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John Thompson

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Well rent controles have work so well in the past havent they?..Dho! Even more landlords selling up and even less housing for the renters. Brilliant. Just one more loony government control over my property. And they say we live in a free country with free choice, What a joke. I can't wait to retire when i will then sell up everything and find some free spot in the world not totally controlled by the new world order elite yet.

From: John Thompson 23 August 2021 13:21 PM

Well if this moronic policy is enforced I and thousands of other landlords will be forced to start selling up by 2030. It will be hilarious watching the government and local councils squirming and trying to cope with thousands and thousands of x renters and the illegal immigrants they keep importing screeming for housing these idiots can't provide. What a bunch of prats!

From: John Thompson 26 July 2021 13:15 PM

Nottingham council it's simples..you reap what you sow 😂😂😂

From: John Thompson 25 May 2021 17:38 PM

LL seriously needs to stop being so passive everytime more hammer blow egislation is brought in to slowly destroy our businesses and take away our rights on our OWN properties, it has gone beyond a joke. No other business has been less supported and so heavily legislated against in the last couple of years. This will probably bankrupt many landlords and force others out permanently... The government is hell-bent on SUPPOSEDLY supporting tenants while doing absolutely nothing but batter landlords. We all know that even with the support they get some tenants are genuinely struggling through little fault of their own but many LLs are helping them out already, most tenants in serious arrears are just working the system, they are scumbags. In the end, we all lose out because this idiocy will have to be paid for somewhere along the line. LLs need someone or some organization with balls to take action to stop the rot and inspire LLs to untie together.

From: John Thompson 14 February 2021 09:49 AM

More government meddling telling landlords what they can and can't do with their own properties. As much as I love dogs and cats they can practically wreck your property. I have seen many properties with thousands of pounds worth of damage and stink caused by irresponsible pet-owning tenants. Will the tenant pay for all the damage? probably not. Will the deposit cut down by the government cover the cost of all the damage caused? most likely not. Will the government pay for the damage, definitely not! Time Dorris and his useless government buggerd off, I will never vote tories in again.

From: John Thompson 29 January 2021 23:59 PM

With all the regulations and banning of removing thives from rental property's the prs is fast becoming unviable as it is. Bring in rent controles and landlords will be selling up in droves if there not already. Then were will and who will the feckless be homed by. This snowflake generation is pathetic. Stop spending your money on garbage you don't need and start saving properly for a mortgage. Sacrifice for years just like all the previous generations have had to do. Stop expecting other people to fund everything for you.

From: John Thompson 22 January 2021 13:27 PM

Tenents have way too many powers as it is and can get way with criminal behaviour with little to no combacks. Meanwhile LL are losing their rights more every year. No wonder so many packing it in. Good luck Gen rent when you have driven out most of your avaleble property's and are left with huge rental costs or rouge LL to chose from.

From: John Thompson 22 December 2020 11:08 AM

Absolutely no details of WHY they are being evicted in the first place, as usual with these stories. I get very suspicious if I hear only one side of the story.

From: John Thompson 23 November 2020 22:18 PM

Sure just like most jobs...real easy..I bet whaterver you do is a a stroll in the park. Easy money sat on your arse being bone idle most of the day watching the cash roll in. Life so easy and simple isent it.

From: John Thompson 08 October 2020 12:25 PM

This has become a total joke and its hard to believe the government is getting away with stitching landlords up so badly and giving the sector absolutely no support. It's gone way too far now LLs need to get together to stop the rot before it becomes overwhelming.

From: John Thompson 18 September 2020 23:13 PM

When is the NRLA actually going to achieve something really positive for landlords? Will the government ever take any notice of this lame organization, or is it just going to dither on being ignored and totally ineffectual. Look at all the legislation and tax grabs against LLs over recent months that the government has pushed through with total ease, and now still six months' notice before you can claim to get your OWN home back. Something or someone in this organization needs to change tactics drastically, no power, no bite, no fight, practically useless to LLs.

From: John Thompson 01 September 2020 23:05 PM

Everything is always about helping tenants, never landlords. The government and councils seem to think landlords should foot the bill for feckless, antisocial, and/or non-paying tenants (thieves) and now with covid we have no control over OUR own properties for at least six months, possibly with no income to pay for mortgages and many other bills. Just how and why are we supposed to pay for this government cock-up. Do they think we have a magic money tree? I cannot think of any other sector or industry that has been so let down and put upon by the government with this COVID garbage. Are people shopping at Tesco for free?... NO. How about getting free beers at their local pub and the landlords being expected to foot the bill?... NO! This sector needs desperately to get together and start fighting back against the ever-mounting and totally unfair one-sided attacks from all sides. Being a BLT landlord is fast entering into financial suicide territory.

From: John Thompson 24 August 2020 22:28 PM

I bank with Santander. I won't be taking out a BTL mortgage with them. And with their savings rates being slashed I will be moving them elsewhere, and moving my account as well. Good riddens Santander.

From: John Thompson 19 August 2020 00:31 AM

There will be NO recovery of any shape. A massive ressision with biggest unemployment rates just around the corner. Followed by hose price crash. History tells us this every time and with this covid grabage, huge national debt only a fool would look at this with any optimism.

From: John Thompson 13 August 2020 15:02 PM

Surprise, surprise... Continued LL bashing by all sectors, ever-increasing taxes, sect 24, huge costs of evicting non paying and anti-social tenants that councils encourage to stay put till bailiffs arrive, costs and demands on good landlords increasing at alarming rates, mostly due to ridiculous government and council policies, and now LL leaving the sector in huge droves, and you say rents are going up!...who would have thought it?... Mmm, no doubt many more LL will be leaving the sector as the bashing and huge costs continue on and on, so now let's try to very hard to predict if rents will be going down or swiftly up? very difficult that one!

From: John Thompson 05 August 2020 11:05 AM

Free Speech died long ago, That's the whole point of the "don't upset, or offend anyone" garbage, to kill truth and free speech. You cant have a truthful, frank, or intelligent debate without upsetting some snowflake somewhere, deliberately intended or not!

From: John Thompson 31 July 2020 13:14 PM

Surprise, surprise! yet another blow, and probably the death knell for many landlords. Better get out of the ever-increasing and horrendously risky business of letting out your property, before total bankruptcy and losing everything you saved and worked for..Games up!

From: John Thompson 30 July 2020 12:22 PM

Getting anywhere near high on the EEF rating on older properties is going to be EXTREMELY expensive for most LLs, and grants won't help enough for most. It's yet another big expense that will have to be passed on to the tenants. It is fast approaching a time when it will become too expensive and time consuming for everyone concerned to carry on in this business.

From: John Thompson 21 July 2020 10:24 AM

Just another cash-grabbing scheme to get even more money from landlords. A scheme that the council will put great resources and effort to make sure it gets the cash from, but few resources to actually go after the bad LLs which in reality are far, far less in number than bad tenants, those bad and anti-social tenants that council and government policies make it very difficult for LLs to deal with or evict. Anyway, the ever-increasing costs to LLs just get passed on to tenants... Thanks to all these lot It's an ever-increasing and expenseive business to be in, and yes a business not a bloody charity.

From: John Thompson 20 July 2020 13:03 PM

True, LLs take on big risks and debt to get in this game, and now every year they are being hit from all sides, via more draconian legislation and taxes, no support, etc, etc, from all sides, it's fast becoming too much of a risk and too little a R.O.I. It has become a mug's game for many investors. Well, one good thing is it will all eventually backfire on mortgage lenders, councils, shelter, and the government and all the anti-landlord associations when LLs stat to sell up in droves. You cant keep battering the whole sector without it having drastic consequences eventually, what goes around comes around. Good luck dealing with all the homeless and lost revenue you idiotic prats.

From: John Thompson 20 July 2020 12:26 PM

I won't be rushing for a BTL mortgage, I will wait for an absolute bargain, or the huge house price crash that's just around the corner when big recession and massive unemployment hits. Anyway because of the big pent up demand right now and probably the stamp duty suspension, many vendors and agents in my area have put up ridiculous asking prices. They can stick it sideways, I will wait..Slowly, slowly catchy monkey. More fool the idiots buying at inflated prices right now, you be sorry and will lose out!

From: John Thompson 17 July 2020 12:07 PM

LL will.be in the fireing line as usual. Easy pickings, no one likes us, the general perseption is we are all rolling in ill gaind cash from poor victim tennans, and have little expenses to worry about. We are not really seen by many politicians as running an actual business with many expenses . We have no voice in parliament, with only a pratictley usless and spinless organstion representing LL. but the well funded and organised anti landlord Shelter organisation constanlly villafiying LL everywhere and demanding LL fund and tax pratctley everything they can dream up. Every year it becomes an even more risky investment and less profitable business. No wonder so many LL are selling up.

From: John Thompson 16 July 2020 12:03 PM

I don't give a toss if its discrimination or not, IT'S MY HOUSE and I put in it whoever I want, or not. Most LL find out sooner or later that Dss tenants, on the whole, are a nightmare. Whether its the system at fault or the tenant, at some point more than likely you will start losing money from one of them, your house getting recked, harassed neighbors, or a whole host of other lovely problems along the way. Good luck if you can afford the risk of taking one on. I wont.

From: John Thompson 15 July 2020 13:39 PM

At the end of the day, it's MY BLOODY HOUSE, that I have to pay for, Dont tell me who i have to risk my future welfare and finances renting MY house out to. I decide who rents it, not the bloody council, government, the law, or any other wasteful, usless and cluless organisation. If the uc payment system wa not so patheticly badly set up and organised against LL and the majority of benift teneans weren't so lazy, feckless, destructive and dishonest many LLs would be happy to rent to them. People need to stop the pc bulshite, fannying around and call out all the bullshite for what it is.

From: John Thompson 14 July 2020 19:16 PM

If more tenants were this respectful with the property they have been allowed to live in, then It would probably happen a lot more often.

From: John Thompson 08 July 2020 13:49 PM

We all knew this would happen and it will just get worse. The government and councils keep rushing in more and more demands on landlords, legislation, required certificates, more tax demands, stamp duty, and cutting back of allowed deposits and any tax relief. etc. etc, at the same time they also making it more and more difficult to evict bad, antisocial and nonpaying tenants, some of these tenants trash the properties and LL end up paying out thousands to put it all right with no hope of recourse against the tennent. There seems to be well-organized hate campaigns directed at LL that the government keeps pandering to, hoping to keep their votes, while small LL have practically no voice and no organization with any backbone or power to speak up for them and convey their problems and struggles. Meanwhile, social housing has been cut right back, immigration is sky high and house building is way behind what is needed to house the ever-expanding population. So we have a huge housing shortage and massive housing demand, as many LL sell up, fed up with being battered from all sides. These groups seem to not realize that for the vast majority of LL they have mortgages to pay on their properties and that this is a business, its how they earn a living, and like any business it has expenses that these lot are forever driving up. It all has to be paid for and of course like all businesses the expenses are passed onto the customer, or the business goes under, so the tenant has to pay for it, it's not rocket science. As long as LL are demonized and viewed as rich, money-grabbing pariahs that need to be controlled and taxed to the hilt, and tenants are poor helpless victims, things will only get worse for all concerned.

From: John Thompson 18 June 2020 11:06 AM

More legislation, more certificates, and inspections, more money down the drain. Government and councils want small landlords out. They want big organizations to take over.

From: John Thompson 15 June 2020 10:05 AM

However cheap BTL mortgages get, landlords are now the hate target of every government and local council department out there, financially your easy pickings. No organization likes you, and you have no backup help with any association that has teeth and guts to speak up for you in parliament. Tenants have all the rights now, and your house is effective theirs as soon as the tenancy agreement is signed, god help you getting shut if you get a non-paying, nightmare tenant in your mortgaged property. Only huge developments will be given any help tax and finance wise, they want all small and accidental landlords hounded out and the big boys taking over. Landlords are balling out by the thousands. BTL as a viable investment opportunity is now dead and gone, look elsewhere. There are many more good and much less risky investment opportunities out there, that or loses your shirt!

From: John Thompson 15 June 2020 09:58 AM

Letting has become a big expense and a huge risk now with constant government interference and everchanging legislation, difficulty evicting bad and antisocial tenants, with huge financial losses, And then there are the constant landlord bashing from many groups. Who would bother being a landlord now, only the foolhardy. There are a much better investment and fewer risk opportunity out there now.

From: John Thompson 02 June 2020 10:19 AM

Yes, great idea, I think I will stop paying my gas bill, water, electricity, council tax, and food bill and I am going to fill up my car with petrol and just drive off in the future. In fact anyone who couldn't be arsed saving up any cash for a rainy day should all start a campaign to stop paying any of these bloodsuckers, there obviously all just crooks and loaded, and will do fine without our cash. Really I just can't understand why any of these landlords need the money anyway, and some please explain to me why everything is not free!

From: John Thompson 29 May 2020 10:47 AM

Simple history and the LAW of supply and demand..there is a growing supply of houses for sale right now with no one but fools buying and that will just get bigger as this virus takes hold. So the markets going to plummet very soon, no question.

From: John Thompson 26 March 2020 23:49 PM

It seems Mr lewis thinks LL has no bills or mortgages to pay or worry about on the homes they have provided tenants. This is living in cuckoo land, I thought the guy had more commence sense than that. So realty is if LL gets no rent how are the mortgages and other costs going to be covered, by the magic money tree!. Very short term might be manageable but longer no way for most of us little guys. And when the mortgage company demands their payments and there is none, the usual step is to take back the house and then the tenants are on the street!

From: John Thompson 19 March 2020 13:04 PM

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