True. I’m a recent victim of such a rogue tenant who didn’t pay his rent for many months and left only when I hired a solicitor to send him an official letter to vacate the property. It was the most stressful period of my life. All laws should be made equal and I believe the same applies here.
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But we dont live in an equal society. There are agencies working to bring down the level of landlords in terms of power and wealth as they do not see our role as a job . Hard work it takes to look after several tenants… If we have power it is because we have worked for it. Profit is not a dirty word it is reward for effort… Sadly a number of tanants are plainly scroungers if a tenant has scamed you as a landlord, they will be on the fiddle in many other ways. Other landlords, make a note of any names you may come across but you will have to be quick before they are removed!!
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I have to say that i have had some really good tenants who pay regular and have been with me years. For these I will plumb in their washing machines. Decorate, fit new carpet,new vinyl,change a bulb if they cant manage it( apart from reular maintenance) I have some great tenants of 25, 22, 9,8,7, years occupancy and so on >Never give me a moments trouble. But we all have a bad one at some point. One of mine became an alcoholic would pee in an empty cider bottle a leave them stacked under the bed ( Ian did have a good bathroom ) When he had left I found a letter from council people extolling his “qualities”. It was totally fabricated in order to get him a better job. this from Sefton Council!!! I even had to say on more than one occasion" Ian Groom can you please put out your bin bags on collection day"
Yes, Colin, a rogue or Black List of bad tenants is badly needed.
Mike
No good tenant would need to be evicted, they would leave at the end of their notice period. In my experience as a landlord for 20 years, eviction is always due to either antisocial behaviour and/or non payment of rent.
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Hi Karin, your statement is totally incorrect and misleading as there are more reasons of affection than just bad reasons.
Evicting a tenant is not conclusive evidence that the eviction is due to the bad tenants as one may just require their place back or to do it up or sell etc
I would support a rogue tenants and landlords list so long as the info on it was properly regulated. I.e. revenge bad listings etc
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I had such a terrible experience with one tenant. He paid rent for the first few months and then just stopped paying. When I spoke to him he gave me some story about losing his job and that he was starting a new one and would be able to pay soon. Didn’t happen, stopped being able to contact him. When I went to the flat it was completely trashed. A pile of Tesco plastic delivery containers in the hallway half with mouldy rotten food in, covered in maggots and flies. The carpets were all burned and eaten by moths - moths everywhere. The hob was trashed (looked like he’d been cooking chemicals on it). Smashed alcohol bottles, glass everywhere. Bed smashed, soiled mattress - you name it it was trashed. Piles of bills- turned out he hadn’t paid one single bill in the 6 months he was there.
I had to replace all the carpets, the cooker, re-paint, lost another 3 months rent whilst I was doing that and had to sort out all the bills companies.
Such a nightmare- I’d love him to be on a tenant list because I’d hate for someone to go through the same thing as I did.
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Why don’t you put him on the list then ?
Hi Andrew
Why would a tenant not leave then if the landlord has given notice because he or she needs/wants to sell the property? Why stay in the property and wait for eviction, no doubt living rent free?
Well Karin there are many reasons, such as;
Example;
A tenant whom is claiming benefits for example can not be re-homed until they have actually received the Eviction Notice from the Landlord, event the Local Council Housing Departments them self admit this and inform any/all claimants of this Procedure so as you can clearly see there are reasons other than of what you stated to be and i am going to call these such reasons as procedural reasons rather than of a vexatious nature.
Do also note that one may be working at time of Notice and further to be re-homed and/or claim they fall into the same above category with most Councils.
Please also note that giving a Tenant Notice is a procedure and only part of a procedure to get a tenant to vacate and the Notice does not legally force a tenant to obey the Notice hence the reason for Eviction process which is final upon conclusion, its just a costly messy procedure but one can often mis-interpret a Notice such as 21a/b to be final and the exception of this is the issue, basically the whole procedure for getting a tenant out is flawed/biased and always in favour of a Tenant which is the root issue here.
Please further note that by us giving Notice to vacate doesn’t mean that the tenant has enough time at that given point in their lives to find some else and sort it all out and as above stated they are doing nothing wrong by following their procedure in taking as long as they legally can do to move out.
A tenant is only a bad tenant when they Breach the AST and not vacating a property upon receipt of a notice to vacate is not a breach of AST yet your bad experience has caused you to think as you do which we all have done for sure but this lack of power we have is beyond any reasonable doubt just dam right wrong…and us people should be outside the houses of parliament standing united as a collective and demanding power of our own property
Us Landlords need much more power over our own Property at the end of the day and this needs to be addressed at the top (Goverment)
Don’t be silly, the Law only has to be followed by Landlords, Scum Tenants can do as they please and the Law protects them.
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you got that dam right Robert, you have felt the tenant pain before for sure…
I dont know how people find the time to stand outside parliment to protest!
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I think Sec. 21 gives present & potential Landlords some sense of security, specially after the rising costs of court applications. Therefore, it helps housing people.
If there is a Review system set and administered by Estate agents who let the property, for either sides Landlords and tenants, , I think that would help both. at least, either sides will have the right to question reviews with valid evidence to their claims via the Estate agents.
it would be worth while if everyone stood united yet it always ends up just a few people so it probably doesn’t get the attention it needs, absolutely all Landlords should get together and stand united to be able to be heard and taken seriously i think as after all we have the power if we work hard and acting collectively but i just don’t feel it will ever happen as there’s no community anymore in society so we shall remain bent over
Section 21 process is old and open to abuse, i dont believe in keeping it, i would like the process and enforcement procedure to be much more effective and actually work without Landlords needing to wait up to 12months and pay many thousands in trying to enforce section 21 hence its outdated and needs a total reform & I’m just hoping that Section 8 will be fully reformed if they do scrap 21 however in any even the enforcement process is almost useless
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To be honest with you, there are sufficient laws out there. However, court procedures are costly and lengthy in general. Unfortunately Landlords usually have to bear the loss and continue, otherwise, it will be a big obstacle and you will never progress.
Nowadays, I find the biggest threat/ obstacles to Landlords are Local councils, rather than tenants. We never addressed Rogue Housing Officers, they conduct themselves as masters and slaves. Each of them have a wish list, nothing to do with the law, and you don’t dare questioning them.
Myself personally, appealed against 2 imp notices the last few years on different properties and had the 1st one 7-8 Cat1n2 hazards quashed fully and, 2nd one 9 out of 10 cat.1 hazards quashed, still fighting to be quashed as principle.
If you are not in with them on their terms, they make hell for you.
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Daz pull that face on your tenants at eviction time and they wont stay!!
I have looked at this one previously but was not impressed as they really are advertising their own check a tenant service. I wonder how many tenants are on their list as a FREEBIE?