To let my property through the council

Yes my mum did this as emergency accommodation - council paid £100 per night (!) however one family absolutely wrecked the house, you honestly wouldn’t believe the damaged caused in about 10 days - council paid for it to be put right but it took ages - my mum now rents privately instead to a friend of mine who was looking for a place

Yup. I spend a lot of time on landlord forums and that seems to be the consensus.

By not bothering regarding repairs. Ie a faulty door lock or rusty radiator. I just sorted this myself. But structural things or when we had a major water leak under the hall floor then of course we contacted LL

I was once that family who was on benefits became homeless ( dv) and rented on benefits until I got a job. Still there now. The LL is great.
Without a good LL like it I don't know where I'd be.
In fairness I rarely bother them for repairs I get them done myself , I decorate and do as I wish with the house , with LL permission. And I do a good job and look after it.

I was once that family who was on benefits became homeless ( dv) and rented on benefits until I got a job. Still there now. The LL is great.
Without a good LL like it I don't know where I'd be.
In fairness I rarely bother them for repairs I get them done myself , I decorate and do as I wish with the house , with LL permission. And I do a good job and look after it.

They will not pay rent and will trash your property, in our experience.
And when you want to evict, the council won’t allow it.

look carefully at the scheme.
we were thinking of doing it, but council requirements were so stringent it would have been difficult to do in a preriod property (new stairs, rewiring, toilet fownstairs, removal of built in wardrobes, new boiler, new fireproof doors...)
we sold

There is no advantage to the first option, just get your own tenants.

If you let to the council this is not the arrangement. The council are the landlords. You have an agreement for them to let your house to their tenants. You can’t enter into this arrangement if you don’t understand it, you’ll be wasting time and energy.

I’ve never had a bad tenant in all my 20 yrs of it , my current lady is 14 yrs in . Prior to that I had a chap who was there 6 yrs before relocating for work .

Can be very hard to get tenants out if you ever need the property back.

To clarify, are the council finding the tenants (possibly from their council housing waiting list), helping fund the deposit, but then you’ll receive the rent directly from the tenants and will be dealing with all the maintenance etc?

Or will the council be effectively taking over the property from you, so they will be responsible for managing the property, all maintenance and repairs, up to evicting tenants if needed? So your involvement would purely be receiving the rental income?

actually no. He shouldn’t have ignored the neighbours. I have one flat I let and we had one couple who were very noisy and antisocial. They we frequently told to reduce noise and this worked for a while. As the landlord you have a responsibility to speak to your tenants. Everyone has the right to peaceful enjoyment of their home.

Don’t do it.
All good until it isn’t. And then it REALLY isn’t.

OP you need to clarify what the council are doing and what you’re signing up for. Being introduced to tenants is nothing, they’re acting as a cheap estate agency. Do it or don’t do it, it’s a nothing decision.

”letting your property to the council” is completely different. Your agreement is with the council who maintain the property and deal with tenancy issues. You effectively forget about it until the agreement comes to an end. If you chose this it’s important that you don’t care who lives in the property- it’s nothing to do with you.

The thing is with the Renters Rights Bill going through ATM if the tenants do turn out to be difficult or annoy neighbours you can't ask them to leave. In the past I've given the benefit of the doubt and given accommodation to single parents with DC. They are only more of a risk because they have one income and if they lose their job they maybe can't pay their rent whereas with two working parents if one loses their job the other can still pay the rent. I can't take that risk anymore and will only let to two parent families. When I rent out my houses I let EA do financial vetting to see if they pass the credit check and check for CCJ's too. EA comes back and gives me the choice of tenants giving me basic details about if they work and what industry. Last time 13 families wanted the house I had to let. It's very hard to pick one family because in reality I think they'd probably all be good tenants.

Only that it sounded exactly like yours, just with short term lets as an 'introduction' so they weren't tied to a long term contract with a single unscreened tenant from the outset. They definitely thought they were doing something good to help people who couldn't pass credit checks at the outset compared to going for the private rental market - and the council assured them everything would be taken care of properly.

The house a couple of doors from my daughter, was let this way. I'm afraid it didn't go well. DD had to call the police to huge fights twice, and had to endure loud music and the smell of weed constantly.

At least if you find a tenant yourself, you can check references.

The council take care of this under the agreement. He hasn’t understood the agreement he signed. The council will contact him if necessary, not the neighbours