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Suzy OShea

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What a load of piffle! Where are Richard Branson's reserves Eh? He is a billionaire who splashed out millions on researching space travel but he has still applied for government help to meet his wages bill. There is no help for landlords, just temporary deferment of mortgage debt which shortens the remaining time to repay this debt. Many landlords have small portfolios with limited amounts of reserves. with the downward pressure on rents these past six months and the ban on even renting out empty property from March to June, there are precious few reserves left. Why don't you go back to the golden dream of rich landlords and fairy dusted rents, instead of commenting here!

From: Suzy OShea 21 August 2020 09:51 AM

Anyone who buys property in these uncertain times is a fool!

From: Suzy OShea 19 August 2020 09:30 AM

with fewer people coming to London, it isn't surprising that rents are falling and tenants have changed their priorities, driven by COVID19. Fewer people coming to London is one of the negative consequences of Brexit.

From: Suzy OShea 10 August 2020 09:42 AM

Many people still want to live in central London Andrew Townshend if it means they can walk or cycle to work when offices reopen.

From: Suzy OShea 07 August 2020 12:40 PM

Corona Virus has hit everyone financially. For how much longer does this government insist on making landlords provide forced loans to tenants and governments by housing these tenants for free. If this is the case then they must make the banks offer lines of credit to Landlords.

From: Suzy OShea 23 July 2020 10:41 AM

Paul Barett, You are totally right! Politics is irrelevant in business! But it is everyone's right to hold what political beliefs they please! We have all been stung by the feckless, disruptive, destructive, violent and thieving tenant. therefore, our business model to avoid such state-licensed criminals is a basic human right of self-defence! We must rely on our own means of self-defence because this excrable, corrupt, tyrannical brexiteer government has declared open season on the smaller private LL. Someone on here lamented the councils' broken system and inefficiencyI! Its all part of the government plan to discriminate against the jobless, who for too many decades have made more money milking the system than they could ever earn, especially if they have children. On Cameron's watch, he exposed how the average tax-payer was being ripped off by the determinedly unemployable and the soul food of UC with all its penury and painful delays was set up! Since this then is the chosen discriminatory mechanism by consecutive Conservative governments to force the career bone idle to work, is it not our bounden civic duty, as upstanding citizens and tax-payers who pay for this system, to support the governments initiatives to force people back to work. Restricting the choice of property available to unemployed tenants, is merely maintaining government policy to discourage tax-payer funded idleness!

From: Suzy OShea 15 July 2020 12:26 PM

Elizabeth beckett, Totally agree with your comments! This is a worthless study without having classified types of property researched. Every political party should learn if you mess with the market, it will bite the tenants because scarcity always raises prices! But rents in many parts of London have been falling since the lock down! So this study just spreads lies.

From: Suzy OShea 29 June 2020 16:09 PM

Jahan Khan, Re adjacent properties requiring the same safety tests: you can't demand this if neighbouring properties are private homes.!

From: Suzy OShea 19 June 2020 12:42 PM

Mark Wilson, Always the Doomster! Still were you not advocating to let tenants live in our properties for free a short while ago? Well if the rents fall so far they'll hardly be worth collecting.

From: Suzy OShea 29 May 2020 12:23 PM

Mark Wilson, My son was in student flats for three years and you are right that often the agents treat them badly: they fail to provide the most basic health and safety equipment such as smoke and carbon monoxide detectors; they leave repairs like missing grid panels covering bathroom pipes undone for ever, this allowing rodent infestations in the property: they don't stick to legal limits for sizes of rooms: worst of all there is no inclusion of a six-month break clause in any of their tenancy agreements, such as I and I'm sure every responsible landlord includes in their tenancy agreement, which would have allowed the tenant to quite legally give one month's notice in February/March and move out without legal threats and demands for lost rent. However, on the other side, financially students have been affected the least since they are supposed to be able to survive on the grants/loans provided from tax-payers' money for that purpose. Any money they earn from part time jobs which may have been lost is extraneous to this calculation! Going back home to live off Mum and Dad is therefore their choice and if their parents have stood as guarantors then the landlords ought to be able to collect the rent. If there is no clause in the contract about a force majeure altering the situation, like the damage of a hurricane or a fire having made the accommodation uninhabitable, then I don't see how this can be whistled up suddenly to justify the unjustifiable! If students or their parents win this case, they will be creating a rod for their own backs in the future, since many landlords will leave this niche market and refuse to take students. This will create future scarcity and ultimately drive up rents. Furthermore, are students who live 'in hall; i.e. in student accommodation provided by their universities allowed to skip their rental obligations? If they are not getting lectures, tutorials or the services and resources of student libraries are they allowed to refuse to pay tuition fees for the time of the lock down? I think you could be on a slippery slope here and the government had better set limits to its presumption on landlords' charity or else they and we the tax-payers will have even larger bills to face for the Corona virus bail outs. This government has already printed nearly £63 billion to cover the requirements of the current lock down which will shortly be lifted, though economic life will take some time to return to anything approaching normality. Now this pack of criminals wants to print nearly another £300 billion to fund further dislocation caused by brexit which will very conveniently be laid at the door of the Corona Virus. This is all fraudulent but I would expect no better from this pack of jackals!

From: Suzy OShea 26 May 2020 16:29 PM

Totally agree with Andrew Townshend's post. With more pressure from unions for rental holidays, this needs to be resisted.

From: Suzy OShea 13 May 2020 10:22 AM

This is definitely a welcome step. now they only need to add council tax, insurance and utility charges! Which also need to be paid!

From: Suzy OShea 19 March 2020 09:12 AM

So far, no banks are offering mortgage holidays on BTLs! So to survive, LLs have to take on large loans to keep going for how long, we don't know!

From: Suzy OShea 18 March 2020 22:32 PM

Mark Wilson, The reality is more homelessness and a drop in property values as more private landlords are forced by debt to sell. Only large companies have the reserves to keep going for three months or more! And who is to say that this epiDemic will not return next year?

From: Suzy OShea 17 March 2020 15:05 PM

Oh Really! well, I have not noticed this rise in East London, where the situation is becoming so desperate that some landlords are offering 90 % off the first weeks rent! So where do you get your information?

From: Suzy OShea 26 February 2020 13:11 PM

it just goes to show how the government has lost and continues to lose tax revenue from companies moving to EU countries as brexshit hits! So now they are scraping the bottom of the barrel in trying to scare up more tax from private landlords, many of whom run their properties on a shoe string!

From: Suzy OShea 24 February 2020 10:44 AM

Whenever governments interfere, its bad news for that sector. and since we are now governed by av owed criminal clowns, chaos is all that one can expect.

From: Suzy OShea 18 February 2020 12:17 PM

well, one of the tell tale signs to watch out for is a huge spike in your electricity bill because they often use powerful electric lights to being on the plants. this happened in my house and it took me over a year to pay down the increased debt.

From: Suzy OShea 13 February 2020 15:52 PM

Yes, Well for many years, rent increases have been below inflationary levels with some areas seeing falls in rents charged. with a growing scarcity of rented accommodation, such increases are only to be expected!

From: Suzy OShea 12 February 2020 10:08 AM

what becomes difficult for elderly to budget for are the long-term increases in rent if they don't have generous pensions. We all know that the state pension is just soul food and would never cover rent as well as other living costs. Rents in retirement communities are higher because there are added services like wardens. yet buying in these communities also involves very high services charges for similar reasons. My advice if you have a large house that is too large for you to cope with, keep a spare room for a carer which you may well need and rent out a couple of rooms to defray future costs. Its a far better option than paying vast sums for retirement homes. Don't like the idea of 'sharing your home with strangers'. Well, what do you think you'll be doing in a retirement home where the dwellings are split into flats? if you get a bad neighbour, it can make your life miserable and you have absolutely no control. Keeping lodgers in your home who turn out to be noisy or anti-social, you can evict them in three weeks. most large houses could even have enough space to provide your own ground floor flat with bathrooms adapted for the elderly. Making the upper floor a shared rental space with a kitchen is not difficult. Employing a cleaner on a weekly basis for both premises means you retain ultimate control over what goes on in the shared rental space and can defray the cleaning costs of your own flat as part of the maintenance charges. if ever you came to sell your house, some tax would be due on the part used to generate income, but this is better than other alternatives.

From: Suzy OShea 16 January 2020 10:06 AM

They would be in a much more worrying situation if they had bought a home, having put down a deposit of £20,000 or more and then were lOoking at losing this because their jobs were under threat and they could not pay the mortgage! Home-owners are usually much more indebted than tenants in the private sector because they are usually paying off debts on furniture too! When are people going stop playing the 'poor me' card and take some responsibility for their decisions in life!

From: Suzy OShea 15 January 2020 10:42 AM

Mark Wilson: what do you think the purpose of a trade body is but, amongst other things, to lobby government for better terms for LL in the PRS? So when all the small landlords have sold up to either home buyers or to larger corporate landlords, do you think that there will still be as much rental property available as before? And if not, how will all the now homeless tenants be housed? Or is this conservative government planning to build more social and council housing with all the maintenance costs for the future that this entails?

From: Suzy OShea 02 January 2020 19:08 PM

Would that also apply to the CONservative party?

From: Suzy OShea 21 November 2019 12:21 PM

The damned conservative governments have caused this housing crisis, their speculating friends have profited from it, and no doubt donated to the party for the privilege, and now the Conservative party, desperate for votes after nigh on a decade of misrule is scapegoating the private rented sector for their own evil policies! of neglect!

From: Suzy OShea 22 August 2019 12:16 PM

What a load a load of 'brown nosing' rubbish from ARLA. Glad I don't belong to this traitorous organisation! Have they forgotten who they are supposed to be helping and representing? Furthermore, I can't think of a single responsible landlord who would not be happy to give his new tenants a one year contract! So what is all this nonsense! its just the f*cking Conservatives trying to make political capital out of a desperately needed resource - housing! And the main reason for this housing crisis is both the lack of investment in social housing by both local and central governments. Central government is even more to blame because their austerity budget cuts to local governments have left them so poorly funded that they can't even maintain the estates of social housing stocks they have. Thus, these estates fall into such disrepair that they can only be demolished and sold to property developers - who will make far less provision for social housing

From: Suzy OShea 22 August 2019 12:04 PM

For many years it was a legal obligation to dispaly the current Gas Safety Certificate on a notice board in the property. When did this legal obligation change to issuing it with the tenancy agreement and the 'How To Rent' booklet?

From: Suzy OShea 04 July 2019 10:07 AM

Let's hope that who ever is elected will be listening!

From: Suzy OShea 03 July 2019 16:20 PM

Given the corruption of this government over Brexit and other issues, I don't think Generation Rent will be fooled into voting for the CONservatives any time soon!

From: Suzy OShea 08 May 2019 13:25 PM

Yet another example of this corrupt administration's and other MPs continuing expenses scandal. Little has changed since the last one! Disgraceful! And now they want private landlords to have to house delinquent tenants for months on end before getting a resolution and having to pay lawyers through the nose to get an eviction. An eviction letter cost me £750 two years ago! Luckily the tenant left!

From: Suzy OShea 16 April 2019 09:26 AM

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