Can you force tenants to do things?

hazyjo

How can you 'force' someone to be responsible for a house they've not had a survey on anyway, or legal representation you'd get when buying? What if you'd got in tenants knowing there was damp, dodgy electrics, blocked gutters/drains, or the washing machine or boiler was on its last legs? How are they supposed to cover themselves. Would they have to undertake their own survey and get their own tradesmen in to test everything you were supplying?

Would you even trust them to look after things? What if the boiler went bang and they had no money to get it fixed. Ultimately, it would still be your loss if anything happened to the property.

They might as well buy if they're going to have all the same responsibilities when renting.

As said, not possible anyway. Still can't really understand your logic in asking though...

Jx

poppysarah

ivyleaf wrote: »

Different situation i suppose, but we have a "DIY shared ownership" house. We own 25% of it and pay rent to a housing association for the other 75%, and we have a "Full Repairing Lease" meaning we are responsible for all maintenance and repairs. So such a thing does exist, but perhaps not for private landlords.

Only because you have chosen to give yourself less rights in law than if you were 100% a tenant.

Shared ownership stinks of being a scam to me still.

skintandscared_2

Just about the only compensation for paying someone else's mortgage is the freedom to leave when you like (contract permitting) and not to pay repair bills (unless we've actually broken something). I hope I never have a landlord as clueless as you.

King_Of_Bling

geoffky wrote: »

please please tell me you are not a landlord or slumlord ?

No, not yet. Looking to get a BTL. Just don't like all the hassle tenants would present me.

King_Of_Bling

ivyleaf wrote: »

we have a "Full Repairing Lease" meaning we are responsible for all maintenance and repairs. So such a thing does exist, but perhaps not for private landlords.

That's what i meant.

HappyMJ

King_Of_Bling wrote: »

No, not yet. Looking to get a BTL. Just don't like all the hassle tenants would present me.

Then do not venture into BTL.

FTBFun

King_Of_Bling wrote: »

No, not yet. Looking to get a BTL. Just don't like all the hassle tenants would present me.

I don't think you're quite cut out to be a landlord then, considering tenants are a fairly big part of being one.

HappyMJ

King_Of_Bling wrote: »

That's what i meant.

Quote the whole quote. They own a shared ownership property. Not going to happen on an Assured Shorthold Tenancy.

G_M

I'm not convinced this thread isn't a wind-up, but still, if you are serious, then do a lot of research about what being a landlord involves (and do not be encouraged by ivyleaf's "shared ownership" situation. The key is in the word "ownership". Tenants do not own. Landlord's do.).

Lots here as I said before.

[Deleted User]

My present landlord verbally was quite stern about repairs etc.., telling me what i could and couldn't do, have done etc. In spite of being desperate to rent a place and not having many options.., i almost decided to not move in at that point and I am a good tenant who is prepared to do repairs and always up to date with the rent. It was very very offputting. I suspect the only sort of tenant you'd get in the place with that approach (if it was legal) would be the bad sort who didn't give a damn and would let the place fall apart. A responsible tenant would spot you as a dodgy landlord and run, not walk away.