Gary Dully

It looks like a conservative manifesto from the late 1970’s.

I’ll have me some of that!... Read More

I’m amazed that people read what Reform are offering and people still think that voting for the usual parties is going to change the fate of the PRS.
You’ve just come through all the main parties telling the public that your ‘spivs’ and promising to send your property rights to oblivion, as soon as parliament reopens.
Then when someone comes along talking common sense, you say you’re going to vote for the same idiots, that created S24 and the SDLT surcharge, who know nothing better than grudge politics!
Well I wasn’t going to bother voting, as they all were saying the same, but now I’m going to try and give my opinion via a vote for Reform.... Read More

The game of landlord Kerplunk is just about over thanks to this government.... Read More

The whole political approach to housing is ridiculous.

It involves punishing investors with taxation, (section 24), punishment of landlords, (unlimited fines), unlimited legislation, unreasonable legal repossession methods, restrictions on claiming legitimate expenses, taxation surcharges, planning restrictions, right to rent a home legislation, inability to charge set up costs, finance surcharges from banks, huge capital deposits to tie up to obtain finance, public scapegoating by charity organisations, antisocial knob heads being rehoused, benefit clawbacks, rent repayment orders, selective licensing charges and that’s if you’re a law abiding landlord,

I wonder why those MPs are making a fuss?... Read More

If you went on Dragons Den and ‘pitched’ this current and proposed business model and exit plan, they’d laugh at you and wouldn’t invest a dime.

Rent out a hire car or machinery and get away without paying, damaging the asset hired, rip up its carpet, smash it’s windows, give it black spot mould, then paint it inside like a psychopath and let your dog dump a lump in it for a 4% return and persecution in the court of public opinion.

The political parties in this country have seriously lost the plot in regards to housing policy and gaining possession.... Read More

More anti landlord hate speech from Khan.
If landlords were a race, he’d never get away with this sort of rhetoric and discrimination.

Eg: I’m calling for double fines for Blacks or Muslims who rent out houses that develop mould due to too high a humidity in their houses.
But take away the adjective and replace it with ‘landlords’ and apparently inflicting tougher discrimination against someone becomes acceptable.
He and other politicians need to be called out for this hate speech.
He doesn’t ask for nurses to be fined when any of their patients die from smoking, drinking or drugs, does he?

Mould is mainly caused by tenants
Hypocrite!... Read More

The whole thing was planned by the Tories from day 1.
Their chums at the banks are to become the country’s landlords, they have even already announced it.
Removal of allowances
Section 24
LHA frozen
Compliance costs
License Fees
Empty House Surcharges
Capital Gains Allowance Slashed
Anti Landlord Hate Speech
Labour Party cheers them on from the sidelines : (They love a good bank bonus)
Shelter bribed with grants to stick the boot in.

It’s like walking down a dark alley with a daffodil as a weapon against them.... Read More

The day I become a rape victim of a tenant, will be my last day as a residential landlord and that cannot happen quickly enough.

The persons coming up with this idea can give the homeless tenants directions to the food bank and tent shop, because I’m past giving a sh#t.

I ain’t no housing charities hate speech victim, (they used to persecute people), now I know how Donald Trump feels.... Read More

Why is he called Julie?

That aside, too little to late.

Does it never occur to anyone in charge of a government department that you can’t buck the market?

If I get taxed to pay a cost, I won’t work for nowt, someone else can do it, thanks.

Strange creatures politicians, they don’t mind taking pay for yapping their lips, but when they see a business model that works, they undermine it until it fails and then have a little swap of faces at the wheel to announce more grand ideas that will fail.

To fix the housing market, tell the pressure groups to a simply disappear for 20 years and leave us to it.

From AirBnb to title splits, the market demand dictates the prices, interference costs more money.... Read More

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I’m sick to death of this narrative because it’s absurd.
I entered the market because unlike the residential market my guests can’t take the p.
1. I get paid upfront
2. I don’t get taxed on loan interest
3. I get my property back intact
4. I get reviews that reflect my service
5. I get capital allowances
6. I avoid court cases to evict
7. I employ more local services
8. I actually feel rewarded for a change
9. There’s a market for it
10. My guests prefer it to a shitty hotel room

Anyone entering the residential market that pitched to Dragons Den would get dragged outside and beaten with a shi##y stick, for the ludicrous situation the industry has been placed in, by under educated idiots called politicians, who have not got a clue on how to fix the property market.

There are an army of professionals who rent and renovate, called landlords, that get more housing done in a year than any of the big 6 housing companies, so instead of letting us get on with it, they drag, hold us back, stab us in the ribs, criticise us for being successful, tax us without realising that we pay for NOTHING, our tenants pay every single penny of any new burden placed upon us, we outlast most governments, (thank God), and we await the next academic politician with a turd in their pants, (stupid idea), chasing a sound bite from a tenants pressure group.

Any experience of being a landlord would tell you that you need to learn how to suck a lemon without being sick, because it’s tough, shi##y at times, you get a regular kick in the gonads, there is very little reward now, (if any), your treated like a pariah by the state and that’s why the property market is still in a mess.

It’s over regulated, therefore expensive to operate and the poorest in society will have to pay the cost of it.

Short term accommodation is great, I love it, residential letting I now hate, it’s turned to sh## and I’m looking forward to the end of my stint doing it.... Read More

Mr Cobbold has obviously swallowed his masters dog biscuit, started to wag his tail and obviously wants some more attention.
The abolition of getting your property back without a court hearing is what is actually happening.
I’ve taken many bloody idiots to court and they have all been absolute sh### tenants, but now I’ll be dragging the good ones there as well, so if that’s what the government wants, so be it!
The whole point of section 21 was to avoid stress for both parties without dragging each other to court, which is now being killed off to achieve exactly what?
The pay prop company always has bad ideas and now it’s backing this one.
How many properties does it actually own itself, because he sounds like an academical t#t!

I see both sides of the argument and the tenants will suffer even more now.... Read More

I’ll keep this simple.

This government are taking the p with benefit tenants.
The payments are the 30th percentile of local rents!
They’ve been frozen for years.
They are unreliable.
You can’t discuss the issues with the UC dept.
The tenants won’t pass it over.
They’ constantly getting sanctioned and it’s the landlords that suffer.

Ooh I just can’t understand why it’s a mystery, can you?... Read More

I was talking to a Licensing officer of Cheshire East Council earlier this week and the intentions of them seem quite clear.

They no longer want amateurs or anybody else that are not running a professional business and management of property without full compliance in the Private Rented Sector.

She assumed I knew little of procedures and licensing, and sort of took pity of me, and suggested that I pass my portfolio onto a professional company to manage.

She spoke to me, like an old age pensioner being helped across the road.

Cheeky bugger, I was thinking, if only she knew anything about me, she might show more respect.

I house over 54 people and I’m currently suing 4 ex tenants for arrears and damages and I don’t like being messed about.... Read More

So if I understand this correctly, this will now offer the potential of giving an army of lawyers, the unique opportunity, to turn on the PRS and tie most landlords up in knots of litigation.

It all sounds so noble, but I have found that when you have to defend yourself against a spurious claim, the tenants solicitor not only attacks the reported fault, but also goes for uncompleted or omitted administrative bits of paperwork also.

Most so called accidental landlords won’t stand a chance.

For example: a tenant falls off his bed changing a lightbulb.
He didn’t use the step ladders, left at the property.

You will need the following.
1. Risk assessment for the step ladder he did or didn’t use.
2. An inspection of the step ladders each year to be certified.
3. A training book signature showing that the tenant has received relevant training in both using a step ladder and changing a lightbulb.
4. Planning permission for appropriate use of the property for rental purposes.
5. A gas safety certificate covering the period of the accident, plus the previous years.
6. A legionaries risk assessment
7. Training for changing a lightbulb and it’s recycling.
8. A certified inventory of the light bulb originally working.

You will then be given the opportunity to put right the works within a suitable period, a list of the medical professionals that your tenant intends to use to substantiate their claim and their approximate costs for reports or to “Settle” out of court.

Now you may think that this is where it ends, but it then moves on to the commission of your own solicitor to defend your case.

In the meantime your tenant is now off work with his bad neck and permanent scarring of his head that hit the wall as he fell.

This will easily be in about the £3500 mark, followed by his doctors bills of £1800, plus his solicitor charge of £3500, plus compensation of about £3000, plus money for potential future claims of epilepsy caused by trauma of the fall.

Now then Mr & Mrs amateur landlord, how are you feeling about your industry now or more importantly about this private members bill.

The only landlords able to comply and match the system will be big corporates and landlords with decent liability insurances.

What about you?... Read More

Cheshire East Council are now insisting on a basic DBS check also.
Apparently I'm on the run for licking my wife's ice cream choc-ice, in Blackpool, in 1983.

I never knew I was an arch criminal and being chased by Interpol. though.

My application may now be rejected.... we shall see.... Read More

Cheshire East council are also asking for all licensing details and licenses already obtained by any landlord throughout the UK that are applying for a license through them.

I had no idea that it was deemed illegal to do so.... Read More

I am quite honestly sick to death of this organisation virtue signalling, instead of getting on with what it should be doing, which is promoting and campaigning for measures against rogue tenants, who systematically ruin the lives of good, honest, people that only have committed the crime of trying to improve their lives by offering a good, cheap and fair service to their fellow citizens, who are without the means or good fortune to be able to purchase their own homes.

Instead, it keeps jumping on the bandwagon of more beatings for landlords legislation instead of attacking the actual rogues who I doubt even have a gas safety certificate passed in the last 10 years, let alone an EPC, Legionnaires Disease Risk Assessment or electrical safety inspection.

There is already legislation passed to deal with these things, but unless you are on the radar already you can still go unnoticed by the authorities.

Even today, I have been told that one of my small HMO's requires a new standard of smoke detector certificate that is usually, apparently, required also by office blocks and high storey buildings.

Its a 3 bed semi detached in Crewe for gods sake, not Grenfill Towers!

Why is this continuing?

Smallpox, measles, diphtheria risk assessments will probably be next on the list.

The costs of compliance in this industry are multiplying at a phenomenal rate.

Watch this space.... Read More

Tell the current tenant that his notice is final and cannot be revoked as it met the requirements of the prevention from eviction act 1977 part 2, para 5. Ie: it was for at least 4 weeks written notice and was in writing.

That entitled you to advertise and offer a future tenancy to someone else suitable.

The tenants tenancy legally ends at its conclusion. If he has lost his next residency he should consider damages for breach of contract with his future landlord, even if verbal, for loss of his home based on misrepresentation.

What would happen if it were for employment?

Would you take on a disgruntled employee or seek a better one?... Read More

I’m voting UKIP, they don’t hate Landlords and they have a housing strategy, but everyone I know thinks they only talk about the EU.

But basically they are conservatives and labour voters that miss hearing politicians talk any common sense and you can see and hear more on their website or google their last manifesto.

Apparently they are accused of being right wing, (sounds intriguing), check out their blurb and decide for yourself.

Just do yourself a favour and ignore their opponents narrative of name calling and just look, read and decide for yourself, what YOU think!... Read More