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"...your kids will likely pay inheritance tax, while I get to pass my tenancy to my children upon death for free :P" A terrible way for someone looking for power to behave. It's not right to think what you described is a good thing. Even less to put an emoji like that. It's clear you're not cut out for politics.
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Luke Aaron
08 February 2024 12:06 PM
London 'raised' the money by funnelling the actual wealth down there to company HQs. For example, a third of the country's oil comes through Immingham. Immingham is an industrial hell-hole because none of the money it generates (including at the refinery) is kept there...but you just keep counting that as 'London money'.
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Luke Aaron
08 February 2024 12:03 PM
If I were to stand for Mayor, I’d limit the price of his bread sales to an arbitrary amount, taking no account of the costs of raw ingredients or overheads and any future increases. After all, bread is a staple and we all must eat. I think 50p for a loaf should do it.
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Luke Aaron
06 February 2024 08:15 AM
Tenants literally run out of electricity credit in some of my houses. It happened the other week preventing access for the elctrician to the garage (which has an electric door).
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Luke Aaron
08 September 2023 15:32 PM
Check out these pearls from the guidance... “Do tenants have access to secure spaces to dry laundry outdoors? If not, consider whether this is possible. Ideally, covered spaces should be provided. Tenants may be reluctant to use shared spaces in case items are lost or stolen, so landlords should consider how to make them secure, if possible." “Has the tenant been given clear, written instructions on how to use the heating system most effectively? Landlords should ensure that tenants have been provided with the necessary guidance on how to use their heating system (heating systems and any heaters). For tenants whose first language is not English and/or tenants with additional language or communication needs, consider whether they may need extra support to understand the guidance. For support with language and communication needs” “Working with tenants We are absolutely clear that it is totally unreasonable to blame damp and mould in the home on ‘lifestyle choices’. It is unavoidable that everyday tasks, such as cooking, bathing, washing and drying laundry will contribute to the production of indoor moisture. With this in mind, the fundamental cause of damp and mould will be due to building deficiencies, inadequate ventilation, inadequate heating and/or poor energy efficiency, not tenants’ normal domestic activities”
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Luke Aaron
08 September 2023 13:47 PM
Do they require an electrical power source?
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Luke Aaron
08 September 2023 13:46 PM
I have a lot of volume and operate in one of the UK's poorest towns so I get a fair share of damp/mould problems. Each and every time I send a damp expert and almost always it is lifestyle issues - no ventilating, house barely heated with beds pushed against two external walls and occupants that don't leave the house all day. It's alright Gove 'declaring': "Damp and mould in the home are not the result of ‘lifestyle choices’, and it is the responsibility of landlords to identify and address the underlying causes of the problem, such as structural issues or inadequate ventilation." But the underlying cause is the tenants' failure to both understand the problem THEY are causing and simply don't open windows. I have provided mechanical ventilation, which invariably gets taped over.
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Luke Aaron
08 September 2023 13:29 PM
No, you don’t have to take a deposit at all. I have t sonce 2006 and only use homeowner guarantors. They also mandate agents provide the data of their clients as another way to find non-payers.
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Luke Aaron
13 May 2023 15:47 PM
Any coalition will likely come at the price of proportional representation. Sure, the country will have to endure a single term of a predominantly Labour Govt, but then we should be able to send real messages to the Westminster elites and see more Reform MPs and the like.
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Luke Aaron
10 May 2023 13:20 PM
I was under the belief that, one tenant can give notice for all on a joint tenancy (which used to be the case *outside* a fixed term).
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Luke Aaron
10 May 2023 13:18 PM
Many developers sell off-plan to investors (willing to wait as they’re not needing the property to live in themselves) to fund the remainder if the build… Also, there’s not a great plethora of landlords ‘pipping to the post’ FTBs.
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Luke Aaron
07 May 2023 17:25 PM
For JRM’s take on this (and a ‘proper conservative take it is too), go to Twitter(dot com) then… /gbnews/status/1646595667458945026?s=42&t=stalEbZlyLkn3F2tdq7aDQ
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Luke Aaron
15 April 2023 00:21 AM
The vast majority of ‘progressive’ and modern European countries rent…from private landlords. Owning is quite a (relatively recent) British thing.
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Luke Aaron
31 March 2023 23:05 PM
Taking a ‘standard’ property, LED bulbs, loft insulation and cavity wall will, in most cases *not* be enough. In any case, much of the rental stock is solid brick.
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Luke Aaron
28 March 2023 04:29 AM
The wording of the legislation stipulate a document titled ‘How to Rent: the checklist for renting in England’ must be served. The civil servant tinkerers, when giving it a makeover in June 2018 also messed with that precise wording and thus made the document useless. I see they’ve tinkered with the colour among other things this time.
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Luke Aaron
24 March 2023 10:42 AM
And, in turn, why inflation is also high…
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Luke Aaron
24 March 2023 10:33 AM
What you’re doing is the exact opposite…you’re not driving out the irresponsible LLs, rather the good ones. You’re only gonna be left with the bad ones because of pure economics…they don’t follow the (costly) rules and will survive. The PRS is *not* an extension of social housing. Don’t ever forget that.
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Luke Aaron
17 February 2023 09:13 AM
Exactly! It would be far easier to prevent an illegal entrant than to have to build him a house!!
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Luke Aaron
10 February 2023 11:05 AM
Look at his Twitter...it's all over the place with very very few 'likes' on comments. He's one of these that thinks any exposure by saying something 'controversial' is a career.
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Luke Aaron
03 January 2023 11:56 AM
So tomorrow, LLs are forced to ‘gift’ their properties and hand over the Deeds and mortgage to the current tenant (making them an owner-occupier)…now what?? Aside from having decimated the labour market’s flexibility, most wouldn’t have the additional funds for either the regular expenses such as insurance or unexpected bills like a replacement boiler, for example. And that’s before you consider the loss of some benefits from now owning an asset. LLs involving themselves in the rather common social problems has now gone, as is any off-plan purchases from developers that fund the remainder of the build. Also, were you putting the seemingly endless new arrivals if there’s no property for Local Authorities to rent as ‘emergency accommodation’? Fool of the highest order.
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Luke Aaron
03 January 2023 08:20 AM
It’s not a cure. It may be called anti-mould paint, but it only inhibits growth to a certain extent, not a miracle cure. If they cannot/do not put the heating on, they are damaging the property and already cannot afford to live independently.
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Luke Aaron
17 December 2022 14:13 PM
Going through Parliament? I can see that it had a First Reading, but then why the 'Improving the energy performance of privately rented homes' consultation that ended in January 2021 (results of which haven't yet been released). If this consultation was to affect the Bill, then why are the results not available. If the consultation was entirely separate to the Bill, why was the Bill allowed even a First Reading whilst almost identical consultation was already going through its motions? Something doesn't make sense...
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Luke Aaron
18 October 2022 12:18 PM
Also, it has been said (non-British) UN forces are being housed in hotels in preparation for supposed upcoming civil unrest in which British soldiers would not be deployed against its own peoples...no idea on the authenticity of this information.
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Luke Aaron
14 September 2022 10:58 AM
Ah, okay. As I understand, the new expected rules will require the requisite amount (£6.5, increasing to £10k?) to be spent *first* before the exemption is granted. I’ve also heard of 5yr exemptions, with further expenditure due to gain another exemption.
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Luke Aaron
08 August 2022 20:42 PM
Out of interest, what was necessary to get your exemption cert, please?
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Luke Aaron
08 August 2022 09:50 AM
The 'History Debunked' YouTube channel have just put out a video with the title: 'Wanted, five hundred four-bedroom council houses in Britain; but only for foreigners' Take a look...
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Luke Aaron
03 August 2022 10:53 AM
Kent, huh? Fergus Wilson -the pariah of the landlord world- had over 1,000 3-bed (and 2-bed) properties. IIRC, he was effectively hounded out into unwanted retirement. You reap what you sow, Kent, now suck it up! Quite honestly, it would need to be AT LEAST £10k for me to even consider taking the Council's dregs.
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Luke Aaron
25 July 2022 13:02 PM
The difference being that you pay your indemnity insurance. And you try your best not to need it. Tenants will not pay if it’s left to them, feel it’s a perfectly acceptable ‘cleaning policy’ to make thorough use of, and the LL is left trying to convince the insurer to pay out. £1,200pa seems perfectly reasonable. Try asking what some of societies poorest tenants pay for their latest designer breeds…£4k is nowhere near out of the question.
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Luke Aaron
17 June 2022 10:17 AM
Presumably you’re Algarve-based? I’m currently here seeking my way out of the industry and the madness that is the UK…would you happen to have any tips on where to locate myself, please?
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Luke Aaron
17 June 2022 10:08 AM
The rent is the least of the worries…will they guarantor all damages? If not, it’s a non-starter.
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Luke Aaron
10 June 2022 10:14 AM
Theoretically, yes. But we all already know Govt. will make a complete mess of any new system. The Courts should be forced to clear cases in a matter of a couple of weeks, instead they’ll just add to the backlog.
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Luke Aaron
11 May 2022 10:50 AM
Isn't it strange that when it comes to another of life's essentials: food, we love the idea of getting AWAY from the corporates (supermarkets) and actively try to support small, local, 'grassroots' operators that sell their homegrown goods at farmers style markets. But with rented property, local smalltime landlords are vilified in favour of corporates that will not, ultimately, make the market any better. Nobody thinks the slightly more expensive, organically-fed, free-range eggs are the seller being a greedy parasite, do they...?!
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Luke Aaron
03 May 2022 11:50 AM
That's a good point...if 'shelter' is their genuine concern, surely this extends beyond occupiers of the private rental sector??
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Luke Aaron
27 April 2022 13:42 PM
And if we keep an eye on by how much s.8 Court Hearings increase (after the abolition of s.21), we can then prove all those old s.21 Notices were indeed for rent arrears/damage/ASB rather than, as is currently claimed 'no fault'.
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Luke Aaron
27 April 2022 13:40 PM
And I for one will be on a beach somewhere sunny (spending my UK-earned money in a place that treats me better) chuckling away to myself, having sold up when that happens.
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Luke Aaron
27 April 2022 13:36 PM
Unfortunately (if they have children), they *will* be rehoused, for it is deemed not to be the fault of the child(ren) of the intentional homelessness and, by proxy, their useless non-paying/ASB parents are rehoused too, so not quite what we'd hoped. The childless ones will hopefully be out on their ear, though.
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Luke Aaron
27 April 2022 13:33 PM
Generation Rent's Dan Wilson-Craw was on LBC yesterday being, knowingly or otherwise, a communist - saying the cost of living has increased and LLs should share in the pain of Covid! What?? We not all living in some commune, Dan! It's not our job to bail either Govt. or the dregs of society out when the proverbial hits the fan!
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Luke Aaron
27 April 2022 13:30 PM
I too thought this might be the ‘silver-lining’. However, it would appear that although the adult has made themselves intentionally homeless through, for example, non-payment of rent, it would not be their children’s fault and therefore the Local Authority would be housing the children and, by default, their parents too.
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Luke Aaron
27 April 2022 09:34 AM
Usual assumption LLs evict for fun. No need for S.13, I’ll just use S.8 when they’re in arrears…if they’re not, then I’m happy for them to stay.
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Luke Aaron
12 April 2022 10:02 AM
We should respond accordingly and all just simply comment: “CLICKBAIT!”
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Luke Aaron
11 April 2022 08:30 AM
It’s bigger than that, modern political economics pursues an increase in GDP (by creating ‘jobs’) as an end in itself, rather than a measure of economic prosperity…and, as used to be the case, general happiness of the nation. This sort of nonsense crates jobs, increases GDP, but makes no-one any more pleased with life.
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Luke Aaron
27 March 2022 20:47 PM
If any ‘landlords redress scheme’ is anything like the current agents redress scheme, if an agent is breaking the rules and not signed up to either of the (now) two options, they will not and cannot act. Theoretically they could be in bother, but Trading Standards haven’t a clue -at least not in my area- either what they’re meant to do with cases of non-membership, nor even that they were the police for this. You can’t actually talk directly to TS anyway… PRS/TPO: “I’m sorry Mr Tenant, unfortunately we cannot take action against your landlord as they’re not a member of our scheme.”
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Luke Aaron
27 March 2022 20:38 PM
If tenants are not capable of recycling without intervention, then one has to seriously question their capabilities to understand/sign a tenancy agreement and responsibly run/look after the premises... Here's an idea Wandsworth...petition the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities to add recycling requirements, and where to find them, to the How to Rent guide - that way, there's no need to involve LLs directly. I'll even do the wording for you: "As the occupier of the property, it is your responsibility to ensure the correct use of any recycling bins/boxes. To find more information on how to recycle in the correct manner, please visit your local council's website for further details."
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Luke Aaron
18 March 2022 13:24 PM
Brilliant…then I can take out my 5l V8 instead of the Tesla for the same cost (assuming fuel duty is dropped in favour of per-mile charging or when electricity, which is fast becoming the case, equals fossil fuel prices)…
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Luke Aaron
17 March 2022 14:19 PM
*Why* is it equally clear reform is still required?? Oh, the actual (proper sample-size) evidence shows different to your expectations, so you’ll just shoot with emotion and supposition instead…??
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Luke Aaron
16 March 2022 07:51 AM
Stick it so far up your backside Torridge Council! After the way you and central Govt. have acted toward LLs, I hope you fail on every conceivable level. Once again I will promote my idea (that eventually will be picked up as though it were some MPs own)...if you told all C.2m LLs that they could have CGT relief on any empty/derelict property they brought back into use for the PRS, you'd have a helluva lot of stock. Virtually overnight! And far quicker than building new houses. We all know of abandoned houses in our towns and cities that could be resurrected if only the incentive were there. If it were averaged at one property per LL (some will do none, others will do multiple), we would, within a twelve months, have over 11 years the supply of new-build property!! ELEVEN YEARS!!! Somehow, corporate builders' shareholders getting almighty wealthy by slowing supply is better than 'enriching' greedy snivelling private LLs actually actively solving the housing crisis, whilst simultaneously (god forbid) making a few quid for themselves...
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Luke Aaron
10 March 2022 09:38 AM
"Mr Justice Scoffield said there was no expectation of action being taken in the middle of the night. He said, the *council* wanted to 'leverage' influence over nuisance residents, and that landlords may be more successful in that regard than police or other officers." So with no expectation of action (though I'm pretty sure even 'leveraging influence' over tenants constitutes 'action'), this is nothing more than (unnecessary) deliberate judicial inconveniencing of landlords. Oh...and 'the council' *want* it [leverage] do they? Regardless of what anyone (individual or institution) wants, it's what's proportionate and legal that should matter!!
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Luke Aaron
28 February 2022 13:19 PM
What an absurdity that penalties for roughing up & threatening the tenant would be lesser. Even murder barely gets a sentence these days…! Unlawful eviction (which will doubtless extend to a completely normal, legal eviction save for the serving of a single piece of administration), is hardly a crime, let alone one requiring such massive threats. Whatever happened to proportionality?
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Luke Aaron
24 February 2022 08:27 AM
Can we democratically control in the community the price of my shopping trolley from the supermarkets, please? How dare they set prices according to costs/market-forces...
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Luke Aaron
23 February 2022 09:01 AM
My LA actively house tenants with these (known) Lis because they don't have the accommodation for them themselves!!!
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Luke Aaron
03 February 2022 11:25 AM
Big business friends of Govt. will be given special clauses…
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Luke Aaron
02 February 2022 08:50 AM
One (of many) problems is, they'd allow the local authority to administer and police it. They are some of the biggest culprits of rule-breaking themselves. Remember when a couple tried to set up a letting agency and fell at the first hurdle, failing to display an EPC for an advertised property. They're utterly clueless. The only way I'd want to accept such a register and the councils to operate it would be if I/an independent body could monitor and fine these local authorities for their own property breaches. I'd maybe even make it my full-time hobby!! **cough** Grenfell ** cough**
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Luke Aaron
01 February 2022 08:53 AM
Have the results of the consultation now finally been published then?
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Luke Aaron
27 January 2022 10:15 AM
You really should have done that 5 years back and implemented annual rent increases. We never bothered as we and the tenants were happy. It's also a massive task across several hundred properties each year (it always seems to come around too quickly), but such is the state of things.
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Luke Aaron
24 January 2022 12:59 PM
EPC C will be like vaccine passport threat…we’ll be allowed to believe, up to the eleventh hour, that it will happen but will be pushed back (because it’s completely and utterly unrealistic and would decimate the stock).
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Luke Aaron
17 September 2021 09:08 AM
Definitely not a LL…your ‘honest day’s work’ sarcasm very strongly suggests you do not consider managing tenants/properties in a rental portfolio to be honest work…precisely the sort of thing a tenant/troll/Shelter-supporter would say.
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Luke Aaron
07 September 2021 09:05 AM
UPTO £5k fine or clad the place, install an air-source heat pump and solar panels...??
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Luke Aaron
06 September 2021 15:29 PM
@Leics Landlord, which bit do you think is made up - the holiday bit? Because the article mentions '...while the tenants were away on holiday...'
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Luke Aaron
06 September 2021 15:24 PM
Often there’s nothing to mediate. They owe the rent and that’s that. I’ve only ever had these people attempt to get me to back down on what is owed…”Would you take half the owed rent and call it quits?” No. No I bloody well won’t! “What about a 25% reduction?” Again, no!
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Luke Aaron
16 June 2021 12:20 PM
God help us. Not only are the NRLA a complete wet blanket, but Ben Beadle within that organisation is not overly intelligent, nor articulate enough. His personality also strikes me as one of agreeable - someone not wanting to upset the apple cart too much. Sigh.
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Luke Aaron
15 June 2021 10:04 AM
It made seem like a potentially reasonable option in theory, but every time control of a market is attempted, it fails. Have you never seen The Butterfly Effect?
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Luke Aaron
17 May 2021 11:36 AM
But you cannot accept a part of the UK and/or a free-market capitalist society being off-limits to certain people based on a single moment in time’s residence status… They also cannot rely on the huge economic benefits of, in large parts, a tourism industry, yet lock those tourists out in a way they wish to be involved.
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Luke Aaron
15 May 2021 23:22 PM
I’m curious as to Jersey’s residents’ levels of Nimbyism…?
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Luke Aaron
14 May 2021 12:53 PM
Don’t be silly…criminal tenants are a civil matter, right…?
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Luke Aaron
26 April 2021 13:04 PM
How long before requesting a guarantor is subject to calls for a ban...?
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Luke Aaron
15 March 2021 14:01 PM
More to the point, why are such unions making comment on issues seemingly beyond their industry? And why are those opinions being given airtime…?
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Luke Aaron
03 March 2021 10:52 AM
What does the legislation say specifically about the length of validity on a S.21? They used to last indefinitely but, I think, that is now restricted to six months - is that six months from date of service (so with the new six month required notice period, they’d effectively expire if you didn’t utilise it on the notice period expiry date) or is the legislation worded in such a way that they expire four months after the expiry date (accounting for the old two months notice, plus four to make a total of six)...?
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Luke Aaron
26 February 2021 13:11 PM
We could have a National Road-building School that teaches this very thing to JobSeekers claimants, with a requirement to work in this capacity whilst on state benefit for unemployment…
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Luke Aaron
26 February 2021 10:32 AM
Perhaps we should all have rent increase clauses tied to council tax increases…they’re effectively in control of if/when and by how much rents go up by!
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Luke Aaron
09 February 2021 16:02 PM
Then he or someone like him would fight our corner.
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Luke Aaron
09 February 2021 16:01 PM
I’m no Labour supporter, but it simply cannot be argued that the Blair years were some of the best for LLs (much as it pains me to say). I don’t care if that’s because they borrowed from the future...let’s have that again and I’ll take what I can and get out.
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Luke Aaron
09 February 2021 15:31 PM
It also appears to be the only debt that has little in the way of consequences...steal from a shop and you risk a criminal record, don’t pay, say, a car payment and your credit score will take a hit...why should rent be any different and outside of credit scoring??
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Luke Aaron
09 February 2021 15:26 PM
I met with George Freeman at a private dinner (a Tory fund-raiser for some of the biggest/best-connected LLs), even handing him a file of papers on the raw, honest truth of being a LL (things I don’t think he’d have known) and he wasn’t in the slightest bit interested.
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Luke Aaron
09 February 2021 12:02 PM
It’s an excellent article, very well written and argued and one the Government should take heed of.
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Luke Aaron
09 February 2021 02:31 AM
I will dig out the Govt. report of I can find it and post it, but there are two significant groups that purchase properties (taking them out of the private rental sector), but also don’t appear in the current tenant figures…divorcees (that were previously in the one marital home, now becoming two household) and adult children still living with parents. Net decrease in BTL stock, net increase in persons/tenants (still) needing (re-)housing.
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Luke Aaron
08 February 2021 00:25 AM
And if the guarantor had one, it would be highly unlikely the tenant would have one, in which case, one could get rid of the tenant and pursue the guarantor after (eviction and the guarantor’s BS).
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Luke Aaron
08 February 2021 00:20 AM
You cannot pursue the other (joint) tenant when one has a moratorium.
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Luke Aaron
28 January 2021 15:51 PM
There’s also the part, “If they are in a position to pay off the money they owe through proper budgeting or selling things, then a Breathing Space *may* not be deemed the right solution for them.” Although I suppose this will be abused either way…if they can’t *fully* pay off the debt then they won’t make them try to sell things, but even if they could pay it off, it’ll be deemed ‘not the right solution for them’ (because losing your unnecessarily large flatscreen telly they can ill-afford would also make them sad)…
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Luke Aaron
19 January 2021 20:47 PM
The bigger problem is the inability to evict, rather than chasing the guarantor for what has already been accrued.
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Luke Aaron
19 January 2021 00:56 AM
Because, Laura B, Tenant Fees Act precludes any requirement to either pay anything or even enter into a third-party contract as part of the granting/maintaining a tenancy agreement. You can only take one week holding deposit (fraught with problems/requirements), a maximum of five weeks rent deposit (must be protected) any rent when it’s due, and ‘reasonable’ costs for specified instances/occurrences.
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Luke Aaron
19 January 2021 00:54 AM
I doubt you’ll be allowed to ask as it’s deemed ‘medical’ and privileged information. Insurance (as far as Govt. are concerned) are exempt from this, unsurprisingly…
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Luke Aaron
18 January 2021 18:08 PM
No, Tricia…it’s specifically excluded from the Scheme. As are Court fines, Council tax etc.
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Luke Aaron
18 January 2021 18:05 PM
Unless the guarantor has one of these orders (rather than the tenant)...although you’d still be able to evict in that case. Home owning/working guarantors aren’t immune from mental health problems.
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Luke Aaron
18 January 2021 16:27 PM
Does anyone know if S.8 Notices will be completely excluded during a Scheme order or just for Ground 8?
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Luke Aaron
18 January 2021 15:18 PM
In answer to Lia Jordan about what next, it’ll take a little more time, but I believe that guarantors will become part of a a ban. I’ve been taking them since 2007 and they’ve worked wonders, but as almost all tenants, at least where I live/operate (I have volume), end up owing rents arrears or damages, the guarantor ends up paying…because I’ve mastered the Courts. They then don’t want to guarantor for them again and eventually these tenants will have no choice but to become the LAs problem. Then you have the likes of the TDS deposit scheme pushing for an in-house, mandatory, binding conciliation service (which also comes with an imbalance that if the LL breaks the terms is prevented from evicting for SIX MONTHS, but if the tenant breaks the terms then the LL is ‘awarded’ a ‘fast-track’ through the Courts…hmm), when LLs get their fingers burned and virtually everyone has switched over to the guarantor model, the TDS will play up that their new revenue stream has gone, the Govt. won’t like the idea we’ve ‘gotten around’ them being the adjudicators on every single matter (they’re hardly going to side with LLs when that means the tenant becomes their problem) and so will take tenancies outside of normal contract law…it’s not like the housing industry doesn’t already fall outside other norms such as tax with S.24…!
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Luke Aaron
10 January 2021 12:54 PM
In the space of 10 months it has been normalised to shut down businesses on a whim, enforce lockdowns & curfews, to ban criticism of all government policy & to ban the US President from all social media platforms. This is hardly what you would call normal behaviour, but there seems to be plenty of people out there especially on the left that seem to think all this is perfectly acceptable..
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Luke Aaron
10 January 2021 03:12 AM
I’ve never understood the motivation to tolerate/encourage/accept any of the indigenous population as long-term unemployed (whilst simultaneously bringing in labour from outside). These people don’t often vote, so that can’t be the worry...?
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Luke Aaron
09 January 2021 19:27 PM
Further to that, and expanding on my opening comment, when Covid is out of the way, so many areas of life will be a mess and require Govt. focus. We will have the ban extended yet again, as the ‘easy’ option, until they have the time/will to deal with the problem that will continue to mount, making dealing with it ever more difficult.
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Luke Aaron
09 January 2021 19:18 PM
What was Paul removed for?
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Luke Aaron
08 January 2021 21:01 PM
Then where is the incentive for them to ever change? I think a Reform UK will be our only hope now. At least give them a shot…
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Luke Aaron
08 January 2021 17:15 PM
Govt. are backing themselves into a corner they’ll never be able to get out of...!
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Luke Aaron
08 January 2021 13:35 PM
LLs will just turn a tenant down on a ‘legitimate’ reason. You will never be able to legislate that LLs take somebody without choice (if you tried, they’d simply pack up).
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Luke Aaron
16 December 2020 12:35 PM
Would you expect a tenant to reach out to a landlord that was, say, hospitalised or struggling for money? It could quite conceivably be the case that the tenant is the financially ‘better off party’ (not that that should matter in either direction). I’m just curious as to your thought-process and why it’s seemingly only one way.
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Luke Aaron
15 December 2020 21:36 PM
Perhaps tenants having/paying for their own insurance should become part of legislation. If they miss rent, for whatever reason, and the insurance company increases the tenants premium, then it’s on them and nought to do with the LL. it would also sharpen tenants focus for the future.
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Luke Aaron
10 December 2020 09:31 AM
Literally no different to the homeless sitting down to dine in a restaurant, then refusing (out of necessity) to pay.
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Luke Aaron
02 November 2020 16:16 PM
Ironically, many of the underclass take student loans (knowing they're unlikely to ever earn enough to repay it) for mickey mouse courses.
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Luke Aaron
02 November 2020 15:59 PM
Landlords existence is not a constant. The can (and will) choose to exit if it’s too expensive/hard work…
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Luke Aaron
30 October 2020 10:06 AM
Rent controls a route to no PRS.
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Luke Aaron
30 October 2020 10:03 AM
Politics. Of. Envy.
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Luke Aaron
08 October 2020 19:42 PM
English Housing Survey (that the MHCLG also cite in their own research) states 3.9 years as average according to the most recent figures I can find. This is widely known and accepted to be correct.
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Luke Aaron
08 October 2020 11:14 AM
He's a 'serial failure' because the system is not in the slightest bit fair. It favours the two big parties and relies on them to enact any kind of change. He's also one of the best all-round politicians in the past century, being very quick-thinking, media-savvy, knows his history, has outstanding oratory skills as well as tenacity and the ability to speak to the common man. His ideals are very fair-minded and I don't think we can do much worse than him to be honest. There's not a lot wrong with Trump's actions either underneath the whole 'two fingers up to the media's "usual" way of doing business'. Who would you suggest as an alternative, because it certainly ain't more of the same or the loonies in Labour.
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Luke Aaron
07 October 2020 16:15 PM
So I guess we vote Farage and hopefully get something resembling traditional conservatism…
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Luke Aaron
07 October 2020 11:46 AM
Unless BCC are willing to act as full and unlimited guarantor, they haven’t a chance in hell.
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Luke Aaron
07 October 2020 11:00 AM
So the Guild of Lettings Management are hosting a similar webinar on 10th if anyone wants to check that out.
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Luke Aaron
04 September 2020 07:49 AM
Pays whom? FixFlo? It is their webinar, not the NRLA’s. If you are an NRLA member, you may seriously want to reconsider for it is primarily a business that will only ever do what is best for their directors/shareholders, rather than what’s right for LLs. A few online forms and access to an advice line is far too tempting for most, though.
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Luke Aaron
03 September 2020 16:43 PM
Truthfully they don’t give a toss about any gaps in your knowledge or otherwise…it’s just one big sales-pitch. I’ll let you know what’s said, if you like? It’ll just be DS waffling on explaining pretty much what we already know and to say even *he* doesn’t know what we don’t know.
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Luke Aaron
03 September 2020 16:21 PM
FixFlo is only really of any use to agents.
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Luke Aaron
03 September 2020 15:59 PM
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Luke Aaron
03 September 2020 11:19 AM
Echis, I am one of the largest private property providers to benefit tenants. Almost all make a conscious decision not to pay rent. Every Christmas I watch them spend more than I do, more than is normal on their b*stard kids instead of keeping a roof over their heads. You know not of what you speak, but rather hope/assume (incorrectly) people are innocently desperate…a great, great many are simply scumbags.
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Luke Aaron
28 August 2020 21:43 PM
‘Impartial’ has also got to be a contender for an award too…!
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Luke Aaron
27 August 2020 10:52 AM
Some of those (long-term) homeless were swept away in emergency measures and their reappearance on our streets has nothing to do with landlords. Further, the inability to repay a loan, should not therefore mean the financial burden rests on the landlord. It needs to be the tenants (for it is theirs ultimately theirs anyway). At least that way Govt. May be forced to act to help those most in need and now with a loan around their neck…mind you, almost all landlords have a far greater loan around their necks anyway, called a mortgage.
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Luke Aaron
25 August 2020 11:00 AM
In anticipation Leon, I started raising all mine annually (after barely touching them for decades) four years ago.
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Luke Aaron
19 August 2020 16:06 PM
In your analogy, the earthquake should be nationwide…no safer back home than remaining in central London. Secondly, an outside event (earthquake or virus) does not and is not affecting the property’s ability to fulfil the contract, so no force majeure.
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Luke Aaron
23 June 2020 10:03 AM
The act of leaving is not the problem, but the contract still needs paying. Try not using your mobile phone for a month because you were in hospital, incapacitated and then after you were discharged fancied a change of network…do you think Vodafone will let you off the remainder of the 24mo contract that you’re only half way through? There’s no reason students can’t get a job or become an NHS volunteer and remain in their rented student property (most students don’t return home following their studies anyway). And what about the LL that has one or two tenants in, say, a six-bed property where the other students have indeed gone gone but they choose to stay? What the bleedin he’ll do you expect should happen then?
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Luke Aaron
23 June 2020 10:00 AM
Indeed, I was referring to Ray.
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Luke Aaron
09 June 2020 14:33 PM
You are a dangerous fool.
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Luke Aaron
09 June 2020 08:44 AM
The only other industry I know of is water. Owing to its necessity for life and a basic human right, they are not able to suspend supply even in the event of a debt. HOWEVER, owing to this (almost) unique situation, other legislation was enacted to aid the water companies to get paid, such as making it the LL’s responsibility to inform them of the bill payer responsible.
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Luke Aaron
08 June 2020 10:11 AM
They’d also feel more secure if they could simply walk out of the supermarket without paying, but with no ability of the supermarket to prevent them returning next week. Only after the summer can the supermarket make any moves to even *start* the possibility of getting (very slowly) paid any grocery debt…even then, without the shopper’s cooperation, they’ve no real hope of ever getting the money, just to have them prevented from shopping in that particular store after many months -likely over a year- at best, before they move to a different supermarket. Oh, and if during their time of effective shoplifting they picked up an item a day or two out-of-date, or they were not *offered* a third item as part of a ‘buy 2 get the third free’ offer when already basketing two (even though they’re not technically *buying* anything), then not only do you have to allow ALL the previously taken groceries to go for free, you must pay the ‘customer’ compensation and possibly allow them to continue to shop in store, unhindered, for as long as *they* choose…
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Luke Aaron
08 June 2020 09:45 AM
Incidentally, the LRU are calling for people to break the law and should be shut down.
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Luke Aaron
01 June 2020 12:23 PM
I have a theory about reduced resources and the ‘normal’ way of focussing depleted funds/manpower on the biggest, most serious crime, such as murder. It affects so few people, so little if the time, perhaps, instead of ignoring ‘lesser‘ crimes such as burglary, we should target everything *but* the most serious crimes (that affect more of the people, more of the time). Obviously, in a perfect-world, we‘d tackle both, but we’re starting from a point of some things having to give. Not only would satisfaction rates increase massively, but it would likely have the knock-on effect of cutting down the more serious crimes through either escalation, recklessness or extended opportunity. The petty criminal doesn’t continue to increase either his frequency or bravery into more serious offences, the burglar isn’t able to end up wrangling with the homeowner, accidentally, but recklessly, killing them and everyone knows these ‘lesser’ offences don’t go uninvestigated, so aren’t tempted to go further than they planned.
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Luke Aaron
01 June 2020 10:40 AM
I take the same view as David. All of his comments are both accurate and fair. Why is it expected, or even assumed a landlord has to joint this (Londoon-centric) community spiritedness? Four walls/roof in exchange for payment. No tea and biscuits, just that at its most simplest.
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Luke Aaron
01 June 2020 10:28 AM
If I were operating in London, I would be serving notice immediately (even with the temporary notice period extension) and they’d be out on their ear the moment I could get into a Court. They’re holding you to ransom anyway, so just a case of disposing of them as quickly as possible. They always view it as the haves and have nots. Why should a landlord stomach any of this? Simply because, in a tenant’s view, they ‘have’ more? They might have 95% borrowing on the property, so in all reality have far less than some tenants! Why not call for a loan, tenants? Perhaps on similar terms as the BBL ones?? Oh yeah…that’s because you don’t actually wanna pay at all.
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Luke Aaron
01 June 2020 10:00 AM
It's very simple, and there doesn’t need to be any evictions…pay the rent arrears of the miscreants and they can stay until they again abuse the contract they signed and agreed to. You can get the first £20,000,000 from Shelter as they’re mad-keen to stop evictions.
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Luke Aaron
01 June 2020 09:54 AM
Protect them by giving them, ideally, loans, but *not* by making that protection at landlords’ expense!!
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Luke Aaron
01 June 2020 09:51 AM
See Robert Brown’s comment above for an indication…
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Luke Aaron
26 May 2020 14:31 PM
Exactly this.
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Luke Aaron
26 May 2020 11:43 AM
Be specific about force majeure in this example a tenant choosing to go home isn’t it.
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Luke Aaron
26 May 2020 11:42 AM
In what sense is it frustrated? If the tenant chose to go home, that does not constitute contractual frustration.
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Luke Aaron
26 May 2020 11:40 AM
…and Council tax on empty properties, unable to be let during the virus, that those landlords also own…
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Luke Aaron
26 May 2020 11:34 AM
Indeed. Everything’s interconnected. If you’re going to let tenants off rent, others in the economic chain will also need to be let off other financial obligations. We all pay taxes for Govt. to redistribute/use as is necessary, which includes during times of national/global emergency. Landlords should not need to pay for the pandemic.
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Luke Aaron
15 April 2020 13:47 PM
Why does LAT keep giving these stories airtime?
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Luke Aaron
15 April 2020 13:44 PM
How about the tenants join together to save the landlords, who provide their housing year-round, during these unprecedented times. Wait until all of this is over and there’s community-spirited ‘support your local butcher/baker/cafe’…landlords will be ignored as part-of-the-furniture. Furniture to be abused.
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