Landlords life is rubbish

Managing property is a constant battle.

Landlords often start off with all the best intentions, aiming to provide good, clean, quality properties and a good service, but it can all get you down.

Waste management can be a nightmare!

Tenants, often just don't care! Domestic waste management is often way down on their priorty list ( especially student tenants), not putting our dustbins, letting rubbish pile up, not taking unwanted junk to tips etc.

Sometimes the neighbours like to join in trashing the place, and take advantage of the fact that the tenants aren't bothered who starts using their backyard as a community tipping ground.

I remember having endless issues with neighbours dumping their excess rubbish in the bins of a block of flats I owned, causing me hundreds of pounds in costs each year to get cleared up.

A landlord has just been prosecuted by Burnley Council over the filthy state outside his homes across the borough.

The landlord Mr Paul Higgins-Drysdale who lives in Hampshire, complained that the rubbish was the fault of nearby residents and claimed he had spent hundreds of pounds having dumped items removed from the yards of his Burnley properties, only to find the problem repeated within days, the court heard.

However the council still found him guilty under the Environmental Protection Act and forced him to pay out a total of £1800 in costs and fines for ignoring warning notices.

I have sympathy for the landlord, but rules are rules and the case goes to underline the difficulties of managing rental properties at a distance.

If your rental property is not in the area you live in make sure you have a good quality letting agent to manage them for you.

What a load of rubbish life is for poor old landlords!

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