To think that Landlords have a bad name.

Tbf, a hotel isn’t appropriate permanent housing either.
It’s a completely different business model.

Your rent is going to be more than your LLs mortgage as they have other bills to pay, if your boiler breaks who pays for it?

I thought you were insinuating that the LL pays for the boiler. I see you were telling the renter that the excess was her cost.

Presumably she won’t get the difference back if the boiler doesn’t break, but that’s the LL profit/Risk I guess.

You haven’t said you’d issue a S21, I didn’t say you had.

I said you (as with any LL) COULD. You have the power over their home. Regardless of what a LL says they have the power to remove someone’s home in 8 weeks.

It might not even be nefarious, it could be cos you’ve lost a job, BTl mort triple, DH died, daughter divorced and that house would be perfect for her.
You’d be a fool not to evict in those circumstances. I’m sure many LL have had to make that difficult unexpected choice.

I’m not anti-LL, I’ve no skin in the game as I own my home. I just really feel it for those in precarious housing.

My neighbour's house is identical to mine. The difference between what they pay for their mortgage aad what I pay for my rent is £530 every single month. Don't tell us that's in case the boiler breaks 😂

The tenant indirectly pays for it if the rent is more than the mortgage.

I’ve seen LL put up rent to cover the cost of fixing x,y,z, ergo the tenant indirectly pays.

But you could if you wanted to, freely issue a S21 tonight and they’d have to leave in 8 weeks (I know ppl stay longer but still).

Do you not have any sympathy for ppl who might face a S21 through no fault of their own?

I don't think my mortgage provider can turf me out with 8 weeks notice.

We rent and so do most people I know. Some of us are lucky and have good landlords but most have landlords who are just in it for the money.
However good or bad landlords none of us want to rent we would all like to buy. But we can't save for the deposit while paying the landlords mortgage and even if we could all houses that do come up for sale are brought by a bloody landlord!

That comment was deleted, but it was made earlier on the thread. I took a screen shot as it was so outrageous and I had a feeling it may be deleted. 😅

Why do people tar any group of people with the same brush? Anger? Jealousy? Need someone to blame for their own situation? Lack of knowledge? Who knows? I’ve read enough of these threads to know you’re not changing their minds though and they get angrier and angrier and often lose their minds.

An asset that someone else is paying for. I couldn't sleep at night knowing that I was leeching off people who can't afford their own property.

What's their alternative?

Can’t afford a mortgage while being charged the monthly cost of a mortgage in rent, and not being able to save for a deposit on top you mean?

That's on the banks, not the landlords. Landlords are prepared to take the risk. Banks are not

Of course they are. And why not. And they can do it honourably.

Absolute rubbish. When I left home at 18 and went to university I needed a room to rent. I lived in 3 different rented homes in 3 years and all landlords were great. I could not have gone to university had landlords not existed. I then moved to London for a job and obviously could not afford to buy - I rented several different properties from several different landlords. All straightforward transactions and all treated me well, fixed anything that needed fixing. Returned my full deposits.

I could not have gone to university, nor climbed the career ladder without landlords renting their properties to me.

I now have climbed up the home ownership ladder and own a large family home. I have nothing but kind feeling and gratitude to the Multiple Landlords who housed me for around 15 years of my life. Where would 18-25 year olds live if Landlords did not exist??!

Just ignore the criticism and get on with your life. You’re not going to change peoples thoughts who are intent on demonising landlords. You can’t have a sensible exchange with people who say all landlords are scum and compare them to men who use sex workers, to pick out just a couple of claims from the thread. 🤯 These people are ridiculous.

My parents are farmers. They rent their home and land. My mum used an inheritance to buy a small house to rent out in case she needs somewhere to live in the future, when they can’t farm anymore. How is she a leech?

This is the problem really, 3 DC have a home based on your goodwill, good finances decisions.

If you wake up and decide to cash in for a world trip there’s feck all they can do about it.

I don’t blame you for that, I don’t hate LL, there is a place for them.

But the system shouldn’t be this way.

when the LL property was originally a council house that the family prob would have afforded without housing benefit that we are all paying for so LL can pay their BTL mortgage until they sell at profit.