Andy Burnham claims the Good Landlord Charter will raise standards without driving landlords out

Having a good 'Tenant' can make a world of difference!!!

Its everything,
I know many good landlords but no 'rogue' landlords
I know many Tenants and quite a few terrible tenants, tenants who have destroyed good people's property for nothing more than the landlord asking them to abide by the contract that they were very eager to sign.
Why is there no tenants charter where Landlords can check up on bad tenants?
Seems fair to me?

Reply to the comment left by GARY RIVETT at 11/11/2024 - 11:05All well and good asking landlords to provide homes with an EPC of C but it is unclear what this will mean given that the consultation which closed in January 2020 has still not been published. Instead, Rishi Sunak chose to muddy the waters by proposing an alternative methodology a year ago.
With COP 29 this week and 2030 set as a big target for carbon reduction, I read that a new consultation is planned before the end of the year.
Landlords and other homeowners are desperate for clarity on what standards will be required before they commit to the cost of retrofit works.
When will the price of electricity have the link to gas prices revised?
What changes will be made to balance costs savings to low carbon systems?
Will other climate resilience requirements be included, such as minimising excess heat in the summer?
When we get a meaningful cost benefit cap to reflect payback period vs savings?

iHowz have repeatedly asked the government for these answers but so far the only consistency from them is that "it will be published in due course".

Reply to the comment left by Rod at 11/11/2024 - 11:38
Absolutely, no point changing anything until we know the exact criteria by which properties will be assessed. The previous government seemed to have finally recognised this but with the new, blinkered ideologues in power we are back to square one.

Utter Bonkers to keep thinking EPC C is the answer.
I'll keep repeating:

I'd worry too with Ed Miliband changing the rules again & making thousands more tenants homeless that were otherwise safe:

I'll put this below I'm gonna' post the same on a few relevant articles & hope someone gets this to some boffin in power somewhere:

I'll keep putting this on these articles, hope the right bafoon in Govt or Councils read it

Ed Miliband & EPC C making more tenants homeless

I'd worry too with Ed Miliband changing the rules again & making thousands more tenants homeless that were otherwise safe:

What if tenant was living in warm, no damp at all, 30% cheaper than market rent property?
And she already had latest boiler, windows, doors, kitchen etc.?
That was EPC D?
And she was perfectly happy?
And she's just decorated her living room gorgeous?
And Govt comes along & says we got to rip out all your nice decoration u just done.
Gonna' tread over all your new carpets.
5 builders in your home of 20 years for 2 weeks.
Make your house smaller.
But you will save £10pm gas bill.
And u will then be EPC C.
But it's gonna' cost your Landlord £10,000.
And that cheap rent you got, he not be able to afford you that any more, it's gonna' cost you £3000 per year more to bring in line with market rents.
Ooh & you gonna' get mould & condenstion next year cause this 1920's house wasn't made to be sweated up with all this internal insulation.
But we the Govt will look good to the voters as can say We are making loads of houses EPC C.
Ooh sorry we din't realise your Landlord din't want the house anyway, only keeping for you, and this last straw has pushed him over the edge & he's now gonna' sell to make u homeless-Look on bright side, Council will put u & 5 kids in one room in hotel that will be EPC C & Council (well Taxpayer) will pay the £3000pm to the hotel group.
Am I Einstein or are Govt & Council's thick? Has anyone been to ask the tenants who HAVEN'T GOT A PROBLEM what they would like?

We do not need to make our homes meet an EPC Rating C.

Labour are going to provide loads of green energy by 2030 and make the UK self-sufficient for energy. At least, that’s what they said.

If my energy is provided from green sources, it shouldn’t matter if I have a roof full of panels or if my energy comes from a field full of panels.

Burnham is wrong. My properties are C rated (all bar one) and they will be sold when tenants leave. No ore new tenants for me, I’m afraid.

The Charter is too vague - what are 'reasonable adaptations', what are 'reasonable changes'?

EPC rating of C is likely to drive landlords out of the market.

Having to have accreditation and training is likely to drive landlords out of the market.

All are likely to lead on upward pressure on rent.

It’s when politicians make comments such as this, that you realise they have no real understanding of what is actually happening.

Here we go again, “working to drive out rogue landlords”: do they never stop to think there are many more rogue tenants…of course not, because they simply “do not think” and say things which they believe are good media soundbites to satisfy the majority (given that for years, landlords have been an easy target for successive governments and the media, regardless of the service we may provide.

To resolve the issues facing the shortage/decline of housing in the private rented sector, politicians need to engage objectively with landlords, listen to, learn and understand the other side of the coin.

How often do we hear politicians appreciating the problems we face whilst instead, continually making reference to rogue landlords with no mention of tenant problems and behaviour.

If taking a big stick to break eggs worked, whey is it not applied to other areas of society: no government would dare use this approach with some of the more serious issues facing society but because it is “landlords” w remain the alleged problem of much that Governments have brought upon themselves by inadequate investment, working with landlords and appreciating that there are two sides to every story.

If Andy Burnham thinks a good Landlord Charter will work, he would no doubt support a good Tenant Charter and ensure that there were similar guidelines/legislation for tenants to comply with: will he do that?

If he thinks a Good Landlord Charter would work, perhaps the next time I have to empty a property, which took months to get back through the courts, which has been totally abused and wrecked by tenants, where drug paraphernalia is left, with human faeces all over the place amongst rotting food and other disgusting items, will he come along and help: after all, it will all be an expectation of the Landlord Charter!

Reply to the comment left by Ryan Stevens at 11/11/2024 - 15:29
EPC C will see tenants evicted form D rated homes.

They’ll try to get a social housing home but that ain’t going to happen any time soon.

Maybe they’ll buy a cheap house being sold by a landlord. They won’t need to improve the EPC Rating.

Private landlords own a disproportionate number of older housing stock.

All that EPC will achieve is fewer landlords owning fewer properties. But the properties owned by landlords will be EPC Rated C or better. Owner occupiers will own the poorer quality housing stock.

Has Andy Burnham ACTUALLY looked around his area and/or read the analysis of property sales experts like Rightmove and Zoopla?? There is ALREADY a landlord exodus worsening the rental housing crisis, but just like Pennycook he prefers to bury his head in the sand and trot out the same government mantra (crap!) that they are only targeting rogue landlords! The discrimination levelled at ALL landlords just to target the few is eye watering, yet landlords are not allowed to have a corresponding 'Tenant charter/register' in the interest of fairness. Maybe because if they did, they'd realise (and so would the media and ranty lobbyist groups) that the majority of evictions is down to tenant antisocial behaviour and non payment of rent, which doesn't help their narrative and may result in the public being sympathetic to landlords who have NEVER been the problem and are in fact providing a solution to the housing crisis. A crisis, I hasten to add, that the current and previous governments have caused by selling off housing stock and not replacing them at the rate they are needed (nor dealing with illegal immigration which puts pressure on available emergency temporary accommodation which could be used for those being evicted). Be interesting to see how long it takes for them to realise they actually had it quite good before they started this witch hunt against the PRS!