For the ground that says;
“Serious rent arrears,
The tenant must be in at least 2months of rent arrears at the time that notice is served and at the time of the court hearing”
So the tenant can “Pay Down” i.e. the day before the court case he can reduce the rent owing to below 2 months and then the court case gets dismissed.
This could happen a few times, causing me a £398.00 court bill each time the tenant pays down.
It’s also a waste of the courts time and mine.
Also I have to give 4 weeks notice, so I’m straight away into 3 months rent arrears plus the time it takes to go to court, which is about 12 or 15 months. That totals the time taken to at least 15 months or more of rent arrears.
Each time I will use this ground, the stress levels will be through the roof.
On the Rental Reform bill White Paper it says;
“A Fairer private rented sector”
How can anybody in their right mind say that this ground is fair?
The remedy is to do away with the pay down.
This will make the ground that says Repeated Arrears, obsolete.
Repeated arrears,
The tenant must have been in at least 2 months of rent arrears at least three times in the past 3years.
It’s an insult to me to say 3 times.
It’s an insult to me to say 3 years.
I can’t work with The Rental Reform Bill so I will sell my 20 properties which will be lost to the rental market forever.
The shortage of rental properties is a crisis now. If Landlords sell up and there is no investment in the property market, it will turn the rental property crisis into a catastrophe.
This will affect the most vulnerable like housing benefit tenants and young people.
They are saying that Landlords cannot discriminate against Housing Benefit Tenants.
If two types of tenant want a flat and one of them is professional earning very good money and the other is a housing benefit tenant, which tenant do THEY THINK a Landlord will take?
In other words, Rental Reform bill = housing benefit tenants can’t get accommodation and the same for young people.
So I have to accept pets?
The tenant will not even bother to take out insurance. They will simply just get a pet.
There is no ground for getting a tenant out that has not paid for pet Insurance. And if there is a ground it will be too late. The damage will have been done.
They have reduced the deposit to 5 weeks which is nowhere near enough deposit to cover pet damage.
If a tenant does get Insurance, it will not cover the cost of damage a pet will cause.
I had to renew floor boards and underlay and carpet and a fire door and redecorate and fumigate because a tenant brought in a dog without permission.
I will sell all my properties if The Rental Reform Bill keeps the Pay Down and I’m made to accept pets.