Observer, Merry Christmas to you too – thanks for your posts and heres hoping for more lunatics in 2012!

Be safe everyone

CL

I hope you all have a lovely christmas and a great new year. x

There’s no such equality on the tenant ‘regulation’ front. The worst that can happen to tenants is eviction, via a time consuming possession order and/or a CCJ regards damage or rent arrears. That’s it and as it stands, all a rogue tenant need do is lie on his next application, and he’s free to repeat the cycle again.

It’s ridiculous when compared to say laws against uninsured car drivers. You can subject a community to persistant rogue tenants, making lives miserable on a daily basis, demanding the innocent neighbours having to put up with it whilst having to collect their own evidence to go through the aggro of pursuing asbo’s. Landlords are utterly powerless to take action direct. And yet you’re 1000 times more likely to live next door to anti social rogue tenants, than be hit by an uninsured car driver.

My Christmas message is for tenants to be regulated by a system with teeth. An open easily accessible register is urgently needed of eviction actions taken. Points stay on driving licenses for 4 years, tenant possession orders should be the same. Councils should provide the ‘ social’ housing for the rogue problem tenancies and those with good clean records should enjoy the benefit of good private rentals.

The standard of private rentals will improve dramatically overnight. Private landlords will return to invest in their housing stock without fear of annual trashing, and communities will enjoy pleasant neighbours to live with. It’s a win all round whilst putting the onus on councils and governments to address the rogues. If they were paying the bill, (which is costing the private sector millions each year) we’d have enforceable regulation in days. Surely it’s the least we can do for all those decent hard working tenants out there who are equally blighted by the bad apples?

Happy Christmas all, Cardiff landlord and all, hope you have a lovely quiet one! xx

I am not meaning to be mean but it seems this site has a cluster of landlords that desperately do need to be regulated.

The comments by the original blogger are appalling – it’s something that needs sight and I’ll ensure it does get that.

You simply can’t get away with these can of comments in this society.

Personally – I am willing to take to absolutely on. And I am no crack head or failure.

Merry Christmas to you and The Landlord and to all who stop by this blog (except those that have really pissed me off this year – you know who you are)

love and peace in 2012!

Ive done both, business owner and landlord, and theres a world of difference between writing off a business bad debt at the end of the year, and having your wallet mugged by an individual you entrusted with your greatest asset.

In the days when we could call fat people fat, we had a nation of slim, fit, productive individuals. Our own PC correctness has created a nation with an excuse for every occasion and every personal failing. Its time to stop the humouring. Am I a ‘bring back Capital punishment, bring back debtors prison’ commentor?
Probably yes, as as a nation, we desperately need an injection of personal responsibility, not more excuses.

When asking landlords to be grown up and professional, its important to not lose sight that someone else has committed the grievance. Tenants are big enough and grown up enough to sign tenancys and take on rental property, yet we find excuses when they fail to understand those contracts and fail to meet their obligations. Landlords are forced (quite correctly) to abide by their side of the contract, yet rogue tenants are able to run out on them and repeat the cycle elsewhere. The law needs to change to stop this.

Failure to disclose on tenancy applications, must be enforceable with punitive action (no quibble loss of deposit? Black listed from private rentals?). Failure to address arrears and/or make good damages,must be enforceable (again standard no quibble CCJ including a punitive ‘fine’ for attempting to avoid?) Damage to property and failure to take out adequate contents insurance again, must be met with punitive action. Until Landlords are correctly compensated for their losses on a punitive level, tenants will keep doing what theyre doing.

So, in a long winded way, what I think Im saying is, with the law as it stands, and Landlords only ever being able to pursue the actual current value of items, the loss of rent etc with no additional compensation for having been subjected to this bad behaviour, this is a fab blog for landlords to let off steam!

This is a ‘personal’ business, and theres no harm whatsoever, if finally, someone points out how bad behaviour has personally affected them. Yes a reader may feel its a naive reaction, but hey, the point is, at least there is a reaction. Dont lose sight of the original grievance, and what this blog has addressed is the top ten most common bad behaviours in the letting business. At no point has anyone been personally identified.

Keep blogging Landlord, and yep, fat people are fat. Happy Christmas All.

How am I being unprofessional? I’m professional towards my tenants and how I handle the situation, regardless of my frustrations. Like I said, my blog is just where I release my inner thoughts. If I explicitly write that I want to stab my tenant in the eye with a fork, it doesn’t mean I’m going to do it.

I accept things won’t always go my way, but it doesn’t mean I can’t bitch about it. I know death is a part of life, but it doesn’t mean I won’t mourn when someone dies.

I don’t really understand any of your points, so we’ll just agree to disagree.

There’s a difference also between getting frustrated and to that of being quite unprofessional. I think the comments you’ve made are quite unprofessional, as well as your approach to the problem.

Accept that it’ll not always go your way – that’s business.

Re the slipped common sense comment: you signed up the tenant not me. A bit of due diligence goes a long way.

I’ll close on this note as I get the impression you a little one sided.

Amazingly, you’ve completely misunderstood what’s going on here. I know my risks, I know tenants fall in arrears in this game. All I’m doing is venting my frustration.

I’ve listed a bunch of reasons why I hate(d) my tenant. How is that reflecting the way I run my business/investment? They’re my inner thoughts that remain anonymous from my tenants.

Getting frustrated over late payments and/or people is completely different to failing to understand the risks. Have you NEVER been frustrated by late payments? If so, what am I doing that’s so different from your amazing business acumen (besides from the fact I wrote it down)? Nothing!

If such a basic situation slipped through your thought process, I dread to think how many other common-sense based factors has slipped through your business (the one you have run for 10 years).