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Alan Whyte

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Brent Councils licensing scheme did not help the tenants as the landlord was unlicensed! What they need is a scheme for dealing with the rogues, not a scheme for burdening the good landlords.

From: Alan Whyte 19 July 2016 11:26 AM

Osbourne has effectively added 30% vat to rents. Maybe he felt that he had no choice after the House of Lords blocked £4.5billion in benefit cuts and then another £billion of disabled benefit cuts? If they can't cut spending , they have to either raise taxes, or borrowing.

From: Alan Whyte 15 July 2016 10:15 AM

From: Alan Whyte 28 April 2016 09:48 AM

Hooray ! Now lets see if the councils take any notice.

From: Alan Whyte 22 March 2016 09:16 AM

Keep up the good work! The best way for the rest of us landlords to fight back against George Osbourne is to hit him where it hurts i.e. join the conservative party and vote against him ever becoming the next leader and future Prime Minister! If enough landlords, small business owners and students and anyone else hit by his draconian taxes, levees and cuts do this, then he will have to pay attention!

From: Alan Whyte 02 February 2016 10:58 AM

Osbourne is not a "Conservative Chancellor" he is a Gordon Brown clone, trying to position himself as "Prime Minister in waiting". This is all to do with his personal agenda, he believes that Conservative voters will always vote Conservative (how wrong can you be) and that all he has to do to become Prime Minister is appeal more to voters from the left. What price loyalty?

From: Alan Whyte 20 January 2016 09:43 AM

I've been screwed over by both Bromley & Bexley Councils and lost a lot of money in the process. In fact more than one set of tenants has told me that the council advised them to stop paying rent and wait until the landlord evicts them. Unfortunately it seems to be government policy to make broken relationships, ill health and lost jobs the landlord's problem. The government will not accept responsibility for anything until they absolutely have to. The only things that landlords can do are: 1) Only take solvent tenants. 2) Take at least 2 months rent as deposit - you never get paid the last month when a tenancy goes wrong) 3) Always, always ask for a solvent guarantor (credit check them) 4) Do not take any one on benefits - payment of benefits always seems to get disrupted and can result in huge losses. 5) At the first signs of trouble, start the process of getting back the property as a precaution. Whenever I have tried to help tenants going through hard times, it has always been thrown back in my face and left me with a huge bill. These measures can help to minimise your losses as a landlord.

From: Alan Whyte 14 January 2016 11:01 AM

Sitta, you are quite right, this government does not have a clue, neither did the labour govt before and nor will the next govt. They are all career politicians with no experience of life , or business. How can they be expected to manage multibillion £ budgets? The sad fact is that these senior politicians serve the people that fund their political parties. Consider Tony Blair trying to convince us that super casinos and betting shops on every corner are a good thing. David Cameron "we don't need a sugar tax" when 10% of the NHS spending is obesity related. Policies are most definitely not designed for the exclusive benefit of voters.

From: Alan Whyte 13 January 2016 10:21 AM

This, coupled with the recent ill conceived (politically motivated) 10% stamp duty change is already impacting the housing market in London quite significantly. There is far less property coming onto the market. This is making things much harder for first time buyers and people needing to move home

From: Alan Whyte 13 January 2016 10:09 AM

As Brit sixteen sixty four points out, its simple maths. 500,000+ net immigrants a year driving up demand for houses, with less than 100,000 new homes being built each year. Couple this with the demographic of more people living alone as relationships are more short lived and you can see why there is such demand for housing. Rents and prices can only continue to go up while demand continues to outstrip supply in such a big way. That is why big corporate investors are set to triple their investment in the private rented sector in this year alone. BTL investors will be squeezed , but, sadly, the new agenda is not going to help anyone to get on to the housing ladder.

From: Alan Whyte 13 January 2016 10:03 AM

Shadow housing minister Teresa Pearce should be made aware that the "mouldy walls" that she says are so common are generally mould caused by condensation. This is frequently the result of tenants not heating, or ventilating the property properly. Normally the only way that a landlord can address this is by changing the tenants for some new ones that will actually look after the property.

From: Alan Whyte 13 January 2016 09:47 AM

I think the answer is for Landlords to add a surcharge to the Rent and make sure that it is clearly identified as "Local Authority License Fees". That way, tenants will know who to complain to!

From: Alan Whyte 24 December 2015 15:01 PM

It is very clear that Osbourne wants to kill of the small private landlord and hand the private rental sector over to his corporate buddies who make the big political donations. Osbourne is generally has it in for small businesses - witness the huge rise in the minimum wage, combined with forcing even the smallest business to run pension schemes for all of the employees. For Tory voters he is very much the Judas chancellor.

From: Alan Whyte 25 November 2015 18:01 PM

Subletting without the landlords written permission should be made a criminal offence and constitute grounds for an expedited eviction process. Its about the time that this Government demonstrated that is capable of taking a balanced view, instead of demonising landlords and punishing them at every opportunity.

From: Alan Whyte 19 November 2015 13:40 PM

Osbourne clearly wants to kill off the private rented sector completely and hand it over to his corporate buddies (who I am sure do not fund the conservative party in any way and non of whom ever went to Eaton with him). He is completely out of touch with the middle classes, which is an amazing thing to have to say about a conservative chancellor. A even more draconian chancellor than G Brown ??

From: Alan Whyte 26 October 2015 09:53 AM

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