Tenant wont leave!!

Pixie5740

Should tenants have to wait for an unnecessarily long time for repairs to be carried out. It's not like the tenants bypass the landlord and go straight to the PRHP. PRHP is used when a landlord won't pull his finger out and do what needs to be done. In an ideal world PHRP shouldn't have to exist but it does because enough landlords weren't carrying out necessary repairs. Tenants in England & Wales can also escalate repairs to the council when landlords fail to act. Other consumers can escalate matters to regulatory bodies such as Ofgem, FCA and Trading Standards so why shouldn't tenants be able to do the same?

Is landlord registration a bad thing? I think it's a good idea to have those supplying the homes of others to be deemed fit and proper. I think Wales has introduced something similar and I know some councils in England have also adopted landlord registration. Housing is a basic human need so it seems only right that those responsible for it are fit and proper to do so.

You need to remember that all this legislation for landlords has been introduced because a significant enough number of landlords have effed it up for everyone else. Not doing repairs, spending tenants' deposits like it's their own money, letting out properties not fit for human habitation. Legislation doesn't prevent all rogue landlords but it does give councils a bigger stick to hit that bad ones with. Artful started a thread about the prosecucation of rogue landlords, it those gits that ruin it for the others.

Being a landlord can't be that brutal in Scotland otherwise people would stop doing it.

dekaspace

dktreesea wrote: »

Lol, this is Scotland, where the rights of the tenant are firmly enshrined way ahead of any landlord's rights! Our MP, and SNP MPs in general, are right behind the tenants rather than the landlords. A true socialist government up here. To give them their due though, they are building thousands of social homes in Scotland just now.


For instance, no such thing as not getting repairs done in a timely fashion in Scotland. There's a private rented housing panel you can complain to. They work quickly and the local government will take away the landlord's licence if they don't toe the line. Private landlords have to be registered in Scotland. Then there's the council themselves. Don't repair your house in a timely fashion? The council will repair it at great expense instead and attach their costs to your house as a charge against the security if you don't pay up.


As to getting the bailiffs/HCEOs around to evict your tenants, you had better make sure you have the council firmly onside (they may not be) because it could affect your registration as a landlord going forward.


In a word, it's brutal being a private landlord in Scotland.

Interesting how much of that was recent though? I did get one landlord in trouble 6 years ago, as far as I know he was fined as he converted a house into 4 flats but never informed council (which makes no sense as I was getting housing benefit for one of the flats)

But 3 years ago was the one that had a leaking roof for over a year and a half, a cupboard door was actually thin plywood with hammered in nails (which snapped and he charged me £200 to replace) he installed his own kitchen and the parts the screws went into were too big so the doors fell off, I found holes in the kitchen walls everywhere above the cupboards (he put decorative skirting board at top of cupboards so you couldn't see it unless you were on a stepladder)

2 months before I moved out he informed me to stop using the shower as it was leaking into flat below and to just use taps to wash myself.

Thats just skimming surface and just one landlord, had another where the roof was damaged so mould grew on every wall and in the 2nd bedroom where friend lived there was 2 leaks meaning he always had a cold and either his head or feet got wet when in bed due to small size he had only one of two places it went, enviromental health was called and said it was borderline dangerous and LL decided to illegally evict us for getting EH involved.

And another friend can't remember if it was 2 or 3 years ago rented a flatshare and when he lost his job he couldn't get housing benefit as she was a unregisted landlord (and living abroad) turns out she had a mortgage on the house and said she lived there to do a tax con.

She didn't get in trouble.