Rent Increase

motorguy

Old_Git wrote: »

full story I help tenants that need help .Tenant has two kids ,one at school one not .
Next year she will be looking for work when the youngest is at nursery. She gets £7.50 maintenance for the kids.
She needs a driving licence to get a job (no jobs near her ).
Painting ,painter was painting the bathroom that was re plastered I got him to finish the painting (her paint was used ) as she couldnt reach above the stairs .
Oil .If I get enought to keep the boiler going for the winter its better than letting it run out and breaking the boiler .She had been topping it up buying drums of oil. Its cheaper than replacing a burner .Mobile phone ,cheap as it was a week before christmas and she wanted photos for christmas.
Christmas presents for kids ,would you ignore two kids expecting santa .They got other presents from other people as well.

She was not the only tenant to get christmas presents.
Washing machine cost £15 to fix on a Sunday . Better than wet clothes dripping around the house .She did pay me back when she had the money.
I never ignore tenants in need .I have written of rent arrears from previous tenants ,including one who committed suicide and the agent told me not to return the deposit . Thats what slum landlords do.

Good for you for going the extra mile with your tenants. Sounds like you're one of the good guys. :beer:

qwert_yuiop

motorguy wrote: »

Good for you for going the extra mile with your tenants. Sounds like you're one of the good guys. :beer:

Indeed. Makes you wonder why he’s going to increase the rent.

motorguy

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Indeed. Makes you wonder why he’s going to increase the rent.

If you'd actually read his posts instead of looking for reasons to be outraged, you'd have read "Well I have one tenant on housing benefit .I have no plans to increase that rent"

Its the couple that are running at £100-150 a month below market rate that hes looking at - presumably to cover the increased costs he talked about?

motorguy

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Indeed. Makes you wonder why he’s going to increase the rent.

We were being led to believe being a tenant was great and the way forward on this sub forum?

It seems tenants have no money, live in slums and are oppressed by their landlords. :eek:

qwert_yuiop

motorguy wrote: »

We were being led to believe being a tenant was great and the way forward on this sub forum?

It seems tenants have no money, live in slums and are oppressed by their landlords. :eek:

Sure. It sometimes is. Sometimes it’s a clear case of exploitation, where those with access to loans and savings have been able to outbid those who then end up paying them rent as their tenants. That’s more likely to happen to those who are worse off.

Is this the forum to look for advice on how to get more money out of tenants? I’d say not.

motorguy

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Sure. It sometimes is. Sometimes it’s a clear case of exploitation, where those with access to loans and savings have been able to outbid those who then end up paying them rent as their tenants. That’s more likely to happen to those who are worse off.

So if it only happens "sometimes", why were you 100% sure that thats what the O/P was doing?

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Is this the forum to look for advice on how to get more money out of tenants? I’d say not.

Heres your five most recent topics you've started :-

• Exit brexit?
• Have your cake, repeated.
• 3 abreast, 4 abreast, 5 abreast more?
• N. Ireland:Gay marriage, abortion
• Volkswagen

So is it a forum on Brexit? Gay marriage? Cycling habits? Cakes? Cars?

Whats money saving about those topics, but you seem happy to post them here? Whats good for the goose....

Personally, i'd have posted on the Small Business sub forum if i was the O/P, however sometimes people post directly on to the NI board because they're from NI.

Maybe you should pop over to that sub forum, lots of people "exploiting" others for you to be outraged about. Some people run shops and take money off people! :mad:

qwert_yuiop

motorguy wrote: »

So if it only happens "sometimes", why were you 100% sure that thats what the O/P was doing?



Heres your five most recent topics you've started :-

• Exit brexit?
• Have your cake, repeated.
• 3 abreast, 4 abreast, 5 abreast more?
• N. Ireland:Gay marriage, abortion
• Volkswagen

So is it a forum on Brexit? Gay marriage? Cycling habits? Cakes? Cars?

Whats money saving about those topics, but you seem happy to post them here? Whats good for the goose....

Personally, i'd have posted on the Small Business sub forum if i was the O/P, however sometimes people post directly on to the NI board because they're from NI.

Maybe you should pop over to that sub forum, lots of people "exploiting" others for you to be outraged about. Some people run shops and take money off people! :mad:

Well, if I need some tips on running my business, well and good. How to squeeze my customers - bit distasteful on MSE forum?


All the above topics seemed to produce a bit of entertainment. I enjoyed them. Did you?

Cotta

Quert, I think some of your anti Landlord posts are unreasonable. Certainly call out those who are unscrupulous, however many are not and are simply trying to make a living.

motorguy

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Well, if I need some tips on running my business, well and good. How to squeeze my customers - bit distasteful on MSE forum?

You're still making an awful lot of assumptions about the O/P and their motives - even though they have fully explained otherwise.

Profit is not a dirty word by the way. Even IF the O/P were to be adjusting his rental to make a more reasonable level of profit, that doesnt make it wrong, nor does it make it unreasonable to ask the question on an MSE forum. You have projected - wrongly it seems - a certain image on to the O/P so that you can then be quite venomous about it.

His worst "crime" seems to be posing it on the wrong sub forum rather than what you have concluded is a money saving one and therefore only should have money saving related topics, much like you do with most of yours. But that seems OK?

Old_Git

Cotta wrote: »

Quert, I think some of your anti Landlord posts are unreasonable. Certainly call out those who are unscrupulous, however many are not and are simply trying to make a living.

Hes not just anti landlord hes anti everything .Hes been giving me s1it for years .

This is from a PM he sent me in 2014
Generally objectionable attitude to your fellow man. Supercilious nastiness. Deceit.