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Sharron | Report | 30 Oct 2016 18:56 |
I have been watching Victorian Slum as, I am sure, have many on this site and have just seen that advertisement where the boiler breaks down. This time, as I watched it, I realized how similar they are to each other. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 30 Oct 2016 20:04 |
I never thought of that, Sharron. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 31 Oct 2016 10:53 |
It is easy to assume that all landlords are rogues. We also have a lot of very good landlords who are continually getting shafted by unscrupulous tenants. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 31 Oct 2016 11:20 |
I'm not denying there are good private landlords out there, but statistics show a high percentage will just take the money and not bother about the state of the property. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 31 Oct 2016 14:05 |
Tenants with eviction notices can then sit tight. They know they can get away with it for months until the Bailiffs appear with a Court Order. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 31 Oct 2016 15:24 |
As I said before - yes there are bad tenants. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 31 Oct 2016 15:51 |
From the Telegraph article re changing locks |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 31 Oct 2016 15:58 |
"As for 'sitting tight' until the Bailiffs come - really???" |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 31 Oct 2016 17:10 |
Not exactly a perfect scenario is it - though it appears the tenant was in the 'wrong' for having other people living there - but why? |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 31 Oct 2016 17:58 |
Maggie, it was a I bed flat. If the other people living with them were related it might have been a bit different. This wasn't sofa-surfing; these were single, unrelated, adults who were contributing to the rent. If the landlord had knowingly tried to squash so many people into the space, they'd be the ones in trouble. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 31 Oct 2016 18:41 |
I'm sure landlords don't buy houses to rent out through the goodness of their heart. |
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Sharron | Report | 31 Oct 2016 18:50 |
If I were to put up about landlords and tenants, do you think somebody might see the way the Quick Quid advertisement reflects the life portrayed in the Victorian Slum series? |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 31 Oct 2016 19:08 |
Maggie - with both low mortgage and savings interest rates, it would have seemed a good investment at the time. Unless the Landlord had previous experience, they wouldn't have realised the pit-falls. |
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Sharron | Report | 31 Oct 2016 19:36 |
It did, it did. I saw it. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 31 Oct 2016 21:19 |
I would apportion blame on facets of all the examples you've given, DET :-D :-D |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 1 Nov 2016 05:17 |
Why shouldn't a landlord sell if that is what he want to do? After all it is his property in the first place. However there are legal procedures for obtaining vacant possession and many landlords will follow them to the letter. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 1 Nov 2016 09:40 |
Of course landlords should be able to sell their property - but, if they have tenants, with a contract, that should be honoured, and the proper eviction process followed. |
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Bobtanian | Report | 1 Nov 2016 10:31 |
When we were in Peckham, London 45-ish years ago, living in a rented flat (one of 14)owned by an old boy landlord, paying an affordable(just) rent, when it came for the old boy to sell up , the rent was almost doubled,(under the "fair rent" scheme)and made exclusive of rates....... |
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