Landlords from Hell - Channel 4 tonight at 8.30

lighting_up_the_chalice

jc808 wrote: »

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all victorian housing in my experience has outside toilets - 2 stud walls a door and a bit of plumbing brings it inside - no reason this cant be done here

as for your family arguement - why not knock through 2 doorways (1 front of party wall, 1 back) in 2 adjoining properties and make large 4 bedders? lack of thinking imo

(sigh)... Because that's not what families want. Why not knock em down and build the houses that people want to live in?

jojo_2012_2

I think beggars can't be choosers and if you want a 4 bed place and have accumulated that many children without arranging your own secure housing. Which in my limited knowledge would mean minimum 3 kids maximum 6. Then you should be jolly happy with 2 houses knocked together with a downstairs loo.

BitterAndTwisted

I can't see anything wrong with knocking two 2-up 2-downs into one larger house. As the programme demonstrated refurbishment is cheaper than demolition and rebuilding. Not that you'd need a bloke on the telly to tell you that. The main issue is that Local Authorities and Housing Associations don't have the funds and can't get grants to do it any longer. Maybe it really is going to be down to communities raising the funds and doing the work themselves. Some friends of mine acquired housing via an HA in exactly that way back in the 70s

jc808

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

(sigh)... Because that's not what families want. Why not knock em down and build the houses that people want to live in?

Why not scrap all second hand cars and make people buy new ones instead?
Why dont we burn second hand furniture - theres so much nice gear in the Argos home section, isnt there?
Why not pulp all books - theyll get reprinted, right?
Whats the point in old appliances? Richer Sounds are still open, yes?
Why are you such a monumental retard?

You can lose the sighs when talking to me on the internet, noone wants to hear the grunts and groans of an defective arguement.

jc808

PS where do you think the moneys going to come from to 'build the houses people want to live in'?
I live in a refurbished Victorian terrace, and while its nice, id like a 6 bedroomer. With a pool, and a 10-strong platoon of Football-manager-grade escorts trained in First Aid, CPR and Blumpty on 24 hr standby.

But whos going to pay for this house to be built?

If theres an existing shack, 4 bedrooms, a decent sized pond with a rough old bag next door who still has her red lightbulbs in the top sideboard drawer for when funds get tight, then who the !!!! am I to complain?

Jesus, have you considered so much as experimenting with *reality* at any point in that life of yours?

The_ICT_Engineer

Hump wrote: »

So a single 'non-priority' chap turns up to Bournemouth Council and presumably asks whether any local landlords will take Housing Benefits - they signpost him to a landlord with sub-standard properties willing to take potential benefit applicants. Then Tracey, a woman fleeing DV from London, turns up with a dodgy property with the same landlord. Welcome to the system that saw less than 454 new social housing starts in the first 6 months of this financial year - priceless.......

The landlord in question is even worse than the program showed.

Non of the local housing charity's will have anything to do with him, As he never returns deposits. And the very poor state of his buildings. If you complain, You are in for a unpleasant time when one of his staff turn up.

propertyman

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

Many towns outside the SE, and particularly in the North, have low demand housing. Families simply do not aspire to live in Victorian terraced 2 up, 2 down street houses with a tiny back yard. They want a modern house, with a garden. And in many areas that is a realistic aspiration. That is why pathfinder was introduced. To provide what people wanted.

But beggars can't be choosers.

As long is it is in good repair and exceeds the rating system then they can reflect on how to satisfy their own aspirations, and, in so many cases, the choices they made that put them there.

propertyman

How can the EHO take action against a private landlord, especially a bulk provider, that then creates a problem for the housing department and it's targets for clear up/referral rates.

Which lose votes government funding and campaign contributions.... does anyone not beleive that this would lead to quiet conversations in the corridors about departmental "priorities"?

And the solution, "the government should give us more money to give away"...it's all their fault... I guess I will go and have a read of my free council newspapers, and this afternoon go for the computer classes and the home budgeting lesson the local ALMO provides, using my free bus pass, oh and a free swim later on.

then I could go and report the problem at the local one stop shop,oh that's right they close at 4 now, oh and I see that they don't open until 9.30. I quess I could write. I should get a reply in 10 working days, let me check, oh, the customer service promise has disappeared from the website.

poppysarah

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I can't see anything wrong with knocking two 2-up 2-downs into one larger house. As the programme demonstrated refurbishment is cheaper than demolition and rebuilding. Not that you'd need a bloke on the telly to tell you that. The main issue is that Local Authorities and Housing Associations don't have the funds and can't get grants to do it any longer. Maybe it really is going to be down to communities raising the funds and doing the work themselves. Some friends of mine acquired housing via an HA in exactly that way back in the 70s

They give grants to private landlords all the time though.

perhaps they'd be better investing the money into something they get a return from.

(Don't forget many councils have VAST cash reserves that they were happy to tie up in icelandic banks!)

jamie11

poppysarah wrote: »

They give grants to private landlords all the time though.

I have never had a grant for anything to do with my properties, I think you are thinking of HA's