Nottingham City Council wants to strip landlords of licences, yet their own houses are shocking

Nottingham City Council wants to strip landlords of licences, yet their own houses are shocking

10:33 AM, 29th January 2025, About A week ago 37

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The story about Nottingham’s council social houses being a ‘house of horrors’, shows yet again Nottingham City Council’s failure with poor quality housing.

One of the residents, Janette, who has lived on Wyton Close for around 20 years, is resigned to not getting any repairs done. After recently dealing with a dripping tap issue, she bought the parts and fixed the problem herself. “My days of ringing the council ended about 10 years ago,” Janette said.

Yet, the same council, which bought in selective licensing in August 2018 said landlords must have their phones on 24 hours a day – The hypocrisy of it.

If it’s not the council, it’s the government, Universal Credit, Section 24, pet deposits, proposed rent caps, never get your house back. You are not allowed to get old, must spend £30,000 on your house to get EPC C while the tenant pays no rent.

Get fined £30,000 for tenant taking the battery out of smoke alarm. The list goes on.

Monitor your selective licensing emails please landlords. Every single one of them comes with a threat of some sort. The council takes 2 years to look at your documents, yet sends you an email saying if you don’t comply with the latest request, they’ll not grant you a licence and give you an unlimited fine and 2 years rent repayment order. Nothing positive comes from them at all!

I’m selling all my houses as we speak, I think selective licensing gives you a 3-month abstention. They are now starting to bill me the remainder of the £890 license fee which I clearly don’t want to pay for a 5-year licence when I’m selling the houses and won’t be required to have a licence.

And if you didn’t know, you bizarrely have to pay for years even if you sell the house after one year, then NEW LANDLORD HAS TO PAY AGAIN. Uh? Why is that then? Was the house licenced or not?

If the licence was on the landlord, why has he got to have multiple licences then for each house? Licensing still has not answered me that after 7 years.

We all know 3 months isn’t enough to complete a house sale – Let’s see how they work with me on this to keep tenants safe in their homes.

So much so, that I’m out of it. Putting almost all my houses up for sale as we speak. Going to do my best to sell with tenants into hopefully good landlords. But I’ve had enough, I thought my tenants would have a home for life with me, but not anymore. Government, councils and new retrospective rules and regulations (which only hurt tenants that are being looked after), are the biggest cause of homelessness in England.


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GlanACC

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12:08 PM, 1st February 2025, About 4 days ago

Reply to the comment left by TheMaluka at 01/02/2025 - 11:39Was a few years ago, still in contact with one of them - he was renting as he was working in Derby for RR (so he had plenty of money). He moved around the UK a few times working as an engineer and bought a property in Spain. Unfortunately the property was built by a dodgy deal where some 'planner' in the local Spanish council had his palms greased. The Spanish government rules it was dodgy and along with several other Brits he lost the lot.
Back in blighty now working as an engineer and renting again (wherever British Aerospace is)

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17:12 PM, 1st February 2025, About 4 days ago

Reply to the comment left by TheMaluka at 01/02/2025 - 09:08
I know what happened to several of mine when had to evict the bad ones when Selective Licensing came in, as we were worried Licensing would inspect the house damage the tenant has caused & make us pay 10k to fix.
One husband & wife lived in a tent by the River Trent for 2 years.
Then their daughter year later asked me for an house.

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16:24 PM, 2nd February 2025, About 3 days ago

None of these Council’s give a cr@# as long as Councillors get their exorbitant salaries regardless how bad a job they do and as long as the Councils get their pound of flesh!!
Why no Tenant Licences or Register - because there's no money in it.
Why make such a big deal about the millions they are forced to spend on fly-tipping? - Just STOP making it so difficult for people to dump their rubbish in the first place. And the list goes on!

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11:38 AM, 3rd February 2025, About 2 days ago

Hello Mick ,
The whole situation is ridiculous , There is a shortage of rental properties , and someone who is supplying quality properties in Nottingham is being forced out by ridiculous rules and Taxation.

What these idiots in Government, and and some Councils don`t understand is that we have a lot of empathy with our Tenants many we have been their landlord for years we see there kids growing and we know most of the time when they have problems and work with them.
Why destroy private Landlords.

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11:47 AM, 3rd February 2025, About 2 days ago

Reply to the comment left by Northernpleb at 03/02/2025 - 11:38
The problem with being friendly with your tenants and working out their problems is that places you in the position of a social worker. I am friendly with my tenants but I don't go out of my way to visit them. I have tradesmen they can contact if anything needs doing and I might see them once or twice a year.

Mick Roberts

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12:11 PM, 3rd February 2025, About 2 days ago

Reply to the comment left by Northernpleb at 03/02/2025 - 11:38Yes many of us have lots of empathy for our tenants-Too much in my case ha ha. Had 61 year old woman ring me crying last week, been with me 22 years, said I can't sell on her. My missus said Do not let them start pulling your heart strings, what about our life?

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14:03 PM, 3rd February 2025, About 2 days ago

Reply to the comment left by Mick Roberts at 03/02/2025 - 12:11
I recently had a minor hand operation and was told that, as part of my rehabilitation, I had to elevate my hand above my heart. Silly physio did not appreciate that landlords have no heart.

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