Mick Roberts

There's many good Landlords out there, many good tenants. They all suffering cause of the Draconian rules to protect the bad tenant & bought in against the minority bad Landlords.... Read More

It's still bizarre now 7 years after Licensing started, how the Councillor above them & the homeless section does not listen to the homeless section when they tell em biggest reason Landlords don't give their tenants houses is cause of Selective Licensing.

Same with UC, come ask us why we not taking UC. So so simple to solve.... Read More

They forcing the good Landlords out & good tenants are suffering.... Read More

Thanks for clarifying Bill.

And wow this is shocking:
In parts of London, where the overall Benefits Cap applies, DWP refuses to pay any of the "housing costs" to the landlord.... Read More

You say it perfectly Markella. Amount of people homeless from UC is shocking.
I have tenants revert it back to theirselves without UC asking me if still in arrears.... Read More

Ooh yes, I know, I'm prepared to lose 10k a house to new Landlord to keep tenant in.
Although I'm not desperate as most of mine are good tenants been there 20 years.... Read More

That is shocking.

Do not a lot of tenants undermine the tenancy? That's why we want these things.
I'm selling most of mine next 2 years & I'll keep repeating it till enough people know it as I never thought I'd sell on some tenants, although I'm gonna' try my hardest to get new Landlord to buy to keep 'em in.

13 weeks rent arrears? Wow, Shelter & Generation Rent have really shot theirselves in the foot, protecting one tenant, making it nigh on impossible for the next million vulnerable low earning UC & Benefit tenants to get anywhere again.

Great words Ian:
If Labour wanted to make life difficult for poor tenants, they could hardly have devised a better scheme. Landlords will lose and tenants will lose. Rents will increase (and so will landlords’ losses and expenses) and given that there are already too few properties available to rent, homelessness will increase.... Read More

Saul, Stella, New Yorkie,
All say it how it is:
Governments of both colours have turned thousands of caring, considerate, generous landlords into hard-nosed business owners.
It used to be
Service your boiler once a year
Tell me when something wrong.
And it worked. Result cheaper rents happier tenant.

Landlords Landladies do more now for the Govt Council Tax people Letting Agents Legionella's etc. in fact 20 times more than the tenant asks for. And it's costing tenants in higher rents & our Mental Health, so much so we packing up.

I've decided I'm gonna' try & sell most of mine next 2 years, to Landlords Landladies to hopefully keep em in.... Read More

Is buying shares a job?

I agree on Reform.... Read More

Yes why can us simple landlords see and know what will happen, yet the Council with all their might can't see the wood for the trees... Read More

Isn't every sole trader business allowed to deduct theor loan costs?
It only affects 2 million landlords or about 4 million tenants -Isn't that bad?
It's easier said than done incorporating when you've already owned the houses years.

There are MANY with dozens of properties in personal names.

Yea u says wise words on Govt should have helped people incorporate. It has made many homeless.... Read More

I've decided I'm selling most of mine next 2 years.
I do tell mates though, that are buying when they ask me why I'm selling and are they right to buy?
I say Yes with a mortgage the numbers add up.
Do em up.
LEAVE em with agent, so u covered with all the latest rules. And only top class tenants.
At top price rent cause u don't know what Govt and Council may ask u for next.... Read More

They don't think forward longer than 3 to 5 years do they.
I'm away so on small phone, so excuse me if I've got this wrong. But are these 156 households then not gonna be homeless and taking up 156 homes elsewhere?... Read More

Isn't that what all the extra anti Landlord rules regs have done since 2015?
harder for vulnerable tenants to access rented accommodation.

In Nottingham, low earners literally cannot get anywhere.... Read More

Tenants in Nottingham NEVER ask if the property has a Licence. They have no choice. If they very rarely get offered one, they will jump for joy and having a License is the last thing on their minds... Read More

Don't get me started on Licensing, here's my reply to Nottingham Council Imbecile Selective Licensing scheme this morning & yesterdays email:

Thank you for replying.

I'm referring to your other more included email in this reply as XX & XX need to know why their job so hard & so many Landlords selling & not taking their tenants.

I haven't. I HAVEN'T. That''s my point.
I haven't provided them addresses, that's what I'm trying to tell you. Your pre-populated cr#p Nottingham Council website has done it. It does it on the payment page too. Told u this, Licensing doesn't listen. My mate used to design the website & said the Council never listened to feedback & the changes were easy to make.

Look at your box address.
I have NEVER stated High Street address Hucknall. On my 15 houses with the Letting Agent, the Letting Agent is IN ARNOLD. Your field has done this. Granted, I may not have seen it put it in & not deleted it, but sort out this cr#p website please. I told Licensing in 2018 it was cr#p. Licensing said not. Linda Woodings stood up in Dec 2019 & said Yes we admit there were some flaws with website. It's better, but still cr#p.

Why would I put TWO addresses in?

I don't want em processed this month. Nor do the tenants. Take 5 years if you like, we do not care. I'm making the point Licensing give us deadlines, but take 4 years to reply to a query to tenants.
I've got some category one hazards at my houses right now that's been reported to u where Nottingham Council in charge of tenant & Licensing done bob all about it.

So my point of contact is XX but someone else can write to me? I can't cope with this bulls__t. I'm selling the lot.

Just one address Please Helen the PO Box address. Ooh by the way the website also got addresses wrong for Council Tax that went to court & Judge chucked it out & said to Council Why don't u check things first.

Yesterdays reply:
I've just had this Codswallop off Nottingham City Council Selective Licensing.
And they wonder why Nottingham homeless bill is £8 million a year. I know Team leaders who have been in homeless 18 months. You a disgrace Nottingham Council.
I filled these License forms in a year ago. And you give me 21 days? For something that has no bearing on the tenants lives whatsoever but wastes their rent money on your imbecile admin.

My Reply at the top & extracts from the Council letter below.

XXX
I'm away. Please don't give me 21 days or else the catastrophic.
So you telling me this difference in address will result in not 'duly made'? What does duly made mean?
Will this make the tenants house any better?
And you want me to start a new application? Pay again I presume?
Do you want me to send this to the Media? I've BCC'd a few in if they want to take it up.

The address for all is
XXX

I've been telling you 7 years, you got a problem with Nottingham Council website that repopulates fields wrongly.
Show me where I have put the High Street address?
So u give us 21 days & yet u want another 6 months?
Have u any idea of the homeless in Nottingham?
What a load of Codswallop.
Don't grant me a License, perfect excuse to sell all my houses now instead of keeping em for the tenants.

Mick Roberts

Dear Applicant,

Please find attached a document requesting some additional information for your application for a Selective licence.
Kindly provide this/these document(s) and or any additional information requested at your earliest convenience but no later than 21 days.
We will put your application on hold until the information is received. If the 21 days are exceeded and we do not have a response from you, we may cancel the application, meaning you will need to reapply and your property would be unlicensed

Below are details of what is missing from your application and, as such, what you need to provide to us within the deadline given, failure to do so could mean that the application is not ‘duly made’ and will be cancelled.
This would mean property would remain unlicensed and a new application would be required.
Address confirmation for Licence Holder, Mr Mick Roberts.
We have received the below applications. The address for Mr Roberts on some of the applications is XXX and on others it is XXX , XXX

Please can you clarify which address is to be used for all applications received.
You should be aware that we will make a determination of your application whether you provide this missing information/documents or not. However, in the absence of what we have requested from you, the likelihood that we will not grant a licence is greatly increased. In that scenario, we could refuse to grant a licence for the property to operate as a Selective Licensing property... Read More

It's what we did with Selective Licensing. We thought Screw this, got to charge top whack cause who could have foreseen that coming, we give em new boiler & kitchen & then Council say Ooh u got £890 Selective Licensing charge cause that Landlady/Landlord down the road han't got a new boiler kitchen.
And when we charged this top whack, we found people had to pay it.... Read More

I've put this to 5 or so or me tenants that could buy this morning. I don't hold out hope.
Although I am selling most of mine in next 2 years.... Read More

I'm still not taking pets. Less so now.... Read More

It's just another annoying extra thing we didn't have to do a few years ago.
All adds up the cost & time.
Tenant breaks smoke alarm every month £12.
Licensing £890.
EICR £300.
Inspections every 4 months.
Section 13 £50 by Letting agent when letter previously worked.
There is loads more.
ICO £35 so I can give the plumber tenants phone number for urgent ceiling leak. We've gone nuts.... Read More