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Miss_Marple_2

jaylee3 wrote: »

I seriously feel sorry for any tenants that have you as a landlord or anyone who is like you. Assuming you can come and go as you please, because YOUR name is on the deeds. You're clueless and really need to get yourself educated. Personally, if you came perving on me like you are with your tenants trying to live privately in 'THEIR HOME,' I would have you prosecuted for stalking.

I can't believe that you can't see how weird your behaviour is; driving around and conveniently looking in to peoples windows (and then trying to backskip, and make out a 5 year old child saw it and not you .) It seems a bit weird and voyeuristic to me.

I've got to be honest and say that I think you are being a bit harsh on the OP. I totally agree that about the house being a tenant's home, but I also cannot see anything 'weird' about walking or driving past a house that you used to live in.

If I am in an area I used to live in, I often drive past houses I used to rent. It's interesting to see how a house or area has changed. I think this is just human nature, rather than 'weird' or 'perving' or 'stalking'.

I often pop back to the area I used to live in as I have friends there and as I drive past the house I used to live in, that is now owned by my brother and he rents out, I have a quick nosey out of the car at to see what it looks like. I would find it weirder if people didn't do this !

fozzeh

jaylee3 wrote: »

Wow, it astounds me how clueless and arrogant you are. Who CARES whose name is on the deeds to the house? It is NOT YOUR HOME as long as someone has a tenancy agreement.

Unfortunately for people who rent privately, there are too many people like you.

I take you back to the last sentence in my post:

"Urgh, gotta feel for private tenants. Some landlords are so power-crazy and are under that very wrong assumption that the house the tenants are living in is 'their home.' It isn't: not while someone has a tenancy there."

I seriously feel sorry for any tenants that have you as a landlord or anyone who is like you. Assuming you can come and go as you please, because YOUR name is on the deeds. You're clueless and really need to get yourself educated. Personally, if you came perving on me like you are with your tenants trying to live privately in 'THEIR HOME,' I would have you prosecuted for stalking.

I can't believe that you can't see how weird your behaviour is; driving around and conveniently looking in to peoples windows (and then trying to backskip, and make out a 5 year old child saw it and not you .) It seems a bit weird and voyeuristic to me.

And inspections 3-monthly are ridiculous and unreasonable. Why on earth do you need to do inspections so often? What the hell do you expect to find?

And as for my attitude 'giving tenants a bad name;' there are far more people on here (like you) who give LANDLORDS a bad name than there are people who give tenants a bad name!

Fortunately I do not rent privately. Been there, done that. Too many horrible landlords. Fortunately I am not in the position of having to rent privately now. And with landlords with attitudes like yours; I could not be more glad!

Diddums! I really would like to hear how you could have someone prosecuted for walking past a house.

You're all opinion. What can be classed as a home bears no relevance in the matter. For all you know, I've served them their notice and they're out in August. Simple. Not their home then is it? 2 weeks I think is the period I need to give for an inspection. Have I entered the house once in 30 months? Do I do inspections every 3 months? Nope. It was hypothetical to an obnoxious tenant who would be akin to you. Answers all in the thread.

It just shows how much you have actually read or what you have chosen to read through tints.

Plus, I agree with the above. I think you're being harsh, over opinionated, very subjective. Did you see that program last night about the complainers who moan at anything because they feel they have the right to when they don't actually know enough about the person or situation they're moaning about and then look like a complete Prince Albert because they think they're right?

Fortunately, I don't suffer fools too gladly and (unfortunately to HUKD where they have a nice button you can click) I'll be bypassing your opinion when I post the outcome of the inspection. I have enough 2 children who spout enough as it is!

I think you sum it up with how you end it; "too many horrible landlords". I would guess you've had bad experiences before...spleen them out for all anyone cares...just in another thread.

Southend1

It's a cat.

That's all.

A cat.

Your tenant has a cat.

So what?

It doesn't make her a bad tenant. She's simply living her own life in her own home. With a cat. It's absolutely none of your business whether she has a cat. Or a cheetah. Or whether she dances naked round the kitchen. Or anything else she does in the privacy of her own home. Leave her alone.

wrkactjob

Are you sure the cat was real?...Look carefully at this photo, it looks like a real cat but in actual fact is fake.

I suggest you return possibly with some fish to tempt the cat and see if it moves. If not it could be a replica cat or possibly a stuffed one.

jaylee3

Southend1 wrote: »

It's a cat.

That's all.

A cat.

Your tenant has a cat.

So what?

It doesn't make her a bad tenant. She's simply living her own life in her own home. With a cat. It's absolutely none of your business whether she has a cat. Or a cheetah. Or whether she dances naked round the kitchen. Or anything else she does in the privacy of her own home. Leave her alone.

THIS ^^^ :T:T:T

But there is no telling some people. Like there is no piercing through the arrogance and bloody-mindedness of some people.

May as well be talking to yourself, as the OP is only wanting to listen to opinions and views that they want to hear. They should have made it more clear in the original post, that they only want people to post on here, who AGREE with them.

cpheonix

As much as I disagree with the OP on this, the responses have been overly harsh. He was only asking a question on what to do.

Having said that, wrkactjob's post and their photo of the stuffed cat (?) had me in stitches!

nzseries1

I just feel like I have to give my opinion here as people are being so harsh.

I'm a tenant, and I actually agree with the OP that if the tenancy says no pets, and they have a pet, then they have broken the rules of the contract and that should be punishable. Otherwise it makes a mockery of those tenants like me who actually follow the rules. Who says what is and what isn't crossing the line? (the law of course, but I'll get to that)

I also think that the landlord walking down a public street and viewing his house from outside is not a bad thing. Should the landlord be expected to keep 200 yards away from the property at all times? What if he was flying overhead in a plane - should he be forbidden from looking out the window down at the ground in case the cat is on the roof?

However, it does all come down to the fact that there are laws in this country about what a landlord can and cannot do, and it does appear that enforcing this particular clause is not possible, and therefore if he does not like this, then the only option is to not become a landlord in the first place.

ruggedtoast

Sigh.

Here we go then.

A landlord complaining about their 'tennant'(it's always a tennant, or Tennant for some reason), who has committed the despicable transgression of:

A) Having an illegal pet
Having an illegal child
C) Having dared to have a friend stay over
D) Having the audacity to hang a picture
E) Not having mown the lawn for a week
F) Having painted a wall

and now they want to know what levers can be brought to bear on such scummy renter for daring to treat this palatial demesne as if it were, gasp, their own home.

Well frankly, there is nothing you can do about it OP. I hope they have a herd of cats and the next time you go round there they all rush at you and your cretinous fat tied LA at once, meowling, and send you and your bogus authorisations packing.

Then you can issue an S21 and start again with a new person who wont have the temerity to act like a human being trying to live in a home.

nzseries1

ruggedtoast wrote: »

A landlord complaining about their 'tennant'(it's always a tennant, or Tennant for some reason),

There YOU go making assumptions. How do you know the landlord's tenant is not David Tennant?

elsien

Some of these responses are just ridiculous and people need to get a grip. Walking past a house is perving? Really? Whatever you feel about catgate descending into unwarranted nastiness is just unnecessary.