Nottingham City Council wants to strip landlords of licences, yet their own houses are shocking

The story about Nottingham’s council social houses being a ‘house of horrors’, shows yet again Nottingham City Council’s failure with poor quality housing.

One of the residents, Janette, who has lived on Wyton Close for around 20 years, is resigned to not getting any repairs done. After recently dealing with a dripping tap issue, she bought the parts and fixed the problem herself. “My days of ringing the council ended about 10 years ago,” Janette said.

Yet, the same council, which bought in selective licensing in August 2018 said landlords must have their phones on 24 hours a day – The hypocrisy of it.

If it’s not the council, it’s the government, Universal Credit, Section 24, pet deposits, proposed rent caps, never get your house back. You are not allowed to get old, must spend £30,000 on your house to get EPC C while the tenant pays no rent.

Get fined £30,000 for tenant taking the battery out of smoke alarm. The list goes on.

Monitor your selective licensing emails please landlords. Every single one of them comes with a threat of some sort. The council takes 2 years to look at your documents, yet sends you an email saying if you don’t comply with the latest request, they’ll not grant you a licence and give you an unlimited fine and 2 years rent repayment order. Nothing positive comes from them at all!

I’m selling all my houses as we speak, I think selective licensing gives you a 3-month abstention. They are now starting to bill me the remainder of the £890 license fee which I clearly don’t want to pay for a 5-year licence when I’m selling the houses and won’t be required to have a licence.

And if you didn’t know, you bizarrely have to pay for years even if you sell the house after one year, then NEW LANDLORD HAS TO PAY AGAIN. Uh? Why is that then? Was the house licenced or not?

If the licence was on the landlord, why has he got to have multiple licences then for each house? Licensing still has not answered me that after 7 years.

We all know 3 months isn’t enough to complete a house sale – Let’s see how they work with me on this to keep tenants safe in their homes.

So much so, that I’m out of it. Putting almost all my houses up for sale as we speak. Going to do my best to sell with tenants into hopefully good landlords. But I’ve had enough, I thought my tenants would have a home for life with me, but not anymore. Government, councils and new retrospective rules and regulations (which only hurt tenants that are being looked after), are the biggest cause of homelessness in England.

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