Chaos! Bid to regulate Airbnb and short lets in tatters after ruling

100% agree. They have been completely absent from the debate!! And when the CEO does say something it’s very weak. They need a PR department to counter the barrage of miss-information by the likes of Shelter and Generation rent!

Wholeheartedly agree with this statement. Simply put they have been absent in any debate and in my opinion pointless in this arena.
Hence I took the decision to not renew my membership.
I would add that Landlord's seem to be too independent of each other when we should link together to form a strong voice.
How may signatures did we get in the end to get the Section 24 debated, not sure we reached the 100,000 that we needed, as an example.

The £4m reserves should be for the benefit of members otherwise what’s it for?
RLA was never shy of using Judicial Review despite having far less funding - and never even tried crowd funding. We were totally committed to landlords not the commercial suppliers the NRLA keeps mailing us about rather than campaigning information which it should be sending. I really don’t know how they justify 120 staff.

Have I not been saying this for a long time? That we need to get together and crowdfund and do something about this - nationwide - including Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland.

Sheila I was part of the judical review concerning section 24, t no avail as the judge dismissed our case. We did something the NRLA did nothing.

I think about emigrating once some close family have died.... How sad is that. I can't stand all this woke lefty nonsense. I'm too scared to do business here. Just stick to PAYE and pensions and ISA (invested in NON-UK companies...).

Nick, where to emigrate to? Have you looked at anywhere specific?

Portugal has some good tax deals for expats but they speak Portugese, The Philippines, where I intend to retire, is very cheap, typically 20% of UK prices BUT you must be prepared to eat local food, UK cuisine is available at UK prices. Most people in the Philippines speak English for it is one of the official languages of the country. Malaysia would be another good choice, a country which welcomes foreigners, with a large proportion of the contry fluent in English.

Richard,
I haven't looked that far ahead TBH.

I tried France for 4 years, French look after the French though. Still I enjoyed the experience, but needed to come back for personal reasons.
I may consider another country again as I cannot see the situation here getting any better anytime soon!

I might have to do the van life thing. By a transit van, fit it out, make sure it's not a diesel. Travel around like a nomad where I don't stay long enough to need to pay taxes in each country. Put it into Bitcoin as out MPs are addicted to printing more and more money to P up the wall.

Now Gove wants to stop us eating Pizza - report in the Telegraph.

The Bill reading on 17th May has the notice period in England set at 2 months.
It is also strongly mooted there will be different rules for student property in England too.

The big letting agents are sharing blacklists of tenants trying the 29 days and move on trick.

The 12 groups of students who wanted to see a flat last week are all too aware of the massive shortage of flats in Scotland to give up a hard won flat.

Despite the worst efforts of the SNP and their little Green helpers renting to students gets round the indefinite tenancies and rent caps - bit God help families wanting to rent in Scotland currently!

The big letting agents are sharing blacklists of tenants trying the 28 days and move on trick.

The 12 groups of students who wanted to see one of my flats last week are all too aware of the massive shortage of flats in Scotland to give up a hard won flat.

Despite the worst efforts of the SNP and their little Green helpers renting to students gets round the indefinite tenancies and rent caps - but God help families wanting to rent in Scotland currently!

PS. Tried editing this but it posted it twice instead!

This is my theory. It makes sense for students too. So it's an easy win for the government.

Nick

I agree.

One of the reasons the Edinburgh Airbnb situation has arisen is that many student flats were refurbished in early June then let to tourists until September.

However since landlords can no longer confidently plan ahead for summer bookings as students often don't get their act together and give reasonable notice , many former student flats are now full time short let's, causing a shortage of student flats and a surplus of short term rental properties outside the peak tourist season. These then become party flats causing neighbours much more disruption than the students ever did.

The students in turn are forced further out of the city centre into residential areas taking over properties previously let to families who are no longer as desirable tenants as a bunch of students. Their new neighbours are also unhappy with this change of tenant and the students have additional time and expense in travelling to University or College ( assuming they ever do nowadays with lecturers either wfh or on strike).

The only winners of the new Scottish prs legislation are rogue tenants and landlords like me with the best properties able to command rents undreamt of even 5 years ago.

Decent tenants, especially families, lose out heavily now in the Peoples Republic of Scotland, with English tenants soon to suffer similarly but no one cares or listens.

Robert. I think it's terrible what's happening. All these politicians all implementing harmful policies but all virtue signalling they are doing the right thing!

It does not work and the meddlers do not care.

Signed and asked Graham Norwood to publicise :)