You do not know me!

Hi Mark

I suspect Larry will also be unclear about how the money will be spent until he is covering his costs and time too. His investment to date alone much be quite substantial.

Perhaps these are questions should be asking when he’s got past 1,000 members?

The big landlords association beginning to change opinions? Respectfully- don't make me laugh! You may not like Larry's approach and I don't always agree with the approach but at least he is trying to do something. RLA, NLA all selling us out to be 'cosying up with tea and biscuits with government, shelter etc. Shame on RLA, NLA and a big thanks to Larry. He may be making mistakes as not experienced in the 'niceties ' and subtleties of the politics game. Maybe a bit naive and brusque but fantastic- he is real and wants to do something real in a situation where noone else will. And as for making new enemies- so what it wont make any difference to us we have a whole army of haters. Maybe the Lord may actually think before speaking next time- probably not. You have my vote Larry. Keep on despite the mockers.

You don't know me either! I went to serve a section 21 Notice to a rouge tenants who never ever paid his rent on time even once, he had been given 2 years and 3 months of free accommodation, then we both agreed that it was time that i started charging him rent as I cannot afford to give him a place for free for ever, so we drew up an agreement, but struggled to pay his rent on time, falling behind by many months, his beer drinking was far more important to him, yet when one day I had enough of him, I went to serve him the notice, he took out a cigarette from his pack, and holding it in both hands from each end broke that cigarette in half right in front of my face, can anyone interpret what he tried to tell me?
I know, what he meant, he said how dare you give me a notice, like breaking that cigarette in half, he could do many nasty things and telling me I don't know him! Nasty piece of S***

Reply to the comment left by Mike at 01/12/2018 - 12:59
Why did you give him two to three years of free accommodation in the first place?

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well Mark, its a long story but I will try to cut it short, he was a painter and decorator, he lived next door to me, he had carried out some refurbishment work for me where he is now living, but i paid him for everything he did, I had known him as a neighbor for 8 years then, one day he was evicted from next door, he had no place to go to, turned up with his partner crying his eyes out, like a fool I took pity on him and gave him one room in my second home, just a few houses down the same street I live, I needed more space so I bought this second home for myself, for 10 years I was also renovating it at my own pace, all the while paying full council tax etc. But my local council refused to accept it as my second home and started to charge me 150% council tax, just then this chap was made homeless, so he begged me to provide him temporary shelter in my second home, which was undergoing renovations and was like a building site, I cleared one room and carpeted it for him, he moved in, started to live there and the only thing I asked him was to pay for his utility bills, gas electric and water and 50% council tax, I didn't buy the house to rent it away, it was really to be my second home and I wanted it close enough, I even tried to buy the next door but the owner was not selling, so this house was about 25 houses away, in the same street. it suited me, I took lots of my stuff there for storage, and it really was going to be my main house as I lived with my mother in her house, which is still hers, and I live with her.

Then this thing about LA not accepting it as my second home classified it as long term empty, and started to charge me 150% CT, but just then I got him in, so they reversed the CT to normal 100%, but not without inspecting it first that someone really lived there, this was in 2013 January.

But my LA had introduced Selective Licensing in 2012, so I could not license it as it was not fully refurbished and I had no intention to rent it out, so got this guy to move in for free, as long as he paid all the utility bills, he agreed, so we worked out roughly around £150 per month would see to that.

However, the LA came after me again in 2014 September accusing me of not having a property license, I told them that I have a friend living there and he is not paying me any rent except paying me for utility bills only, they replied in that case I will still need a license and gave me 14 days to get one or face prosecution, so I opted to get it licensed for £500, and I applied for an HMO license, because I knew if I were to part occupy the house for myself then I have 3 spare rooms I can rent to 3 other households, which is what I did, got the Additional Licence and started to charge this chap £400 rent per month including all bills and CT, whilst I kept 2 rooms to myself, I made sure that on my tenancy agreement I covered the fact that I am also an occupier and I have same rights as any other tenants, hence I can come and go as and when i want, so I made this clear up front to all tenants, in case I infringed their right to quiet and enjoyment, they said not a problem and signed their agreements.

I have been trying to evict him since he has never paid his rent on time, has been as long as 6 months behind on rent, now as from today he is 3 months behind, I am about to serve him a section 8 notice with a witness accompanying me, we shall see how he could defend that as I am also using several other discretionary grounds like ground 10, 11, 12, and 14, as his behavior towards not only me but towards other tenants have been appalling and very intimidating, highly dominating and at times threatening, so i hope he the courts will grant me possession to get rid of this nasty man, whom i tried to help live for free for 2 years and 3 months, luckily I entered into tenancy on 1st April 2015, before the October deregulation came into force. I could also use S21 on him but the only snag is I did not give him a copy of GSC in his hand as the copy is left in the common part of this HMO, which is also my second home, and yes I do walk in whenever I want in common parts and use amenities, sometimes sleep over in my room, and I pay all the bills and CT that comes to about £4,500 a year. let see how rule about tenants Quiet and enjoyment comes into question where a landlord is in my situation.

Reply to the comment left by Mike at 01/12/2018 - 13:57
Wow, what a story!

BTW Mark, The other tents who abandoned their room now over 6 months gone with no rent paid, I applied to court for an abandonment possession order, the court granted me an immediate possession order not even requiring 14 days, but so far no official paper work has come through my post nor the PCOL account updated with latest case result, I emailed the Court and still no reply! How efficient these people are good at taking our money and doing little else, however, yesterday at 9am, the tenants suddenly appeared out of the blue, expecting me to let them in, I showed them the court case file, and told then sorry it is too late as they never kept in touch with me and expected me to take them in for not paying or arranging to have paid some rent in their absence, they were gutted, I told them their room is gone as i have put someone in now, they pleaded with me that they will pay me all 6 months rent and let them have it back, you know why because where would you get a double room in London close to underground station for £425 pcm with all bills and CT paid for?

I am really glad I went by the books, and though other tenants were telling me he would not come back, but i doubted as I could see they left quite a lot of stuff back, including their passports, as they traveled using their ID cards.

As for their stuff, i did not touch any and it is still there and I told them to come back any time to collect their belongings.

They came back and took some important stuff like their CSE cards to start working again, staying with some friends now, but most self employed tenants tend to bring a lot of tools and materials from building sites and start filling up the rented place, he had more power tools than I ever owned to maintain my rented properties.

Some of the worst things this tenant I am trying to get rid of did;
his partner's son arrived from abroad, he started to stay with them 3 to a room when it was licensed for 2, I warned them that unless the son arranges to live somewhere quickly he is not allowed to stay in their room as his name is not on the agreement, it could land me in serious breach of my licensing conditions, how do you deal with tenants in a situation like this when they can ignore all the rules the were explicitly told the room is only licensed for maximum of two occupants.

But he was there for a whole month and a week, in that time, the boy aged about 20 had an argument with him, as he took him to work but did not pay him, so a serious argument started that resulted in his partner calling me at 2am in the morning to come quickly, I went and saw a bloody sight, her son crying with blood pouring out from his face, he was holding his swollen knee as he had been kicked left right center, for fear of losing my license I did not call the police, I should have, but what this nasty piece of man did was he also phoned his son to come over with his mates to sort out this boy, so all 3 attacked him, as I arrived I saw all 3 of them having been kicked out by his partner (the boys mother) she locked them out, I warned him then that this was a very serious breach of his tenancy rules, that I should serve him a notice, but again I let it go, later on I found glass bottles had been flying around and one had hit my central heating radiator as crushed glass was still sticking to it, and the radiator made of strong steel dented badly. If that bottle had landed on someone it would have no doubt killed or seriously hurt a person.

So i am dealing with mad man who summoned all his gang of violent people, I am scared for my own safety, but the courts will throw a blind eye to my plight and believe him more as he tries to deny he ever did a thing wrong.

Then the other thing he regularly did when he was told to stop doing it, was filling up the bath tub with hot water up to the overflow hole, and close the bathroom door and the light which then stopped the bathroom extractor fan after its set run out timer, he would then nip out in the garden and open a can of beer, smoke a few cigarettes, then go into a steamy hot bathroom drenching with condensation with condensed water running down the walls and dripping from the ceiling, my ceiling started to go moldy, I requested him to stop doing that, if he must take a bath then don't leave it there for a while and if he needs a bath then jump in straight away, not to leave it to steam up like a sauna, he did not heed my warnings and kept doing that, all the while I am paying hot water bills which are according to my tenancy agreement are subject to fair use policy, but he is taking the piss.

I took the bath stopper away, recommending them to take only 5 to 7 minutes long shower is all I have only factored that in their rent, if they take any longer then I will have to increase my rent. But I wanted to give them lowest possible rent. The use of heating is also controlled by a NEST thermostat as before they walked in their tee shirts in winter turning my heating to 25+ degrees now it is set to maintain heating between 20 to 22 degrees, which is more than good for low rent paying tenants.

BTW, his son who he phoned to come over with one or tow other friends to fight with his partner's son, has since been murdered by his own girlfriend, which tells you what sort of people I am dealing with, I banned his son after that incident, and told this nasty man that I do not want to see his son ever again at my property, but he still managed to visit him many times after, sadly he died because I am sure he was not a saint either and his girlfriend slit his throat. I can only sympathies, but violence breeds violence, I can ban anyone who is not my tenant under the strict licensing conditions.

Reply to the comment left by Mike at 01/12/2018 - 15:12
I suggest you get Landlord Action or a similar firm to serve an eviction notice on this nasty piece of work as soon as possible for the sake of your safety, sanity and solvency. It sounds as though there are several grounds to choose from and you should take professional advice as to which to cite.