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Monday, February 22, 2010

Police push landlord insurers to stop covering damage from cannabis farms

A worrying bit of news for landlords is the push by police to make landlords liable for any damage caused by tenants who use their rental properties as a cannabis farm.

Scottish police are currently trying to persuade landlord insurers that they should stop covering landlords for any damage caused by the use of their rental properties as cannabis farms.

Scottish police estimate that 1 in every 230 rental properties in Scotland are used as a cannabis farm.

This is worrying news for landlords on a number of levels, both the change in landlord insurance liabilities and the high frequency of the problem.

Read more in the Scotsman

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1 comment:

Ian T Price said...

Once again the authorities are trying to make third parties responsible for a tenants actions.

This legally unenforceable, as shown in the anti-landlord legislation that was first introduced in NI in 2003.

When will the authorities realise that it is their legal responsiblity to deal with crimimal acts?

They have taken away many of the rights to evicit these undesirables and yet still try to to pass the blame and problems to powerless landlords.

LANDLORDS IN Northern Ireland will not have to take responsibility for the antisocial behaviour of their tenants and their tenants’ visitors, following a landmark ruling in Belfast High Court.

The ruling, by Mr Justice Girvan, said that the law had not properly taken account of landlords’ human rights.

It followed a judicial review of a law introduced by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in 2003.

Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members
from the May / June 2005 issue