Summer Budget 2015 – Landlords Reactions

HI
Reply to NW Landlord
Email addresses for the guy who wrote the article
stephen.Glover@dailymail.co.uk
His boss letters@dailymail.co.uk

Reply to the comment left by "Eden Lan" at "31/03/2016 - 11:10":

Hi

Yesterday on LBC at 1pm the presenter was calling out to landlords to phone in/give their stories. I could not get through.Did not listen to the whole show but the guy from NLA gave few good points like the end result of all this is that the rents will have to rise.

I have just received a reply. Better than BBC

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Hi
I have posted Markb's link on Rla site as well as email address and have and have asked to thank and share.

Just had another bloody scrounging letter off the Conservative Party. I wrote back the following:

'Why don't you ask the institutions involved in Build to Rent? They have already contributed to your coffers and in return George Osborne has favoured them and feted them so that they will be able to build expensive boxes for people to live in, whilst at the same time launching a relentless and astonishing attack on 'individual' landlords. Ask these rich friends of Osborne for more, since they stand to gain richly from their preferential treatment. Don't ask me as I am a portfolio landlord who has built up my business with no help from anyone and, as a result of Osborne's incredible and unjust attack, I will no longer be able to offset the finance costs of my business. The Conservative Government wants me to pay tax on my business, but is not going to let me offset the costs of producing that profit. It's absurd and something a lunatic dictator might introduce. You should hang your heads in shame at this treatment of decent business people providing essential housing services. To ask me for money just takes the biscuit.
Get stuffed.'

Thanks for that: I've added my bit, and sent it off to them.
wonder if I'll get a reply.
Here's my version -

Why don’t you ask the institutions involved in Build to Rent? They have already contributed to your coffers and in return George Osborne has favoured them and feted them so that they will be able to build expensive boxes for people to live in, whilst at the same time launching a relentless and astonishing attack on ‘individual’ landlords.

Ask these rich friends of Osborne for more, since they stand to gain richly from their preferential treatment. Don’t ask me as I am a portfolio landlord who has built up my business with no help from anyone and, as a result of Osborne’s incredible and unjust attack, I will no longer be able to offset the finance costs of my business.

I am not highly geared. I buy wrecks which no young person could get a mortgage on, restore them out and rent to young people who DON'T WANT TO BUY OR SETTLE DOWN YET, or middle aged people who've made a wrong choice, and now have no hope of buying a place of their own, or are just licking their wounds before they try again. I raise the rents when they move on - but as free enterprise advocates [are you really ?] -you will realise that it is the market that determine rents. A free market requires lots of traders, yet you seem to be trying to put this sector into the hands of just a few large players. That will not be a free market, and who will suffer - Generation Rent & Co.

Buying properties and making them available for other to live in without the worry of maintenance, repairs, white goods or buying & selling, is not the same as buying a second property for you own use, and leaving it empty for half the year or more. No, small private lnadlords restore an active populatio.

The Conservative Government wants me to pay tax on my business, but is not going to let me offset the costs of producing that profit. It’s absurd and something a lunatic dictator might introduce. You should hang your heads in shame at this treatment of decent business people providing essential housing services. To ask me for money just takes the biscuit. I won't even give you one of the dog's.

Get stuffed, or get reasonable
Better yet, retire now on your tax-free family company incomes and let us have David Davies back
Chris Brown
Former Tory voter

Reply to the comment left by "Markb " at "31/03/2016 - 07:58":

Excellent article, thanks for sharing. I think this is the best article I've seen so far.

Can I suggest everyone shares on social media?

I'm going to send in to my MP to see if that helps him with his response to my email to him, which I've been waiting for since January.

Reply to the comment left by "Rachel Hodge" at "01/04/2016 - 08:17":

Good idea, Rachel. I would also urge people to write to Stephen Glover - even a short email thanking him. I have done that and mentioned a few other things he might want to take up.

Reply to the comment left by "Ros ." at "01/04/2016 - 09:54":

Thanks Ros; I've just emailed Stephen Glover and attached a copy of my original email to Grant Shapps which covers many of the points raised in the article.

Nice to see the Guardian is changing its stance, at long last:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/01/chancellor-buy-to-let-landlords-george-osborne