New partnership wants to know why private landlords won’t rent to councils

Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 09/09/2024 - 08:45
I am being very selective when my properties become empty, in fact so selective I won't be accepting tenants anymore. I will be selling

Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 09/09/2024 - 08:45
I'm being super selective.
If IF I keep any houses that coma available (which they don't AAhhhh), they go with Letting Agent who are super selective.
Maybe 15 years ago, I'd have to take HB. Not any more.

I don't get involved with the taking on any more, it's Letting Agent.

No way Jose, not approaching Councils to have my houses, promise u the earth then disappear.

Reply to the comment left by GlanACC at 09/09/2024 - 11:04
Ha ha love it

So Selective u can all F-off.

Reply to the comment left by Mick Roberts at 09/09/2024 - 14:33
I just refer them to the answer given in the case of Arkell v Pressdram.

https://proftomcrick.com/2014/04/29/arkell-v-pressdram-1971/

Reply to the comment left by Mick Roberts at 09/09/2024 - 14:33
good for you Mick. The councils seem to have looked on you as their saviour for far too long. Time they stood on their own two feet and sorted their own mess created ultimately by their own making.

Clearly not a shortage of self funding tenants willing to rent your properties then?

Ironic really - if the government are trying to 'raise property standards in the PRS', and trying to make it difficult for LL's to evict, then as a direct response LL's are following this through....by not renting to anyone who doesn't fit the heightened criteria.

The councils and the government are going to be left with an ever increasing loooooong list who need temp/emergency accommodation.....

Wonder if Shelter et all will then switch their animosity towards them once the RRB has then passed??

Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 10/09/2024 - 09:13I've got a 500+ waiting list for my houses, I can't cope. It's terrible what Nottingham Council Selective Licensing & UC has done to tenants homes.
The Letting Agents too, they get in the first day 15 working tenants 60k pa earnings bidding for house. Agents have to stop the viewings.
Put NG5 9NT in Rightmove to rent then g out 1/4 a mile etc. & you see most gone, or stopping viewings cause inundated.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/find.html?locationIdentifier=POSTCODE%5E1166830&radius=0.25&propertyTypes=&includeLetAgreed=true&mustHave=&dontShow=&furnishTypes=&keywords=

Reply to the comment left by AnthonyJames at 02/09/2024 - 21:54
I would be very tempted to take such a deal. I'm a new landlord of 18 months, and am bit wet behind the ears. I've had no issues with any of my tenants to date, and my property has been fully occupied without any breaks. It would be good to have a social impact. But the few landlords I've spoken to (my friends) tell me of their experiences and their experences dealing with councils are frightening. I fear that working with a charity might be similar. I never say never though.

Reply to the comment left by Rookie Landlord at 18/09/2024 - 14:29
I feel very much the same. I think the difficulty is that one 'charity' or 'not for profit' is not the same as another. Shelter just attacks landlords and houses nobody for example. But I can think of good homeless charities near me that do house people and are probably worthy of support.

One of the ironies I think of renting out property is that although, unlike residential property, the sale of commercial property is unregulated, with commercial property it is quite common to lease out a commercial property on a fully insuring and repairing lease. If you were able to lease your property to a charity that in effect gave you a fully insuring and repairing lease, paid you the rent whether the tenant paid the charity or not, and dealt with problems between tenants and the neighbours then I think that could be attractive to many landlords. But I don't know of a charity that does that and mostly discussions about such an arrangement just seems to ring alarm bells on this site.

Reply to the comment left by Beaver at 18/09/2024 - 14:56
When I rented a house I tried to look at it from the neighbours point of view, unlike a lot of landlords who are only in it for the money I tried (and mostly succeeded) in keeping scumbags out of my property.

How would you feel if the house next to the one you live in was let to a charity and they just put in it anyone

Reply to the comment left by GlanACC at 18/09/2024 - 17:09
That of course is why the charity would have to be prepared to deal with problems between the tenants and the neighbours. So the contract between the BTL property owner and the charity would have to be sufficiently robust that if the charity did not fulfil its responsibilities that you as the property owner were able to kick both them, and their tenants out promptly.

I am sure that you couldn't trust Shelter to do this but other landlords may have experience with other charities and know how it can be made to work.