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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Portsmouth Council Start Landlord Accreditation Scheme - Laughable!

Portsmouth City Council are launching a landlord accreditation scheme with the aim of boosting standards in the private rented sector.

The new landlord accreditation scheme includes a website that will include a list of approved landlords and rental properties in the city.

Landlords who sign up will have to pay an annual membership fee of £50 and upwards depending on the size of their portfolio.

I have my concerns that the website will be as dead as a fish up a tree without a flannel in a few years time, on many of these schemes the properties aren't properly checked, so anyone who pays the membership will be allowed in, and tenants won't refer to it anyway.

Lets hope this new landlord scheme is worth the fanfare and not one of those embarrassing moments that the councillors will try to forget in a few years time.

Laughing gnome anyone?




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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Kingston on Thames wants £80 for the privilege. What a joke. Theres nothing they can teach me after being a landlord for 20 years. I give it a year. More civil servants thinking up schemes and twiddling their thumbs.