Shelter claim 45% of private renters are victims of illegal actions

Shall we do a survey to see how many of us landlords have been victims of 'bad tenants', losing thousands of pounds with delayed evictions, trashed houses and having to deal with anti social behavour?

another load of statistical bias BS from Shelter that provides exactly zero number of roofs over anyone's head.

It just shows how much tenants disregard them if anything. Pages of info on the website to tell people their tenancy rights, to check a contract before you sign it, check out the inventory etc, understand how a deposit is protected etc...yet their own statistics promote that tenants don't even do that themselves...

What is the point of their existence exactly?

I suggest we start a campaign of sending Shelter photo's of before and after trashed properties and the cost of repair/losses, as prime examples of how some tenant treat their 'Home is everything'

Half of the claims are perceptive and do not demonstrate clear evidence of an illegal action and therefore their claim of 45% is purely finger in the air stuff.

Not to mention the 3,5000! who did the survey Diane Abbott?

Don't forget studies show 116% of statistics are completely made up 😉

Good Reply Paul!

And I agree ITV's 'Living in Squalor' was truly horrendous.

Shelter ought to 'consider their position', as is said in other circles such as politicial misjudgment? At least acknowledge publically and for the record that they have morphed from a body helping the helpless into a left wing mouthpiece using tenants as their ammunition?

They are already past where a left wing extremist leader drove the RSPCA, where even the supine Charity Commission might have had to call them in for a ticking off about wasting donors' money on futile prosecutions?

Did anyone see ITV expose the dreadful conditions of social housing tenants shown last Sunday evening?

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-09-12/britains-housing-shame-shocking-conditions-and-despair-at-a-lack-of-action

What a shocker! I didn't see any reference to local authorities exercising quality control over themselves at the same level they exercise it over private landlords.

Reply to the comment left by DSR at 14/09/2021 - 10:42
....to pay Polly Neate and her cronies 6-figure fat-cat salaries.

Reply to the comment left by LordOf TheManor at 14/09/2021 - 11:15
Yes and when it comes to new EPC regulations let the Councils get their own house in order first. Of course they won't as that will cost them money. Let the private landlords sort it out.

Rather than trade statistics, in my view a better approach is to accept that there are a significant number of rogue landlords but, at the same time there are also a significant number of rogue tenants. We would all be better served if, as a starting point Shelter and Landlord action accepted this and worked together to try and address both problems. The polarised debate we seem to have isn't going to find solutions, rather just provide good material for the government and media to feed off. I accept that as landlords the weight of public opinion is against us but rather than simply attack the statistics as inaccurate, accept there is a problem but encourage those who seem to blindly view all tenants as victims to accept that they are misguided.