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John McDonnell 's claim about the street where his £760,000 principal residence is was exposed as a lie by his neighbours . What a fool.

From: Appalled Landlord 25 September 2019 10:36 AM

Very disappointing that Esther McVey has been so easily captured by her civil servants, and that she believes this will win votes from the poorest families who are claimed to be the people who are crying out for the abolition of Section 21.

From: Appalled Landlord 09 September 2019 14:48 PM

To find out what Shelter has turned into since August 2017, google “An organisation whose new leaders contradict its own accumulated knowledge to mislead the public, and incite mobs of supporters to harass law-abiding businesses, and are therefore liars and bullies.”

From: Appalled Landlord 05 August 2019 11:21 AM

Shelter has charitable status, which means it does not pay tax on the profits from its contracts with central and local government. However, despite its heart-wrenching adverts asking the unaware public for donations, Shelter is not a charity in the sense of doing charitable deeds like housing the homeless. It stopped raising money for housing over 40 years ago. All it does for the homeless is give advice. In that respect it is just like a small version of the Citizens Advice Bureau, which could take over that role. But Shelter spends millions every year from donations on lobbying against landlords and letting agents, and now it has started to bully them using rentamobs. It recently declared that it wants to become a mass movement half a million strong. Who does it plan to bully with them? In the last few months its senior members have made a series of false claims on TV programmes. To see how Shelter has lost its moral compass, google Boycott Shelter!

From: Appalled Landlord 03 July 2019 15:37 PM

He may have gone but lying to the public has been continued by Shelter’s new management, sometimes contradicting that organisation’s own body of research. To see how Shelter has lost its moral compass, google BOYCOTT SHELTER

From: Appalled Landlord 18 April 2019 11:28 AM

What is the link to this statement? I can only find similar articles dated December 2015 and February 2018. They are on LT's website and neither has the slightest hint of criticism of the lunatic tax on finance costs. Is Stephen Ludlow aware that the income tax payable can exceed the rental profit, and will be payable even if there is a rental loss before tax?

From: Appalled Landlord 01 February 2019 16:41 PM

What is the link to the research? I can only find similar articles dated December 2015 and February 2018. They are on LT's website and neither has the slightest hint of criticism of the lunatic tax on finance costs. Is Stephen Ludlow aware that the income tax payable can exceed the rental profit, and will be payable even if there is a rental loss before tax?

From: Appalled Landlord 01 February 2019 16:35 PM

Ken Loach called for a boycott of Shelter 10 years ago because its CEO wanted its employees to do unpaid overtime to win a government contract. Shelter has charitable status, which means it does not pay tax on the profits from its contracts with central and local government. However, despite its heart-wrenching adverts asking the unaware public for donations, Shelter is not a charity in the sense of doing charitable deeds like housing the homeless. It stopped raising money for housing over 40 years ago. All it does for the homeless is give advice. In that respect it is just like a small version of the Citizens Advice Bureau, which could take over that role. But Shelter spends millions every year from donations on lobbying against landlords and letting agents, and now it has started to bully them using rentamobs. It recently declared that it wants to become a mass movement half a million strong. Who does it plan to bully with them? In the last few months its senior members have made a series of false claims on TV programmes. To see how Shelter has lost its moral compass, google Boycott Shelter!

From: Appalled Landlord 07 December 2018 09:57 AM

Alison Butler, Croydon Council cabinet member for Homes & Gateway Services and deputy leader, who proposed the motion, said: “The biggest cause of homelessness in Croydon is evictions in the private rental sector.” Shelter knows she is wrong. https://www.property118.com/shelters-website-says-section-21-not-cause-homelessness/#

From: Appalled Landlord 18 October 2018 16:25 PM

A real expert on the housing market, Kate Faulkner, has made the following comments on O’Brien’s report: “This report from Onward shows an astonishing lack of understanding about what’s happened and what is still happening in the property market as the RLA have rightly pointed out. I think Onward and many others have forgotten that we had a recession which led to 50% of people pulling out of buying a home for up to five years – and they couldn’t get the money to buy even if they tried. There was a huge growth in the PRS from 2007 onwards because the demand for rental increased – and because BTL investors could buy with cash. Buy to let investors respond to demand, they don’t create it. The main question that MPs and others don’t seem to be addressing is where do you put the people that want and need to rent for reasons other than affordability? To completely ignore the growth of this sector is going to lead to a huge growth in homelessness and overcrowding – as they have nowhere to go. The only way out of the mess experienced by some, but not all, areas is to build more homes. Robbing Peter to pay Paul – ie taking property from the rental market to get people on the ladder – isn’t going to work. Demand is growing for people who want to buy and who need to rent – both need to be satisfied. It’s time we produced properly informed reporting on the PRS, rather than misusing statistics for political gain and if this is the level of understanding of the property market by MPs, then I’m afraid we are going to have a property crisis for years to come!” To see Kate Faulkner’s full response, google Has buy to let prevented 2.2m families getting on the ladder?

From: Appalled Landlord 09 July 2018 10:23 AM

Landlords like nothing more than to have tenants stay for years, as long as they pay the rent and treat the property and the neighbours.with respect. Before section 21 of the 1988 Housing Act, private tenants could have tenancies for life. This, coupled with Rent Control from 1915 is what made the PRS shrink from housing 76% of households in England in 1918 to just 9.1% in 1988. Section 21 was introduced to give landlords the right to recover their property. This remedy worked. so that the percentage rose to 10.1 in 1996. From 1996 to 2013, the total number of dwellings in England increased steadily from 20.3 million in 1996 to 23.3 million in 2013. Much of this was due to the notable growth in private rented housing which more than doubled in size from 2.0 million to 4.5 million over this period. Landlords did this by financing new builds, by rehabilitating run-down properties or by converting large residential or commercial buildings into flats or houses in multiple occupation (HMOs). Generation Rent owes BTL a debt of gratitude for this. Instead they vilify landlords because they have been indoctrinated against BTL by a number of ignorant people, some of whom get articles published in the Guardian and the Times. The abolition of Section 21 would reduce the supply of rental accommodation and make homelessness worse. It would drive landlords out of the market and deter others from entering it, so that the stock of rental accommodation, already in short supply in some areas, would fall further while the population continues to increase. This would make rents rise even more, to the detriment of the tenants that the “senior London politicians” claim to represent. It would also cause an increase in evictions as landlords leave. Sian Berry, Tom Copley and Generation Rent are campaigning to reduce supply and increase rents. Brilliant

From: Appalled Landlord 06 July 2018 18:17 PM

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