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A little more protection for tenants...?
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onwards&upwards wrote: »Same could be said for tenants, SCC should be sufficient in lieu of deposits.
Not really, what if the the tenant is on benefits or just very poor, so there just isn't any money to claim, other than a very low amount paid over a very long period.
I've nothing against tenants enquiring into our finances to become comfortable with our ability to financially manage the property.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 -
lookstraightahead wrote: »Does a landlord with a string of properties have a different tenancy agreement to someone with just one? I'm not sure that's the case - every landlord has responsibilities and actually it's of no interest to the tenant.
Have a look at the getliving site and you will see about their tenancy agreements and their properties. I looked on the Manchester site and their one beds start from over £1000 so it isn't cheap but in rentals you get what you pay for. With these big companies you are paying for a service as well as the property which it seems to me is what the OP wanted. They say that 3 year tenancies are standard.
We don't have long tenancies like that because we just let them roll over often for years and years. We also have very few voids. We want our tenants to stay as long as possible. Some landlords with only one property may be letting it because they can't get the sale price they want or because they have moved in with a partner or because they are working away. All of these things make it more likely that the landlord might want to move back in or sell the property. The landlords with a lot of properties don't do the moving back in thing. They may sell the property. This is why I suggest a landlord with several properties because they are running a business and the properties are business properties.0 -
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onwards&upwards wrote: »Landlords with one property are also running a business, just a smaller one.
This is my thinking also. I do think sone landlords think "stick a tenant in my property, they should be thankful for any help they get because I'm not running a business, I'm just getting someone to pay me money".0 -
...but it’s a business where customers who don’t pay are allowed to carry on using the service for months and months. It’s not a really ‘normal’ market. Massively in favour of the buyers via government regulation.0
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Yes you can get insurance0
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@lookstraightahead my landlord doesn’t take a deposit, but expects a parental guarantor for rent guarantee. Lol. 35 and parental guarantor.0
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lookstraightahead wrote: »This is my thinking also. I do think sone landlords think "stick a tenant in my property, they should be thankful for any help they get because I'm not running a business, I'm just getting someone to pay me money".
Anyone looking to rent a property and not thinking of it as a business should not be renting out property.
Some landlords (more so those with only 1 property rented) can get too emotionally involved, but then others can be of the other extreme.
I do think that if the government are introducing red tape to provide security for tenants, then there has to be a carrot the other way, be it housing benefit is paid direct to the landlord not via the tenant (where is some cases it goes on other things) or a more efficient eviction process where there is non-payment of rent or blatant damage (I believe it is an independent 3rd party that should decide)
But at the end of the day, the government needs to stop passing the buck to its citizens to do the job we elect them for (for free). Said as neither a landlord nor tenant.May you find your sister soon Helli.
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