Comments on: Landlord Obligations / Regulations – The Law

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By: Sugarbabe

Sugarbabe — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:26:30 +0000

I beg your pardon i had a Health and Safety Rating System by Tecvhnical Officer for Private Sector Housing and brought him off site as i had done a 400 mile journey and didn’t have long to be there done on the property because of death and i have the Report at home it was 13th Nov 2006.

I did not prosecute but i could have taken it to Court with the Report i have but what good would it have done,it would not have brought him back and i had a funeral etc to deal with. Councils hide stuff and fail to do things quite often,non are honest that much. A Notice was secured onto the front door that meant nobody else could be put into the property because a lot had to be adhered to.

It was put into Auction market rapidly and bought by Hotelier next door but one and the place was completely gutted,it had to be.

It is late now but if i have time tomorrow would you like me to detail the failings as written byu the Officer?

By: Observer

Observer — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:37:42 +0000

Where’ve you made up the “brought up to date ” bit from? But if there were failings in the building this landlord would have been jailed.

Landlords are prosecuted almost daily for lack of gas safety certs, or failing to maintain gas installations adequately etc And these cases aren’t prompted by a death !

, I’ll ask again for the link re this prosecution . The council cannot discover critical failings which you claim they did and then just forget about it, whether the property is subsequently disposed of or not. The offence has already been committed. And they’d be even more vigilant if the circumstances were as you describe!!!

Sorry sugarbabe but the bulls/t alarm is deafening. Link to the prosecution please,, as this is all sounding bollocks.

By: Sugarbabe

Sugarbabe — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:46:29 +0000

Landlords have a duty to make sure a dwelling is habitable and brought up to date and could have gone to Court to seek to get in their and re house him,but they didn’t bother cos it was cheaper to not bother. I said nothing about welfare it was the failures in the building, unsafe.

By: Observer

Observer — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:54:32 +0000

And I repeat my point. Plenty of agencies would have assisted way before it came to that if someone had bothered. You can’t place welfare on landlords.

Craig, you’re a gilt edged agent, what proviso do you make for your vulnerable tenants? ARLA doesn’t make any so I’d love to hear yours.

By: Sugarbabe

Sugarbabe — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:50:19 +0000

If i had known about it beforehand believe me i am a caring person we were shocked at what we found and every time i said i wanted to go see him he made an excuse which sounded like he was ok and active,i found him 50yrs after he disappeared from his family who by that time were deceased…at least he had a good send off is all i can say and i dealt with his debts which were wiped off-he would have been a proud man who worked hard and was ex Army…he had even been robbed with a diversional tactic at his front door so that made him nervous, i later found.

By: Sugarbabe

Sugarbabe — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:46:15 +0000

You are sounding ridiculous now it was a personal experience of an aged Uncle who died alone several hundred miles away few yrs ago and i did his funeral..shocking even the Policeman who had to break in to find him said nobody should have to live in such terrible Victorian circumstances…gross dangerous failures by landlords with 9 gas safety failures and electric ones too…i had the Council Environmental Health out to do a report on the place hence they got shot of the place qusickly by Auctioning it such was the dire state of the place. No hot water no heating of any sort…and he was old and ill…

By: Observer

Observer — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:30:27 +0000

Provide the link sugarbabe.. It’s a well known fact that the uk elderly death rate is a national disgrace due to fuel poverty. That’s a financial cause. Direct your barb in the right direction. Rip off energy companies, inadequate winter fuel payments. A completely different issue.
Landlords cannot NOT make heating repairs, and social services cannot leave any vulnerable tenant in need of assistance. The fact family members can’t be arsed checking on relatives and notifying the correct authorities is quite simply disgraceful.

By: Sugarbabe

Sugarbabe — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:56:45 +0000

Actually you are very wrong it was private Landlords who let an Octogenarian live in third world circumstances-UK is full of it.