Fine of £40,000 for landlord who put tenants at risk...

Andrew townshend
22 June 2023 09:22 AM

Who blocked the fire exit, and damaged the fire doors tenants maybe?

Michael Foley
22 June 2023 21:26 PM

That’s one down side of having a Company you go fined twice, the landlord was very naughty he shouldn’t be blocking fire escapes / damaging fire doors or his electric’s.

Robert Brown
23 June 2023 08:34 AM

If I were a tenant, I would deal with hazards like a blocked fire escape, mould etc. I wouldn't damage electrical fittings but I would make them safe to keep my family safe.

Andrew is right. The tenants probably caused the problems.

Clare Dundas
24 June 2023 10:49 AM

My house was wrecked by a Romanian gang. Up to 17 people trafficked illegally to the uk and living there, mattresses on floors, wires pulled out of the ceiling roses, cockroach infestation that took over a month to eliminate. The filth, the stink, the squalor. It cost me over £6k to put everything right, recarpet, redecorate, etc. Hull city council had received complaints from neighbours over a two year period and only finally alerted me last year. I'd been receiving the rent on time each month, so assumed the nice Romanian women whom I had let the house to, along with her two children, were good tenants and doing fine. After the first few months I stopped checking the property, wrongly assuming all was ok. My fault entirely. Hull city council wanted me to allow the tenant and her children (clearly a front for the gang) to return to the property once all was again in order, as they had 'the right.' I declined to go along with this ludicrous order and the neighbours said they would barricade the street should the 'tenant' be permitted to return. £6k later and my property was let to a young mum and all was good again until the same environmental enforcement officer, the Witch Finder General from HCC , did an inspection of the property a few months ago. The list of demands she sent me were mostly preposterous. In a kitchen the size of a postage stamp I was ordered to put a radiator, even though the tenant did not want or need it. A couple of electrical sockets had to be placed an inch or so higher than they were, a dripping garden tap had to be fixed, the roof to the lean to had to be recovered even though it wasnt leaking, and the gutters had to be cleared, and one electrical socket that had no power had to have power, despite there being ample more. Oh, and two doors onto the hallway had to be made of solid wood. Funny how friends of mine in council housing don't have these, but there we go. There is a housing shortage; a crisis. Mortgage rate increases are zeroing out any / all profits from residential lettings. If councils are not reasonable, many properties will become serviced rentals on online travel agency sites, achieving the same monthly income but every week and without the hassle! Guest reviews on these sites will ensure that properties are maintained. It's a no brainer. The housing crisis will get much worse once landlords decide to go this way, fed up to the back teeth of unreasonable demands from council irritants who will support and defend bad tenants to the hilt. In the case in question, the original post, the landlord and property company do seem to be at fault but, from my own ongoing experience, there are two sides to the story.

Peter Why Do I Bother
24 June 2023 13:17 PM

I feel your pain, elsewhere on here you can see my own dramas recently.

Preston council want me to completely renovate a property with the little swines who wrecked it.! Madness

Andrew townshend
24 June 2023 12:47 PM

Watton a market town 10 miles from me is not an area to own properties, I don't know this property or the landlord, there is a large pork prosessing factory there that employs east europeans, so these were likely the tenants here, as others have said 2 sides to these stories