New Landlord Association seeking pledges

Reply to the comment left by Janet Carnochan at 19/10/2018 - 08:59
Bravo

27 years a Landlord:
My goal was long term foresight so I could support myself in my retirement.
Sacrificed decades of what many households would consider necessities.
I risked all I had, matched with determination to succeed.
I’ve turned un-inhabitable properties into Good homes.
When first time buyers were too timid to buy due to short term lows or high prices I still played the long game, and continued to purchase and provide homes.
I Became a social worker to many of my tenants, most have had their problems at some point during their tenancy with me.
My concerns are not just for myself but for my tenants, I have many of 10 year stays, all on an initial 6 months, no rise in their rent while they stayed in the same house.
Really getting F’doff with the boo hoo’s and short sighted politicians just aggravating the whole situation.
You have my pledge Mr Sweeney.
(I will also email you as per your update)
I don’t expect miracles,
Section 24 is a total game changer in my situation. This stupid tax really stands to Bankrupt me. I am sickened by the move and by the continuing attacks to private landlords.
I hope such a new Association will give a united voice to landlords, continue to help unite landlords, and work in with the organisations such as Property 118 that already provide some strength to landlords.
Chris Baker
20.10.18

I am in a similar situation to Chris Baker. A landlord for 25 years
without a complaint from any tenant. I have been understanding
as far as possible with rent arrears, helped my tenants as much as possible with all aspects of renting. One tenant has been with
me since I started 25 years ago. Now I am watching it all go down the pan for all the reasons covered on this website. I have pledged my contribution and I wish Larry every success with the new venture.

Reply to the comment left by Chris Baker at 20/10/2018 - 14:22
Chris,

That mirrors me for 20 years.

I din't have Sky TV, yet all me tenants did.
We are Policemen, Social Worker, Debt collector, Home provider, Taker of Abuse.

I've had tenants 20 years.

I met with MP yesterday & told him had to evict a tenant (been with me 10 years) this month cause of Selective Licensing & she wasn't paying enough rent for 5 years which I let go, but now Licensing here, can no longer afford to do that. She is now homeless & lost her 2 kids. All cause of Licensing. He said I din't have to evict her & can't blame it on Licensing. So I let her live there & not pay the proper rent do I?

Ok, this is the right thing to do and exactly at the right time. The PRS will be rendered utterly unviable if the relentless onslaught of misinformation, lies, political propaganda , and entrenched media bias is left unchallenged.
The NLA and other so called Landlord Associations have proven to be utterly ineffective in the political areana preferring appeasement and fudge rather than standing firm on the crucial interests affecting the PRS.
The PRS is a huge industry providing much needed housing and substantially under pinning local economies across the Uk. We have real power to affect change, it simply needs harnessing.
We done Larry, we are. So, step up, step up the big minds and players of the PRS, this is your calling to fall in full square with Larry and the Landlords Allience.
Larry, you have my £100 pledge and my commitment to help out in anyway I can.

Thank you Anthony. Have you emailed us info@landlordsalliance.co.uk.in orfer that we can log your pledge and contact you.

The anti landlord spin Doctors are now clearly getting worried. Why else would they go to these lengths?

https://theviewfromthecreek.wordpress.com/2018/11/04/on-the-curious-case-of-the-national-landlords-alliance/

It will be interesting to see whether other landlord forums pick up on this and how they report it. Sadly, controversy and infighting amongst landlord attracts readers, which in turn attracts advertising revenue. Will other forums favour the cause or will they favour controversy and the advertising revenue it attracts?

Reply to the comment left by Mark Alexander at 05/11/2018 - 11:30
I wonder what the reaction would be if we said something similar about one of the major trade unions?

Reply to the comment left by CazT at 05/11/2018 - 13:33
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He describes himself as “a citizen journalist and campaigner for renters’ rights.”
https://theviewfromthecreek.wordpress.com/about-the-author/ and offers “Liberal smugness” https://medium.com/@smoulderstoat

This is how he drew Polly Neate’s attention to the Landlords Alliance, on Twitter:

Jon Patience‏ @smoulderstoat Nov 3
Hi @Shelter @pollyn1 have you seen this, which makes some pretty serious and completely false allegations about you? https://landlordsalliance.co.uk/shelter-the-housing-charity-that-houses-nobody/

https://twitter.com/smoulderstoat

He must be very naive if he thinks that the piece about Shelter on the Alliance’s website makes false allegations.

He claims in his article that “donors to Shelter do so in the full knowledge of what their money will be used for:” I don’t think many donors realise that their money is used to keep delinquent tenants in situ. https://www.property118.com/shelter-deter-judge-evicting-anti-social-tenants-using-dubious-technicality/

He seems to think that Shelter shops are worth mentioning “Yet more is income from their own shops”. He must not realise that 92.5% of shop takings is spent on the salaries of the 177 shop employees and “other shop costs”, leaving about £630k profit, i.e.about 1% of Shelter’s income and expenditure https://www.property118.com/free-advice-shelter/

So I doubt whether he realises that Shelter’s campaigning (which he does not include in his list of their activities) will result in a smaller PRS and higher rents.