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Tenants’s rights and awareness of their rights or should it be tenants' what rights?
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MissMoneypenny wrote: »Then why not move somewhere else?
It's not always that easy. OH and I recently moved, and we made it clear to the LA and the LL that we were good tenants who wanted a long term rental. We had to pay six months rent in advance - not for any dodgy reason, but OH and I are recent graduates and the LA wasn't happy with the fact that we'd only been working a short time, and the only person who could be our guarantor was my mum, who is self employed and the LA didn't like that either. So, on top of our £700 deposit, and the £300 in 'fees', we had to pay about £5500 in rent. On top of that we had to buy a washing machine and fridge as the property didn't have one, so that's another £400. We had to pay for moving our stuff, which was about £300 in total. So, we've paid over six and a half thousand pounds to move into a property. We've had a lot of problems here due to poor maintenance and the LA not doing their job, but we are simply not in a position to move again - we moved into a 'long term' rental and invested a lot into doing so.0 -
""all private rented accommodation will somehow be regulated! "" ?????????????????????????????????????????????
Landlords have to comply with 69 different Acts of Parliament already !!!!!!!!!!!
do you want blood ????
Oh, how upsetting for landlords that they have to comply with laws. Maybe we should do away with the few remaining rights that tenants have just so you can concentrate on making money with absolutely no concern for their welfare?0 -
The percentage that actually do know their rights can and will screw you for thousands......
Only if you contravene the law, which is in the first case not particularly strong in its defence of tenants' rights.
German tenants (to take an example) have far greater rights than British, and the system seems to survive. Perhaps because shoddy landlords can't operate so it is left to those who accept they have responsibilities?0 -
It's in the Landlords interest for their tenants NOT to know their rights.Winnings
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My other signature is in English.0 -
LuciferTDark wrote: »It's in the Landlords interest for their tenants NOT to know their rights.
as the OP Tossotii alluded to....0 -
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LuciferTDark wrote: »It's in the Landlords interest for their tenants NOT to know their rights.
Yes and it's in tenants' interests to know their rights, to fight to enforce them and to lobby government for improved rights to reverse some of the effects of the 1988 and 1996 housing acts which moved the balance of power so much to the landlords' side.
It's perfectly possible that landlords may find tenants' rights being improved over the next few years and it will be a good thing if that comes to pass. We have some of the worst tenants' rights in Europe and that has contributed to a wave of opportunistic landlords who believe that tenants are only there to pay their mortgages.0 -
i am pefectly happy to do my best to comply with 69 Acts of Parliament - and indeed try to do so, but, i was responding to OP's post
""It would be interesting to do a similar poll on landlords and see what exactly they know about renting, hopefully the law commissions report about the private rented sector will be taken seriously and all private rented accommodation will somehow be regulated! ""
this is a prime example of tenants thinking that landlords do not have legal duties and obligations - we are already heavily over-regulated - we dont need more legislation - we need more enforcement of current legislation.
The Environmental Health department has had legal "teeth" for years and years to prosecute b ad landlords for not doing repairs - but they have put this legal duty very low down on their list of priorities.
This latest 2004 Act has been a sledgehammer to crack a nut ........0
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