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Landlord being an idiot
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So are you saying that the landlords labour isn't worth anything?
Sadly and quite unfairly that is actually true, a landlord cannot claim a value for his time. Which usually ends up having to charge the tenant more, to employ someone else to do tasks that could be done cheaper by the landlord.Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop0 -
I can assure you I am not a landlord, but it does anger me that people now a days are not prepared to pay for their own mistakes.
As I said before pay up or shut up.0 -
I am asking is what is the fair and just amount?
The full cost of two locks, plus the cost of fitting two locks. Where I let out, the cost of calling a locksmith to fix a lock is £50 call-out fee.
Look, you don't seem to get the near-universal opinion, and it's not a "landlord" thing... It's just "what's right and fair".
Somebody makes an expensive mistake, they pay to fix it.
That's the adult World!0 -
The £150 is excluding any labour. LL wants to try to change the lock himself. TBH, if you get a like-for-like lock, anyone with simple DIY skills can change that lock. I have seen it and can do it for them.
So LL is trying to save money and fit himself, yet still that's not good enough?
If you fit the lock and do a terrible job making things no better in the end, the LL can and will blame you and it could cost yet more. If LL does a terrible job and mucks the whole thing up, he will employ a locksmith and charge no more than he already said
ETA, not a LL63 mortgage payments to go.
Zero wins 2016 😥0 -
Wow! Is this forum full of landlords who have no empathy for tenants? I am not saying the tenants should not pay for their mistake, all I am asking is what is the fair and just amount?
I think that you will find that the the forum is quite fair, so when a tenant tries it on, or starts a post entitled (landlord being an idiot, when in fact, he is being quite reasonable) like you have, even anti-landlord posters will desert you.
Do you still think the title of this thread is reasonable? If not, why didn't you change it?Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop0 -
Wow! Is this forum full of landlords who have no empathy for tenants? I am not saying the tenants should not pay for their mistake, all I am asking is what is the fair and just amount?
Actually this forum is almost always on the tenants side. So to get the lot of us agreeing on the same point means the tenant who lost the keys should pay the reasonable costs the LL stated63 mortgage payments to go.
Zero wins 2016 😥0 -
a LL is perfectly entitled to charge for his labour cost and /or his expenses in attending the property (travel etc) to undertake the repairchucknorris wrote: »Sadly and quite unfairly that is actually true, a landlord cannot claim a value for his time. Which usually ends up having to charge the tenant more, to employ someone else to do tasks that could be done cheaper by the landlord.
however, the LL cannot claim his labour charge as a deduction/cost on his tax return. Therefore, with no deduction, a LL who charges for his labour will be taxed on all of that income as pure "profit".
you keep repeating yourself (having started with an aggressively biased statement) so we'll keep repeating that it is fair and reasonable that the LL charges you for a) like for like locks and also b) his time and/or travel costs in doing the work.Wow! Is this forum full of landlords who have no empathy for tenants? I am not saying the tenants should not pay for their mistake, all I am asking is what is the fair and just amount?0 -
The £150 is excluding any labour. LL wants to try to change the lock himself. TBH, if you get a like-for-like lock, anyone with simple DIY skills can change that lock. I have seen it and can do it for them.
Now you're adding things to improve your argument, as soon as a poster tries that I'm out.It's nothing , not nothink.0 -
you miss the pointchucknorris wrote: »Ah! so we can charge for our time? But the thing is that I'm a chartered surveyor and my wife is an actuary, so cleaners(the most common) and others rates don't seem so good.
you can charge your wife out at the £ HUGE rate per hour an actuary gets, but that simply adds to your taxable profit - and is very likely to result in your tenant screaming that a professional cleaner would be cheaper so the tenants won't pay for your wife doing the work as the tenant would prefer a (cheaper) professional.0 -
" Landlord being an idiot "
One of the tenants has lost the keys to the property !!!
So who is the idiot ?
Glad your not my tenant0
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