New laws to protect tenants against unfair charges - MSE News

Comms69

Nasqueron wrote: »

Perhaps fewer landlords buying homes to rent more could be sold to buyers who would otherwise have to rent? Not saying it would but always possible

Yep all those people working zero hour contracts living payday to payday are going to jump at this chance!


These things always affects those at the bottom most

Comms69

chattychappy wrote: »

If deposits are to be limited to 6 weeks, perhaps the government can make it possible to evict troublesome tenants within 6 weeks.

How are those two things at all related?


I'm just curious what your thought process was there?


It's similar to: Well if it takes me 6 hours to fly to America, why cant I get my new passport in 6 hours?!

Comms69

Smodlet wrote: »

Hence the need for regulation...

Regulation is what happened to your local highstreet

Smodlet

Comms69 wrote: »

Regulation is what happened to your local highstreet

Huh? I am quite happy with my local high street, thanks. It actually offers a heck of a lot for a place in the (relative) back of beyond so, if you are correct, that is another vote for regulation from me.

Cakeguts

My personal feeling is that this is going to work in the opposite way to the one they think. In that landlords will have to specify everything so tenants are going to get charged not only for the item but also for the time and money spent acquiring it.



Using the light bulb as an example. A landlord might just get one at the local supermarket while doing their own shopping but if you have to itemise how much you spent they might make a special trip to pick on up and include time spent and costs of getting there as well?



So you still have the £100 lighbulb but you have all the evidence to go with it which won't make the lightbulb any cheaper.

Comms69

Smodlet wrote: »

Huh? I am quite happy with my local high street, thanks. It actually offers a heck of a lot for a place in the (relative) back of beyond so, if you are correct, that is another vote for regulation from me.

haha ok fair enough cant argue with that.


Mine is littered with bookies, charity shops, chain coffee shops (and thanfully still some independent pubs!)

Smodlet

Comms69 wrote: »

haha ok fair enough cant argue with that.


Mine is littered with bookies, charity shops, chain coffee shops (and thanfully still some independent pubs!)

Wow. OK. I guess not everything about this place is bad. When a shop closes down here, which ain't often, it seems another comes along to take its place with no gap in between; no boarded up windows, if you see what I mean. When a chemist closed down it was replaced with another chemist. The little supermarket next to it became another little supermarket so I guess that's fairly healthy? Sure there are a couple of bookies, one not actually in the high street but I don't think that's excessive. Struggling to think of a coffee shop though there are two or three sandwich shops and a few takeaways but dotted about, not all together.

We have a big Tesco's and a little Asda as well as the other little corner-shoppy one I mentioned, two more chemists, a butcher's, a couple of charity shops and even one of these knitting/sewing type places as well as a small DIY/hardware place and a motor spares one. Oh, and a petrol station and a really crappy pub but there are a couple of OK ones a bit further out. Plus all the ones I can't think of.

Thanks, Comms69, for making me feel a bit better about a place I had never heard of before I had to move here. Certainly we looked at a great many other places which seemed quite run down compared to here. They are building new houses, for instance. Hmm.

Crashy_Time

Comms69 wrote: »

Its absolute rubbish.


Instead of just providing a basic understanding of the law to tenants the govt continues to put pressure on landlords.

Yes, there are lots of votes in being seen to do this now. It amazes me that people still think that because a few MP`s have inherited family wealth, including property that they would have the backs of BTL landlords even as the voting power shifts to renters and stay at homes.

Smodlet

Crashy_Time wrote: »

Yes, there are lots of votes in being seen to do this now. It amazes me that people still think that because a few MP`s have inherited family wealth, including property that they would have the backs of BTL landlords even as the voting power shifts to renters and stay at homes.

Seriously, Crashy, just how do you navigate between your planet and Earth? I have been trying to get home for so long now...