Landlord Action respond to government U turn on LHA

Paul Shamplina, director and co-founder of Landlord Action, a company specialising in tenant eviction is delighted that the government are reviewing the LHA system commenting, “hopefully common sense will prevail and they will revert to landlords being able to receive rent directly from the council. Most tenants are happy for the landlord to get direct payment. No one more than us have seen the massive increase in landlords having to evict a LHA tenant for rent arrears and there are plenty of landlords falling behind with mortgage payments because of the current system.

We are continually trying to expose this problem and have talked about it openly in the national press on many occasions. I am regularly doing talks to landlords across the country and this is the biggest complaint from landlords and is actually putting landlords off buy to let.

We also speak to the councils themselves regularly and the LHA departments workloads have risen dramatically because of tenants not passing on the rent to landlords. We recently had a case where a tenant family did not pass on their rent to the landlord and were found to be sending the money back to Kosovo to pay for a new house.”

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