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Landlord with tennant dissapeared, when can I move on (Scotland)
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There is nothing wrong with generalisation. Your property is more likely to get trashed by a HB tenant than a non HB tenant. That's just the way it is. Don't shoot the messenger.
It doesn't sound like the OP has a specialist slumlord portfolio so probably best just to avoid HB tenants in future.0 -
so by your logic, im currently in a well paid job, but my contract MAY not get renewed in 2 years. given the current climate, i may not land a job straight away. does that mean i should be homeless for x amount of time with my kids because i would have to go onto benifits until i get a job sorted?
Why not take out an insurance policy to cover you for job loss or being ill? It's better than having to jump through all the welfare hoops to get help.or what about joe bloggs who lives round the corner who is on esa because of a disability that li mits what work they can actually do and recieves HB?
If Joe Bloggs is limited "what work they can actually do", then he won't get ESA. ESA is for those who can't work.
It's DLA for those who have a disability and can still work. But DLA is going and will be replaced with PIP, which has much tighter rules and most claimants have to have medicals often now (just as ESA claimants have to now also) to weed out the fraudulant claims.RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.0 -
My bolding More generalisations DbM, now one aimed at LLs who let solely/mainly to those in receipt of benefits?DannyboyMidlands wrote: »It doesn't sound like the OP has a specialist slumlord portfolio so probably best just to avoid HB tenants in future.
Some LLs may come into the "slumlord" category but many who let to claimants have decent well maintained properties which are, in turn, look after by their occupant Ts.
Daily Mail your paper of choice?0 -
Not unless they are failing to pay the HB/LHA across to the LL, IMO.MissMoneypenny wrote: »If they are on HB (LHA), then they are rent dodging, are they not?
Stigmatising all who claim LHA/HB is appears to have been encouraged by our current Govt. Let's remember that a huge number of those claimants will have previously paid into the system and will be paying back into it at a later date.
As for the behaviour of kids , I sometimes find the behaviour of the kids of many salaried, mortgage paying, supposedly educated and "middle class" parents utterly reprehensible.It was an eye opener on how the the other half lived; how they prioratised their spending (booze seemed to come first) and the behaviour of some of those children.0 -
The poster said that he is on a contract for the next 2 years, which may or may not be renewed. Am unaware of an insurance policy which would pay out should there be no renewal.MissMoneypenny wrote: »Why not take out an insurance policy to cover you for job loss or being ill? It's better than having to jump through all the welfare hoops to get help.
What is the purpose of "welfare" - yep,among other things, it's to assist in the event that you lose your job via redundancy or whatever/become too ill to work.
Let's all continue paying in to the system but then also pay out extra amounts for private insurance, private health care, private education and so on so as not to "burden" the state
Remember too that many of the insurance policies have their very own hoops through which to jump.0 -
Blimey well here's hoping I'm already in a property if I lose my job... You think people should be homeless because they claim the help they're entitled to? Where do you expect them to live?Sealed Pot Challenge #239
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Stigmatising all who claim LHA/HB is appears to have been encouraged by our current Govt.
Only to those who use welfare as a way of life and not as the safety net it was intended for. It use to be shameful to live longterm on welfare and now we are seen as mugs for working.
The new benefit system which parliament voted in, will encouurage making work pay and make it uncomforatable for those able bodied people who choose not to work and just want to live off others. More financial help will be given from the welfare state to those who truely are too ill to work.As for the behaviour of kids , I sometimes find the behaviour of the kids of many salaried, mortgage paying, supposedly educated and "middle class" parents utterly reprehensible.
Are the muggers and burglars mainly coming from parents who don't claim welfare or from those that do?
Interestingly, some of those mortgage paying parents might still be claiming some sort of income based welfare payment i.e tax credits.
It's always interesting on the benefits board when someone moans about the £54per week the under 25s get in JSA, until it is pointed out they claim more welfare per week in the tax credits they claim. JSA and tax credits are all income based welfare payments of course.RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.0 -
What is the purpose of "welfare" - yep,among other things, it's to assist in the event that you lose your job via redundancy or whatever/become too ill to work.
That was the purpose of Britain's welfare system and that is the safety net we are now going back to. Too many able bodied people of working age, have been "languishing on benefits" over the last decade and it is this which is changing; and about time too.RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.0 -
Aah, so that in your book will explain why their kids were being troublesome - if we remove all welfare payments then all our problems will be solved.......MissMoneypenny wrote: »Interestingly, some of those mortgage paying parents might still be claiming some sort of income based welfare payment i.e tax credits.
The point I was making was that kids from all walks of life can (and do) wreak havoc.0 -
My bolding More generalisations DbM, now one aimed at LLs who let solely/mainly to those in receipt of benefits?
Some LLs may come into the "slumlord" category but many who let to claimants have decent well maintained properties which are, in turn, look after by their occupant Ts.
Daily Mail your paper of choice?
My LL rents to people who work and are on HB, houses/flats in nice quiet areas, deals with people direct, is polite, nice, prompt with repairs and inspections and generally a nice bloke. When I had a health problem a while back and couldn't walk, he asked if I needed any help with the gardening etc. Couldn't wish for a nicer one!
I'm not sure what he'd say if he heard the term slumlord :rotfl:Mum of several with a twisted sense of humour and a laundry obsession
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