Comments on: How To Be A Shit Landlord

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:42:30 +0000

Ok now perhaps we can speak on more level terms,
1) There are good and bad tenants.
2) There are good and bad landlords.
As an ex-tenant myself, yes i have rented houses, and at times been out of work so had to call on housing benefit for help, i have paid my rent and always had good relationships with my landlords, then when i had been in work and saved some deposit i bought my first Buy To Let, ive spent so much time renovating to a good standard my properties, listned to hard luck stories, and let houses to hard working people (so called) who then pay their rent in such a manyana fashion, who then when they fall on hard times dont pay the rent at all, even though they are getting HB.
So Rog, lets add this up shall we, youre clearly the brains here,
1) I save my money, put down a deposit on a house, and buy it, i then renovate it, get gas certificates, market it and let it, i pay the mortgage, then its let via an agent, each month the rent comes in, i pay the mortgage, putting aside money for any repairs, maintenance, and legal annual checks.
2) The tenant starts claiming HB, the council pay the benefit, which is paid directly to the tenant who decides that an iphone 4 looks nice, but no worries my landlord will keep paying the mortgage. A problem arrises with the boiler, brrr its winter and its cold, the tenant now 6+ weeks in arrears wonders why the landlord cant give a fuck! However, if the fucking government/benefit system paid the landlord direct, when someone started claiming HB, instead of giving the money to someone short of cash this wouldnt happen, the landlord would happily pay the mortgage and rush to sort the boiler out for his good tenant, landlords hate empty houses.
Fuck im so tired of tying to get this simple point across.
I also have lived and worked in the Netherlands, you are clueless, everything is someone elses fault, i also work, and pay tax which cunty benefit tenants spend on anything but their rent.
Do you think thats ok because i call that benefit fraud.
In many ways i guess im still a socialist myself, and i do believe in the safety net which my tax provides, but if many years ago a government hadnt sold off social housing stock, and private landlords/investors hadnt taken on the shortfall, there would now be a million or so people living in fucking cardbord boxes.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:17:55 +0000

Hi Benji,

Best to let tenants know what they’re likely to be up against, rather than the official flannel.

Paul is right, I’d like to see the end of the private landlords. Or failing that, legislation tight enough to sweep the large number of criminal landlords out of business.

Have a think about that.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:15:23 +0000

Hey Paul, why don’t give up being a landlord if it’s so fucking hard and unrewarding? I’m not ashamed of being a socialist, you say it as though it’s something I might deny.

Luckily I’ve never had to have housing benefit – though unluckily it means thieves like you have taken an enormous slice of the money I’ve earned. There isn’t one landlord on earth who charges a fair price for a property. You make it up to suit your own pocket.

Guess what..I’ve listened to several dozen twats like you too. Who can’t spell, have no talent and have had to become a landlord as a result (hint: it requires no talent or scruples), conning a living on the back of housing need where up against a 10 year waiting list, private rental or the street are the only options.

I don’t need to go to North Korea, I moved to the Netherlands a decade ago, where, incidentally, even more slumlords have an even freer hand. A fair rent will never exist among private landlords. It’s a spiv industry with no professionalism, and the government turns a blind eye because it alleviates a problem they face…badly.

When the housing market crashed I clapped my hands with glee at the thought that thousands of have-a-go slumlords lost their mortgaged houses.

By: Benji

Benji — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:39:27 +0000

Hi Rodge!

As Paul says, Welcome!!

Good to see you on a landlord site mate!!! (keeping the cOunts up!)

On reflection, do you think calling landlords ‘scum’, ‘wankers’ and ‘cunts’ will help to provide tenants with good properties from the private rental sector or will it make things worse?

Have a good think.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:58:28 +0000

Well well well, another idiot has found the forum, everyone say hello to Roger the fuckwit!
You just dont get it do you Rog, your stupid fucking socailist attitude is so far up your own arse its amazing you got your head up there as well!
No one forces a tennant to rent my houses, they willing sign contracts for well maintained and presented houses, and when they fall on hard times the generous nation provides then with housing benefit, the clue is in the word housing, to cover the rent, now call me picky if you like but im at the end of my tether with idiots like you, in my 7 years experience only about 25% actually use the housing benefit to pay the rent, then we can talk about the condition these thieving cunts leave the houses in when they do the moonlight having spent YOUR and my tax getting pissed rather than keeping a roof over their scummy heads, ive listned to twats like you before, and 99 times out of 100 you base your facts on hearsay, i know you want all landlords shot, all bankers impaled, all stockbrokers burried alive, all CEOs bolied alive, fuck off and go live in North Korea, then you can have your own shitty green uniform, eat crap all day and dream about moving to China.

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:46:30 +0000

All the landlords here are just among the handful of okay landlords. Mr Unrealistic excepted who is just a racist, regular half-educated right-wing cunt, with no idea, wishing the clock could turn back to 1950.
Anyone ever wondered why so many tenants do things that landlords hate? They have a lifetime of experience of landlord-scum keeping back their deposits on spurious grounds, and never fixing broken heating, or windows etc. That is the norm, not the exception. So these landlords become worse, and the cycle repeats. And the cheeky wankers try to use part or all of the deposit to fix things that are general wear-and-tear! Well, the cheek! That’s what the bloody rent was for all this time, you thieving landlord scum: using the property.

Landlords are default scum because they’re not interested in putting a roof over anyone’s head, but making capital out of housing need. All the nonsense about it being “hard” is a joke. What a landlord means by “hard” is that they expected it would be just a quick, cheap paint job and a few bits and pieces and then just sitting back to watch the coinage roll in.

Landlords couldn’t possibly give a shit whether the social housing stock is depleted; to wish it back is like hoping for their own bankruptcy. Everyone treats shitty, divided up properties as a stepping stone, not a home. ‘Home’ is not when some landlord is breathing down your neck with an eviction notice because you’re trying to work out why the bank has screwed up your payments. And sure enough criminal eviction companies will comply.

If housing benefit was scrapped tomorrow most landlords would be out of business. They live from it, even while bitching about it. And like the Voice of Reason listed, landlords are given a free ride on so many counts. The truth of the matter if being a landlord was so bad, no honest person would do it. You have to be a cunt who wants money for doing as little as possible, or doing nothing, while denunciating everyone else for doing nothing.

Landlords are cunts.

By: zumba 123

zumba 123 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:16:41 +0000

would much prefer the electric fire much more modern, he just doesnt like spending money and always get friend do things in his own home

will see what happens on thursday hope i get the fire and surround

thanks for all the advise

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:30:24 +0000

zumba 123;

Your landlord has to fix it if you were to use it and die from carbon monoxide poisoning the landlord would be done for manslaughter.

Gas Safe Register has replaced CORGI (Gorgi :-)) registration.
A couple of years ago.
Look here

http://www.gassaferegister.co.uk/

check out one in your local area ask them how much to fix it, if the landlord is willing to pay £200 tell them that is all the landlord has budgeted for. Good Luck.

By: zumba 123

zumba 123 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:00:15 +0000

my landlord as phoned today to ask why the rent was late, and to tell me he getting somebody else to fix the chimney lining and flue he told me he was told only gorgi registared plumbers can do this job he said £500 was to expensive as his builder friend no gorgi could do it for £300

he didnt know the building regulations have changed, i informed him of a modern electric fire and surround on sale for £200 he said he will take me to get it will let you all know if he does

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:48:03 +0000

Hi Zumba,
Sorry but i think that whatever you do wont make any difference, find another house, dont withold your rent, give him a months notice,, and move on. Decent landlords like decent tenants,