Why do tenants have so many rights

ReadingTim

rentmekid wrote: »

I believe I would be a good landlord and wish to avoid these disgusting scummy tenants. nothing wrong with that

Hmmm....an inflated sense of your own abilities coupled with a contempt for your customers. What could possibly go wrong...?

agrinnall

rentmekid wrote: »

elsien - let me rephrase as you seem to be struggling to grasp what I was saying.

Well go on then, because I haven't got a clue what you thought you meant - elsien was perfectly correct based on what you actually wrote.

rentmekid

agrinnal - is elsien your missus or something?

Cakeguts

You haven't done enough research to start letting property. You have only done a bit around the edges. Think of letting property like a degree. You need to do extensive research into your business model. Posting one sided ideas on here isn't getting your research done. Letting is the same as any other business to be successful you are looking for a gap in the market that you can fill. In other words there is no point in buying a 2 bed flat in a building of 2 bed flats where half of them are available to let and have been for several months.

rentmekid

cakeguts - best advice I have had so far

elsien

Oh I don't know.
I think watching "Can't pay we'll take it away" to form his opinions is very thorough of the OP and due to this research and being fully aware of all his obligations as a landlord he should head off and get on with it.
As previously stated, what could possibly go wrong?

rentmekid

elsien - you went wrong

Cakeguts

rentmekid wrote: »

cakeguts - best advice I have had so far

Good so no time like the present to get started then. Start by reading up on landlord's responsibilities so that you don't end up with a prison sentence or a large fine.

Fosterdog

rentmekid wrote: »

cakeguts - best advice I have had so far

Considering you didn't actually ask for advice that was very helpful of cakeguts. You actually asked for opinions on why it is fair for tenant to have so many rights especially if they don't pay rent. That is an entirely different question to asking for help with advice needed to become a landlord so that would be why you haven't had any responses to the question you didn't actually ask.

benjus

I don't know why you think that tenants have lots of rights. Personally I think they don't have nearly enough, and certainly less than many continental European countries. (and I speak as a former landlord as well as a former tenant - now I'm completely out of the renting world and not missing it)

A lot of the landlord horror stories you may have read on this board are largely of the landlord's own making. Some landlords seem to have a view of how they think landlord/tenant law should work and try to impose that on the tenant. Then the tenant does a bit of research (sometimes with the help of this board) and things start looking rather bad for the landlord.

The landlords that do their homework, comply with the law, financially plan for void periods and maintenance costs, and carefully vet their tenants rarely have any problems they can't handle.