Landlord Action calls for a Rogue Tenant List

Reply to the comment left by "Mandy Thomson" at "05/01/2016 - 12:02":

Mandy, doesn't this mean that anybody who takes our money in return for a service is a parasite?
Landlords invest thousands of pounds of their hard earned money, why should they have to provide a service for free?

Reply to the comment left by "David Price" at "05/01/2016 - 11:52":

I stand corrected, David - yes, it's not "parasite", it's "snivelling parasite" :-). The problem with Her Majesty housing every ASBO in the country is the cost https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/251272/prison-costs-summary-12-13.pdf

So if the powers that be can find scapegoats to do it for them, why not?

A Snivelling Landlord.

Reply to the comment left by "Andrea Collins" at "05/01/2016 - 12:10":

Yes, Andrea - the economics of supply and demand, and even basic barter is an abstraction that certain otherwise intelligent people seem unable to grasp. Particularly difficult is the concept of ownership of property and charging for the use of that property, and the unseen behind the scenes work that landlords and property agents have to do to maintain that property. Whereas, if landlords and agents actually made some tangible, physical object in a factory, they would be respected.

So how then do you explain the kind of ridiculous salaries of top footballers and other A list celebrities, that large proportions of the same section of the public who hate landlords (sorry, snivelling parasites) idolise?

Reply to the comment left by "Mandy Thomson" at "05/01/2016 - 12:16":

Unfortunately the cost of not housing at Her Majesty's pleasure is chaos in society. I have tried hard over the years to rehabilitate problem tenants, usually alcoholics, with one notable success and hundreds of failures many of whom are now dead. I now employ the success and, because he understands the problem, he is my best employee.

I ensure that no responsible landlord houses my bad tenants by using Tenant Referencing.

Reply to the comment left by "David Price" at "05/01/2016 - 12:42":

You and other landlords who take such tenants are not just providing housing, you're also acting as (unpaid) social workers, both of which are government's responsibility.

Reply to the comment left by "Mandy Thomson" at "05/01/2016 - 12:25":

Dear snivelling parasite,

Apparently today is FAT CAT TUESDAY.

HPC say so. No not the lowlife, complaining, anarchists scumbags no decent snivelling landlord would ever want as tenants, fuelled be the politics of envy and work shy 'give us a home for free, so I can sublet it, claim my benefit' and........ Shurrup!

No, the other HPC say:-

-------- http://news.sky.com/story/1616583/pay-row-breaks-out-over-fat-cat-tuesday

"A fair pay row has broken out as campaigners claim top bosses will have already been paid more than a person on an average annual salary by this afternoon.

The High Pay Centre (HPC) has dubbed today "Fat Cat Tuesday".

The think tank's research aims to compare the earnings of top executives at FTSE 100 firms with UK average pay packets.

It found that typical annual earnings stood at £27,645 in 2015 - a rise of just £445 or 1.6% on the previous 12 months.

At the other end of the scale, the HPC said the FTSE bosses were handed an average of £4.96m - though that was in 2014 - with a chief executive's annual incentive award rising by almost 50% of salary.

It said that when assumptions were made that the bosses worked 12 hours a day, including most weekends and holidays, it would only take around 22 hours of graft for them to earn the UK average salary."
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Funny those scroungers (sorry I generalise too much) on HPC don't mention that.

Anyway we all MUST be wealthy as we own two or more homes, even if put to good use housing otherwise homeless. We are all worth at least £250m each, see Fergus and Judith have just sold up. That proves it! What a snivelling bunch we are.

Yours, another Devine parasite........

Ha, ha - very good!

If the Devine Parasite himself says I'm worth £250 million, then I'm off shopping on a spending spree (not that I have anything else to do, being a lazy parasite). But wait, I've just seen my bank statement, after my modest Christmas spending...

The Adam Smith Institute has dismissed HPC's figures as "pub economics". If the HPC want to make a point, at least aim for accuracy (e.g. mean average compared to median average?) and if indeed top bosses do put in the kind of hours HPC have used in their model, they are at least working bloody hard for that money. Money is also a much less finite commodity than say, housing.

A mere Snivelling Parasite.

The answer is NOT the database operated by Landlord Referencing, as good as it may be, because this requires landlords to input into the database, and not all landlords would do that. Therefore, although it is part of the solution (particularly relating to anti-social behaviour and damage etc), it is not the whole solution to the problem. Neither is Paul's suggested, presumably different, "rogue tenant" database. What is REALLY needed (in my opinion) is for the courts to automatically register the money judgement part of the possession order as a CCJ (i.e. register the CCJ with the Registry Trust and the credit referencing companies). If this was done, then the financial side of the tenant's housing history would be recorded, and accessed when the landlord does the tenant referencing. As this would be done by the courts, it would not be reliant upon individual landlords accessing a website and inputting tenant details.

Remember that a "normal" CCJ does not get registered unless the court is told it is not paid! Therefore a lot of unpaid CCJs don't get registered.

Moreover, if a new tenant presents with just one CCJ, wouldn't a lot of landlords (but not me!) take them? It is possible to get a CCJ for something minor, like a small sum owing on an old mobile phone contract, but as a CCJ is a CCJ, I would rather err on the side of caution and assume it's something serious (which it usually is).

There are a good few tenant history databases in existence (Landlord Referencing being just one), but they all work differently and they are far from universal.