Tenant income discrimination?

Please highlight where I said anything remotely close to what you’re saying here. There’s quite a bit to unpack in this one statement but I really cannot be bothered to be honest.

Again, you’re completely missing the point, and it’s hardly comparable to an applicant with £1m in the bank is it?

You keep saying a benefits tenant with ‘much less than x30 income’. As a responsible landlord, yes I would reject them, however, my reason would be that they have ‘much less than 30x income’, NOT because they are on benefits.

In your earlier posts you say you have savings - now, UC has a limit of £16k savings and anything above £6k will affect the amount of UC you receive, so even if you had sufficient savings to pay a years rent upfront, that’s not much comfort to a landlord who is going to wonder where the rent will come from after the initial years rent is up and you need to start paying monthly, which brings me back to the need to be a responsible landlord.

You’re being extremely pig headed in not realising that you are in the wrong - you are effectively saying that if I go to a landlord that is renting out a £3,500 per month property but I only earn £5,000 per month, if the landlord doesn’t consider me he’s discriminating against me because I don’t earn 30x the rent. That is NOT discrimination it’s called an applicant aiming for a property that is outside of their financial reach.

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