What is single persons rent discount? Is this a typo?
Hi no not a typo āas a good human as my tenant was a single dad --I elected not to ask for over market rent, or even market rentā¦but gave him a discount off the market rent!
It is not a thing --just one good human giving another a helping hand --but that all got kicked in my face
Hi Nemo
yes fair comment āI am though highly principled and very reasonable unless/until my boundaries are crossed.
The solution I have come up with since Management co for the property are borderline fraudsters - eg last year communal [small purp block of 4 flats] lights [2 on a timer cost Ā£150 pa] this year charge Ā£2,700 !!!-------the time Iāve spent complaining, going to Housing Ombudsman [12 month at least to resolve cases!!] so between rubbish tenants/letting agents [Iām 35++ years a landlord and have had different problems with so many Letting Agencies. in that time [a few good one too mind ā¦] and dire rip-off management company. In our block I do all the heavy lifting - we could sack the mgt co and self manage BUT it would all be down to me āand Iāve had enoughā¦
So my solution is to quit the Landlord game āgood luck to those of you who remain, but I have had enough sucking it up.
You know what they say about landlording - no good deed goes unpunished. Better to just do everything by the book and the tenants know where they stand.
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why are you paying utlities for the tenants?
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HiāI am not paying for tenants obviously --but when they donāt pay - guess what the Utility companies send out the Debt Collectors --they have the property owners details and come after you - so it is hassle having to provide copies of Tenancy Agreement etc etc
who needs it - also I do not agree with tenants not paying theire dues --it just puts prices up for the rest of us!
cheers Jill
Ha----what bit did I not do by the bookāsave by being kind and helping another fellow human. And rest assured we can do it all by the book and it all goes T*** up as this is increasingly a game not rigged in Landlords favour precisely the oppositeāincreasingly communism imposed in a fake capitalist regime EG Covid tenants donāt have to payāper the dear Gruberment and tenants believe TV when they say we Landlords can get a Mortgage Repayment holidayā¦
Duh, and mess up our credit ratingā¦so costs even more when/if you try to re-mortgage.
Take a look at the Rental Reform act āLandlords registered on a Portal so Local Councils can fine us------there are insane regs coming down the pipe re Carbon Net Zero hoax - which is actually part of UN 17 Sustainability Goalsā¦
So at some stage theyāll enforce min EPC of Cā¦most UK properties are a Dā¦so landlords will take the hit to install totally costly/inefficient air systems etc to āupgrade propertyā to make them theoretically more efficient for ā¦the tenant but actually air systems freeze do not create much heat and are more expensive to run
another UN/WEF/Government scam like EVs, wind farms, solar panels etcā¦pay far more to be way colderā¦
Anyway as Iām selling my leasehold properties I looked at flipping my mortgage to Freehold up North āI was looking at Grade 11 listed property in a UNESCO world heritage site āsurely that wb exempt from the Carbon Net Zero EPC hoax, right?
Nopeāneed one to sell and these old houses are E/F but behold NOT gonna be exempt instead youāll have to use Local Government approved contractors to do all the work to meet the EPC standards [on hold for now] but comingā¦
so yet more Capital cost and pain for Landlords oh and now they have us on the Portal to check up on us and FIne usā¦
Like I say all the rigged game IMO.
They donāt come after you. They come after tenants at last known address. As this involves them sending letters out that I simply leave unopened and then chuck in the nearest letter box with not at this address on, itās really not very time-consuming at all. No biggieā¦
Iām also not convinced by your argument that if a few people in Uttoxeter donāt pay their utility bills, the entire country sees a price rise. All sounds a bit alarmistā¦
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