Less wiggle room for Shelter to keep stating that landlords are evicting for no reason?

Less wiggle room for Shelter to keep stating that landlords are evicting for no reason?

9:59 AM, 21st August 2023, About A year ago 16

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Hello, the government have updated the procedure for a landlord to request a direct deduction from a tenant’s benefits to pay for rent arrears and for it to be paid directly to the landlord.

Landlords can also request direct rent payments if these have not already been established. Even if your tenant is not in arrears, you can make a request.

Requests are looked at on a priority basis, but given the current climate, you may want to do this anyway as a safety measure.

There are some tenants that regularly miss payments and then make them up just before the landlord can request a UC47 so the history of persistent rent not paid on time is not logged anywhere. Direct payments can stop this, ensure that the tenancy continues and provide a landlord with evidence that persistent late payments exist. (handy when S21 is abolished and you are relying on persistently late grounds?)

It also means that the stats of direct payments requested and agreed will increase – adding to the evidence that more tenants than ever are struggling to meet the rent on time. Surely this gives less wiggle room for Shelter etc to keep stating that landlords are evicting for no reason?

The full updated guide for landlords on rent arrears and service charges can be seen here

Thanks,

Reluctant Landlord


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18:01 PM, 22nd August 2023, About A year ago

Reply to the comment left by Ingrid Bacsa at 22/08/2023 - 17:26They will take up the country's rental shortage burdens - along with new powers, and will freely enforce their own tenant regulation system, with low tolerance and swift evictions.. Look out bad tenants!
Not a bad thing then - Bad Tenant Karma? LOL
If this is the case there will always be people looking for other options - we are still not quite at that stage as yet, even if it is the direction of travel..
The thing is big corps will only look at the cities and people who can pay their own rent so properties likely to be eco type flats, good rail/bus links etc( with high service charges to boot and good rent increases/yields potential year on year). No Corps are going to want to build and invest in 3 bed semis in the North for families to set roots in. They will want schools etc close by... These tenants are too 'needy'. Corps want buildings up, modern and flashy, tenants in and high yields.

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7:15 AM, 26th August 2023, About A year ago

Reply to the comment left by Ingrid Bacsa at 22/08/2023 - 17:26
Problem is, their rents are only the right price the more well off tenants.

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10:33 AM, 26th August 2023, About A year ago

Reply to the comment left by Ingrid Bacsa at 22/08/2023 - 17:26
I don't know why people are saying it is a master plan for mega corporations to 'take over' the rental market. Yes, there are some mega corporations, but they don't want the runbbish that small landlords end up with. Additionally there are around 4,000,000 rented properties, would need a lot of mega corporations to take up that slack.

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11:06 AM, 26th August 2023, About A year ago

Glen, can you come up with a better reason for the persistant attacks on landlords?

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11:51 AM, 26th August 2023, About A year ago

Reply to the comment left by TheMaluka at 26/08/2023 - 11:06
Yes, the government want votes so they think that by responding to GR or Shelter and the like it will give them more votes. The government also needs more income from tax, it has no choice and landlords who are perceived by the general public to be leeches are a soft target, hence more votes. Come the next budget I doubt there will be any furrther tax breaks for landlords, they may extend the implementation date for EPC C to 2030 or something but I can't see it being watered down too much as they will lose votes from the greenies. However, none of this will matter if labour get in ! - large corporations want profitable housing, and NEW properties that are already energy efficient, they also want renters that can pay, they don't want the kind of stock that housing associations have as they have a large base of defaulting payers and massive repair bills. So the guy who has one or two properties for his pension is left to pick up the renters noone else wants. Its not a master plan to put housing into large corporations because they are simply not interested in that.

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12:03 PM, 26th August 2023, About A year ago

Reply to the comment left by GlanACC at 26/08/2023 - 11:51
Yes, something like 9.5 million renters & 2.4 million Landlords.
Tenants jump for joy when Govt slaps a charge on Landlords.
We all know tenant ends up being worse off next year.

80% of Britain would vote to pay no tax. We all know what would happen a year later.

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