Evict a rogue Landlord - Shelter...

theartfullodger

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £400,000 after converting a property into flats without permission.

Gilbert Garrick let the property in West Norwood, London, as flats despite being told that he was breaching planning controls and contravening Lambeth’s planning policies.

He eventually pleaded guilty in court and was fined £30,000.

He was also ordered to pay the council’s costs of £15,000 and issued with a confiscation order of £382,000 – the amount he had effectively made from rental income on the unauthorised flats.

If he does not pay within three months, he risks jail.

Lambeth’s cabinet member for housing, Cllr Matthew Bennett, said: “Lambeth takes a hard line against rogue landlords who try to make a quick buck out of the housing crisis.

“This landlord will have to pay over £400,000 in fines and could face prison after ignoring the council’s early warning.

“Let this be a lesson to anyone else who thinks they can cheat their way to a profit – Lambeth will always pursue rogue landlords through the courts to protect our residents from exploitation.”

Well done Lambeth!

See
http://www.propertyindustryeye.com/landlord-hit-with-bill-of-over-400000-after-letting-out-illegal-flats/

theartfullodger

See..
http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/news/landlord-fines-total-nearly-700000-in-october

Of the 12 cases we have reported here, fines and costs totalling £656,000 have been imposed.

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knightstyle

Don't want to seem racist but are all rogue landlords not of UK origin? By all the names in the above link it would seem so!
I am sure there are rogue anglo saxon landlords as well but.......I remember doing a few jobs for Nicholas Hoogstraten when I lived in Brighton in the early 70s. He was very British in spite of his name.

theartfullodger

Steady on knightstyle: Anglo-saxons are alien interlopers, illegal immigrants many of them when they came over (See Vortigern, Bede AD 428 etc...). You say "UK origin": How can you tell from name if they were born in UK or not?? Would you object to Churchill on the basis his mum was an immigrant??

(For the avoidance of doubt I am English born, dad born Old Kent Road, mum born Brazil of English-born Parents: Can I stay here please??)

I don't care where & what a crook is: I'm just pleased when the authorities take action against them, and pleased (as a landlord & citizen..) that more bent landlords are being done, regardless of background or ethnic origin:

RuthnJasper

knightstyle wrote: »

Don't want to seem racist but are all rogue landlords not of UK origin? By all the names in the above link it would seem so!
I am sure there are rogue anglo saxon landlords as well but.......I remember doing a few jobs for Nicholas Hoogstraten when I lived in Brighton in the early 70s. He was very British in spite of his name.

I remember van Hoogstraten. Very British, but extremely unpleasant. I believe he got done in the end for conspiring to murder a business rival? I know that the building of his mansion was halted leaving many suppliers and tradesmen out of pocket. I don't think nationalities matter all that much; there's good and bad in any race.

knightstyle

Yes he ended in prison for many years. He used to invite us all to bar-b-ques at what I think was a friends house near the golf course. Loads of food so I would tuck in.
He came from Shoreham originally and I was in Portslade.

theartfullodger

I am grateful to Property Eye for this...
http://www.propertyindustryeye.com/landlord-of-two-properties-ordered-to-do-240-hours-of-community-service/

Failure to provide gas safety certificates has led to a small private landlord being ordered to serve 240 hours of community service.

Dean Taylor pleaded guilty at Harrogate Magistrates Court to breaching Section 33 of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, as well as Section 36 of the Gas Safety Installation and Use Regulations.

Taylor had failed to comply with an improvement notice issued by the Health and Safety Executive for the lack of gas safety certificates for the appliances in his property. During an investigation, another of his rental properties was found to be without a gas safety certificate.

He was issued with 240 hours of community service, as well as costs of £2,767.

After the hearing, HSE inspector Julian Franklin said: “If you rent property out, you must comply with requirements of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations, including the need to have a gas safety certificate. Gas appliances should be regularly checked, as faulty appliances can kill.”

In another case, a landlord has been hit with an enormous bill after letting out a property where there were rats, mould, a lack of fire alarms and fire doors, over-crowding and an illegally-partitioned room.

Liakath Ali will have to pay a total of £67,000.

The figure is broken down into £37,000 confiscation order, £17,500 costs and £12,500 in fines.

theartfullodger

Councillor landlord gets criminal record.....
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-landlord-guilty-failing-repair-7205671

Tory landlord guilty of failing to repair run-down house after criminal prosecution by his OWN council

Well done (most, but not all of...) Camden Council....

theartfullodger

http://www.propertyindustryeye.com/landlord-prosecuted-after-gangmasters-authority-reports-concerns-on-hmo/

Magistrates have handed out an £8,500 fine to a landlord who admitted renting out a sub-standard house to ten people.

In a second case, a landlord has been ordered to pay over £160,000 over a case where a tenant apparently slept on the sofa.

Pennysmakepounds

Trollfever wrote: »

Running a business is about risk/reward.

To mitigate risk thorough checking of tenants and their backgrounds is essential.

As a landlord, sometimes you just can’t help but get lumbered with a SCUMBAG of a tenant who ruins your home and makes your life a misery.

It’s a numbers game and getting worse for landlords these days because tenants know that there is very little landlords can do. The law is stacked against the landlord – you can deny it all you want but it’s true. This is why most landlords will not touch DSS tenants with a barge pole because in most cases they are people that have the least to loose when they become bad tenants.

It’s fine having Shelter spew sh*t about making people homeless and blah blah blah....what about the poor landlord - and I’m not taking about millionaire landlords but rather people with maybe one/two properties trying to make little for their retirement who have mortgages to pay.

I fully support Shelters work when it comes vulnerable people (E.g. Single mothers/fathers / disabled people / people with learning difficulties…etc) but when it comes to able bodied young people that move into a property and then suddenly stop paying rent and start damaging your property.

The law is always on the tenants side even when it’s clear the blind that they are taking the p*ss.