Serves them damn well right. Any decent Landlord would not allow his/her property to become such a squalor pit. Instead of touting the "kick Me" badge we should all be aspiring to be professional in all aspects of Land-lording, then we wouldn't need to have licencing in the first place.
The issue is that the demand is too high, and there are people out there just trying to make a fast buck squeezing as many people as possible into a house.
I do get the idea of having a landlord register, so that various Government agencies can check that landlords are providing clean, safe accommodation, paying taxes, etc. If Newham's mininum annual fee of £500 was applied in the counties my properties are located, I'd be getting "taxed" about 10% of the rental income, assuming no voids. What happens to the fine money generated from prosecutions? But it's a whole case of nothing being joined up (register with HMRC, register with a deposit service, get a licence) and it's the good honest landlords that end up paying.
Serves them damn well right.
ReplyDeleteAny decent Landlord would not allow his/her property to become such a squalor pit.
Instead of touting the "kick Me" badge we should all be aspiring to be professional in all aspects of Land-lording, then we wouldn't need to have licencing in the first place.
The issue is that the demand is too high, and there are people out there just trying to make a fast buck squeezing as many people as possible into a house.
ReplyDeleteI do get the idea of having a landlord register, so that various Government agencies can check that landlords are providing clean, safe accommodation, paying taxes, etc.
If Newham's mininum annual fee of £500 was applied in the counties my properties are located, I'd be getting "taxed" about 10% of the rental income, assuming no voids.
What happens to the fine money generated from prosecutions?
But it's a whole case of nothing being joined up (register with HMRC, register with a deposit service, get a licence) and it's the good honest landlords that end up paying.