CRUSADER: Why must landlords put up with vile online trolls?

I always used to check a potential tenant’s online presence. Any hint of anti-landlord sentiment would rule them out of the race.

I’m lucky because my tenants like me. They don’t want to move because I treat them with respect and deal with any issues in a timely fashion.

I understand which landlords are hated. There are plenty of bad ones. Many raise rents because interest rates rose. I’m sorry, but that shouldn’t be the tenants’ concern. They rent. It is not their fault that we paid too much for a property or that we needed a mortgage to buy it.

The country would be better without the PRS is, I’m afraid, the unpalatable truth.

I feel you may have consumed too much cider. Modern work frequently involves short term contracts and moving away from family, mortgages are not possible for the majority of these people. The PRS thus meets a basic need for these people - get rid of us and there really will be a breakdown in society.

The X Tweet that the Crusader is referring to has blown up on Social Media. I first saw it posted on a landlord Facebook Group and it got 86 comments in a matter of minutes.

As soon as I saw it I reported it to Facebook as Hate Speech and also for inciting criminal activity including theft.

I would urge all landlords in Scotland to familiarise themselves with the name and face of this individual and his friends to avoid the carnage that would undoubtedly follow from a bad decision to give him the keys to their property.

In fact, I was so incensed that I did a bit more digging, found the details of his full name, employer and other affiliations and came up with a few extra ways (all perfectly legal and above board) to serve some well deserved karma back to him.

S21 going is actually a good thing in one way, for an S8 you must provide a reason for your action. This should highlight the number of eviction due to non payers. Lets see what Shelter and GR have to say then

Well said Crusader.
I've had over the years loads of Labour trolls having go's at me, then I end up winning em round. They don't understand cause they've never took the time to listen to the Landlords side.

Your story above, the hater will end up giving tenants he's supporting, even more expensive rents if they carry on with this hatred.

I often tag Shelter and Generation Rent and Acorn Renters Union to get them debating. But they never engage as they can't win with a Landlord who don't want his houses anyway and only keeping them for the tenants. And £200pm below market rent won't pay for the 2024 changes they calling for.

It matters not what they say about landlords or me in particular. I have a long queue of decent people wanting accommodation, willing to wait until a property becomes available.

Okay here goes.
I'm a long term tenant, 20 years next year in the same property.
And as a tenant I have to say that this moron that has posted this msg asking for the tenants to be destructive and outright vile on leaving the property is in my mind vile.
What the moron does not understand especially these days with everything that's going on in this country is that we need private landlords more than ever and the tenants need to work with not against for the more landlords decide to say sod it I'm out of here means there is less properties that are available for the renter, it's a domino effect and the only ones that win at the end of the day are the big corporations and banks that come in and hoover up, and at the end of the day, they would and are the worst kind of landlord you can have.
Any one with a brain can see what the government (both cheeks of the same bum) have been up to and are pushing for.
The lack of social housing doesn't help, and that is part of the plan as well, over the last 30 years they could of built plenty - councils plead poverty but many that are run properly are sitting on million in reserves etc, taking as much as they can in fees, licences etc from the private landlord in what I convider a big con on their part to help drive the private landlord out of the sector..
I've been following the rented sector for a few years now, in my own interest as I could never afford to buy my own place due to my being stupid in the past, put all my money into a business not property that ultimately failed.
In a nutshell as far as I can see, the moron that has written the tweet who is obviously very bitter needs a wake up call and a bit of education.
He needs to see along with every other moron that with the population expanding by just under a million a year via legal and illegal migration that having a cooperation between landlord and tenant has become essential now.
The tenants need a roof and the landlord needs to pay the mortgage and make a bit of profit to make it worthwhile being one.
The WEF term "you will own nothing and be happy" is becoming more apparent each year and the frightening thing for me is we now have a PM that prefers Davros to Westminster.
The way things are going, if tenant and landlord are not careful the only winner will be corporate and government.
Rant over.
As for me, I recently moved back into my home after my landlord totally renovated the flat after purchase, must of cost her noddles.
So even though I don't have shed loads of spare cash, my gift to her was to pay for a fitted oven and hob.. She didn't want a deposit either on the new lease but got a month anyway.
To you lot, the landlords out there, the good ones, thank you.

Isn't the following incitement to commit criminal acts?
"Plant Japanese knotweed in the garden the day before you move out so their property value collapses, pour oil down the sink, steal absolutely everything that isn’t on the inventory even if you don’t want it, get active in your tenants’ union"

It's not free speech.

Reply to the comment left by GlanACC at 08/11/2024 - 10:23
When evicted using S8, those who suggested S21 was unfair will find themselves picking up CCJs and the legal costs. Careful what you wish for.

Reply to the comment left by Rod at 08/11/2024 - 11:12
For someone I have evicted for arrears I have always given them a CCJ as it stuffs them for 6 years.