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Landlord Properties Licensing Consultation
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/propertylicensingconsultation
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There are a number of poor landlords and absentees across Stroud Green. The council is proposing a paid licencing system to regulate all landlords.
Please have a look and fill out with your opinions.
There are a number of poor landlords and absentees across Stroud Green. The council is proposing a paid licencing system to regulate all landlords.
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Yes ofc, there's a monetary element, but that's all the better. If you can rat on a bad landlord, the council has an incentive to send over the inspector.
https://www.haringey.gov.uk/sites/haringeygovuk/files/proposed_selective_licence_conditions.pdf
I wonder who ensures the council meets these standards. Costs the landlord £600 for 5 years
I agree with the principal and being a 'good' landlord my property passed the minimum requirements with ease (as would any property with the appropriate fire, gas and electrical certificates) so it is simply a tax on top of the minimum requirements.
Unless of course you do not have the minimum safety requirements and will not bother with a licence either.
I am guessing this will be outsourced nationally to someone like Capita before too long anyway and used to engineer the minimum standards for mass corporate ownership.
When I was a gas engineer I saw firsthand the ridiculous situation of CORGI being stripped of the competent persons scheme / register before stealing the databases and customer details of thousands of Gas Engineers (via the registration of gas appliances) and marketing to them customers directly.
They then handed it over to "Gas Safe" (aka Capita) who only prosecute the registered engineers and leave the unlicensed alone until someone is seriously injured or killed.
God I need a drink.
I'm interested as to whether or not it can hold landlords to account for poor building maintenance and safety.
I don't think you should be ashamed of being a landlord, unless you own 20 houses in slum conditions- @Arkady people will always need to rent, i.e. me when I was a student and whilst building a deposit.
Most landlords only own one extra property - however I do agree with extra taxes per house owned + quality checks. However as the council doesn't really have a 'register' of rented properties (or at least, not one that is compulsory from my understanding) im unsure how they will catch landlords who don't register their properties unless the public get in touch with them.
As ever, it's enforcement that's the bugger.
Suffice to say you will get your wish in the next 20 years and then the corporates will own them all instead, let's see how that ends, maybe we really will own nothing and be happy?
As a tasty titbit i definitely didn't receive any intergenerational benefit (pretty hard to inherit anything when growing up in a one parent household in a sink estate council flat) and my tenants have been in my property for 12 years so, as a consequence, pay below market rent.
What a total bastard taking all the risk while providing well kept accommodation to a family for 12 years without hiking the rent up in a property that they could never afford eh.