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D_M_E

Rouge landlord fined £25000 after removing roof from property with 25 tenants living in it.

D_M_E

Rouge landlord forced to repay £190,000 rents or face jail.

D_M_E

One from Bristol

A man who rented out accommodation that posed a "serious risk to life" has been fined £87,000.

theartfullodger

Landlord ordered to repay £11k rent to tenants....

https://www.landlordzone.co.uk/hmo-first-coventry-landlord-to-pay-back-11000-rent-to-tenants-in-unlicensed-property/

- Well done Coventry council!

mattyprice4004

Just had a read through all of these, and it makes me sick to my back teeth that people are treated like this (and landlords for the most part seem to get away with it!)
For the record, I'm a landlord - but given I was at my tenant's address 20 miles away on a Sunday night fixing their boiler, hopefully I don't fit in the same category as these  

theartfullodger

https://www.landlordzone.co.uk/news/landlord-banned-from-financial-services-industry-following-voyeurism-conviction/

"""A landlord has been banned from working in financial services after being convicted two years ago of spying on his tenants while in their bathroom.

Father-of-two Mark Horsey was convicted of voyeurism after filming one of his tenants in the shower without her consent.

He was sentenced to nine month’s imprisonment suspended for 18 months while also being required to complete 100 hours of unpaid and 25 days of rehabilitation activity.

Horsey was also put on the sex offenders register for ten years and pay costs of £3,600 and a victim surcharge of £140.


His case made headlines when, during the trial at Guildford Crown Court, it was revealed that he had only advertised for female tenants to rent rooms within his four-bedroom house in Hindhead, Surrey and gave instructions to them on how to shower.    """"

Well, that one's off the scale..

I'd deport him: (What are MPs for? Answer, passing new laws amongst other things...)

theartfullodger

A rogue landlord who let a flat that was too small for one person to at least eight tenants has been ordered to pay back £259,475 in rent.  Or face jail.  That's pay the tenants their rent back.

https://www.landlordzone.co.uk/news/criminal-landlord-ordered-to-pay-259475-or-face-jail/

Well done Southwark Council!

theartfullodger

Various landlords and agent taken to court...

https://www.landlordzone.co.uk/news/rogue-latest-landlords-in-warrington-and-brighton-prosecuted-for-ignoring-law/

Briefly........A Warrington letting agency boss has been fined for putting his tenants’ lives at risk in three HMOs.

Kristian Johnstone, 28, a director of Easylet Residential, admitted 38 offences relating to the property he owns and rents out in Evelyn Street, and two he rents out Goulden Street and Algernon Street.

He was convicted at Chester Magistrates Court for fire safety offences and failure to licence a HMO, and was fined £19,000, plus £1,000 in legal costs and a £181 victim surcharge.

The magistrate said the offences showed a complete failure to grapple with the regulatory regime and that there was a “significant number of people exposed to serious risk of death”.

Another Warrington landlord, David Cooper, 70, of Thorneycroft Drive, appeared at Warrington Combined Crown and Magistrates Court Centre to deny six HMO offences for letting out an HMO for offences relating to fire safety, the production of gas and electrical safety documentation and failure to provide documentation. He was found guilty and fined £1,895.


ROGUE LANDLORDS UPDATE: Meanwhile, a landlady has been prosecuted in Brighton for ignoring an enforcement notice after she unlawfully converted a family home into an HMO.

Shirley White, 56, divided up the property in Bevendean Crescent without planning permission. Her retrospective application and subsequent appeal were refused but White, of Friars Walk, north London, ignored a recent enforcement order preventing her from letting it out. She was fined £7,830 and ordered to pay £2,003 in costs at Brighton Magistrates Court.

grumiofoundation

Getting fined by Brent council runs in the family apparently...

A rogue landlord in London told to pay back £739,000 or face jail.
Follows an £544,000 confiscation order against his father in 2014 on two of the same properties.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/28/brent-rogue-landlord-pay-back-illegal-london-housing

MaryNB

D_M_E said:

One from Bristol

A man who rented out accommodation that posed a "serious risk to life" has been fined £87,000.

He's still at it. Council found someone living there in January of this year. 
Landlord banned after kids found living in cupboards above Bristol Premier store