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The landlord will only recover a tiny proportion of the total cost, if lucky. The tenant's lawyers were clearly aware of that - so often landlords pay up, even with a strong case, because it will cost them less to do so. A council can make a different decision - it's not their money that's being spent. This will act as a deterrent to other claims and so is, arguably, money well spent. The tenant's lawyers will also know that the judge is likely to be more sympathetic to their situation than that of the landlord. I'm assuming that the expert witness drilled holes in the outside wall, then used an endoscope to check for bridges across the airgap. That doesn't come cheap. Impossible in an older, solid stone wall with no cavity. It's so hard to prove a negative.
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As a repeat tenant - I greet these proposals with total horror. They will make tenancies far more expensive for me and the choice far more limited. IME, landlords DON'T WANT TO EVICT GOOD TENANTS. Indeed, will bend over backwards to keep tenants like me. Indeed, even the possibility of such legislation appears to have driven many would-be landlords out of the market. Two of the ten flats in my block are now just pied a terre for their owners - who used to let them out. They are flats that I might easily have rented myself. I know that the insurance costs in the service charges here have quadrupled in the last two or three years - a block of flats at flood risk not being considered at all, for most insurers. So one month of rent only covers the owner's share of that insurance. The block's windows and doors are being replaced by the property management company - my landlord's share of that is 35k. Yet they can charge no more rent than another owner, elsewhere, not facing such bills. It's a mug's game, being a landlord. That's before these changes. All the good landlords will be driven out. Leaving the ones that no tenant wants to experience.
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Guys, So, lots of tenant horror stories, who hasn't got one to tell? But what about horror LAs?
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