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Amateur landlords

macaque_2
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If you are selling a tenanted property, then you need to make sure your tenants keep it tidy. You could consider incentivising them by offering them a rent reduction. This will help your sale price so you’ll almost certainly make back what money you lost on the rent.
http://www.cityam.com/living/selling-5
To many of the new breed of landlords have little sense of social responsibility and are no more than amateur speculators. Russel Hunt is recommending that landlords bribe tenants with a few £s rent reduction so that the tenant can lose his home and the landlord maximise the sale price. When renters move into a house, they put their children into local schools, make friends with the neighbours and join in with local activities. Moving home for a renter is disruptive and expensive. Russel's attitude towards tenants suggests that the law protecting tenants rights needs to be tightened up.
As a renter I have a resonsibility to keep the fabric of the property in good order. That is as far as it goes. If the landlord wants me to keep the place tidy so that strangers get a good impression as they snoop around my home, they can stick that where the sun never shines. If they are prepared to give me 10% of the sale proceeds, I'm listening.
Unfortunately, it has been necessary to put Russell Hunt on the 70% club black list.
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If the landlord wants me to keep the place tidy so that strangers get a good impression as they snoop around my home, they can stick that where the sun never shines. If they are prepared to give me 10% of the sale proceeds, I'm listening.
If your landlord wanted to sell their property that you currently rent, I'm sure he'd provide you notice and then have the property sorted for selling viewings.
As I presume they have not given you notice, they must be happy with the fact you are paying the mortgage / providing a suitable rental return every month.:wall:
What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
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Yay, another Macaque 70% club thread. He is fast becoming my favourite poster, I love reading this stuff. Brilliant fun!0
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macaque wrote:If the landlord wants me to keep the place tidy....
Shame you don't have enough pride to want keep your own home tidy. Or maybe you don't consider it your own home?I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages, student & coronavirus Boards, money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
To many of the new breed of landlords have little sense of social responsibility and are no more than amateur speculators. Russel Hunt is recommending that landlords bribe tenants with a few £s rent reduction so that the tenant can lose his home and the landlord maximise the sale price. When renters move into a house, they put their children into local schools, make friends with the neighbours and join in with local activities. Moving home for a renter is disruptive and expensive. Russel's attitude towards tenants suggests that the law protecting tenants rights needs to be tightened up.
As a renter I have a resonsibility to keep the fabric of the property in good order. That is as far as it goes. If the landlord wants me to keep the place tidy so that strangers get a good impression as they snoop around my home, they can stick that where the sun never shines. If they are prepared to give me 10% of the sale proceeds, I'm listening.
I'm slightly confused. The thrust of your post is that it's not good that landlords are offering money to tenants to keep the house tidy to get a good sale. You then go on to say that you would be prepared to take a financial incentive to keep the place tidy for your landlord if he were selling.
You might be willing to do it for 10% of the sale proceeds, other tenants might be happy to do it for less. But you're both willing to do this for money by the sound of it.0 -
Watch it guys, all I have to do is click a button and any one of you could find yourselves on the 70% club black list.
IveSeenTheLight - You might have seen the light but you have not read the OP. You have gone off at a tangent.
Silvercar - Shame on you for your impertinance. The tidyness or untidyiness of my home is something you have no knowedge of. Even if you comments were well informed, my life style is none of your business.
Cleaver - Watch out or you may get a sleeping monkey response. In terms of landlords reducing rents for tidy homes, a few £s means nothing to renter who can face bills of thousands of £s for moving.
All the above have been moved to the 70% club watch list on suspicion of lacking social responsibility.
RenovationMan - An excellent post which I forwarded to the 70% committee for review0 -
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macaque wrote:Silvercar - Shame on you for your impertinance. The tidyness or untidyiness of my home is something you have no knowedge of. Even if you comments were well informed, my life style is none of your business.
So why post about it? You were the one who said:macaque wrote:If the landlord wants me to keep the place tidy ........ they can stick that where the sun never shines.
Implying that you don't actually keep your place tidy.
So either you have no pride or you don't consider it "your place" or both.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages, student & coronavirus Boards, money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
So why post about it? You were the one who said:
Implying that you don't actually keep your place tidy.
So either you have no pride or you don't consider it "your place" or both.
Rather than let this discussion descend into petty bickering, I felt it would be fairer on both Sivercar and myself if I passed this matter to an independant body (the 70% club committee) for arbitration. This is their response:Shame on Sivercar for his impertinance. The tidyness or untidyiness of Simian's home is something that Silvercar has no knowedge of. Even if his comments were well informed, Simian's life style is none of Silvercar's business.
This matter is now closed.
On a happier note, the 70% club has judged RenovationMan's recent post as 'highly commended'. The committee were particularly impressed with insights like 'Favourite Poster' and 'Brilliant'. The full text is shown below:Yay, another Macaque 70% club thread. He is fast becoming my favourite poster, I love reading this stuff. Brilliant fun!0 -
I don't keep my home tidy, from the perspective of people viewing it to buy it .... but it's tidy to me.
I have everything around me that I need, things to hand. Everything's clean... but why put everything away all the time and get it out when you need it (if you have enough good storage), if it's only you that ever, ever, sees it?
Yes, the cost of moving is a lot, thousands often as many people are asked for 6 months' up front + 1.5-2 months' rent as a deposit + the agency credit check fees £150-200/person), not to mention the cost (and time) of the viewing of new places and then the removal itself. A few quid off doesn't cut it.0
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