let them take the risk.

From: David Price 27 May 2020 18:02 PM

Tenants must be cardeful what they ask for. The age of Neo Rachmanism is not far away.

From: David Price 18 May 2020 11:09 AM

The letter states "Housing, food and medicine are essential for the collective wellbeing of our society - landlords being able to continue to receive rent payments in full is not. " Why single out landlords, surely all food shops including supermarkets and corner shops should supply free food, restaurants should serve their diners without reward and pharmacies supply free medication, government prescription charges should be abolished, private prescriptions should be free. I will forgo my rent when medication and food is free, until then I need the rent in order to feed myself and my family.

From: David Price 13 May 2020 10:34 AM

Busy calculating the new salary of the Chief executive?

From: David Price 05 May 2020 08:33 AM

Expert enough to become the next Housing Minister - on second thoughts perhaps over qualified, after all she did know that there was a surcharge albeit at the wrong rate.

From: David Price 01 May 2020 08:21 AM

we all know that the politicians know best.

From: David Price 08 August 2019 15:46 PM

I spy with my little eye a returning landlord, someone who knows how to deal with tenants and has little regard for the law, welcome back Mr Rachman.

From: David Price 03 August 2019 19:52 PM

It is a shame that Heather Wheeler has now moved away from housing as she was going to solve the homelessness problem.

From: David Price 31 July 2019 07:42 AM

Paul it was intended as an ironic comment,parodying my Sharpe's words, to demonstrate just how stupid it is to expect private landlords to supply property without making a profit.

From: David Price 14 July 2019 10:22 AM

The problem is that Grocers see food as a type of commodity to profit from instead of a human beings right to safe, secure affordable nourishment. Grocers should be forced to sell any additional surplus food they have, set at government price controls. Food should not be provided for profit, but by social enterprise and as food is limited, the government should seize any surplus provisions and use them for those who are in need, instead of the current system that lines its own pockets while children go hungry.

From: David Price 14 July 2019 07:13 AM

Ingenious, I will add this to my application document.

From: David Price 12 July 2019 10:55 AM

Homelessness would be considerably less if all the recent legislation was scrapped and the PRS allowed to get on with the job it does well, providing roofs over heads. Start with scrapping SDLT surcharges and section 24, get rid of that laughable How to Rent booklet and scrap the minimum room size edict, if only temporarily. The latter would provide instantly an extra 177,000 single rooms.

From: David Price 12 July 2019 08:30 AM

Expressed as a percentage I bet there are more MP's fiddling expenses than there are landlords providing substandard accommodation.

From: David Price 12 July 2019 08:18 AM

No need for the little darlings can do no wrong.

From: David Price 12 July 2019 08:15 AM

I do the same, I take no action whatsoever until the completed form - complete in all aspects - is returned to me. I have an 80% failure rate.

From: David Price 11 July 2019 09:47 AM

Anybody who contacts me through property 118 or Landlord Referencing will be sent a copy.

From: David Price 11 July 2019 09:14 AM

Paul I have a five page form for my tenants to complete before I undertake any referencing. It is amazing how many just refuse to even fill in their name (80%) but still expect to move in with no rent and no deposit. They of course do not get any accommodation from me.

From: David Price 11 July 2019 08:53 AM

Oh dear Angus, you have forever ruined your chances of becoming Housing minister for it is a prerequisite for any applicant to have absolutely no idea how the PRS operates.

From: David Price 11 July 2019 08:38 AM

Last week my local Housing Options team told me that it takes only three months to evict a tenant under S21. The last one I attempted took 12 months and two weeks and was only granted after the tenant was rehoused at Her Majesties pleasure.

From: David Price 11 July 2019 06:42 AM

More likely tell the landlord to pay the tenant to take the property off his hands!

From: David Price 06 July 2019 08:58 AM

This is the latest folly in the goverment's series. Everything this government has done to the PRS has resulted in less available accommodation, increased rents, unnecessary bureaucracy, less housebuilding and greater difficulty for benefit tenants to obtain housing. Well done

From: David Price 05 July 2019 08:17 AM

Good work CAB, now perhaps you could start campaigning for the abolition of fees when Owners decide to move, starting with the removal of SDLT.

From: David Price 04 June 2019 08:23 AM

Love the first two comments which echo my sentiments.

From: David Price 22 May 2019 10:16 AM

Zoopla and the RJA should realise that Cloud Cuckoo Land does nor exist.

From: David Price 19 March 2019 05:28 AM

We are entering an era where administrative errors are punished more harshly than deliberate criminal acts. Is this the sort of climate which encourages entrepreneurs?

From: David Price 15 February 2019 09:23 AM

Mr Ludlow was offered the support of the Landlords Alliance and spurned the offer. I am at a loss to explain his attitude which in other circumstances would be called shooting yourself in the foot.

From: David Price 02 February 2019 14:28 PM

I don't see the problem, they can always ask their colleagues for the location of the nearest foodbank.

From: David Price 07 December 2018 10:46 AM

It's 54k now, how many more before the next election?

From: David Price 11 October 2018 09:58 AM

Wish I could like this a hundred times. The NLA and RLA most definitely do not represent me.

From: David Price 05 October 2018 13:39 PM

Do not repay the council. The tenant committed the fraud and legally the tenant has to pay. The council ask you to pray as the ready option.

From: David Price 22 August 2018 15:56 PM

My prospective tenants have complete a ten page form. Most benefit claimants do not get past the first page, they are self eliminating.

From: David Price 22 August 2018 09:03 AM

There is such a register of bad tenants, fully GDPR compliant, which can be found at https://www.landlordreferencing.co.uk

From: David Price 03 August 2018 09:02 AM

This seems to be the modern trend, let the real miscreant get away with minor penalties whilst persecuting others for administrative errors.

From: David Price 22 November 2017 10:16 AM

It is sad that when a government, of any political persuasion, tries to manipulate private enterprise there are always unpredicted consequences. In the case of housing these consequences are and will be catastrophic.

From: David Price 14 August 2017 08:52 AM

If words were cake shelter would never go hungry.

From: David Price 30 July 2017 15:27 PM

For the best part of a decade there has been such a register, all it needs is for landlords and letting agent to use it. www.landlordreferencing.co.uk There is a massive database of good and bad tenants who can be referenced through the site and for the doubters it is fully compliant with Data Protection.

From: David Price 01 July 2017 17:14 PM

There is a word for this sort of reaction but if I used it the moderator would delete my comment.

From: David Price 05 December 2016 16:33 PM

I too have been turned away by Citizens Advice. Scandalous that an organisation there to help all can be allowed to exclude a large sector of society. When a tenant complained to CAB about the dreadful state of the property CAB wrote and then phoned to remonstrate with me but totally ignored the fact that the tenant was six months behind in rent, refusing to even discus the problem with the tenant. Landlords should be aware that CAB do not have the funds to prosecute landlords and as such can be ignored - always provided that you have the moral high ground.

From: David Price 28 October 2016 09:27 AM

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