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Lyndon Baker
You are under the illusion that this is a Conservative Government.

From: Lyndon Baker 22 September 2020 08:35 AM

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Yes, there are starving lawyers who need taxpayers’ help. We must keep them in employment.

From: Lyndon Baker 22 September 2020 07:55 AM

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Liberal Undemocrat peer. The very definition of a waste of space, not to mention taxpayers’s money.

From: Lyndon Baker 22 September 2020 07:53 AM

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Not a word from her about landlords who simply want their property back for whatever reason. Not a word from her about tenants who are simply not paying rent. Not a word from her about ASB tenants etc. Just the usual Labour claptrap all tenants good, all landlords bad. She needs to be told that Animal Farm was a story, not an instruction manual for her party.

From: Lyndon Baker 21 September 2020 11:17 AM

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Perhaps Mr Pincher could detail exactly how the government has gone "further to support landlords". I have not seen any support, never mind "further support".

From: Lyndon Baker 21 September 2020 10:59 AM

Lyndon Baker
Dame Gillian would do well to give them advice to “PAY YOUR RENT”.

From: Lyndon Baker 21 September 2020 08:54 AM

Lyndon Baker
No last minute announcement - looks like you may be right. Two year's ago we hailed Boris as the saviour. Now . . .

From: Lyndon Baker 18 September 2020 18:54 PM

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Not aware that I claimed they didn't!

From: Lyndon Baker 18 September 2020 12:54 PM

Lyndon Baker
Has Nick Lyons ever attended a check out? If he had then he would not have made those comments. We have used independent inventory clerks (AIIC) for years and without exception every deduction has been challenged with the usual, “It was like that when we moved in”. Fortunately with photographs and signed inventory at check in, we are able to refute that in most cases.

From: Lyndon Baker 18 September 2020 08:41 AM

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The day is not over yet. Wait for a last minute announcement from Jenrick.

From: Lyndon Baker 18 September 2020 08:36 AM

Lyndon Baker
What did they pay for this advert? In the UK a White Paper is a Government report, NOT a press release.

From: Lyndon Baker 16 September 2020 09:26 AM

Lyndon Baker
Wait until late Friday afternoon. That is when Jenrick usually drops his bombshells on landlords.

From: Lyndon Baker 14 September 2020 08:40 AM

Lyndon Baker
I am surprised that the number of landlords intending to sell up is not higher.

From: Lyndon Baker 11 September 2020 08:10 AM

Lyndon Baker
So landlords with non-paying, or ASB tenants, even those wanting to sell are again shafted by an alleged Conservative government. This shower will not get my vote ever again.

From: Lyndon Baker 11 September 2020 08:07 AM

Lyndon Baker
Yes, Matthew, landlords and agents need to accept that the law clearly states that the deposit belongs to the tenants and any claim against it needs to be proved. We use AIIC members and get photos (time and date stamped) plus a written inventory initialled on every page on check in. That avoids the usual "It was like that when we moved in".

From: Lyndon Baker 10 September 2020 12:34 PM

Lyndon Baker
Research, Paul. They have to have CMP, PII and be members of a Redress scheme. Perhaps you would like to hold their first-born as security too? The number of agents who do a runner are very low indeed, whereas the number of landlords prosecuted . . . Time to look at the beam in your eye, Paul.

From: Lyndon Baker 10 September 2020 11:31 AM

Lyndon Baker
Unregulated? Is this the start of your ne career as a comedian, Paul?

From: Lyndon Baker 10 September 2020 11:16 AM

Lyndon Baker
Why should any LA trust you to pay. I would not deal with a landlord who did not trust me.

From: Lyndon Baker 10 September 2020 10:37 AM

Lyndon Baker
Apart from enriching the solicitor's pocket, has Polly actually managed to house Stephen Tyler?

From: Lyndon Baker 10 September 2020 10:21 AM

Lyndon Baker
I like that CRis. Dodged the Barrett Bullet. Catchy!

From: Lyndon Baker 10 September 2020 10:17 AM

Lyndon Baker
That, Paul, is why despite respecting you posts, we would never do business were we in the same area. You obviously do not trust Letting agents yet expect them to trust you. Why should they? There are more landlords who get prosecuted than agents who run off with the cash.

From: Lyndon Baker 10 September 2020 10:17 AM

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@Matthew, Do you honestly believe that the 8% swing was a result of the TFA as oppposed to the disastrous policies, anti-brexit and anti-semetic policies of Comrade Corbyn? I don't believe that the TFA persuaded tenants to suddenly vote for Boris.

From: Lyndon Baker 10 September 2020 10:10 AM

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He got off lightly.

From: Lyndon Baker 10 September 2020 08:11 AM

Lyndon Baker
Paul, ignore Mark Wilson, he is posting his usual RAP with the silent C. He is not known as Mad Mark for nothing.

From: Lyndon Baker 09 September 2020 18:51 PM

Lyndon Baker
@Paul Barrett They are not true Tories. THey may be members, they may even have been elected as Tories, but at heart they have more in common with Bliar's Nw Labour.

From: Lyndon Baker 09 September 2020 11:20 AM

Lyndon Baker
Another group happy to dictate to landlords but not tenants. The bit about “forgive all rent arrears” is the best bit. Total nut job.

From: Lyndon Baker 09 September 2020 09:25 AM

Lyndon Baker
Chris Town is under the misapprehension that this is a Tory Government. That is the label, but it doesn’t act like one.

From: Lyndon Baker 09 September 2020 09:22 AM

Lyndon Baker
Usual cobblers from Cobbold trying to drum up business.

From: Lyndon Baker 08 September 2020 08:22 AM

Lyndon Baker
@Paul Barrett - they may carry the label of "Tory" but we have not had a true Tory Government since Maggie was PM.

From: Lyndon Baker 07 September 2020 13:51 PM

Lyndon Baker
The early EPCs were done by get rich quick guys. My house had an open porch at the front and back, with the back having what was the coal house and a utility room. Both porches were later fitted with a door. The EPC idiot marked the WHOLE house down because he classes them as part of the building (because of the doors) and they didn’t have insulated roofs. It’s mirror twin next door has no doors and is rated higher, despite the occupants claiming their house is colder.

From: Lyndon Baker 07 September 2020 10:17 AM

Lyndon Baker
Well said, David. Spencer’s advice is unwanted, unwanted, unwanted.

From: Lyndon Baker 07 September 2020 09:09 AM

Lyndon Baker
Define "Online". Our agency is classed as online but offers all the same services as "high street" agents. In fact, since it is home-based we would find it hard to simply shut the doors and scarper as a few agents have done. As the saying goes, you know where we live!

From: Lyndon Baker 06 September 2020 13:01 PM

Lyndon Baker
Sadly not a chance. It would be deemed as breaching their human rights etc.

From: Lyndon Baker 04 September 2020 08:21 AM

Lyndon Baker
PAul, for a laugh I occasionally look at the recommendations on the EPCs. Always laugh when I see a recdommendation that says "Save £25 per year" then the cost takes 60 years to recoup! I bet some Snivel Serpent had a good laugh when they drafted EPC legislation.

From: Lyndon Baker 02 September 2020 11:50 AM

Lyndon Baker
Without having figures from Mr Mason who, unlike Perry Mason, does not give them, his claims are unsubstantiated. "The organisation says most agents and landlords understand and have agreed to these clauses" - translation most of the agents and landlords who took out insurance with us agreed. That could be 24 out of 46. "Some landlords and agents have refused the waivers" - that could be the other 22. agents and landlords.

From: Lyndon Baker 01 September 2020 20:26 PM

Lyndon Baker
What do you call a LL that is desperate to not be one!? Answer: Frustrated by Government policy.

From: Lyndon Baker 01 September 2020 11:57 AM

Lyndon Baker
I take mine out through Rentshield but have yet to need it past 12 months - only time will tell for that. I know I can have a six or 12 month tenancy and it is transferable between tenants at the same property so if one leaves at the end of six months and Renshield reference the new one, I can transfer the policy to the new tenant.

From: Lyndon Baker 01 September 2020 11:32 AM

Lyndon Baker
Not just young tenants, Fred. Thanks to the Goverment interference I suspect landlords will be more selective and wanting Rent Guarantee Insurance. I used to take out RGI for just the imnitial six months, but in future it will be for the whole term of the tenancy.

From: Lyndon Baker 01 September 2020 11:06 AM

Lyndon Baker
Never heard of Housing Hand before, for which I am truly grateful.

From: Lyndon Baker 01 September 2020 08:42 AM

Lyndon Baker
It is nationalisation of housing without compensation. Is Bozo Johnson secretly Corbyn's acolyte?

From: Lyndon Baker 29 August 2020 16:04 PM

Lyndon Baker
David, I am selling one of my properties and had hoped to arrange that the tenant left peacefully since they are aware of my intention to sell and the property is on the market. The council (and the estate agent) told the tenant that I MUST issue S21. My hope of a civilised end to a long-term tenancy have vanished like summer snow. Yesterday I issued a Section 21 by post and email (which has been acknowledged) and, it seems, just in time thanks to the regular Friday afternoon Government bombshell. Is this the new MO for this government? Wait until the last minute before dropping something heacy on landlords? There should be a separate housing court with a panel of three who have experience in lettings as a landlord, tenant or agent and possession should be granted immediately, not in 14 days, for rent arrears. domestic abuse etc. If you don't keep up payments on a car, the company reposess without warning. Note that is repossess, not evict them from the car!

From: Lyndon Baker 29 August 2020 12:06 PM

Lyndon Baker
Really? Or they could be as duplicitous as they claim landlords are and just be saying the individual has been expelled.

From: Lyndon Baker 28 August 2020 09:38 AM

Lyndon Baker
Paul, we should all know by know that Mark Wilson only comes on here to make silly comments and attack landlords. At what point does a property stop being ex-LA? I bought one such property many years ago from the bformer tenant who npurchased it from the LA. I lived in it for three years and objected when the agent described it as ex-LA. I told them that if they wanted to be technically correct it waas ex-ex-LA. Conversely my parents and I moved into a council house in 1954 when it was newly built. They exercised their Right to Buy in early 1980s and lived there until their deaths in 2010 and 2012. I then rented it out after refurbishing it. No doubt MW would like me to have sold it back to the council for what they paid for it.

From: Lyndon Baker 27 August 2020 21:03 PM

Lyndon Baker
Well said, Paul. We have been advising our landlords to move over to professional tenants for the last couple of years. Rents are the same and tenants easier to manage. plus they usually look after the property better.

From: Lyndon Baker 27 August 2020 13:53 PM

Lyndon Baker
So much for Bozo Johnson's return to work campaign.

From: Lyndon Baker 27 August 2020 13:48 PM

Lyndon Baker
@Algarve Investor I will NOT reward the conservatives by giving them my vote. On their current form I might as well vote Labour. If there is an Independent candidate then I will vote for them and Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party are not yet done with politics.

From: Lyndon Baker 24 August 2020 12:46 PM

Lyndon Baker
Does this government really believe that the feckless tenants will vote for them - ever? Not going to happen! Now, it will take a lot to make me vote conservative again.

From: Lyndon Baker 24 August 2020 10:42 AM

Lyndon Baker
So Kneel Starmer is joining the attack on landlords. Time for Nigel Farage to offer an alternative to both the main left-wing parties and support landlords otherwise will the last landlord to sell up, please turn off the lights.

From: Lyndon Baker 24 August 2020 09:16 AM

Lyndon Baker
Bailiffs evict - Landlords repossess. Let's not adopt the language of the feckless tenants and the politicvians, although not sure that politicians are not also feckless.

From: Lyndon Baker 22 August 2020 13:19 PM

Lyndon Baker
I’d be up for that.

From: Lyndon Baker 21 August 2020 23:58 PM

Lyndon Baker
So who will be brave enough to ask for a Judicial Review, Paul?

From: Lyndon Baker 21 August 2020 21:00 PM

Lyndon Baker
Don't you mean BOZO government?

From: Lyndon Baker 21 August 2020 19:49 PM

Lyndon Baker
How about Moneyclaim online every month that they are in arrears. That woul B*GGER up the courts system too and be a great response to Jenrick.

From: Lyndon Baker 21 August 2020 18:47 PM

Lyndon Baker
I too am selling one. I was considering investing in another that I currently co-own, but not now. If Boris ever wants my vote he can crawl over broken glass first. THEN I will say NO WAY!

From: Lyndon Baker 21 August 2020 14:08 PM

Lyndon Baker
The government has made a last minute U-turn on the eviction ban - extending it for four weeks until September 20. The Housing Law Practitioners Association has tweeted this afternoon: “We have now had official confirmation that the stay on possession proceedings will be extended to September 20.” Thanks, Boris - we thought we could trust you. You will not fool us all again and when landlords do eventually recover possession (either they or their mortgage companies will) you WILL have to re-house the future homeless because the landlords will not be there to pick upo the pieces.

From: Lyndon Baker 21 August 2020 14:05 PM

Lyndon Baker
Don't be silly, Mark. We all KNOW it was wind that made you smile.

From: Lyndon Baker 21 August 2020 14:00 PM

Lyndon Baker
They are the WOKE generation. They deserve everything and want to overturn history, laws etc. It started when schools stopped the pass and fail system, referring to fail as "deferred success". I am of an older generation and glad I will not be around to see what the country will be like when this woke mob are in charge.

From: Lyndon Baker 20 August 2020 20:41 PM

Lyndon Baker
They are going to get wetter! - There, fixed it for you. LOL

From: Lyndon Baker 20 August 2020 14:38 PM

Lyndon Baker
Probably the same rent-a-mob that follow Generation Rent, Extinction Rebellion, Bacon Lettuce Mayonnaise etc. Q: "Do you want to go on a protest?" Reply: "What's is about?" A: "Does it matter?" Reply: "No. When and where?"

From: Lyndon Baker 20 August 2020 12:29 PM

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Union of working class people? Do ANY of them work?

From: Lyndon Baker 20 August 2020 09:42 AM

Lyndon Baker
She is promoting her book: Generation Rent blah blah. On sale at Amazon for £8.19 down from £9.99 and soon to be sold at a Poundland near you.

From: Lyndon Baker 19 August 2020 11:09 AM

Lyndon Baker
There’s that confusion again. “Courts hearing cases for repossession”. Surely to be consistent they should be “hearing cases for eviction”?

From: Lyndon Baker 19 August 2020 09:11 AM

Lyndon Baker
Girish, you are missing the point, whether that is by accident or design I don’t know, but I will leave it there.

From: Lyndon Baker 18 August 2020 21:59 PM

Lyndon Baker
I suggest you re-read Luke's post. At no point does he say he wantsw to charge extra. He simply states that there are things that landlors are not necessarily aware of such as advertising costs which never go down and the time involved in R2R chesks; supplying copies of the EPC, Gas Safety How to Rent guide, Gas & Electric certificates etc.

From: Lyndon Baker 18 August 2020 14:58 PM

Lyndon Baker
Yes, why would you stay with an agentb that gives you poor service. I can not more accept your bald statement that "Good agent are far and few who do care and give good service." than I would accept the same being said about landlords or even tenants. Generalisations do not work!

From: Lyndon Baker 18 August 2020 12:43 PM

Lyndon Baker
What leg work do you do that the agent doesn't/won't do?

From: Lyndon Baker 18 August 2020 12:19 PM

Lyndon Baker
Headline says, “Returns to warpath”. Surely to return they have to have left at some point?

From: Lyndon Baker 18 August 2020 09:36 AM

Lyndon Baker
It seems the way to promote yourself these days is not by showing you have a better product or idea, it is by attacking others. It works for Shelter etc so they think by attacking agents it will make them sound like a white (am I allowed to say that in these woke days?) knight riding to the rescue of poor, oppressed students and landlords.

From: Lyndon Baker 18 August 2020 09:34 AM

Lyndon Baker
Twenty out of over six hundred MPs. Presumably these are the gobby ones full of self-interest and lacking common sense. As soon as I saw Ed (I want to be leader) Davey was one of the signatories, I knew not to take them seriously. They choose to ignore the survey from NRLA preferring to use emotive phrases in a vote chasing exercise. Perhaps someone should point out to them that banning evictions will make bailiffs unemployed. What they are seeking is a ban on landlords repossessing THEIR property for any reason whatsoever. Eviction sounds so much more emotive and vote grabbing though. Bailiffs evict, landlords repossess.

From: Lyndon Baker 18 August 2020 09:28 AM

Lyndon Baker
As in the Wisdom of JOB?

From: Lyndon Baker 17 August 2020 20:30 PM

Lyndon Baker
@PossessionFriendUK PossessionFriend Now, now, you know you cannot use that 4 letter word (W*RK) when referring to Paul Barrett's feckless ones!

From: Lyndon Baker 17 August 2020 19:47 PM

Lyndon Baker
This Kennedy woman has lost sight of the fact that the properties do NOT BELONG TO THE TENANT. They belong to the owners who should have every right to repossess their property for whatever reason. She should know that bailiffs evict and landlords repossess, but her version sounds more emotive so works in her favour.

From: Lyndon Baker 17 August 2020 09:10 AM

Lyndon Baker
Bailiffs evict; Landlords repossess.

From: Lyndon Baker 17 August 2020 09:05 AM

Lyndon Baker
@PossessionFriendUK PossessionFriend Wee Burnie is waiting for the UK Government to fund something like Wales and then she can claim it as her own success. She won't spend Scottich money, that's for sure.

From: Lyndon Baker 14 August 2020 11:44 AM

Lyndon Baker
Thank you for calling them what they are - repossessions! It is a typical Government response of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. What will happen if landlords default on mortgage payments and the lenders seek repossession? Will the lenders then face the ire of Polly, GR, CA etc?

From: Lyndon Baker 14 August 2020 10:14 AM

Lyndon Baker
The NRLA have disproved Shelter’s claim of a tsunami of evictions. Let’s hope they refute Wee Burnie’s false claim of an avalanche. Is it not about time we stopped calling them evictions and referred to repossessions instead? If you fail to pay your mortgage nobody says the lender evicts you, they repossess the property. Bailiffs evict, landlords repossess.

From: Lyndon Baker 14 August 2020 08:22 AM

Lyndon Baker
So that's why she is always talking out of it!

From: Lyndon Baker 12 August 2020 13:45 PM

Lyndon Baker
I like that it is paid directly to the landlord or agent. Will Shelter. GR etc like that caveat?

From: Lyndon Baker 12 August 2020 10:16 AM

Lyndon Baker
I am only surprised that a mere 48% will go with a recommendation from a family member or friend. Surely that applies to most professionals whether they be electricians, plumbers or letting agents? It does not mean that they don’t then check for accreditation. Perhaps if the NICEIC reproduced the question asked, the answers would be more believable.

From: Lyndon Baker 11 August 2020 09:51 AM

Lyndon Baker
Not the best joke I've heard today, Philip.

From: Lyndon Baker 07 August 2020 21:01 PM

Lyndon Baker
As previously stated, no proof just speculation. Between 5000 and 10000, that is quite a difference. I accept that there are bad landlords but I don’t accept that it is as bad as you and others, make out. The vast majority who feature on television programmes do, however, seem to be ethnic landlords who prey on the vulnerable or those new to this country who do not understand the law.

From: Lyndon Baker 07 August 2020 10:19 AM

Lyndon Baker
Where is your proof or evidence that " there are tens of thousands of unscrupylous landlords" or are you quoting from a Shelter/GR/SC press release?

From: Lyndon Baker 06 August 2020 12:35 PM

Lyndon Baker
London is not the UK and articles like this tend to make out that rents are falling across the UK. Is anyone surprised that London rents are falling. People are working from home so they do not need to live near the office. As another article on another site claims, people are searching more for properties away from cities. I used to live in London when I was young and loved it. Now, you couldn't pay me enought to live or work in London.

From: Lyndon Baker 06 August 2020 12:32 PM

Lyndon Baker
Rents have NOT fallen in my area.

From: Lyndon Baker 06 August 2020 10:48 AM

Lyndon Baker
"I see many properties to let still available at LA. They AREN'T being snapped up. " That may be true for your area, but not for mine. Paul. Properties are being re-let quickly and at increased rents.

From: Lyndon Baker 05 August 2020 17:59 PM

Lyndon Baker
Councils will pursue landlords for council tax on an empty propertty - what services does an EMPTY property use? However their (to quote Paul Barrett) feckless benefit tenants are rarely pursued for arrears.

From: Lyndon Baker 05 August 2020 12:21 PM

Lyndon Baker
@PossessionFriendUK PossessionFriend I think commercial landlords may be feeling the pinch too. This working from home will have repercussions. My partner mainly works from home anyway but now almost all his firm work from home. Having invested moiney in enabling staff to work from home, firms now realise that they really only need a limited number of staff in the office so can save money on rent, business rates, heating, lighting etc. A very strange future for all.

From: Lyndon Baker 05 August 2020 12:17 PM

Lyndon Baker
@Richard Kirwan Small correction, they are not funded by the government but by the taxpayers. Margaret Thatcher often reminded her ministers of that fact. It would be nice to see charities revert to the idealistic viewpoint of raising money for good causes, but nowadays they are big business. I find all the “Give us money because of Covid 19” adverts a tad annoying. Especially when you have CRUK claiming to have lost £44million because of Covid 19, but MacMillan claiming that nothing will stop them.

From: Lyndon Baker 05 August 2020 10:23 AM

Lyndon Baker
@Jane McCabe - liking your own post is no recommendation. In my area rents are rising and I can only speak for my area. During lockdown I had one property empty. Another had tenants in who were waiting to move into their own home. Now they have left and the flat is being refurbished before being let at an increased rent. Another flat was vacated at the beginning of this month and re-let within a week at an increased rent.

From: Lyndon Baker 04 August 2020 19:00 PM

Lyndon Baker
@Paul Barrett the phrase is, "He who pays the piper, calls the tune." Before the Tenant Fees Ban, I always felt that both were our clients. However, now our only client is the landlord since we do not get paid by the tenants. I believe this is known as the Law of Unintended Consequences.

From: Lyndon Baker 04 August 2020 15:01 PM

Lyndon Baker
Ditto.

From: Lyndon Baker 04 August 2020 13:00 PM

Lyndon Baker
They will send you their benefit slips - they regards that as pay not a benefit. I have only ever had one "benefit" tenant that was any good. She worked part-time bringing up her daughter. She was on top-up and not only paid on time. she left the propery better than she found it. Unfortunately she did so well at work that she was given a promotion with accommodation and, if she turned it down, her salary was slightly too much to claim top up.

From: Lyndon Baker 04 August 2020 12:36 PM

Lyndon Baker
Polly Neate talking out the wrong end again. No evidence to support her wild-eyed claims but it is good for a few column inches and several thousands more in donations to help pay her salary!

From: Lyndon Baker 04 August 2020 11:21 AM

Lyndon Baker
That is not "typical agents talk" and if it is, then you are with the wrong agents!

From: Lyndon Baker 04 August 2020 11:18 AM

Lyndon Baker
Sounds like David Alexander is angling for a job with Shelter - the charity that DOESN'T do what it says on the tin. No good landlord gives notice to a good tenant without a good reason. "Obviously, many landlords have major issues of their own and it is important to respect these." Landlord at Tesco checkout, "What do you mean I cannot buy these groceries with respect?". For someone who has been successful, this article just turns you into a numpty. Even GR's own self-selecting survey on Twitter shows that less than 20% of tenants had a problem paying their rent.

From: Lyndon Baker 04 August 2020 11:16 AM

Lyndon Baker
A rent of just 12 months and a high rent at that. was increased by over £250 pcm - a more than 21% rise in a year. Rents should (must?) cover costs plus a rainy day fund. It is a business and must make a profit. Once my tenants are in I don't, so far, increase rents while the same tenants are in situ. Of course some landlords increase renats annually, but 21%? Even you, Paul. would find that a hard rise to justify. While not all tenants are feckless, we must allow that some landlords are greedy!

From: Lyndon Baker 03 August 2020 20:45 PM

Lyndon Baker
HIs/her/they was not specified in your post. How unusualy for a councillor to resign. Normally they cling on by their fingertips.

From: Lyndon Baker 03 August 2020 20:34 PM

Lyndon Baker
Paul. today I came across my first greedy landlord. I hope it is another twenty years before I come across another one.

From: Lyndon Baker 03 August 2020 19:41 PM

Lyndon Baker
I tried looking through their moans but gave up. They still have not grasped the fact that lanldord mortgage relief is not a holiday. IT STILL HAS TO BE PAID EVENTUALLY. Are they intellectually challenged or did they go to the Diane Abbott school of maths.

From: Lyndon Baker 03 August 2020 19:40 PM

Lyndon Baker
Of course it was suspended because a prison sentence would have barred him from being a Councillor and feeding at the taxpayers' trough!

From: Lyndon Baker 03 August 2020 09:38 AM

Lyndon Baker
I never understand why benefit fraudsters get off so lightly. The fine should be double the benefits claimed and all assets fraudulently gained, seized. When people steal benefit money and then have to pay back at £1 per week it is ridiculous. If they have to claim benefits ever then payments should be deducted from their debt. That would be a real deterrent. No benefits EVER until you pay it all back.

From: Lyndon Baker 03 August 2020 08:32 AM

Lyndon Baker
I have emailed them already. We need a Spammer button to make it easier to report it to LAT.

From: Lyndon Baker 02 August 2020 19:35 PM

Lyndon Baker
David, that means them having to do something. I’ve lost count of the number of times a tenant has asked about something in the AST or Inventory because they cannot be bothered to look. Of course now that we cannot charge the little darlings for our time, it is easier to just email them a copy. Tenants must have, before signing the AST, copies of the EPC, Electric and Gas certificates and the How to Rent guide so GR are talking out of the wrong end as usual. Technically the EPC must be seen before they even view. Check any property portal and see it displayed or a link to it.

From: Lyndon Baker 01 August 2020 11:38 AM

Lyndon Baker
In a Dalak voice: "Donate! Donate! You will DONATE!"

From: Lyndon Baker 31 July 2020 19:41 PM

Lyndon Baker
NO, Paul, their slogan will be "Never knowingly underlet".

From: Lyndon Baker 31 July 2020 13:52 PM

Lyndon Baker
@ Paul Barrett I call tehm Gimmegrants.

From: Lyndon Baker 31 July 2020 12:05 PM

Lyndon Baker
Not in London but I have just re-let my bflat at £75 pcm more than last time. Not just that but had more enquiries than ever before. Not all areas are the same.

From: Lyndon Baker 30 July 2020 11:08 AM

Lyndon Baker
I lost that many years ago when a council’s guarantee turned out to be worthless.

From: Lyndon Baker 30 July 2020 09:51 AM

Lyndon Baker
Citizens Advice, the charity that will not give advice to a citizen if they are a landlord.

From: Lyndon Baker 30 July 2020 08:46 AM

Lyndon Baker
Aren’t most of them?

From: Lyndon Baker 30 July 2020 08:43 AM

Lyndon Baker
Just let two of my flats at increased rents.

From: Lyndon Baker 28 July 2020 08:43 AM

Lyndon Baker
Maggie sold the houses to the tenants. The councils transferred ownership of others to housing associations. Tenants of housing associations now have the right to buy.

From: Lyndon Baker 27 July 2020 20:42 PM

Lyndon Baker
So glad I am not a landlord in Wales. Iechyd da.

From: Lyndon Baker 27 July 2020 20:37 PM

Lyndon Baker
I have tried twice to post the link to ASA but obviiously that is VERBOTTEN. Not sure why that got posted mid-tyoe, but there you go. I am raising that issue with them now and I suggest as many as possible do the same - strength in numbers and all that! Just Google complain to ASA

From: Lyndon Baker 27 July 2020 11:02 AM

Lyndon Baker
I have tried twice to post the link to ASA but obviiously that is VERBOTTEN

From: Lyndon Baker 27 July 2020 10:55 AM

Lyndon Baker
I still am amazed that they are never challenged under Advertising Standards because they do not do what their name implies. Well unless you counting helping to house Polly in her nice house.

From: Lyndon Baker 27 July 2020 10:00 AM

Lyndon Baker
I think his name was Gideon Osborne. Wait! You said sane person. I withdraw my comment.

From: Lyndon Baker 25 July 2020 00:31 AM

Lyndon Baker
David, did you then wake up to find it was but a dream? If they ever did act as Guarantors, I bet there would be so many excklusion clauses that their bank balance would never be at risk. Remember: Shelter's Funds Matter!

From: Lyndon Baker 24 July 2020 11:11 AM

Lyndon Baker
It has worked - I have put my property on the market.

From: Lyndon Baker 23 July 2020 13:21 PM

Lyndon Baker
I would suggest special pet insurance with the tenant paying the cost, but that is probably nagainst the tenant fees legislation! Severe lack of joined up thinking with this Government.

From: Lyndon Baker 23 July 2020 13:19 PM

Lyndon Baker
Give them time. First remove Section 21 then cap rent increases - and we thought this was a Conservative government. Well, as the song says, "We won't be fooled again"!

From: Lyndon Baker 23 July 2020 13:13 PM

Lyndon Baker
Remember David, as I was told recently by a feckless one, "It is against the law to discriminate against DSAS or low income tenants". I couldn't reply because I could only think of replies that would insult her intelligence.

From: Lyndon Baker 22 July 2020 14:04 PM

Lyndon Baker
But that is the problem. These tenants will nbot vote conservative.

From: Lyndon Baker 22 July 2020 13:51 PM

Lyndon Baker
Yes, a policy came up for renewal and I sought and received confirmation that Covid 19 would not be an exclusion.

From: Lyndon Baker 20 July 2020 10:25 AM

Lyndon Baker
I use Rentshield and input the rent and they tell me what the figures are. Others on here will be able to give more exact figures but usually 2.5 and 3.5 times monthly rent.

From: Lyndon Baker 20 July 2020 09:40 AM

Lyndon Baker
Well that didn’t take long. Yesterday, just four days after this article, I received an email from a female telling me I was “breaking the new law that makes it illegal to refuse to let go DSS tenants and THOSE ON LOW INCOMES”. We do not state “no DSS” but we do include the minimum income required by applicant or Guarantor because our applicants are referenced to qualify for Rent Guarantee Insurance. I did not reply.

From: Lyndon Baker 20 July 2020 08:07 AM

Lyndon Baker
So according to her, refusing to take a benefit tenant makes you a “rogue landlord”. What a load of hogwash cones from her mouth.

From: Lyndon Baker 16 July 2020 09:21 AM

Lyndon Baker
Even this government cannot be thick enough to believe that benefit tenants will actually vote Tory, can they?

From: Lyndon Baker 15 July 2020 20:00 PM

Lyndon Baker
@Barry X If they cannot pass Rent Guarantee INsurance then they fail and do not rent one of my properties. Shelter can moan all they like but until they provide RGI on the same terms as professional companies, it will make Benefit tenants unacceptable.

From: Lyndon Baker 15 July 2020 19:57 PM

Lyndon Baker
Your first three words are all that is needed, “Shelter are appalling”.

From: Lyndon Baker 15 July 2020 10:27 AM

Lyndon Baker
Any landlord who supports Nationwide Bull**** Society is a turkey voting for Christmas. This ruling will not house a single extra benefit tenant. As Gromit correctly says, if they can’t afford it, they can’t afford it. To get Rent Guarantee Insurance they need a certain income and all the property I deal with have rents higher than benefit income.

From: Lyndon Baker 15 July 2020 09:20 AM

Lyndon Baker
As usual no proof whatsoever. I could make claims about Citizen Khan without hard facts to back them up, but then I am a decent person and wouldn’t do that. He should be told to provide proof or to go back to worrying about knife crime etc since that is his real job.

From: Lyndon Baker 14 July 2020 10:03 AM

Lyndon Baker
Shoulda Coulda Won't.

From: Lyndon Baker 13 July 2020 19:14 PM

Lyndon Baker
Yet no campaign against the poorer standards etc in social housing by Shelter, CA or GA. I wonder why? Perhaps it is because they are run by theor WOKE friends?

From: Lyndon Baker 13 July 2020 11:55 AM

Lyndon Baker
If those are genuine conservatice supporters then I fear for the conservatives. Th level of anti-landlord feeling is worrying.

From: Lyndon Baker 09 July 2020 20:11 PM

Lyndon Baker
Unfortunately another Baroness is opposing her.

From: Lyndon Baker 09 July 2020 11:01 AM

Lyndon Baker
Unfortunately this is why many dogs and cats end up in rescue. Tenants don’t always check that pets will be acceptable so they abandon them. Last week we had to put our eldest cat to sleep because of kidney failure. We had her for 16 years after I found her in our greenhouse. She was chipped and the previous owner just didn’t respond to our vets’ calls, so we took her on and were rewarded by her total love and affection.

From: Lyndon Baker 09 July 2020 10:59 AM

Lyndon Baker
What is their definition of “non-decent”. For instance that could mean no double glazing. I’d love to put double glazing in one of my flats but it’s in a conservation area and the council will not permit it.

From: Lyndon Baker 09 July 2020 10:38 AM

Lyndon Baker
My worst was accompanying a sales colleague when I worked for a corporate. The house didn’t smell and the dog was fine EXCEPT the place was heaving with fleas! When we came out, quickest look round ever, her legs had dozens of them up to her knees. I have found tenants with pets usually stay longer and, for the few properties that allow dogs, I insist the dog comes to the viewing. On the whole the dogs are better behaved than the children. On the abandoned dog issue, I think it is less a case of being bad - ten years of being bad - more a case of dog is not well and they cannot afford vet treatment. Pet insurance, certainly for dogs, is a must these days.

From: Lyndon Baker 08 July 2020 10:12 AM

Lyndon Baker
Shelter believe that all evictions are unfair. It is their raison d’etre. Why don’t they spend some of the millions stashed away to actually house people? At least then they would know what some landlords are put through by their tenants.

From: Lyndon Baker 07 July 2020 09:36 AM

Lyndon Baker
@Barry X One £843) is this year's monthly rent and £858 is last year's rent. IN both cases the deposit figures are wrong and do not instil much faith in them as a Deposit replacement company. The deposits should therefore be £972.69 and £990. Again this does not inspire confidence in the company and I will not be a client of theirs now or in the future.

From: Lyndon Baker 03 July 2020 21:20 PM

Lyndon Baker
No response from NRLA?

From: Lyndon Baker 02 July 2020 09:37 AM

Lyndon Baker
That will get Baroness Kennedy's knickers in a knot.

From: Lyndon Baker 01 July 2020 19:31 PM

Lyndon Baker
Online searches are interesting. From Wikipedia: "In 1985 he co-founded an accountancy firm which became Murphy Deeks Nolan. The company was sold in 2000. Murphy was also the founder of a company that became the European distributor for the game Trivial Pursuit" "Murphy has since admitted that the manufacturing operation he set up in Ireland to manufacture Trivial Pursuit was there to avoid UK taxation, something of which he is now ashamed and was a turning point in his career towards anti-tax avoidance campaigning." "In 2009, Murphy lost a libel claim by Lord Ashcroft and associated businesses where he misunderstood an article posted on an unrelated website and published a blog post claiming that Lord Ashcroft's Belize bank provided "tax evasion services" "In August 2015, many of Murphy's ideas were taken up as proposed policies by Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party leadership election. " - THAT explains a lot. He seems a typical deluded left-winger that is not averse to making a bob or two on the side.

From: Lyndon Baker 29 June 2020 11:57 AM

Lyndon Baker
Political advisor to Ed Milliband? Well she did a great job there, didn’t she? That sums up all that is wrong with her.

From: Lyndon Baker 29 June 2020 08:12 AM

Lyndon Baker
Nver happen. Like Shelter, GR care about two things: Landlord bashing and a big bank balance. Actually houseing someone doesn't figure on their radar.

From: Lyndon Baker 27 June 2020 21:39 PM

Lyndon Baker
@ Matthew Why do you think Cornwall Hospitals are refusing leave requests for October? I have had my Boris letter telling me I can go out again because the risk is low. Given my health issues catching it would probably be fatal so I shall be staying in. September is very optimistic.

From: Lyndon Baker 26 June 2020 14:11 PM

Lyndon Baker
Much as I hate (not) to p*ss on your parade, Mark, our rents achieved are not down and are at the same level or higher than pre-lockdown. I can only speak for my agency and accept that others may have different experiences but it is not all doom and gloom.

From: Lyndon Baker 26 June 2020 10:00 AM

Lyndon Baker
Don't want you to stop commenting Paul, just ignore MM and I don't mean Markle!

From: Lyndon Baker 25 June 2020 12:11 PM

Lyndon Baker
@PossessionFriendUK PossessionFriend Could. Should. Won't. She is ex-Labour and they don't do well with facts or adnitting that they are wrong

From: Lyndon Baker 25 June 2020 12:00 PM

Lyndon Baker
Do you mean the Baroness or Mad Mark?

From: Lyndon Baker 25 June 2020 11:49 AM

Lyndon Baker
Paul, don't rise to his bait. Mad Mark only comes on here to wind us up instead of doing some actual work in his own business. If he is ignored he will get bored and drift away and give his "wisdom" somewhere else.

From: Lyndon Baker 25 June 2020 11:21 AM

Lyndon Baker
“. . . stronger rights for tenants. I can’t wait to get stuck in”. Words designed to perpetuate GR’s contempt for private landlords. With Boris in office but not in power, there are rough times ahead for landlords. Will the last one leaving the business please turn out the light.

From: Lyndon Baker 25 June 2020 09:20 AM

Lyndon Baker
@PossessionFriend Recently had some tenants leave and despite having an independent inventory we had the usual claims of "it was like that when we moved in" even claiming they adjusted the signed inventory. They went quiet when I sent a scan of the signed copy and time and date stamped photos disproving their claim.

From: Lyndon Baker 24 June 2020 16:09 PM

Lyndon Baker
Paul, they are not the only council trying this. Two of the local councils I deal with are looking to house their homless with private landlords. One even has two logos on their emails: Black lives matter and Report a Rogue Landlord. They still think landlords will take them up on their offer after all their attacks on private landlords. My advice to any landlord thinking of taking up this offer is simple. He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon.

From: Lyndon Baker 24 June 2020 13:00 PM

Lyndon Baker
If only I was as perfect as you! Fixed it, now your post looks even sillier.

From: Lyndon Baker 23 June 2020 12:39 PM

Lyndon Baker
So the motto is the same as I have been telling landlords for years, "Let in haste, repent at leisure".

From: Lyndon Baker 23 June 2020 11:21 AM

Lyndon Baker
Paul, I stopped reading after the word Foxtons. My only experience with them was many years ago letting a flat to a young man in Bristol. I cannot remember why he failed but I do remember his sister ring up to tell me I was wrong because she worked for Foxtons! Actually she was in the wrong, legally and morally and I explained that just because she worked for a firm in London did not mean that she knew better that anyone else. They had an air of superiority in those days that still persists today. Not sure why because they have nothing to be superior about as thos court cases have shown.

From: Lyndon Baker 23 June 2020 11:17 AM

Lyndon Baker
Porous borders? Paul, we have the Border Farce Uber Service gong out to sea, likking for them and bringing them here!!! THey should be turning them around or taking them back to that SAFE country called France.

From: Lyndon Baker 22 June 2020 13:14 PM

Lyndon Baker
Unfortunately the Home Secretary, Ms Priti Useless, is full of hot air. She talks about sendng them back and the grand total of Channel Gimmegrants returned this year is ZERO!

From: Lyndon Baker 22 June 2020 12:58 PM

Lyndon Baker
Sir Kneel Starmer will wait time see how much traction it gets before making a decision.

From: Lyndon Baker 22 June 2020 10:38 AM

Lyndon Baker
PossessionFriendUK PossessionFriend Pen and paper? Some of them were still mourning the change from quill and parchment.

From: Lyndon Baker 19 June 2020 21:28 PM

Lyndon Baker
Or find a good agent!

From: Lyndon Baker 19 June 2020 19:52 PM

Lyndon Baker
Having worked in the Civil Service when younger I am aware of how easy it is for them to make errors. They lack commonsense for a start. The Boris Boxes, which those of us needed for a while, contained five apples and fve oranges. Why five you ask? Well the civil servants work Monday to Friday so that is five days. Their thinking is, to say the least, blinkered.

From: Lyndon Baker 19 June 2020 15:45 PM

Lyndon Baker
The Government (in office but not in power) could easily rectify this by Statutory Instrument. Whether they have the will to do so is another matter entirely.

From: Lyndon Baker 19 June 2020 14:51 PM

Lyndon Baker
If the property is empty - get it tested. If it was rented after 1st June 2020 - get it tested. That is the simplest answer. We know that the government (in office but not in power) will amend all the errors and it is likely that the operational date will be 1st June 2020.

From: Lyndon Baker 19 June 2020 14:44 PM

Lyndon Baker
Thankfully they are in the minority. I have never had to stop a viewing because of the behavious of a dog, but I have because of the children.

From: Lyndon Baker 19 June 2020 14:00 PM

Lyndon Baker
Don't mention the word "work" in connection with Social Housing. A conspiracy theorist would suggest that if social housing tenants died it would reduce the welfare bill.

From: Lyndon Baker 19 June 2020 13:58 PM

Lyndon Baker
Just had one done on an empty proprty that has been let almost continuously for over twelve years. Cost to bring up to code - £780. One of the more minor problems, light covering in bathroom cracked and steam COULD get inside. A replacement light had already been purchased so they will swap when they do the work. Not expecting a bill that high, but if it needs to be done then so be it. While everyone can argue about the implementation date, if the property is empty just get the testing done.

From: Lyndon Baker 19 June 2020 13:08 PM

Lyndon Baker
Tenants with pets do tend to stay longer simply because few landlords will accept them. Personally I’d prefer well behaved pets to children! Much quieter and cause less damage.

From: Lyndon Baker 19 June 2020 09:38 AM

Lyndon Baker
Another advertorial. Good agents will already be doing this and keeping records of arrears etc so what he is really suggesting is that agents spend money with his firm. Does Cobbold also visit his grandmother and advise her on the best way to suck eggs?

From: Lyndon Baker 19 June 2020 09:35 AM

Lyndon Baker
I note that the NRLA comment that, “Ministers remain committed to eventually getting rid of Section 21 altogether” and their wishy-washy response. Hardly fills me with hope so I think it will be SELL, SELL, SELL.

From: Lyndon Baker 19 June 2020 09:30 AM

Lyndon Baker
THe NRLA should be shouting from the rooftops and challenging every false statement from Shelter, Generation Rent, Citizens Advice etc. When the Govermet first suspended S21, before suspending court action, the NRLA should have been pointing out that action already started would not be Covid-19 related and should proceed. Instead the silence was deafening. It now seems to be dawning on other causes that landlords cannot continue or start proceedings against rent defaulters, those gulity of domestics abuse or anti-social behaviour. Not just landlords will suffer thanks to Boris' b*llocks.

From: Lyndon Baker 16 June 2020 20:47 PM

Lyndon Baker
But Shelter and Citizens Advice told Jenrick it was a good idea and there was nobody willing to offer a large donation to the Tory party to get him to change his mind.

From: Lyndon Baker 16 June 2020 11:59 AM

Lyndon Baker
They are, as the saying goes, in office but not in power. THe majority of the press, civil service, judges, police, Shelter and Citizens Advice are now ruled by the left-wing so landlords are not welcome.

From: Lyndon Baker 15 June 2020 11:35 AM

Lyndon Baker
@David Crisp, since the comment did not come from Mad Mark, I presume it was aimed at David Porter for suggesting we are lined up against the wall.

From: Lyndon Baker 12 June 2020 13:49 PM

Lyndon Baker
It will only get worse when landlords like myself, leave the industry. I am sick and tred of being the punchbag for tenants, MPs, the Council, Shelter, Citizens (poor) Advice and now AgeUK. The charities are AWASH wth money and should buy a few homes and become landlords. themselves. At least then they would be actually helping the homeless instead of preaching about it. They are, as the phrase goes, all talk and no action. I remembere the pre-1966 HA days. My grandmother was a tenant and had buddleia roots coming through her kitchen roof every year. Black mould grew in the toilet through the stone walls because there was no ventilation. The landlord did nothing because he did not have to. My father and in later years I helped, cleared the roots and washed away the mould and repainted. Those days will return.

From: Lyndon Baker 12 June 2020 13:02 PM

Lyndon Baker
@Luke - should be - perhaps, but it won't be. Judges will invariably side with the tenant who is on legal aid against the "fat cat" landlord. No EPC shown before they moved in, Gas Safey lapsed because of Covid-19 - in other words ANY EXCUSE.

From: Lyndon Baker 11 June 2020 14:42 PM

Lyndon Baker
How does that work, Paul? Surely they have to go through the courts in the same way as landlords?

From: Lyndon Baker 10 June 2020 16:06 PM

Lyndon Baker
In other, groundbreaking news, water is wet. Just be honest and call this article what it is, an advertorial.

From: Lyndon Baker 10 June 2020 08:53 AM

Lyndon Baker
Anyone remember the television show with the catchphrase "Watch out, Beadle's about"? I long for the days when that phrase is feared by MPs and bad tenants instead of good landlords.

From: Lyndon Baker 09 June 2020 14:11 PM

Lyndon Baker
These two women, Bleat and Guy, are a bigger cause of homelessness than Section 21. Neither woman has housed a single person yet landlords’ taxes support both organisations. The Government, by asking how high when they say jump, have proved that they have lost the plot.

From: Lyndon Baker 09 June 2020 10:21 AM

Lyndon Baker
As he been seen in the latest protests that were allowd to virtually run riot, the Government has lost the ability to govern so is pandering to the lowest common denominator. SInce there are more tenants than landlords, the latter lose out in the mistaken belief that the tenants will vote Tory. Notonly will tenants NOT vote Tory, few landlords will now.

From: Lyndon Baker 08 June 2020 12:26 PM

Lyndon Baker
I suspect that question was rhetorical.

From: Lyndon Baker 08 June 2020 12:22 PM

Lyndon Baker
Sarah, I own, co-own and manage seven properties as well as working part-time for an agency I set up with a friend. Of my own there are currently two empty and a third will be next month. Nearly every enquiry is a benefit tenant, but there is no way I will take them since the odds are stacked against landlords and very much in favour of the tenants. At leas of a professional tenant goes into arrears you can issue a moneyclaimonline since they seem to be still working. With benefit tenants landlords have no hope, particularly at the moment. Even before this we all knew councils told their tenants to stay put until the bailiffs arrived or they will regard them as intentionally homeless. Yet the councils still wonder why the majority of landlords want nothing to do with them.

From: Lyndon Baker 06 June 2020 12:36 PM

Lyndon Baker
Paul, I can only speak for our agency. We are a professional agency trading for over fifteen years. Our tenants are all either employed professionals or students with guarantors. Only one asked for a rent reduction which the landlord agreed to, yet they have all paid the full rent due, The general perception is that landlords are coining it in so deserve everything that is being thrown at them.

From: Lyndon Baker 06 June 2020 00:09 AM

Lyndon Baker
Any professional landlord who lets to benefit tenants in the future will deserve everything that happens to them.

From: Lyndon Baker 05 June 2020 19:54 PM

Lyndon Baker
Weell, I blame myself for voting for this shower! I had planned to sell if Corbyn got in. Now its looks as if I will have to sell BECAUSE Boris got in.

From: Lyndon Baker 05 June 2020 19:18 PM

Lyndon Baker
@Paul Don't do yourself down Paul. I think many landlords will realise eventually that this Government is out to get them and will sell up.

From: Lyndon Baker 05 June 2020 14:42 PM

Lyndon Baker
Paul, if you are a landlord you should not think that they are out to get you. You should KNOW they are out to get you.

From: Lyndon Baker 05 June 2020 14:16 PM

Lyndon Baker
Regarding frogs, Paul, today the first of my froglets left the pond to seek their new life in the outside world!

From: Lyndon Baker 03 June 2020 16:19 PM

Lyndon Baker
@ John McKay - well said.

From: Lyndon Baker 03 June 2020 12:21 PM

Lyndon Baker
@Barry X What annoys me MOST is that this so-called Tory Government is giving away my taxes to Shelter, Citizens Advice and any tinpot dictator who wants foreign aid. Given the amount that the Chancellor has given away lately ths country needs to cut down on the freebies! The furlough idea was good, but it should have been tapered - 80% first month, 70% second month, 60% third month and so on. As it is, when the furlough ends, the money tap will just be turned off. It will be a shock to a lot of people includng my neighbours who have been on an extended holiday since lockdown started!

From: Lyndon Baker 03 June 2020 11:48 AM

Lyndon Baker
Sadly this Tory government will always want to show their caring side to get away from the label of being the nasty party. They are also trying to pander to the youth vote, which is a total waste of time. The youth tend to be left wing, I know I was. I think it is part of the idealistic view that the young will change the world. As I grew older/up I realised that not everyone can be helped. I briefly saw a programme last night on benefit claimants. One was £30,000 in debt and still borrowing money. No job, three kids so decided to spend £150 per child for Christmas but ended up spending £250 per child. He had a demand for over £200 but brushed it off on the grounds that “it will cost them more than that to take me to court”. THIS IS WHAT GOOD LANDLORDS ARE UP AGAINST.

From: Lyndon Baker 03 June 2020 10:01 AM

Lyndon Baker
Thanks, but no thanks.

From: Lyndon Baker 03 June 2020 08:46 AM

Lyndon Baker
@Barry X - sadly the majority of that half are politicians like Citizen Khan who believe the Shelter and Citizens Advice that all tenants are good and all landlords are bad.

From: Lyndon Baker 02 June 2020 13:11 PM

Lyndon Baker
Of course they want a permanent ban on Section 21. I am already selling one property. If this ban comes in, then the others will also go.

From: Lyndon Baker 02 June 2020 12:45 PM

Lyndon Baker
@Barry X Mad Mark - I like it!

From: Lyndon Baker 01 June 2020 19:27 PM

Lyndon Baker
David, probably landlords would then be subject to more clawback and the council will have two choices to recover monies: Option A: Pursue the feckless tenants who have moved on to other pastures of Option B: Pursue the landlord. Rarely do they choose Option A.

From: Lyndon Baker 27 May 2020 19:34 PM

Lyndon Baker
NRLA or NRTA? If only they out as much effort into supporting landlords.

From: Lyndon Baker 26 May 2020 08:44 AM

Lyndon Baker
Thanks, Paul.

From: Lyndon Baker 21 May 2020 14:47 PM

Lyndon Baker
Paul, as you know I am an online agent and I can confirm that only one tenant has asked for a rent to be reduced temprarily. The rest are all paying on time, even in advance in some cases - I guess not all agents (on or offline) are the same.

From: Lyndon Baker 21 May 2020 13:46 PM

Lyndon Baker
@Gordon Brown - why class all online agents the same. That is as silly as saying all landlordds are bad because of a couple or all agents with offices rip you off because they have to pay business rates.

From: Lyndon Baker 21 May 2020 13:44 PM

Lyndon Baker
Curiously they have "testimonials" saying they have been managing their properties for seven years!

From: Lyndon Baker 21 May 2020 11:46 AM

Lyndon Baker
Shelter, Citizens Advice, LRU etc all DEMAND the Government supports tenants. NRLA however, PLEADS with the Government to support landlords. Notice the difference?

From: Lyndon Baker 21 May 2020 09:40 AM

Lyndon Baker
I couldn’t agree more, Paul and you know I usually defend agents.

From: Lyndon Baker 21 May 2020 09:37 AM

Lyndon Baker
@Richard. I agree with almost everything that you say except the failure of agents to fight back. Any agent challenging these people would soon be reminded that of course they wold take the side of their clients, the landlords. Also the vast majority of the tenants agents deal with are the cream. It is the feckless few that rant about landlords. The NRLA should be the ones fighting back, not agents.

From: Lyndon Baker 20 May 2020 11:15 AM

Lyndon Baker
The most annoying thing about this woman and CA is that MY TAXES HELP FUND THEM. These so-called charities like Citizens Advice (unless you are a landlord when they will not advise you) and Shelter, is that they get money from the taxpayer.

From: Lyndon Baker 19 May 2020 14:27 PM

Lyndon Baker
I think Alan Smith is Amina Gichinga in drag.

From: Lyndon Baker 18 May 2020 21:10 PM

Lyndon Baker
Are you blind, Alan? The web is full of ways for tenants to contact landlords if they are having GENUINE difficulties in paying their rent. The NRLA even has template letters covering the response from the landlord. As for landlords having a mortgage holiday, you do realise that it is anything but a holiday? The interest still accrues and the payments due when the landlord does not have to pay the mortgage either have to be paid over the term of the mortgage OR the mortgage period is extended. Hardly a holiday.

From: Lyndon Baker 18 May 2020 20:25 PM

Lyndon Baker
SAdly, David, in ther blind hatred of landlords, they fail to realise that when the good landlords are driven out by their campaigning, they will be left with the bad. The silence from the NRLA is deafening.

From: Lyndon Baker 18 May 2020 12:22 PM

Lyndon Baker
Dan Wilson Craw, very apt name since he certainly sticks in mine. He claims, without any evidence whatsoever, that there are “thousands of renters stuck in unsuitable homes”. Craw doesn’t even say why they are unsuitable. That could be because the tenant is in a property now too small for their expanding family, but that would not permit him to imply that the landlord is at fault.

From: Lyndon Baker 15 May 2020 09:14 AM

Lyndon Baker
How kind of Shelter. Perhaps agents could get together and produce a guide for charities on how not to be total knobheads when dealing with landlords and agents.

From: Lyndon Baker 15 May 2020 09:01 AM

Lyndon Baker
Any landlord banking with Nationwide is essentially a turkey voting for Christmas. Nationwide also donated their advertising slots to that well-known friend of landlords and agents, Shelter!

From: Lyndon Baker 15 May 2020 08:59 AM

Lyndon Baker
"Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick says the government is “thinking carefully” about what more it can do for private tenants" NOT A DAMN WORD ABOUT WHAT THEY CAN DO FOR LANDLORDS!

From: Lyndon Baker 14 May 2020 12:54 PM

Lyndon Baker
Ah, a surveyor! No doubt one of those that calls agents asking for comparables . . .

From: Lyndon Baker 14 May 2020 12:52 PM

Lyndon Baker
No, John, most sensible people think that.

From: Lyndon Baker 14 May 2020 12:49 PM

Lyndon Baker
Well said, John. Are we sure they are a "retired" agent or, more likely, an ex-agent.

From: Lyndon Baker 14 May 2020 12:48 PM

Lyndon Baker
Where is your proof?

From: Lyndon Baker 13 May 2020 13:54 PM

Lyndon Baker
It would be nice to hear the NRLA (and the government) tell these freeloaders that the VAST MAJORITY of responsible tenants are paying their rent or have arranged reduced payments while their income is affected. I bet that those shouting for rent to be suspended are those who take from the public purse and give nothing in return.

From: Lyndon Baker 13 May 2020 13:46 PM

Lyndon Baker
As the phrase goes, “Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they”. A permanent evictions ban? How do these morons think that would work?

From: Lyndon Baker 12 May 2020 09:12 AM

Lyndon Baker
I would, but I don’t use Facebook.

From: Lyndon Baker 11 May 2020 23:34 PM

Lyndon Baker
ARe you really Polly Neate?

From: Lyndon Baker 11 May 2020 21:17 PM

Lyndon Baker
Keep reading, Matthew. "The things that we have treated as stores of value - which are mainly shares and both commercial and residential property - are massively overvalued now." "But I stress, even if we are concerned that the property sector might collapse that is not a reason to priorities the interests of landlords. They have to be at the bottom of the pile for support right now. In other words, the government has everything the wrong way round." Dear Lord, if talking was an Olympic sport, Richard Murphy would take Gold, Silver and Bronze.

From: Lyndon Baker 07 May 2020 12:30 PM

Lyndon Baker
I couldn't disagree more, Paul. Small, independent agents are able to be more flexible that corporate agents.

From: Lyndon Baker 06 May 2020 11:34 AM

Lyndon Baker
Paul, we are not experiencing the mass rent defaults that you suggest. Yes, there is a reduced income stream, but we have a duty to our landlords. Landlords have a legal duty to maintain the property, whether the tenant pays rent or not. An agent contracts with the landlord to provide a service and, if they find that is unsustainable financially, should give notice to the landlord. Personally I blame the Government 100% for this because they used the words "Mortgage HOLIDAY" rather than something like Mortgage payment deferral. The words holiday suggests a payment free period without comeback when, as landlords and agents know, interest still accrues and that the missed payments have to be paid, either by increasing the term of the mortgage or increased payments. Both of those facts escape the defaulting tenants and their co-conspirators, Shelter (who don't) and Citizens Advice.

From: Lyndon Baker 06 May 2020 10:57 AM

Lyndon Baker
@Paul Barrett That, Paul, is the difference between a good agent and a poor agent. A good agent will support their client landlord rather than leave them high and dry.

From: Lyndon Baker 06 May 2020 09:43 AM

Lyndon Baker
Paul, as you know Letting Agents collect commission on rents received, not rents due. So if not rent is paid, the agent doesn't get paid. Any landlord that signs a contract with an agent who charges commission on rents due DESERVES to be sued by the agent.

From: Lyndon Baker 05 May 2020 19:49 PM

Lyndon Baker
I had to check the date THREE times to make sure it wasn’t 1st April. The kindest expression I can use for the Affordable Housing Commission is numpties. AHC now stands for Association of Hopeless Cuckoos.

From: Lyndon Baker 05 May 2020 10:24 AM

Lyndon Baker
Well said, Barry. Trying to think of someing I disagree with, but nope, nothing to disagree with.

From: Lyndon Baker 01 May 2020 15:13 PM

Lyndon Baker
You forgot to add, "IMNSHO".

From: Lyndon Baker 01 May 2020 13:44 PM

Lyndon Baker
Barry, I assure you that many people will read your post and I thank you for it. May I also wish you well during your treatment. Sadly you are correct. The Tories are chasing the votes of the young renters who are unlikely to vote for them until they have, as Judge Judy would put it, been properly cooked!

From: Lyndon Baker 30 April 2020 18:58 PM

Lyndon Baker
Sorry to disagree, but it is none of the tenant's business. You are talking about two separate contracts: Contract 1: Landlord contracts with mortgage company to pay the mortgage etc Contract 2: Tenant contracts with landlord to pay rent for the property and the landlord agrees peacuful enjoyment and to maintain he property etc. There is no right to know how the landlord financed the purchase.

From: Lyndon Baker 29 April 2020 11:52 AM

Lyndon Baker
So a self-styled expert dows not understand that a mortgage holiday is not what it sounds like. Payments are simply suspended wth interest still accruing and payments either increasing or or the payment period to be extended. The money STILL HAS TO BE PAID. As others have said, my finances are MY BUSINESS and nothing to do with the tenants. NO doubt SHelter, who do not shelter anyone, will pick this as their next campaign - tenants must have the right to see the landlord's finances regarding the rented property. ONly joiking - I hope.

From: Lyndon Baker 29 April 2020 11:47 AM

Lyndon Baker
That's easy, "Because the tenant said it was". Typical Labour supporting those who won't pay rent at the drop of a hat. The VAST MAJORITY OF TENANTS are responsible tenants and are doing their best to pay rents due. They also, when it is explained to them, understand that a "mortgage holiday" is not a holiday, but deferred payment with interest still being charge and the mortgage payments being either increased or extended to cover the misnamed holiday.

From: Lyndon Baker 29 April 2020 11:40 AM

Lyndon Baker
Looks like the NRLA may be standing up for landlords at last.

From: Lyndon Baker 27 April 2020 11:39 AM

Lyndon Baker
@ Paul Barratt I have ti turn off the television when thay see you next Tuesday from Shelter appears. Having a heart condition the lies he spouts just takes my blood pressure up to boiling point and beyond. *SHELTER HAVE NEVER SHELTERED ANYONE, EVER! Why do politicians suck up to them so much? *possible exception being Polly Neate who gets hundreds of thousands of pounds from the charity trough.

From: Lyndon Baker 24 April 2020 19:53 PM

Lyndon Baker
I would not say that there is discrimination against non-British applicants, but faced with two equal applicants where one is British and one is not, I daresay that most would prefer the British applicant. Why are we doing the work of the Immigration staff? If there was proper immigration control at aiirports and the Border Farce was less of a taxi service in the Channel, there would be no need for us to check their status.

From: Lyndon Baker 22 April 2020 12:20 PM

Lyndon Baker
You mean a bit lke the Shelter ads which were donated by Nationwide? I had to stop watching them on medical advice - raised my blood pressure too much.

From: Lyndon Baker 14 April 2020 11:13 AM

Lyndon Baker
I love that quote, "JUST three months' notice". That could be another three months rent not paid and, no doubt, this bleeding heart Government will extend that to four months (or more) if they are pressured enough by Shelter etc. Do landlords realise that the adverts for Shelter's begging bowl have been donated by Nationwide? IF you have an account with them - close it and tell them why.

From: Lyndon Baker 09 April 2020 11:44 AM

Lyndon Baker
If your agent doesn’t believe that a leak from one flat to another is essential work, then find another agent! The leak is damaging your property.

From: Lyndon Baker 05 April 2020 14:37 PM

Lyndon Baker
Let's hope they remember that they are a LANDLORD's Association and start standing up more for Landlords.

From: Lyndon Baker 02 April 2020 11:04 AM

Lyndon Baker
"landlords, many benefiting from a mortgage holiday"? Have I missed something? Mortgage payments are deferred whcih means pay extra to catch up or add to the term. That is not a holiday. Just imagine, this idiot could have been Chancellor of the Exchequer had voters not seen sense.

From: Lyndon Baker 02 April 2020 11:01 AM

Lyndon Baker
Get another agent - fast! Check their contract with you - it probably says 10% of monthly rent received so they get 10% of whatever rent you get. Otherwise they could still charge you even if the tenant stops payng.

From: Lyndon Baker 02 April 2020 10:55 AM

Lyndon Baker
Sadly the goverment has no money. The money these leeches get is from taxpayers including landlords and letting agents. They should be taken off the list of charities, they are running a business.

From: Lyndon Baker 31 March 2020 20:30 PM

Lyndon Baker
Does anyone else find the Shelter advert sickening and raising their blood pressure? Those parasites have not housed a single person and are sitting on millions!

From: Lyndon Baker 31 March 2020 20:12 PM

Lyndon Baker
Not to mention increased losses for those landlords who are seeking possession because of rent arrears, damage, anti-social behaviour etc. I fear this is going to affect the market more than Government realises and the three month notice will become a permanent fixture. Remember Income Tax was supposed to be temporary!

From: Lyndon Baker 27 March 2020 11:00 AM

Lyndon Baker
@ PF Sadly yes. I put them on a par with each other.

From: Lyndon Baker 26 March 2020 18:53 PM

Lyndon Baker
Citizens Advice, a charity supported by taxpayers that discriminates against landlords by refusing them any advice because they are "businesses".

From: Lyndon Baker 26 March 2020 12:11 PM

Lyndon Baker
This is a temporary amendment. Just as Income tax was meant to be temporary. I suspct Sectio 21 will stay, but with three months notice.

From: Lyndon Baker 26 March 2020 11:59 AM

Lyndon Baker
Typical knee-jerk reaction. So someone who has thousands of pounds of rnt arrears will be stuck with a free-loading tenant until this is over. I watched PMQs and listened to a Labour MP give to examples of Section 21 with no details as to why her constituents were being evicted. I realise that S21 is considered "no fault", but I bet she knew why they had been given notice.

From: Lyndon Baker 18 March 2020 12:42 PM

Lyndon Baker
Flash Mob bully boys (and girls) in action again.

From: Lyndon Baker 05 March 2020 09:46 AM

Lyndon Baker
Will Katrine Sporle put her money where her mouth is, invest in a property and let it out to DSS tenants? She has no actual experience of the rental market. Typical "Those who can, do. Those who cannot, preach!". Luckily Benefit tenants cannot afford to rent any of my properties.

From: Lyndon Baker 05 March 2020 09:44 AM

Lyndon Baker
When they do, it should be called the Richard Murphy Scale of Stupidity!

From: Lyndon Baker 05 March 2020 09:30 AM

Lyndon Baker
Having dealt with students/Universities I am firmly convinced that whilst they and ther professors may well be intelligent, they totally lack commonsense.

From: Lyndon Baker 26 February 2020 14:27 PM

Lyndon Baker
I don't have that problem. I only house professional, working tenants.

From: Lyndon Baker 26 February 2020 14:22 PM

Lyndon Baker
In other words, this is an advertorial. Does any agent like to keep a property empty for a day longer than necessary? An empty property means no income for the landlord and no income for the agent.

From: Lyndon Baker 20 February 2020 10:23 AM

Lyndon Baker
So the tenants have this explained to them, they are given T & Cs and still the tenants and these no-deposit firms blame the agents! I will avoid no deposit schemes like the plague (or coronavirus) but would recommend that any firm using them get the applicants to sign a statement to the effect that they have read the T & Cs and understand that their payments are not refundable and they will still be liable for damages etc at the end of the tenancy.

From: Lyndon Baker 11 February 2020 12:08 PM

Lyndon Baker
I own a house in Penzance that is rented out. Would I let Cornwall Council or their agents put homeless tenants in there? Hell would freeze over first!

From: Lyndon Baker 11 February 2020 12:04 PM

Lyndon Baker
A blanket ban on pets in a tenancy agreement is one of the examples of an unfair term and it is suggested that the clause reads similar to, "Will not keep any animal without the written permission of the landlord which shall not unreasonably be withheld". Obviously consent can be reasonably witheld if a head lease bans pets, as is the case with two on my flats, or if the landlord is letting their own home with the intention of returning and has a pet fur allergy. Sadly, as it typical with the Government, thy went vote chasing rather than listen to those who had knowledge of the industry. It would have been and still is, so easy to add the creatoion of a separate pet deposit of two or three weeks rent. It would be the sensible thing to do, so of course they won't do it.

From: Lyndon Baker 10 February 2020 10:54 AM

Lyndon Baker
An advertorial winning the Febriary award for stating the bleein' obvious and advertising his inventory firm. "Due to the variables of rental properties, animals and tenants themselves, it seems only right that landlords are able to make decisions on accepting pets on a case by case basis". Do landlords and agents not do this already? I expect to see how well behaved the dogs are and the children if any. I have stopped more viewings with uncontrollable children than dogs! Unfortunately I cannot, because of head lease clauses, permit pets in some of my flats, but my former family home (a semi-detached house) has always had tenants with pets.

From: Lyndon Baker 06 February 2020 09:18 AM

Lyndon Baker
FAO: Paul Gadsby, Good Luck protecting tenants' rights when the landlords sell up and move to another London borough.

From: Lyndon Baker 06 February 2020 09:04 AM

Lyndon Baker
Isobel Thomson?

From: Lyndon Baker 22 January 2020 12:06 PM

Lyndon Baker
Perhaps Shelter are the cause of housing related worries: Search Daily Mail for Why did Shelter back a squatter in my dad's house?

From: Lyndon Baker 15 January 2020 09:16 AM

Lyndon Baker
Strong and stable - wasn't that Theresa May's mantra? How did that work out?

From: Lyndon Baker 08 January 2020 09:26 AM

Lyndon Baker
@ Possessionfriend etc I once went to value a property with a colleague from sales because the owner occupiers were moving and could not decide whether to sell or let the property. There was one rather tired spaniel lying in the lounge, As we walked across the floor to the kitchen we could see the fleas jumping, When we left my colleague was brushing the fles off her stockings. I was lucky since, being male, I wore trousers. I felt sorry for the dog. I have six dogs and numerous cats and ALL are flear treated on a regular basis.

From: Lyndon Baker 06 January 2020 20:06 PM

Lyndon Baker
Does Jenrick have ANY experience of being a landlord? I suspect not. As usual, those who can, do; those who cannot, preach.

From: Lyndon Baker 06 January 2020 12:32 PM

Lyndon Baker
The MHCLG says measures already undertaken include “banning unfair letting fees and capping tenancy deposits, saving tenants across England at least £240m a year” just shows how out of touch they are. Banning tenant fees has pushed up rents. Agents are facing increased costs from property portals - ours has just increased by £50 pcm so who do they think will have to pay? Landlord will, as I have done, increase the rents to compensate. I have a tenant who signed the tenancy on a Saturday but by the Monday decided he didn't want to continue with the tenancy for "personal reasons". I have tenant insurance so he is aware until he is replaced he has to pay rent, council tax etc or the insurers will go after him. I still have to pay for the new tenant to be referenced, check in and out feers etc plus my time! Mind you, it could have been worse, Commie Corbyn could have won the election.

From: Lyndon Baker 06 January 2020 12:29 PM

Lyndon Baker
That bottomless pit of cash is OUR bottomless pit.

From: Lyndon Baker 06 January 2020 12:11 PM

Lyndon Baker
Paul, Have you ever had a budgie? They fly around and poop anywhere, plus can tear v=curtains to shreds with they beaks and claws. As for a small dog v large dog, I have both small and large. The ones that make most noise are the small ones because they react to the small dachsund next door in an owner occupied flat that is left alone for long periods of the day. Bring an animal lover I do try, where the property is suitable, to persuade the landlord to advertise as pets negotiable. I insist that all cats are neutered and that the dogs attend the viewings. So far the dogs that attend the viewings are better behaved than the children. Jenrick really needs to to his homework though. Currently a NO PETS clause is regarded as unreasonable unless the words, WITHOUT the landlords consent (which will not be unreasonably witheld) are included. To me that says that only in certain circumstances can a landlord refuse a pet and those to anyone with commonsense, that excludes Goverbment Ministers immediately, would include landlords with allergies, head lease restraints and suitability of the property. A separate pet deposit would be a good idea, but until then an extra £25+ pcm would be a start.

From: Lyndon Baker 04 January 2020 18:16 PM

Lyndon Baker
What a surprise said nobody in the industry. It may have surprised Polly Neate though!

From: Lyndon Baker 30 December 2019 19:55 PM

Lyndon Baker
Found and signed.

From: Lyndon Baker 30 December 2019 18:53 PM

Lyndon Baker
Of more significance and importance would be the number that were upheld. It is easy to complain, not always so easy to substantiate.

From: Lyndon Baker 23 December 2019 19:46 PM

Lyndon Baker
Once the process starts at least one of my tenants will receive a S21 before it is abolished. A short letter will accompany it informing the tenant that they should thank the Rogue Charities Shelter, Generation Rent and AgeUK who have campaigned for this. Given the proce I anticipate that it will not be attractive to investmet landlords so another loss to the rental market. As you say, they will reap what they sow.

From: Lyndon Baker 20 December 2019 15:16 PM

Lyndon Baker
Prove it, Polly or is it that you need a pay rise?

From: Lyndon Baker 19 December 2019 18:05 PM

Lyndon Baker
Calm down, Paul, it is bad for your health.

From: Lyndon Baker 19 December 2019 18:03 PM

Lyndon Baker
Not sure why Boris feels the need to placate Generation Rent. Their members will never, as Boris put it, "Hold their noses and put a cross against the Conservative candidate".

From: Lyndon Baker 17 December 2019 13:35 PM

Lyndon Baker
So the RLA have rolled over and accepted the loss of Section 21? Well if/when the abolition of Section 21 appears on tbe Parliamentray timetable, my tenants will be getting Section 21s and I will save money on my RLA/NLA membership since I will no longer be a landlord.

From: Lyndon Baker 16 December 2019 13:14 PM

Lyndon Baker
Perhaps not, but if Corbyn gets in we will have to provide free toilet rolls! Do they still make Izal?

From: Lyndon Baker 11 December 2019 11:14 AM

Lyndon Baker
Just considering?

From: Lyndon Baker 06 December 2019 15:09 PM

Lyndon Baker
Why has the council not issued an IMO if he is such a repeat offender?

From: Lyndon Baker 27 November 2019 16:28 PM

Lyndon Baker
They obviously attend the Diane Abbott School of Mathematics. I can guarantee that the minute the abolition of Section 21 looks certain, there will be 4 tenancies getting a S21 and 4 properties for sale.

From: Lyndon Baker 20 November 2019 08:49 AM

Lyndon Baker
His estates form part of a trust so he doesn't actually inherit very much, There is nothing stopping anyone doing the same with their family home. I paid no inheritance tax when I inherited my family home because it was worth less than £475,000.

From: Lyndon Baker 01 November 2019 11:05 AM

Lyndon Baker
The Government is the taxpayer. I'd prefer to see Shelter and Citizens "exc landlords" Advice picking up the tab since they are so keen on abolishing it.

From: Lyndon Baker 17 October 2019 12:30 PM

Lyndon Baker
#metoo

From: Lyndon Baker 14 May 2019 11:16 AM

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