Shelter claim 39% of PRS is dangerous or unhealthy

I think old Mrs & Chris have nailed my points perfectly. Shelter have gov & funding on their side, we don't. Employing dirty tactics to win a political aim just isn't the right way. What do we have? The right of comment, that's all, & that's exactly what I'm exercising. Shelter bashing isn't improving their reputation at all. If it was, landlord bashing would have made us saintly by now. No, the truth is that the public need to be made aware of what their donations actually achieve. Salary, government agenda & negative hype. This ain't a conspiracy, it's an absolute fact. We need to tell Joe Public what their donation goes toward. I'm very vocal about it & I urge others to be the same. We can't stop them by the same means that £20m gov funding can, but we can spread the word of truth. Tell the people what their cash does & where it could do more good. There are loads of charities that actually do something to help the homeless & disadvantaged, let's see them get the money they need over paying £122k per year to the chief executive of a charity that exists just to pander to a government agenda. And let's not make it political, Shelter pander to whatever colour of politics is in number 10. We just need to stop this awful organisation from taking well intentioned donations & divert the money to more deserving causes.

Reply to the comment left by Landlord Phil at 25/04/2021 - 12:25
Easier said that done. I am exactly of the same opinion and usually very vocal on Shelter's FB Page. As I mentioned I was banned from it.
Is there any alternative place to discuss their conduct?
Thanks.

Reply to the comment left by Whiteskifreak Surrey at 25/04/2021 - 22:21
I've been onto Tax payers Alliance about the waste of Benefit not getting promptly paid to landlords, - a little off-Shelter topic, I know. As I said earlier, Landlords need a collective body that represents Everyone in the industry, including all the regional Landlord associations ( not just the NRLA )

Reply to the comment left by Chris @ Possession Friend at 24/04/2021 - 21:14
This comment is not helpful. Grassing up implies there is wrongdoing which you don’t want reported.
If a landlord is in breach of the law I woukd want that reported it helps to improve standards.
The phrase you use immediately implies criminality.

For me any landlord be not providing safe and clean accommodation should be reported.

But the problem is that minor infractions can sometimes be dealt with vet heavy handed.

What’s needed is a fairer system. I had an inspection on an hmo and there were a few minor gpfaukts found. I received a letter outlining the problem asked to correct the faults in 28 days, warned of the consequences if I didn’t.
I got it sorted reinspected and all is well. I thanked the man from the council for his help and off he went smiles all round.

I dare say if I had a major fault it may have been different but as a professional landlord it’s my job to make sure my properties comply.

Yes there are councils employees who are jobsworth and power. Mad and are looking to prosecute but this wasn’t my experience.
Anyone else had a good interaction? I think LD like to scare us and tell us about the bad ones but I’d like to know if other landlords have had reasonable interactions..

Chris, the problem, as always, is funding. We have the NRLA, but they have to earn cash through training to exist. Many of us are disillusioned by the almost daily emails they send, so don't buy into them. Gov, on the other hand has funded Shelter with loads of cash, more than we could ever give the NRLA. It's an unfair playing field, hence my wish they should be abolished, or at best have the gov funding removed in law. It doesn't really matter what we do, we can't do more than a gov funded charity that's in existence to pander to a political agenda. We'd need someone from dragons den or the like to go head to head with shelter in a fair fight. So all we can do is make sure that joe public doesn't feel the need to donate. I urge everyone to spread the word that a donation to shelter is just helping the gov in their aim to eliminate the PRS, pay salary to the undeserving & waste a well intentioned donation.

Reply to the comment left by Landlord Phil at 26/04/2021 - 10:27
Perhaps we can start with educating B&Q and M&S who proudly donate to Shelter?

Wow, I didn't know that. I imagine there's a whole load of others trying to be socially responsible that do the same. It's hard to influence companies, I know, I own a couple. If only there was a charity that did something good for the homeless, but at the same time outed shelter for what they are. They'd get my cash in a heartbeat.

Let them house them then !!