Mick Roberts

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:

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 & condensation 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?... Read More

Tolerated the right word.
I'm selling most of mine next 2 years. I've had enough.... Read More

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Bonkers aren't they. They want to stop Section 21. Which is the very reason why we give them a house in the first place. Stop that = No house.

Get UC to talk to Landlords (zero cost) = Less homeless.

Cut the cruel Section 24 = Less homeless.

Cut Selective Licensing which increases rents = Less homeless.

The list goes on.... Read More

Same in Nottingham, they've made many homeless as they sticking to the bedroom sizes bought in 2015 for London which Nottingham Council never bothered with till Selective Licensing. Now Selective Licensing here, Landlords petrified when tenant has extra kid born, Selective Licensing said can't live here any more, Nottingham Council then put family of 6 in one room in hotel.
You say it brilliant on the hotel analogy Mike.... Read More

Well said so simply.... Read More

Yes, they constantly telling us what we can & can't do cause they found a bad Landlord in the next town.
Without coming to ask our tenants what they would like.
We are the Housing Providers. They need to be should be coming to ask us
What can we do for you, so you help us house all these people that are struggling to get homes?... Read More

That Ben is on another planet.
Telling a private human being Landlord who is not a charity or council
You must only charge this.
I'm charging even more now on new tenant cause we just don't know what they gonna call for next.... Read More

These people are proper crackpots aren't they. Again not asking us the Housing Providers what we think

They say
landlords may be able to capture upgrades to their properties more easily, in turn potentially improving desirability in the market

We've already got 60 people queuing outside for house. We don't want any more desirability.

I did article on this, this morning.

Why does the The Labour Party Govt hate Private tenants so much?

Yet again, measures to increase their rents.
A valid EPC will be required for the whole period of a tenancy – i.e. property will need to be retested if its EPC runs out mid-tenancy.

Why should the tenant keep having these people round in their private home? Have we thought of asking tenant what they want?

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7270710290520932353/... Read More

My tenants value me. They'd still crap on me though if get better offer. But they know I want to sell & aren't selling cause trying to keep them safe. And they've seen all their mates in Nottm Hostels for years.

On rents higher, here is a snippet of many texts I have. Some may agree or not.

XXX, I really am trying to keep your rent low and mindful of u and most my others aren't on great incomes.
I can do your repairs, but I won't be able to keep your rent this low and as low as it has been last few years, as the builders haven't lowered their costs for me or u. So will have to do what other Landlords do every year with inflation & put your rent up to market levels instead of £2400 per year below others.
I personally wouldn't ask if I was paying that low a rent cause we all know it don't pay for 2024 repairs.
Another way of putting it:
It's hard paying 2024 repairs prices when only receiving 2020 rents. I know u don't ask for a lot, but I tell everyone, try and get stuff done yourself if paying £2400 a year less than other rents. Cause that builder don't do stuff at 2020 prices just cause I look after people.
Hard I know, but when people say I can't afford that repair, I say £200 one off repairs are cheaper than £2,400 per year in extra rent.
I'm sure tenants with other Landlords would love that choice to pay cheap rent and do their own stuff. I suffer when u give me the house back as u don't do all the stuff that would have been done on market rent and then I've got to pay for it all with not having had the rent in to pay for it.
Blame Council Govt and inflation.... Read More

This is what happened in Scotland with the Rent increase caps. Landlords charged top whack on new tenancies as they needed to to play catch up & to prepare for not putting up to required levels in the future.... Read More

They have no clue.

In response to the Telegraph, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, claim landlords are less likely to raise rents if they have a long-term tenant.

A Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesman told The Telegraph,: “The evidence shows that landlords value good tenants – and are therefore less likely to raise rents for sitting tenants.

It's the new tenants that are already on the new high rents, so no need to increase as that high rent has just started. The long term tenants paying too cheap rent now have to be increased. We learn't this when Selective Licensing came in and all of a sudden tenants were getting rent increases that not had 'em for years.

And Jo Westlake says the same.... Read More

Yes and that's without the other 100 things we can mention that's avoidable preventable... Read More

That's a point, I'm totally lost with all these new rules since 2007 since deposit protection came in.... Read More

Yes,
Court system is awful for sticking to dates.

On non possession, it's amazing how tenants want 2 weeks keeping old & new house at same time cause they want to decorate & take their time.
I've just had 5 way move & sent em all this.

Normally when u buy and sell houses, even 5 in a chain of 5 houses being sold, EVERYONE EACH PERSON has to move in ONE morning, everything has to be pre planned. I hope to giving u all at least 1.5 days.

I'm starting to receive Council Tax bills for all your moves, & got this text ready for next time something like this happens. I'm not gonna' ask for rent this time, but if you can please pay the Council Tax bill for your house u had.
XXX I've just paid £4.62 for 13 Nov (I'll email u it) if you can pay me that back please.
Technically u don't owe it if sticking to the tenancy dates, but morally u do if Landlord was good enough to try to give u more time than normal house sale chains have. Which u all did use wisely. It's awful when u all have to move same day and don't get time to clean both new and old house to your standard.
If I'm giving you time to move, clean old & new house, have old house half a day to 1.5 days while u got the new house, then all I ask is that you pay the Council tax & rent for the two houses at the same time. Council Tax will be approximately £5 a day & rent approx £30 a day. Otherwise I have to fork this out, yet it's for your benefit. Quite happy for u to give house up same day, but many of you want to keep two houses on at same time for at least a day.... Read More

Aah right cause I've been savvy & gone without & paid mortgage off & no longer have mortgage, I'll just let Generation Rent have cheap rent will I?
Aah Ok din't realise I was a charity. Din't realise that Generation Rent was my brother, sister, Mum & I should be letting them pay me less than I can get.
I/We need every penny possible cause we just don't know what's coming next.
Who could have foreseen Section 24?
Who could have foreseen Selective Licensing? You put tenant new boiler in, new kitchen, new bathroom, charge em £200pm cheaper than anyone else, then Nottingham Council comes along & say Ooh we know u doing good job, but u got to give us £900 License fee now cause that Landlord down the road not doing a good job & we gonna' use your money to employ 76 staff to check your boiler certificate is genuine.... Read More

Yes, that's the thing. Years ago, we'd have passed our houses down to our kids. My 30 year old daughter doesn't want my houses, she sees the crap they bring. Will my 2 year old Grandson? He may also think too much hassle & I'll be too old to teach him when he's 20 & 25.

Yes we signed up to CGT taper relief when we bought the houses & yet again Govt changes the rules.

Yes this 2 month notice possession Shelter & Generation Rent shout about is absolute Codswallop. We all know it takes a year. And that's if tenant complies.... Read More

Again Cider Drinker talks absolute sense:
I never increased rents for over 10 years. With rent controls in place, I’d make sure I increased rents every year to avoid falling too far behind market rates.

In summary, rent controls would mean higher rents for my tenants. Allowing pets would increase rents for many.

When will the Govt & Councils come & ask me, u, our tenants, the millions like us that haven't got a problem, are undercharging, used to take anyone, come ask us what can they do to stop us leaving, packing up, not taking risky people any more. Cause our tenants din't have problems, now they have.... Read More

Remember when we were allowed to ask for a higher deposit to take pets? And it worked.

My repeated notes on this:

Gees, how simple was it when we could just charge higher deposit for Pet owners and those that did no damage got all money back. So so simple.
No better insurance than the tenants own money.
Now look what Shelter and Generation rent and the Govt have done. Made it MUCH MUCH worse for tenants yet again.
My text below I’ve done before.

Landlords: pets are okay if you pay for extra insurance to cover any damage.
Gov: in that case we will make it illegal to charge extra insurance.
LLs: well then we will have to slightly increase deposits for those with pets.
Gov: in that case we will cap deposits at 5 weeks rent.
LLs: okay well we can’t really allow pets anymore then.
Gov: in that case we will force you to take tenants with pets.
LLs: well then we have no choice but to increase rent across the board even for tenants without pets.
Gov: oh.
Tenants: why is rent so high??

Unbelievable isn't it. If the tenant was allowed to pay a higher deposit to cover potential pet damage. And if the pet caused no damage, tenant gets deposit back, job done.
That way only those that caused damage, ie. 10% would pay for THEIR OWN DAMAGE.
The way Govt have it now is, EVERYONE loses. And now this horrendous reaction of pets now losing their lives.
U would think the Govt and Councils would actually talk to us on ground level to ask what we think. As they ALWAYS get it wrong and us in the actual job get it right cause we doing it day in. day out.

We all know what happened with scrapping Pet deposits and we told em it would happen. Now ALL pet owners pay more rent whereas before, if no damage, no charge. Now an unfair charge on every pet owner. And they've got Shelter and the others to thank for that.
Again this shows Govt interference trying to appease voters, the renters thinks Whey Hey Great! Whereas we know they end up worse off.

We told em this was gonna happen.
If they let Landlords charge a riskier higher deposit just as insurance companies charge more for more risk, then let's say 9 out of 10 pets caused no damage. They'd all get their deposits back. And the 1 out of 10 who did cause damage, they'd be the only one that paid. So all pet owners get houses, 90% get their deposit back. And only the 1 that caused the damage would pay.
As it is now, cause Shelter supported banning higher deposits, Landlords are now charging more rent to ALL pet owners, so ALL pet owners lose. All pet owners pay.
They trying to stop this. So what's gonna happen and is happening? Landlords are just refusing ALL pets. So ALL pet owners suffer. When in reality, it's only 10% that cause the damage.
Landlords know how to rent houses out. Govt doesn't.
I've had £1000 stairs chewed apart by dogs. It's not nice.

And I used to take ALL pet owners. I don't now cause of this Govt interference.

Before the Pet Owner knew straightaway they wasn't having it. Now they get messed about & get told We looking at all applications, when in reality the agent or Landlord ain't taking them. That's what's happening now with DWP UC.

Link to the above https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u54ouYTdNr7WaCPYW18Q_tZdlJr8-VwSUJpE0IcPf5k/edit?usp=drivesdk... Read More

Well said Maluka & the rest of u.... Read More