New BBC1 Programme about Landlords

Improve our knowledge of today's rental market? We are living this day to day do we really need 'help' to understand today's rental market?

I would like to see a program where tenants live life in the shoes of a landlord . . . wrecked properties, rent defaults etc etc

Landlords, most of whom are kind, conscientious, principled people working in a difficult environment, have never been so demonised and demoralised and I would be surprised if there are any takers to appear on this program as it will be seen as yet another attempt to landlord-bash.

A day in the life of any of my tenants would not make interesting viewing - fault reported and immediately addressed, rents unchanged in the last 3 years, presumably that's not what they are looking for?

...mean to say 'not to get involved in the sector.'...typing fast.

Just sent the following email to grace.hetherington@boundlessproductions.tv

Dear Grace

I am the founder of Property118.com and have just spotted a thread you have posted on our forum. You may wish to read some of the comments >>> https://www.property118.com/new-bbc1-programme-landlords/98595/

I am a UK landlord but live in Malta as rent my home here from a wonderful landlord called who also happens to be called Grace. We share a common philosophy of renting the home we own and owning other properties that other people call their home and rent from us. We look after our properties as the rents provide for us in our semi retirement. Like many tenants, we do not wish to be tied to the property we call our own home. We like the idea of being able to decide to live elsewhere and simply up sticks and move with a months notice is a different property in a different area takes our fancy.

You are very welcome to come and film my life as a tenant here in Malta but apart from spectacular scenery, better weather and a Mediterranean style of living my life isn't that much different to what it was when i lived in the UK.

If you were to meet my tenants they are no different to the people who live next door to them and own their own home, save that they don't have to worry about paying for property maintenance. They simply live in the nicest home they can afford.

If you would be so kind as to comment on the discussion thread on how the BBC intend to portray the lives of tenants vs landlords I would be very interested. If you are simply trying to show that some people can afford nice homes and others cannot then you could pick any two elements of society to do that so I have to ask, why landlords and tenants and not potato pickers and BBC presenters?
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Reply to the comment left by "Anne Nixon" at "11/05/2017 - 11:01":

Yes, even better would be to have so-called housing professionals living the life of landlords - they can help clean up dog poo littered across the carpet and other foul items after rogue tenants are finally forced to leave our properties. And they can withdraw the equivalent of a few months' rent or more from their bank accounts and also pay to put right all the damage caused to the properties so they can experience what it feels like to pay other people's housing costs out of their personal salary. Let's see if they're so 'caring' afterwards.

Mark, that was a good question you asked Grace.

She wrote, 'we want to showcase reality and bridge the gap between landlords and tenants by reflecting the actual renting market as it is.'.

There are millions of gaps between all walks of life. How highlighting the difference between landlords and tenants will serve any good in the end remains to be answered by Grace and Mark rightly asked why between us only considering the way the country is heading with the whole rental situation brushing landlords as who they are not? As Mark puts it why not make a so-called documentary to showcase the gap between a window washer and a BBC executive or between someone like Grace and the top banker who is on Millions per year?

Follow up to grace.hetherington@boundlessproductions.tv

PS - my former home in the UK is now rented to tenants. It is a very modern Country home (think Footballers Wives TV programme) with 21 rooms standing in 5 acres. It has a games room and even a spa with hot-tub and steam room.

We have a family of 8 people living there. They have two horses and a dog.

I can have a word with my tenants if you're interested?
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I genuinely think they are clueless as to how the vast majority of decent landlords operate;

http://www.boundlessproductions.tv/news/read_bbc-one-commissions-brand-new-factual-entertainment-series-from-boundless_item_100163.htm

There are 11 million people renting in the UK, but with nine people for every rental property available, it’s fast becoming a landlord’s market. Those at the top of their tree are often more out of touch with their tenants than ever.  Landlords (w/t) is a 3 x 60’ series which will challenge landlords to go ‘back to the floor’ to spend one week living in one of their own rental properties.
Maxine Watson, BBC Commissioning Editor, Documentaries, said:“As more people and councils turn to the private sector to provide accommodation, this timely series asks what kind of social and moral obligations bind today's landlords.”
In each episode this ‘fish out of water’ format will follow two landlords as they step into their tenant’s shoes.
Hannah Wyatt, Boundless Managing Director comments: “Landlords (w/t) is a transformative and revealing series that will give an honest and emotive insight into ‘generation rent’ though the landlords immersive experience, exploring the ever increasing gap between renters and their landlords.”

(Can I have my license fee back please?)

Reply to the comment left by "Monty Bodkin" at "11/05/2017 - 11:56":

I have some tenants who live a far better lifestyle than I could afford, but I also have some where I think "how can they live like that?", but these are their own lifestyle choices, their own attitudes to life, their own abilities, their own choices. If I was going to swap with a tenant, could I swap with Mark's tenant's in their 21 room country house???? lol (now that would be an incentive to take part in the show)!

Reply to the comment left by "Robert Mellors" at "11/05/2017 - 12:09":

You have just given me a brilliant idea and I don't know why I've not thought of it before.

My former home in Florida (which I still own) is tenanted. I might ask those tenants to house swap with me for a fortnight. I'm sure they would love to spend a few weeks in Malta overlooking Valetta next Year when it's the European Capital of Culture. In return, I get to spend time doing some Bass fishing in my former home on Hart Lake, Winter Haven. How cool would that be? 😀

I doubt that would interest the BBC though because we would be two tenants swapping homes, albeit it I would still be living in a property I own and rent to a tenant.

Maybe I shouldn't suggest that to Grace, she will probably think I'm just taking the piss.
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I couldn't live in one of my dumps ha ha.
No maybe 20-30% of mine are nice & I don't mean dump by me the Landlord as building work, just how some people have just left their homes to deteriorate.

I see a lot of my tenants every day/week & couldn't live on what they live on. I was approached to do this programme last week & the thought of the minimum income these benefit tenants have to live on, I'd be ill in a few days from lack of healthy food.

Sorry, I'm spoilt now in me luxuries & I am no snob, but a lot of my HB tenants are on the breadline (Contrary to what other people may say), & I openly admit I would struggle to live on the minimum now. I have done it & got on with it, but have worked too hard to have a weeks 'holiday' living on Aldi beans.

I'd be good filming though, as I'd be pulling me hair out.