The issue is that either the renter or the owner must in some way pay insurance and property taxes if they want a "permanent roof" with utilities like electricity, gas and water. Because of this, many people-at least in California, where I currently reside-are living in tents. No taxes, rent, mortgages, or insurance. The number of people who tell me they live in their car that I meet amazes me. Its crazy out here!
It’s getting wild by the day. The prices of homes are quite ridiculous and Mortgage prices has been skyrocketing on a roll(currently over 7%). Sometimes i wonder if to just invest my spare cash into the stock market and wait for a housing crash or just go ahead to buy a home anyways.
I get such worries too. I'm 50 and retiring early. Already worried of the future and where its headed, especially in terms of financies and how to get by. I'm also considering making my first investment in the stock market, but how can I do so given that the market has been in a mess for the majority of the year?
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Landlords ARE subject to business regulations, unfortunately there are a large number of unethical people that don't declare what they are doing, they exploit people from within their own ethnic group and often make a large profit from the taxpayer as well.
13 years of savage cuts to local authorities budgets, as well as the courts system, means most councils don’t have enough money to inspect these landlords let alone prosecute them. and even if they try to take legal action the courts system is soo bogged down that it takes years for anything to happen. Time which continues to cost the councils money and in which the councils budgets are still continually shrinking. This is just like every other corner of Tory’s broken Britain. No money for the poor or the sick or the young. But plenty of money for the friends of ministers and donors to the tory party
@@WhichDoctor1 you could license landlords but remember that the costs will probably be passed on to renters. And it might be difficult for councils to police this when some of their own properties are substandard.
New Zealand speaking - our "housing situation" is officially, according to the UN, a humanitarian crisis - and that was before covid and things have got a lot worse since then... and that's under a labour government, who because they haven't fixed the problem are very likely to get voted out in 2 weeks and replaced by a bunch of tory cunts who are all fucking landlords. The prospective new PM owns 7 houses. It's global. And we can't go on like this
@@chester6343 @mcfcguvnors WOW mcfcguvnors truly is Genius Level intelligence...wow , wish I had that level of political intuition...why is @mcfcguvnors not the ruler of the free world or even planet earth...Wow..just so...so insightful. By the way people...the sky is blue...aren't I amazing?, I can tell that!
Government should stop BUY TO LET landlord from INCREASING THE RENT. Its not the TENANT who is responsible for their mortgage. JUST because the BANK increased the Interest why does the TENANT Have to pay ? Its very unfortunate that some of the COUNCIL officers are working with the LANDLORDS AND ESTATE AGENTS in order to push the tenants beyond their limits. the worst thing is that THEY WORK TOGETHER TO give social housing to whom they wish not to the actual needy. which in turn doesn't help the housing rather it makes it worse.
@@growsethjones7249not necessarily, it depends how many boxes you tick. If you are single and able bodied with no protected racial characteristic the council only has a duty to give you cursory help to find somewhere else (temporary homeless hostels etc). This “help” is time limited (8 weeks iirc) and even that “help” can be withdrawn unless you do your share of the work. It’s pretty much a form filling exercise rather than something that costs serious time and money for the council and the threat of homelessness at this point for the person involved is very real.
And then when someone loses their life out trot the usual statements such as ....... 'Lessens will be learned', ''Root and branch changes'' ''We would like to offer an apology''
As a landlord i expect my tenants to live in the same conditions i do, take care of your tenants and you will find you have little to no issues, and dont deny people a home just because they are on benefits, ive found people who recive UC are more likley to pay on time in full rather than some of my working tenants
thank you for saying that - I'm on benefits and we are treated like criminals and repeatedly denied housing by private landlords even though we are equally or even more likely to be responsible tenants.
Our right, it's as if their is a full group of people who think they are posh that stereotype people on benefits and who live in more affordable estates. Well its blatantly obvious that they havent met many because they'd see they are more loving, caring and respectful than their vein counterpart.
We rented out our house in Wiltshire for 10 years to a family and we really looked after them. When we asked them to move out as we needed to sell up, they punched holes in the walls, poured paint over the carpets and pulled an awning off a wall. It cost almost 3k to fix up and our property managers (Chappell & Mathews in Chippenham) wanted us to return all their deposit. Not a great experience but at least they did leave.
The problem is you can't guarantee who you give the rent to what type of people they are. And that makes it a big issue. They might make more damages in the long term or they might take very good care. But thats very subjective.
Any such properties should be forcibly seized by the state unless there is a huge and immediate improvement. That would soon make these landlords buck up.
@@-...-zed-...- everywhere, especially out of London, you can rent a house up north with £500. It’s all about the mindset. It’s you choice if you want to be a victim in this situation or use your intelligence to come up with ideas to change your life
The government has now scrapped the proposal for all rental property to be brought up to energy performance grade C. Scumbag landlords can now carry on regardless.
It's because the landlords are seen as criminals that has brought this situation in the UK. If you rent a car, are you not liable for all damages? In UK, if you rent a house, the tenant is not liable for anything? I think this is crazy. Once you rent a house, the tenant should be responsible for everything, including repairs.
Between 2000 and 2023 the UK population has increased by around 15% - approximately 9 million more people. That's roughly equivalent to 20 cities with the population of Leeds, or 15 cities the size of Bristol. During those years, if you haven't seen those cities being built (complete not with just new houses & flats, but also with schools, hospitals, GP surgeries, dentists, emergencies services, shops, parks, roads, buses, trains, power & water supplies, drainage...etc) then, therin lies the root of just about every crisis people currently face in broken Britain: The UK does not have, has never had, any kind of coherent long-term plan - for anything.
There needs to be a ban on owning more than one property in the U.K. excluding housing associations & councils. Private landlords have absolutely destroyed the housing market.
I think nearly every politician in Britain, Tory labour or otherwise own at least 3 properties in their own names. So you have got more chance of pigs flying than a ban on additional home ownership
Council housing is unfair! so what do regular low/min wage workers do? They live in private shared housing with strangers because that’s all they can afford. Council housing is the issue, it rewards lazy, stupid, incompetent, reckless, useless people housing they overwise wouldn’t have. That limits housing supply and increases competition for housing. It’s the only reason the private rental market grew. Otherwise a couple on min wage could of bought their own property. And it stands they can’t get a mortgage as they earn too little and so have to rent and compete with gimmegrants and everyone else with their begging bowl.
Seriously? The one case where a child died and it was blamed on the landlord not fixing the mold it was a local council / housing association property. These are amongst the worst landlords.
The UK is not a rich country. Living conditions in general are very poor. The wealthy live in lovely properties and wealth is concentrated in a small percentage of people. The general resident of the UK isnt rich, taxed to death and living in pretty poor conditions.
I wonder what the limit will be on population in the U.K.? It hardly seems fair to keep encouraging everyone to keep coming, whilst knowing full well we do not have the amenities/infrastructure to care for those already here.
600 Pounds is about $750. That first apartment is about what you would get in a small to medium size city in the U.S. for that amount of money. What's the problem? You get what you pay for. You want the landlord to rehab it and triple the rent. Don't be silly, folks.
This is SICKENING! You're either in it for investment and receiving rental, if you can't afford to maintain, give it up all together and sale. It's unacceptable!
the average landlord is a regular worker who works full time. they spend half their working life living within their means and saving up cash, investing it untill they are able to own 2 homes, the one they live in and the one they rent out as part of a pension plan or gift to their children when the times right. They seem rich because unlike renters, they dont tend to live paycheck to paycheck thanks to great budgeting and financial planning. I'm not a landlord btw, i just done a lot of research on the subject over the years for various reasons. i do own a home that i had to make alot of sacrifices for 3 years to save a 20% deposit on. All the motivation i needed was paying someone elses mortgage. We also bought in a cheaper location. its been 8 years now and the mortgage is 207 a month and we have very low streess and dont have to work like mad men. you live in the UK by the looks of it, no one here is truly ''poor'' go to a real 3rd world country and pretend you have it hard compared to an average landlord.
Those "great budgeting decisions" are actually lucky. Luck that they don't have a disability that stops them from working. luck that they were born into a time and family that allowed them the education they needed to get a job that affords them a second home. Luck that their health has maintained enough to keep up the way they are living. The idea that noone is truly poor in the UK is ignorant. People are visiting food banks to feed themselves and can't afford electricity or gas to heat their homes. If you're going to do "research" then look into the entire story. Landlords are bleeding people dry
I wish I could say this is a new problem but sadly it isnt . I was in hospital having just given birth over 30 years ago when our landlord moved us to a new bedsit within the same house , i got home to find we had a woodlouse infestation in both the kitchen and bathroom area along with mould . On top off this our electricity meter was also connected to the caravan they rented out behind us meaning that we were paying for their electricity even though the tenents of the caravan were paying the landlord for the supply . What made this even worse is that the landlady worked for social services , the very people who are supposed to help families in need !
@@psi-man I used to live in one of those houses right next to Smithdown Rd. Eventually the whole street got knocked down with one of the EU funds. They were claiming it was cheaper than repairing them. Now whole areas lost all the character 😶
I'm confused. If she cannot live there, because of the conditions. Would it not be better to just return to the country of her birth, instead of staying in a place that is making her sick. Her and husband were not sick when they came there.
People will not rent their places at cost. Too much labor and time are put into rentals when done properly. They must be profitable for the landlord. However, I do agree there should be some rent controls in place.
@@killerStranngle the housing crisis has zero to do with people coming. The only reason people come is because our population decline is severe. There are empty properties everywhere. I work weekends S a delivery driver in London and I often go to 30 floor apartment blocks with less than ten occupied apartments as all the rest are bought by the wealthy as investment properties. Kensington is empty. What we need is construction and quality.
@@alexdiaconu7979time determines a bad tenant and landlord. Not one hole (out of context on size or everything else). Do we use the same logic for a tenant applicant that wears joggers to the viewing?
I am a good landlord with 100% happy tenants, I have never evicted. One tenant has just vacated. a few months ago she had a difficult time, I was supportive and understanding helping her to get back on her feet. How did she repay that gesture? By leaving the property and garden full of rubbish, filthy dirty, infested with fleas etc. Will cost between £4000 and £5000 to get back to a standard for letting. Lets have a tenant register which would identify rogue tenants. Lets also have a few Ch4 reports on rogue tenants because there are plenty of those about. Stop painting all landlords with the same brush
@@Stellagalloway444 I agree to that somewhat. But if you screen your tenants more particularly you get damned regardless. You're damned if you do, damned if you dont
It's absolutely horrendous trying to rent in the UK. I'm in Glasgow and I had to pay 6 months in full plus deposit. I had been looking for a flat for 6 months and couldn't even get a viewing as the viewing is fully booked in 10 mins. This is the problem I am having with a full time professional job, I can't imagine what other problems other people are having.
Oh my God !! That's really weird. In Glasgow. It must be full now. So there was no reason to believe you were a liability? Been there 15 years ago, not much luck with employment (unlike my next stop in Manchester) but it was not too difficult to find a property: from a horrible bedsit in a nice area to a flat in a rough one 🙀
@@Accountforstuff no but by letting in 1,000,000 immigrants in the space of a year they too, along with the snp, have caused massive damage to the private rental sector
@jonathanjonathan7386 1m migrants in the space of a year are living in hotels, detention centers and with relatives already resident in the UK, not rental properties. The current situation is caused by unregulated air B&bs on top of lack of house building. In my area the estate agents have recently posted pleas for people with second homes to get in touch about renting them as they have huge waiting lists of people and no properties available. Meanwhile air b&b has dozens of properties available for £100+ a night. If the average monthly rent even goes to £1000 that's just a month of weekends of Air B&B stays before they make a profit for any stays through the week. No point renting flats out monthly any more.
The mail in the coffin was flogging off council houses for peanuts. Those ex-council houses are often bought up by private landlords to rent to people that would previously have been waiting for a council house.
@@mrsthatcher9815I presume you mentioned Angela Rayner because you assumed I was a Labour Voter…I’m not. Hands down though, this is absolutely the worst government in recent history. It’s hard to see how Labour would do any worse. Even though I don’t vote for them.
I remember renting a multi-occupancy house in Watford, U.K…the refrigerator was replaced, and unknown to me at the time (before plugs were mandatory on appliances and it was expected that we wire up plugs, and even taught in school how to wire them up correctly), I went to the fridge after work to grab some milk, and I was hit with a massive electric shock. The landlord had removed the fuse in the plug, and assumed the brown wire was earth (the same colour as earth), but that’s the live wire in the uk (blue is neutral and green/yellow is earth). He had wound some copper wire on the fuse to stop it from blowing. If I had washed my hands in the kitchen with wet hands, I would have been killed. The landlord also kept the heating controls for the house in the locked cellar, and we only had two hours of hot water and heating even in the middle of winter, with 5 occupants. He also made one of the (female) tenants do all his laundry for him, ironing and pressing shirts, for no reward. She was a refugee from Sri Lanka and clearly exploited. Tenants in the U.K. have no chance of ensuring liveable conditions, and it’s a disgrace and another form of rampant exploitation.
If you don't find a means of multiplying your money, you will wake up one day and realize that the money you thought you had, had been exhausted. Investment is a ladder to climb the financial wall.
Am looking for something to venture into on a short term basis, I really need to create an alternate source of income, what do you think I should be buying?
When I was an university student I met some really bad landlords who owned over 10flats and refused to do anything for the property. Conditions were bad when moved in. My mate got mushrooms in her flat… mine was better but with broken bed, took 6 months waiting until a guy came to replace a part and a hole on the wall. Landlord even tried to charged me for the hole when I moved out, luckily I took pictures of the whole flat on the first day I moved in with email to proof that I told the agent immediately. However, my parents let our family home to a gp doctor when they went to work aboard, when they returned, tenant refused to move out, took us 7 months to kick them out and the house condition was bad with broke handles, broken window, kid’s drawings everywhere on the wall etc. Bad landlords and bad tenants both exist. We need laws to protect both sides.
The lack of investment in property (people own) is staggering. Its not just renting, if you ever been on the house market I bet you have seen properties asking top dollar (pound) but need at least £30K worth of improvement. Unbelievable.
Well, it's not cheap to improve a property. The simple thing is, if the tenant don't like what they see, they don't have to rent it. Once they rent it, they have to look after it.
I wonder why housing benefit/Universal Credit makes rent payments to these landlords? You would think they would only pay if they were fit for purpose. Oh yes, it's almost as if they want the private sector to bear their responsibilities for them. UC should withold a proportion of the rent until repairs are made.
In this particular case- it's not extended family. It's a couple who are living off of benefits that decided to have FOUR children whilst living there.@@italianstallion9170
Landlords that rent unsafe properties should be forced for do repairs and renovations or give up part ownership to the tenant who will do the repairs themselves. There needs to be serious financial consequences for these landlords. There are so many great landlords by the way.
Islington Council left me with no hot water since 2017 in a derelict house, they repaired and updated the outside to make it look more appealing but the insides are all in horrific and health hazardous conditions
local authorities can't do anything because they rely on private landlords to meet their own statutory duties. They are both tenant and regulator. So of course they turn a blind eye. Absolute mess.
What gets me, is that this is the norm, and has been since long before Victorian times. While Legislators (HM Govt) refuse to enable Laws allowing Local Authorities to act quicker, and lots of MPs and Councillors are Landlords themselves, then we have a housing rental system that is not fit for purpose.
House that I’m living in for 6 years is just like this water leaks bathroom , toilet , roof many disrepairs. Water got into electric and fire service had to attend. They informed living standards/ council and not much had been done. They told landlord to fix the electric and leaks . He got his friends to give him electric certificates and just exchanged few little things. He just patched hole in ceiling from leak but nothing else. If I complain he will give me notice so we live in damp and many things not working properly. We get sick a lot with my son. It has effected every aspect of our lives. Living standards don’t care she said landlord can’t afford.
I'm sorry but refugees complaining about the competitive private rental market living off benefits!? "Please take care of us!?" Please start contributing first before demanding. It's not popular to say but wake up and smell the coffee.
Did you know that asylum seekers are legally not allowed to work? These people may even have been doctors or teachers in the countries they were forced to flee from to save their lives. The situation is more complicated than just 'get a job'.
These people can hardly speak English and rely on the British tax payer to pay for them. It is disgusting to complain and expect to live in the UK for free. Criminal landlords what about the criminal tenants leaching off working people who just expect to be paid for disgusting!
Give whatever penalty you want, the landlord can afford the fine and make a new tenant pay for it You really want to prosecute a landlord - the council should claim the property back, decorate it and let the tenant continue leaving no stone unturned for the landlord to take the house back No mercy, don't care how much money and hard work you put in that house, you don't want to respect the house/flat, you don't want to respect the tenants (tenants you need to respect the house/flat as much as you can) and bye Oh Prince William- where is your support when you said you will help with homelessness- said it once, not heard anything since
Well why have you chosen that property as a tenant in the first place? They can break the lease and leave if they want. You can obviously see a hole in the ceiling at your first viewing, I hardly believe it just pops up after you move in
@@alexdiaconu7979 the housing market is so competitive, I'm sure it's not easy to actually find a place for 1200 a month here in london. If there is, I'm sure anyone who is looking for a place and reading our comments would be happy for suggestions. I know I don't have any, do you?
@@nowsheenanwar291 there are plenty outside London, they can move you know? There are plenty of DIY tricks to solve mould issues. And besides that, you’d truly choose a ruin of a house just because you can’t find something else in London? I’m sure you’d use your imagination and come up with solutions, other than begging the landlord to fix the house.
@@alexdiaconu7979 yes, a tenant should do their utmost best to maintain the place they live in, I agree but you are now suggesting moving out of London, what about employment, education of children, the environment they are so used to, just go and up I can give you an example, I have been told by my craftsman that there is mould in my place and instead of telling the landlord this, I pay it at my own expense and fix the walls -i have no mould but wouldn't that give the right for the landlord to sue me because I destroyed his walls?
@@alexdiaconu7979 overall, I am not clear with all the legal credentials about this and I am fortunate enough that I am not in a situation like this as well. However, I do know there is no point in fining landlords, once the house is taken away from them and pockets are hit, that's when there will be change.
Thank god we are emigrating from the UK February can’t come fast enough! My grandparent’s and great grandparents who sacrificed so much in both world wars would be rolling in their graves if they were alive today!!!
As a landlord i cannot defend of course these awful properties, but don't expect the RRB to sort out this issue, a lot of councils are bringing in licensing schemes, all that happens there is good landlords register and pay the massive fee and the bad landlords don't bother !! As you have seen in the video the councils have no staff to enforce this brazen lack of adherence. The good landlords then just divide the fee to the council between 12 months and hey presto, the tenants rent has gone up. Its crazy, the councils know which properties need to be improved, there does not need to be a license scheme, there just needs to be more staff and enforcement from the councils !!! All the RRB will do is drive out the good landlords like myself and leave the dregs of the PRS, the ones who don't follow the rules and never will. They need large fines and the shutting down of their properties, if they are not improved in a certain amount of time then the council takes a charge over them and does the work themselves, thus owning part of that property, its really not that difficult. The good landlords have little concern for this as we are NOT the problem. The masses of recent govt intervention are ensuring that landlords are selling up at a massive rate, this is very bad for tenants, if this does not stop then there will be slums the likes of which we have not seen since the 1880's.
Here’s one for you…did you know that if you buy seven properties at once, all stamp duty payments are not required. Another little nugget from the conservative government.
This is all legal because the government voted to remove a bill that says a house must be habitable to live in now they don’t need to be habitable because most mps are landlords
Rouge landlords yes there are a lot of them but rouge also has to include council houses as well, all of this shows we can’t keep talking in these free loaders
I live in a shoddy rented property and fix minor issues myself before they escalate into major repairs, It's part of a Tenancy Agreement! As for Immigrants coming over and Getting any accomodation is Truly Amazing and they should think themselves Very Very Lucky indeed!!!
My sister and her hubby bought a pretty beat-up trailer on a beautiful rural property in western Oregon US years ago. When they got another place, they rented out the first place. They discussed rent with a very nice guy and came to an agreement on what he could afford. They weren't in it to get rich, and if there was maintenance, he could DIY it. Wish there were more people like that................
I have lived in Miami Beach, in South Beach,for many many years,so my last place is that I still live here For 13 years,my landlord raised me almost $ 1.000,00 ,I paid my rent every month $ 2.300,00 for one bedroom,small kitchen,my stovetop have holes,my wall 🧱 it's broke my AC it's liquid,my door and windows it's very bad,we be waiting for 1 year,we don't know what do we do ,please can u tell me what do 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲😡
In my country 🇺🇸 RENT CAN BE WITHELD until landlords make repairs . That includes eliminating mold. Utilities don't work, the building is damaged , black mold? Stop paying rent until the landlord fixes that. There's nothing the landlord can do other than make repairs .
When we complained they came after us, I was devastated living in Miami Beach My landlord was awful,he never took care of anything in my building ,im looking for a better place,I will move soon 😢😢
The only two ways to keep the mould away are to constantly air the space via opened windows or when the heater is on! These two methods are drying the moister. Why you can't do it. To provide constant air you need to keep the windows open which means you gonna freeze to... yeah. And on the other hand you cannot warm up the room as the electricity is very expensive. Most landlords want the heaters to be off or if you use them you gonna pay extra and that extra is a lot of money at the end of the month! 9:00 The mould will return! The building does not have good protection within the walls or good sealants around the windows! Painting will only delay the inevitable with a month or two!
It's all good and proper to say a landlord should do this or should do that, but I wonder how many landlords have the cash to immediately make those repairs on hand. This is why being a landlord shouldn't be a simple case of listing a property for rent. There should be more hurdles, such as a requirement to hold a trust for the property with a minimum amount of funds deposited prior to listing, and a percentage of all rental payments deposited into the trust each cycle. This would ensure a ready fund of monies available for short notice repairs.
Well there should be a Funds for liabilities scheme either bonds,savings or an insurance scheme to make sure they have the money to cover repairs. It's like a domino effect, if they don't fix one thing quickly, it effects something else and then everything starts to fail and then you find £20,000 worth of repairs is needed.
@@Nick_80599 Bond is for securing against the tenant, not incidental repairs. Insurance likewise isn't for incidental repairs and wear & tear. It's for accidents, thefts and acts of nature. It really does need to be held in a legislative trust as liquid currency prior to listing plus an ongoing percentage of rent. Just as an arbitrary example, say 2% of the market value of the property at the time of listing, plus 12.5% of rental income on a per property basis. Drawings on the trust would need to be accompanied by proof of need. There would be a need for statutory requirement that the initial capital not come from loans. There are multiple benefits to doing it this way • It ensures the landlord always has cash on hand to effect repairs in a timely manner. However prevents the landlord drawing on the trust for things it isn't intended for. • It raises the bar of entry such that only those whom already have the existing wealth to invest in a repairs trust can enter. This changes the calibre of landlord in the market and drastically reduced the instance of slumlords. People looking to get rich from the property market on borrowed money would all but cease. Existing wealth looking for long term investment would be the primary landlord. • Discourages business investment and limits any individuals portfolio as a separate trust is required per property. • Discourages frivolous or opportunistic evictions, as the amount required in trust is calculated as a percentage of market value at the time of listing. That means if the market value of the property increases and thus rental potential then to access that higher rent you either need to negotiate with the existing tenant or have additional savings to add to the trust, thus negating any immediate benefit to increased rents. Section 12 evictions should still be banned, but such a scheme would really push the market back into the direction where the rental market has been until quite recently.
It’s simple common sense isn’t it? If you can’t afford to be in business you shouldn’t be allowed to be. This is why it makes me laugh when all the small landlords start wetting their knickers and crying about how unfair it will be when corporate landlords with buy to rent units squeeze them out- it won’t be an ideal solution sure but it will at least take these “hand to mouth” landlords who can’t even afford repairs out of the game. Corporate landlords will at least have the funds to provide repairs whilst also providing no worry of ever coming round to issue a section 21 and reclaim the property. We might finally see the day when most tenants have a security of tenure provided they behave
@@robe1811 One only needs to look to the north american rental market where corporate ownership is much further advanced to see how big a mess that is. Corporations are worse than the get rich quick crowd. Both are seeking quick ROI. Corporations have greater means to track ROI, and will ruthlessly seek it. What works is what has always worked. Individual, couple or partnership landlords, with existing wealth looking for long term hands off investment, managed through estate agents.
Today many landlords are so violent,there needs to be a register on this People that stops them from owning a home to rent. I was violently assaulted by the ex landlord in his Property. I was paying him £800 -1000per month . he shouted at me when I cook and I stop using the kitchen while this fat Pig and his wife cooked almost every hour Bathroom 10 minutes allowed. This incident happen in London road,cheam . Sutton I am warning so many People even if your landlord is married you have to be careful in renting where ever you are Particularly women and People of colour.
to be fair, the landlord on the last one seems to at least have tried to deal with issue. It may have been quite complicated to fix that leak (not sure why). They certainly financially would be better off dealing with it asap.
Those bad landlords are evil tbh. Its always 10 minute reports on this housing crisis we are in from where I am standing its the tenants that really suffer whether it be high rents and scum properties, why has this gone on for so long different year same bs
The UK should collapse, these greedy persons renting flats and houses in terrible conditions and at extortionate prices should be stopped. Horrible people and system, the working class always suffer and the rich get richer and we’re screwed basically
All world is going to collapse, the problem is greedy companies ( shadow gouverment ) is pulling strings and sucking money where they can, they don't card about general public.
As a stop gap until repairs are made, these renters or land lords need to purchase good quality air filters and dehumidifiers. From experience it does make a difference. Some of the electricity needs to be covered by the landlord for running them most of the day/night.
I do not understand for the love of the mankind, why the heck the UK is accepting the refugees and adding pain to their crumbling economy? I understand that if these are some highly skilled immigrants that can push landlords to improve the housing. But these are sorry-people who are left to keep the system more in shambles. The improvements only come if the people at the receiving end do not or do not have a status that make them agree to compromise.
I think we all agree that these conditions are appalling. But I feel that they are extreme. Tenant satisfaction is higher in the private rental sector, 80%, than in social housing. So please lets not lose sight that a vast majority of private landlords provide quality accommodation. The rental reform bill will cause new problems for both landlords and tenants in its current form. Gove need to consult with landlords otherwise there will be a exodus of good landlords thus further exacerbating the housing shortage
I don’t think many are happy renting. Extortionate rates stop you saving for a mortgage and having your own home. Can be kicked out any time. Need permission for absolutely everything making it feel like a house not a home….and then there’s the terrible landlords who charge extortionate rent for dumps which causes depression.
Social housing tenants are mostly blood suckers that wouldn’t tick a box ‘satisfied’ because they know there is always more money to be extorted from the tax payer. Most private rental tenants will just put up with whatever because they know they are lucky to have somewhere in the current environment and if they cause to much fuss they will be replaced, so insecurity keeps them ‘satisfied’.
A TV documentary some years ago highlighted the case of a landlord prosecuted and ordered by the court to upgrade the property. The programme followed up but months afterwards the landlord still hadn't taken action and there didn't seem to be any legal follow up.
@@sakhter4044 Doesn't matter, I even went to court and won against my Landlord. Still a year later the work is not done - even with an improvement notice. Seems like landlords can just ignore indefinitely and nothing happens even if the ignore everyone.
Once my existing estate agent in Liverpool was relocating us in order to get more from the overseas students. The shared house I was put in, to my astonishment, was inhabited by Jamaican drug-dealers. Not the nicest of people, loaded, always on spliff + the occasional hooker and wanting you to pay for their heaters working 24/7. Anyway the washing machine was permanently broken. There used to be police raids as well 🎭
@@thedragonbrawler9311 I was before the Democratic party started protecting the deadbeat tenants. At any given time there are more problem tenants because stable tenants tend to stay put. I had many long term tenants so I did not have to deal with the garbage out there often. Screening is a very important part of the business.
Put the tenants in a hotel, make the landlord pay, until the property is for them to return. Also make the landlord refund the rent for the entire time they've been there. Landlords that whine 'we're not all like that', great, it won't affect you then, will it.
At 5:32 that's a slime mould...that needs a lot of water/dampness to crop up. I used to get that on the wooden fence outside my house after it had been raining for a week. Not a suitable condition for anyone to live in, condemn the building!
I used to live in a dam and moldy house, rented by a private landlord. While living there I had a terrible chesty cough. I suffered with it for about a year and I noticed after a month of moving out I didn't have it anymore. I was always on at the landlord about the dampness and he just painted over everything. I even complained about coughing constantly and he said I can't prove that it's coming from the house 🙃
The issue is that either the renter or the owner must in some way pay insurance and property taxes if they want a "permanent roof" with utilities like electricity, gas and water. Because of this, many people-at least in California, where I currently reside-are living in tents. No taxes, rent, mortgages, or insurance. The number of people who tell me they live in their car that I meet amazes me. Its crazy out here!
It’s getting wild by the day. The prices of homes are quite ridiculous and Mortgage prices has been skyrocketing on a roll(currently over 7%). Sometimes i wonder if to just invest my spare cash into the stock market and wait for a housing crash or just go ahead to buy a home anyways.
I get such worries too. I'm 50 and retiring early. Already worried of the future and where its headed, especially in terms of financies and how to get by. I'm also considering making my first investment in the stock market, but how can I do so given that the market has been in a mess for the majority of the year?
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If you are renting out properties as a form of income, then you're running a business and should be subject to business regulations.
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Landlords ARE subject to business regulations, unfortunately there are a large number of unethical people that don't declare what they are doing, they exploit people from within their own ethnic group and often make a large profit from the taxpayer as well.
13 years of savage cuts to local authorities budgets, as well as the courts system, means most councils don’t have enough money to inspect these landlords let alone prosecute them. and even if they try to take legal action the courts system is soo bogged down that it takes years for anything to happen. Time which continues to cost the councils money and in which the councils budgets are still continually shrinking. This is just like every other corner of Tory’s broken Britain. No money for the poor or the sick or the young. But plenty of money for the friends of ministers and donors to the tory party
@@WhichDoctor1 you could license landlords but remember that the costs will probably be passed on to renters.
And it might be difficult for councils to police this when some of their own properties are substandard.
So I should pay business tax of 25% and not 55% personal tax, right?
Unless you’re rich in modern Britain you’re fucked.
got it all in one
That's the plan. Why invest in facilities for the people when you can just cut down on people?
New Zealand speaking - our "housing situation" is officially, according to the UN, a humanitarian crisis - and that was before covid and things have got a lot worse since then... and that's under a labour government, who because they haven't fixed the problem are very likely to get voted out in 2 weeks and replaced by a bunch of tory cunts who are all fucking landlords. The prospective new PM owns 7 houses.
It's global. And we can't go on like this
Well said
Yep, in London you have to pay over 800 pounds at least to have the priviledge to have a decent room with no mould.
How is it legal that landlords are able to rent out buildings in such appalling conditions?
2 words = Margaret Thatcher
@@mcfcguvnorshow did you come to that conclusion brainiac?
@@mcfcguvnorsincompetent government
@@chester6343 @mcfcguvnors WOW mcfcguvnors truly is Genius Level intelligence...wow , wish I had that level of political intuition...why is @mcfcguvnors not the ruler of the free world or even planet earth...Wow..just so...so insightful. By the way people...the sky is blue...aren't I amazing?, I can tell that!
Is it better than a tent
This negligence is brazenly and obviously criminal! It's reprehensible that the so called authorities do damn near nothing! Unbelievable! 😲
Government should stop BUY TO LET landlord from INCREASING THE RENT.
Its not the TENANT who is responsible for their mortgage.
JUST because the BANK increased the Interest why does the TENANT Have to pay ?
Its very unfortunate that some of the COUNCIL officers are working with the LANDLORDS AND ESTATE AGENTS in order to push the tenants beyond their limits.
the worst thing is that THEY WORK TOGETHER TO give social housing to whom they wish not to the actual needy. which in turn doesn't help the housing rather it makes it worse.
I accept this is bad but I don't think any landlord would be ready to hand over their property in this condition.
@@growsethjones7249not necessarily, it depends how many boxes you tick. If you are single and able bodied with no protected racial characteristic the council only has a duty to give you cursory help to find somewhere else (temporary homeless hostels etc). This “help” is time limited (8 weeks iirc) and even that “help” can be withdrawn unless you do your share of the work. It’s pretty much a form filling exercise rather than something that costs serious time and money for the council and the threat of homelessness at this point for the person involved is very real.
And yet , if Council Warden sees someone dropping a chocolate wrapper on a pavement ..........,.
And then when someone loses their life out trot the usual statements such as ....... 'Lessens will be learned', ''Root and branch changes'' ''We would like to offer an apology''
As a landlord i expect my tenants to live in the same conditions i do, take care of your tenants and you will find you have little to no issues, and dont deny people a home just because they are on benefits, ive found people who recive UC are more likley to pay on time in full rather than some of my working tenants
thank you for saying that - I'm on benefits and we are treated like criminals and repeatedly denied housing by private landlords even though we are equally or even more likely to be responsible tenants.
It's so true, tenants need to be treated like people, and taking rent for a service they aren't providing is certainly criminal.
Our right, it's as if their is a full group of people who think they are posh that stereotype people on benefits and who live in more affordable estates.
Well its blatantly obvious that they havent met many because they'd see they are more loving, caring and respectful than their vein counterpart.
We rented out our house in Wiltshire for 10 years to a family and we really looked after them. When we asked them to move out as we needed to sell up, they punched holes in the walls, poured paint over the carpets and pulled an awning off a wall. It cost almost 3k to fix up and our property managers (Chappell & Mathews in Chippenham) wanted us to return all their deposit. Not a great experience but at least they did leave.
The problem is you can't guarantee who you give the rent to what type of people they are. And that makes it a big issue.
They might make more damages in the long term or they might take very good care. But thats very subjective.
Greed is the one single biggest and ugliest trait one can possess
Greed will be the end of man
blame eve for that
Any such properties should be forcibly seized by the state unless there is a huge and immediate improvement. That would soon make these landlords buck up.
How about renting elsewhere as a tenant? No one is forced
@@-...-zed-...- everywhere, especially out of London, you can rent a house up north with £500. It’s all about the mindset. It’s you choice if you want to be a victim in this situation or use your intelligence to come up with ideas to change your life
@@alexdiaconu7979actual bootlicker. Landlords should have to keep good conditions, full stop.
@@alexdiaconu7979 Spotted the dodgy landlord everyone. No wonder he's out here defending them tooth and nail.
@@jakereevesward4562 what? “Dodgy landlord”😂 no, it’s not me
We don't just need more people like Darren, but we need more people like Darren in meaningful positions of power
No, we need to get rid of people who do NOT belong in our country.
... is he single?!
These landlords ARE CRIMINALS! Laws need to be updated. They need to be held accountable. Disgusting that this is happening in Britian.
The government has now scrapped the proposal for all rental property to be brought up to energy performance grade C. Scumbag landlords can now carry on regardless.
It's because the landlords are seen as criminals that has brought this situation in the UK. If you rent a car, are you not liable for all damages? In UK, if you rent a house, the tenant is not liable for anything? I think this is crazy. Once you rent a house, the tenant should be responsible for everything, including repairs.
@@ganumaster6464 car = liability. house = asset. So false equivalency you are trying to draw there.
@@blazzz13 I'm not sure what you are talking about.
"Landlord blames bad weather" priceless.
I bet the landlords house which experienced the same bad weather is definitely in JUST as bad a state! Honest! Brass neck of it
lol
First offense 5,000 fine second offense 10,000
Finally 50,000 fine Banned for 10 years of owning any rentals ..just for starters Scumbags..👍
Brilliant the government need to take your free advice seeing as there own brain doesn't work. Reform needed too many greedy landlords.
just send them back to where they came from, see if they like it better
@@robertjones2053 good point ..
that's the scum tenants dealt with, what about the slum Landlords?
Yess this is such a Good idea but they will never do it because it doesn’t effect them or their families 😒
Between 2000 and 2023 the UK population has increased by around 15% - approximately 9 million more people.
That's roughly equivalent to 20 cities with the population of Leeds, or 15 cities the size of Bristol.
During those years, if you haven't seen those cities being built (complete not with just new houses & flats, but also with schools, hospitals, GP surgeries, dentists, emergencies services, shops, parks, roads, buses, trains, power & water supplies, drainage...etc) then, therin lies the root of just about every crisis people currently face in broken Britain:
The UK does not have, has never had, any kind of coherent long-term plan - for anything.
The government haven't even got a plan for next week. Honestly I think it's way more than 15% probably more like 25%
There needs to be a ban on owning more than one property in the U.K. excluding housing associations & councils. Private landlords have absolutely destroyed the housing market.
Communist, see how's that working out in Ireland, toughest laws against property owners.
I think nearly every politician in Britain, Tory labour or otherwise own at least 3 properties in their own names. So you have got more chance of pigs flying than a ban on additional home ownership
Council housing is unfair!
so what do regular low/min wage workers do?
They live in private shared housing with strangers because that’s all they can afford.
Council housing is the issue, it rewards lazy, stupid, incompetent, reckless, useless people housing they overwise wouldn’t have.
That limits housing supply and increases competition for housing.
It’s the only reason the private rental market grew. Otherwise a couple on min wage could of bought their own property.
And it stands they can’t get a mortgage as they earn too little and so have to rent and compete with gimmegrants and everyone else with their begging bowl.
And a ban on foreign owners.
Seriously? The one case where a child died and it was blamed on the landlord not fixing the mold it was a local council / housing association property. These are amongst the worst landlords.
The UK is not a rich country. Living conditions in general are very poor. The wealthy live in lovely properties and wealth is concentrated in a small percentage of people. The general resident of the UK isnt rich, taxed to death and living in pretty poor conditions.
What a bleak picture of the society. 20 % inflation for essentials. Some on zero hours contract too 😿
I can confirm you are very correct
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You are correct I'm going back to home country
750,000 more people every year. As long as this is the way government artificially increases growth, the housing crisis will simply get worse.
I wonder what the limit will be on population in the U.K.? It hardly seems fair to keep encouraging everyone to keep coming, whilst knowing full well we do not have the amenities/infrastructure to care for those already here.
600 Pounds is about $750. That first apartment is about what you would get in a small to medium size city in the U.S. for that amount of money. What's the problem? You get what you pay for. You want the landlord to rehab it and triple the rent. Don't be silly, folks.
This is SICKENING!
You're either in it for investment and receiving rental, if you can't afford to maintain, give it up all together and sale.
It's unacceptable!
This country is a joke.
"Poorer Landlords" sounds a bit oxymoronic
the average landlord is a regular worker who works full time. they spend half their working life living within their means and saving up cash, investing it untill they are able to own 2 homes, the one they live in and the one they rent out as part of a pension plan or gift to their children when the times right. They seem rich because unlike renters, they dont tend to live paycheck to paycheck thanks to great budgeting and financial planning.
I'm not a landlord btw, i just done a lot of research on the subject over the years for various reasons. i do own a home that i had to make alot of sacrifices for 3 years to save a 20% deposit on. All the motivation i needed was paying someone elses mortgage. We also bought in a cheaper location. its been 8 years now and the mortgage is 207 a month and we have very low streess and dont have to work like mad men.
you live in the UK by the looks of it, no one here is truly ''poor'' go to a real 3rd world country and pretend you have it hard compared to an average landlord.
Those "great budgeting decisions" are actually lucky. Luck that they don't have a disability that stops them from working. luck that they were born into a time and family that allowed them the education they needed to get a job that affords them a second home. Luck that their health has maintained enough to keep up the way they are living.
The idea that noone is truly poor in the UK is ignorant. People are visiting food banks to feed themselves and can't afford electricity or gas to heat their homes. If you're going to do "research" then look into the entire story. Landlords are bleeding people dry
I wish I could say this is a new problem but sadly it isnt . I was in hospital having just given birth over 30 years ago when our landlord moved us to a new bedsit within the same house , i got home to find we had a woodlouse infestation in both the kitchen and bathroom area along with mould . On top off this our electricity meter was also connected to the caravan they rented out behind us meaning that we were paying for their electricity even though the tenents of the caravan were paying the landlord for the supply . What made this even worse is that the landlady worked for social services , the very people who are supposed to help families in need !
We need the return of council flat housing. We were able to house people in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s and 90s. Why can't we do it in 2023?
Because they knocked them all down, even though they were built very well.
@@nodoubtaboutit Whole areas in Liverpool were demolished just to build apartments that look all the same 😢
They need to restart building them cos we are all barely surviving right now, and I presume that includes the middle classes
They sold them all off under the Right to Buy scheme. It was a terrible idea.
@@psi-man I used to live in one of those houses right next to Smithdown Rd. Eventually the whole street got knocked down with one of the EU funds. They were claiming it was cheaper than repairing them. Now whole areas lost all the character 😶
Those are the sort of landlords who will issue a section 21 if the tenants dared to complain.
Unless you’re rich in modern Britain you’re fucked !!!😢😢😢😢
Fax
I'm confused. If she cannot live there, because of the conditions. Would it not be better to just return to the country of her birth, instead of staying in a place that is making her sick. Her and husband were not sick when they came there.
Well they said they are immigrants. So they are hoping for a better life here. I am sure if they would have a better one back home they would go 100%
at least in the UK they have a house with a floor....they don't sleep on dirt..
Overcrowding and poor ventilation are also a factor with this
But that is up to the tenant to choose the right size of the place. Or is it the landlord's responsibility as well?
Housing shouldn't be a business but if it is then put in rent controls.
People will not rent their places at cost. Too much labor and time are put into rentals when done properly. They must be profitable for the landlord. However, I do agree there should be some rent controls in place.
£1200 in rent whilst on benefits? Move them to a cheaper rent area.
Reality is the uk is no longer a world power. People abroad think this is a wonderful place and everyone has a butler. But reality is hard
Hiya be Ho !! Only 1 butler ?! Who do you take me for? I am the Lord of the Manor and I have never felt more insulted 🃏
Literally nobody thinks that 🤣🤣😅 You think too highly of yourself.
but the poor and unskilled keep coming and they have to demand the precious resources the country doesn't have, hence a housing crisis.
@@killerStranngle the housing crisis has zero to do with people coming. The only reason people come is because our population decline is severe. There are empty properties everywhere. I work weekends S a delivery driver in London and I often go to 30 floor apartment blocks with less than ten occupied apartments as all the rest are bought by the wealthy as investment properties. Kensington is empty. What we need is construction and quality.
There should be a National Register for both Landlords and Tenants,.... So Bad Landlords and Tenants can be avoided.
You can see a hole in the ceiling at your first viewing as tenant. It’s now that difficult to spot “bad landlords”
@@alexdiaconu7979time determines a bad tenant and landlord. Not one hole (out of context on size or everything else). Do we use the same logic for a tenant applicant that wears joggers to the viewing?
I am a good landlord with 100% happy tenants, I have never evicted. One tenant has just vacated. a few months ago she had a difficult time, I was supportive and understanding helping her to get back on her feet. How did she repay that gesture? By leaving the property and garden full of rubbish, filthy dirty, infested with fleas etc. Will cost between £4000 and £5000 to get back to a standard for letting. Lets have a tenant register which would identify rogue tenants. Lets also have a few Ch4 reports on rogue tenants because there are plenty of those about. Stop painting all landlords with the same brush
@@Stellagalloway444 you cannot know everything in advance about a tenant, some become rogue along the way
@@Stellagalloway444 I agree to that somewhat. But if you screen your tenants more particularly you get damned regardless. You're damned if you do, damned if you dont
It's absolutely horrendous trying to rent in the UK. I'm in Glasgow and I had to pay 6 months in full plus deposit. I had been looking for a flat for 6 months and couldn't even get a viewing as the viewing is fully booked in 10 mins. This is the problem I am having with a full time professional job, I can't imagine what other problems other people are having.
Oh my God !! That's really weird. In Glasgow. It must be full now. So there was no reason to believe you were a liability? Been there 15 years ago, not much luck with employment (unlike my next stop in Manchester) but it was not too difficult to find a property: from a horrible bedsit in a nice area to a flat in a rough one 🙀
dis you vote snp?
@@jonathanjonathan7386did you vote tory?
@@Accountforstuff no but by letting in 1,000,000 immigrants in the space of a year they too, along with the snp, have caused massive damage to the private rental sector
@jonathanjonathan7386 1m migrants in the space of a year are living in hotels, detention centers and with relatives already resident in the UK, not rental properties. The current situation is caused by unregulated air B&bs on top of lack of house building. In my area the estate agents have recently posted pleas for people with second homes to get in touch about renting them as they have huge waiting lists of people and no properties available. Meanwhile air b&b has dozens of properties available for £100+ a night. If the average monthly rent even goes to £1000 that's just a month of weekends of Air B&B stays before they make a profit for any stays through the week. No point renting flats out monthly any more.
The mail in the coffin was flogging off council houses for peanuts. Those ex-council houses are often bought up by private landlords to rent to people that would previously have been waiting for a council house.
The nail in the coffin was increasing the population by 20+ milllion since 1997.
anglela rayner?
@@mrsthatcher9815I presume you mentioned Angela Rayner because you assumed I was a Labour Voter…I’m not. Hands down though, this is absolutely the worst government in recent history. It’s hard to see how Labour would do any worse. Even though I don’t vote for them.
@@countesscable im going to spoil my ballot paper....
every little bit increases costs...for the tenant..Haha
I remember renting a multi-occupancy house in Watford, U.K…the refrigerator was replaced, and unknown to me at the time (before plugs were mandatory on appliances and it was expected that we wire up plugs, and even taught in school how to wire them up correctly), I went to the fridge after work to grab some milk, and I was hit with a massive electric shock. The landlord had removed the fuse in the plug, and assumed the brown wire was earth (the same colour as earth), but that’s the live wire in the uk (blue is neutral and green/yellow is earth). He had wound some copper wire on the fuse to stop it from blowing. If I had washed my hands in the kitchen with wet hands, I would have been killed. The landlord also kept the heating controls for the house in the locked cellar, and we only had two hours of hot water and heating even in the middle of winter, with 5 occupants. He also made one of the (female) tenants do all his laundry for him, ironing and pressing shirts, for no reward. She was a refugee from Sri Lanka and clearly exploited.
Tenants in the U.K. have no chance of ensuring liveable conditions, and it’s a disgrace and another form of rampant exploitation.
the much much more accurate question is: how bad tenants avoid punishment...
If you don't find a means of multiplying your money, you will wake up one day and realize that the money you thought you had, had been exhausted. Investment is a ladder to climb the financial wall.
Am looking for something to venture into on a short term basis, I really need to create an alternate source of income, what do you think I should be buying?
@@cassiejacobs4197Cryptocurrency investment, but you will need a professional guide on that.
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When I was an university student I met some really bad landlords who owned over 10flats and refused to do anything for the property. Conditions were bad when moved in. My mate got mushrooms in her flat… mine was better but with broken bed, took 6 months waiting until a guy came to replace a part and a hole on the wall. Landlord even tried to charged me for the hole when I moved out, luckily I took pictures of the whole flat on the first day I moved in with email to proof that I told the agent immediately. However, my parents let our family home to a gp doctor when they went to work aboard, when they returned, tenant refused to move out, took us 7 months to kick them out and the house condition was bad with broke handles, broken window, kid’s drawings everywhere on the wall etc. Bad landlords and bad tenants both exist. We need laws to protect both sides.
The lack of investment in property (people own) is staggering. Its not just renting, if you ever been on the house market I bet you have seen properties asking top dollar (pound) but need at least £30K worth of improvement. Unbelievable.
Well, it's not cheap to improve a property. The simple thing is, if the tenant don't like what they see, they don't have to rent it. Once they rent it, they have to look after it.
@@ganumaster6464 You are a landlord.
@@AchtungEnglander I'm just not a left wing socialist.
And they want it all nice and clean and well repaired and beautifully painted when you move out.
I wonder why housing benefit/Universal Credit makes rent payments to these landlords? You would think they would only pay if they were fit for purpose. Oh yes, it's almost as if they want the private sector to bear their responsibilities for them. UC should withold a proportion of the rent until repairs are made.
A family of six living in a one bedroom flat😢
Why move in then? Work harder, afford more. If you can’t support them, don’t spawn. Simple.
yes but a LL wouldn't have houses 6 in his flat 1 or 2 then they bring n their family extended family. stop blaming LLs all the time.
The B man breeding like crazy, perhaps with a W woman too, saying he commits suicide if he doesn't get more benefits, a larger house 😂😂😂
In this particular case- it's not extended family. It's a couple who are living off of benefits that decided to have FOUR children whilst living there.@@italianstallion9170
The landlord appealed on what basis?
He appealed cos Government and Councils don’t give a toss about real people!
Landlords that rent unsafe properties should be forced for do repairs and renovations or give up part ownership to the tenant who will do the repairs themselves. There needs to be serious financial consequences for these landlords. There are so many great landlords by the way.
Islington Council left me with no hot water since 2017 in a derelict house, they repaired and updated the outside to make it look more appealing but the insides are all in horrific and health hazardous conditions
Use a kettle. I don't have hot water and still have my showers hot. But maybe you can afford the central heating scam too. Hooray !! 🤯
buy the house you want to live in then..
local authorities can't do anything because they rely on private landlords to meet their own statutory duties. They are both tenant and regulator. So of course they turn a blind eye. Absolute mess.
sorry, why do you put 4 kids into this world and you can't afford even a 2 bedroom flat?
What gets me, is that this is the norm, and has been since long before Victorian times. While Legislators (HM Govt) refuse to enable Laws allowing Local Authorities to act quicker, and lots of MPs and Councillors are Landlords themselves, then we have a housing rental system that is not fit for purpose.
They don't have to live there.
Problem solved.
Next?
When almost all of the conservative MPs are landlords what do you expect but differential treatment to landlords at the expense of everyone else.
House that I’m living in for 6 years is just like this water leaks bathroom , toilet , roof many disrepairs. Water got into electric and fire service had to attend. They informed living standards/ council and not much had been done. They told landlord to fix the electric and leaks . He got his friends to give him electric certificates and just exchanged few little things. He just patched hole in ceiling from leak but nothing else. If I complain he will give me notice so we live in damp and many things not working properly. We get sick a lot with my son. It has effected every aspect of our lives. Living standards don’t care she said landlord can’t afford.
We call them slum landlords - they need to be held accountable !
A shortage of housing stock and more refugees arriving. I can't see the situation improving anytime soon.
Why should we stop calling them refugees?
I'm sorry but refugees complaining about the competitive private rental market living off benefits!? "Please take care of us!?" Please start contributing first before demanding. It's not popular to say but wake up and smell the coffee.
Did you know that asylum seekers are legally not allowed to work? These people may even have been doctors or teachers in the countries they were forced to flee from to save their lives. The situation is more complicated than just 'get a job'.
These people can hardly speak English and rely on the British tax payer to pay for them. It is disgusting to complain and expect to live in the UK for free. Criminal landlords what about the criminal tenants leaching off working people who just expect to be paid for disgusting!
Give whatever penalty you want, the landlord can afford the fine and make a new tenant pay for it
You really want to prosecute a landlord - the council should claim the property back, decorate it and let the tenant continue leaving no stone unturned for the landlord to take the house back
No mercy, don't care how much money and hard work you put in that house, you don't want to respect the house/flat, you don't want to respect the tenants (tenants you need to respect the house/flat as much as you can) and bye
Oh Prince William- where is your support when you said you will help with homelessness- said it once, not heard anything since
Well why have you chosen that property as a tenant in the first place? They can break the lease and leave if they want. You can obviously see a hole in the ceiling at your first viewing, I hardly believe it just pops up after you move in
@@alexdiaconu7979 the housing market is so competitive, I'm sure it's not easy to actually find a place for 1200 a month here in london. If there is, I'm sure anyone who is looking for a place and reading our comments would be happy for suggestions. I know I don't have any, do you?
@@nowsheenanwar291 there are plenty outside London, they can move you know? There are plenty of DIY tricks to solve mould issues. And besides that, you’d truly choose a ruin of a house just because you can’t find something else in London? I’m sure you’d use your imagination and come up with solutions, other than begging the landlord to fix the house.
@@alexdiaconu7979 yes, a tenant should do their utmost best to maintain the place they live in, I agree but you are now suggesting moving out of London, what about employment, education of children, the environment they are so used to, just go and up
I can give you an example, I have been told by my craftsman that there is mould in my place and instead of telling the landlord this, I pay it at my own expense and fix the walls -i have no mould but wouldn't that give the right for the landlord to sue me because I destroyed his walls?
@@alexdiaconu7979 overall, I am not clear with all the legal credentials about this and I am fortunate enough that I am not in a situation like this as well. However, I do know there is no point in fining landlords, once the house is taken away from them and pockets are hit, that's when there will be change.
you're on benefits, so likely aren't paying council tax, but instead are a burden on the tax payer, why should the council look out for you
Thank god we are emigrating from the UK February can’t come fast enough! My grandparent’s and great grandparents who sacrificed so much in both world wars would be rolling in their graves if they were alive today!!!
That's not surprising at all
Immigration Nation 🙀
N.ians will have more space
By the way could I inquire where are you going?
Best of luck
Where are you going to ?
Yeah 3,266 complaints, 49 penalties, 10 prosacutions...... and 3,266 tenants evicted.
A lot of these dilapidated rentals are owned by absentee foreigner landlords
Much worse than that here and even the paramedics have complained about how dangerous these conditions are for me
And nothings changed!
As a landlord i cannot defend of course these awful properties, but don't expect the RRB to sort out this issue, a lot of councils are bringing in licensing schemes, all that happens there is good landlords register and pay the massive fee and the bad landlords don't bother !! As you have seen in the video the councils have no staff to enforce this brazen lack of adherence. The good landlords then just divide the fee to the council between 12 months and hey presto, the tenants rent has gone up. Its crazy, the councils know which properties need to be improved, there does not need to be a license scheme, there just needs to be more staff and enforcement from the councils !!! All the RRB will do is drive out the good landlords like myself and leave the dregs of the PRS, the ones who don't follow the rules and never will. They need large fines and the shutting down of their properties, if they are not improved in a certain amount of time then the council takes a charge over them and does the work themselves, thus owning part of that property, its really not that difficult. The good landlords have little concern for this as we are NOT the problem. The masses of recent govt intervention are ensuring that landlords are selling up at a massive rate, this is very bad for tenants, if this does not stop then there will be slums the likes of which we have not seen since the 1880's.
Here’s one for you…did you know that if you buy seven properties at once, all stamp duty payments are not required. Another little nugget from the conservative government.
This is all legal because the government voted to remove a bill that says a house must be habitable to live in now they don’t need to be habitable because most mps are landlords
The landlords of these properties are often foreign themselves.
Rouge landlords yes there are a lot of them but rouge also has to include council houses as well, all of this shows we can’t keep talking in these free loaders
Oh it's so damn hard to get the houses up to code....blah blah blah....fix it within the month or you won't have a house to rent it's that simple
this is insane
Those houses should be seized by govt and turned into social housing
Landlords who rent out properties like this should be thrown in prison
And all benefit seekers should have their iPhones and cars taken away from them because they didn't earn it, right?
Nobody is forcing people to rent these properties.
I worked all my life I now live in a shed I went to the council and was told nothing for me then they put 100 refugees in flats they didn't have ?
devil landlords and useless builders, great combo
Jail slum lords
I live in a shoddy rented property and fix minor issues myself before they escalate into major repairs, It's part of a Tenancy Agreement! As for Immigrants coming over and Getting any accomodation is Truly Amazing and they should think themselves Very Very Lucky indeed!!!
My sister and her hubby bought a pretty beat-up trailer on a beautiful rural property in western Oregon US years ago. When they got another place, they rented out the first place. They discussed rent with a very nice guy and came to an agreement on what he could afford. They weren't in it to get rich, and if there was maintenance, he could DIY it. Wish there were more people like that................
Paying 600 euros in a House that needs 50k euros in repairs would force the landlord up massively raise the rent
Wait wait why is immigrants getting on the housing. It’s mad.
Our voice is our power, we will continue to speak up, until they treat us with Dignity, justice , Freedon and Respect
Clarion housing, worse, Harringay council worse. That's the reality in London 🙁
Haringey council is shocking!
So why not going somewhere else if it is so awful ?! 👻
@@spaliverpool71 i did, I moved to cheshire. But it took 3 years to leave because they are so bad!
@@joshuadooley5236 WoW. You've been a brave girl. And Cheshire is mostly posh, I guess 🎯
@spaliverpool71 Ive ried to make the best of a bad situation. It's lovely here and yes Posh, I'm in good company lol
I have lived in Miami Beach, in South Beach,for many many years,so my last place is that I still live here For 13 years,my landlord raised me almost $ 1.000,00 ,I paid my rent every month $ 2.300,00 for one bedroom,small kitchen,my stovetop have holes,my wall 🧱 it's broke my AC it's liquid,my door and windows it's very bad,we be waiting for 1 year,we don't know what do we do ,please can u tell me what do 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲😡
Maybe tenants should learn how to clean.
In my country 🇺🇸 RENT CAN BE WITHELD until landlords make repairs . That includes eliminating mold. Utilities don't work, the building is damaged , black mold? Stop paying rent until the landlord fixes that. There's nothing the landlord can do other than make repairs .
When we complained they came after us, I was devastated living in Miami Beach My landlord was awful,he never took care of anything in my building ,im looking for a better place,I will move soon 😢😢
Some areas yes. Others it has to be put in escrow
If you can't pay the rent because you are not working. Go back to your own country if it's too damp for you! Or get a job!
The only two ways to keep the mould away are to constantly air the space via opened windows or when the heater is on! These two methods are drying the moister. Why you can't do it. To provide constant air you need to keep the windows open which means you gonna freeze to... yeah. And on the other hand you cannot warm up the room as the electricity is very expensive. Most landlords want the heaters to be off or if you use them you gonna pay extra and that extra is a lot of money at the end of the month!
9:00 The mould will return! The building does not have good protection within the walls or good sealants around the windows! Painting will only delay the inevitable with a month or two!
It's all good and proper to say a landlord should do this or should do that, but I wonder how many landlords have the cash to immediately make those repairs on hand.
This is why being a landlord shouldn't be a simple case of listing a property for rent. There should be more hurdles, such as a requirement to hold a trust for the property with a minimum amount of funds deposited prior to listing, and a percentage of all rental payments deposited into the trust each cycle. This would ensure a ready fund of monies available for short notice repairs.
Well there should be a Funds for liabilities scheme either bonds,savings or an insurance scheme to make sure they have the money to cover repairs. It's like a domino effect, if they don't fix one thing quickly, it effects something else and then everything starts to fail and then you find £20,000 worth of repairs is needed.
@@Nick_80599 Bond is for securing against the tenant, not incidental repairs. Insurance likewise isn't for incidental repairs and wear & tear. It's for accidents, thefts and acts of nature.
It really does need to be held in a legislative trust as liquid currency prior to listing plus an ongoing percentage of rent. Just as an arbitrary example, say 2% of the market value of the property at the time of listing, plus 12.5% of rental income on a per property basis. Drawings on the trust would need to be accompanied by proof of need. There would be a need for statutory requirement that the initial capital not come from loans.
There are multiple benefits to doing it this way
• It ensures the landlord always has cash on hand to effect repairs in a timely manner. However prevents the landlord drawing on the trust for things it isn't intended for.
• It raises the bar of entry such that only those whom already have the existing wealth to invest in a repairs trust can enter. This changes the calibre of landlord in the market and drastically reduced the instance of slumlords. People looking to get rich from the property market on borrowed money would all but cease. Existing wealth looking for long term investment would be the primary landlord.
• Discourages business investment and limits any individuals portfolio as a separate trust is required per property.
• Discourages frivolous or opportunistic evictions, as the amount required in trust is calculated as a percentage of market value at the time of listing. That means if the market value of the property increases and thus rental potential then to access that higher rent you either need to negotiate with the existing tenant or have additional savings to add to the trust, thus negating any immediate benefit to increased rents.
Section 12 evictions should still be banned, but such a scheme would really push the market back into the direction where the rental market has been until quite recently.
It’s simple common sense isn’t it? If you can’t afford to be in business you shouldn’t be allowed to be.
This is why it makes me laugh when all the small landlords start wetting their knickers and crying about how unfair it will be when corporate landlords with buy to rent units squeeze them out- it won’t be an ideal solution sure but it will at least take these “hand to mouth” landlords who can’t even afford repairs out of the game. Corporate landlords will at least have the funds to provide repairs whilst also providing no worry of ever coming round to issue a section 21 and reclaim the property. We might finally see the day when most tenants have a security of tenure provided they behave
@@robe1811 One only needs to look to the north american rental market where corporate ownership is much further advanced to see how big a mess that is.
Corporations are worse than the get rich quick crowd. Both are seeking quick ROI. Corporations have greater means to track ROI, and will ruthlessly seek it.
What works is what has always worked. Individual, couple or partnership landlords, with existing wealth looking for long term hands off investment, managed through estate agents.
A number of insurers already offer landlord insurance. That's up to the landlord if they want to absorb the cost or take the risk with their property.
Today many landlords are so violent,there needs to be a register on this People that stops them from owning a home to rent.
I was violently assaulted by the ex landlord in his Property.
I was paying him £800 -1000per month .
he shouted at me when I cook and I stop using the kitchen while this fat Pig and his wife cooked almost every hour
Bathroom 10 minutes allowed.
This incident happen in London road,cheam . Sutton
I am warning so many People even if your landlord is married you have to be careful in renting where ever you are Particularly women and People of colour.
to be fair, the landlord on the last one seems to at least have tried to deal with issue. It may have been quite complicated to fix that leak (not sure why). They certainly financially would be better off dealing with it asap.
Those bad landlords are evil tbh. Its always 10 minute reports on this housing crisis we are in from where I am standing its the tenants that really suffer whether it be high rents and scum properties, why has this gone on for so long different year same bs
The UK should collapse, these greedy persons renting flats and houses in terrible conditions and at extortionate prices should be stopped. Horrible people and system, the working class always suffer and the rich get richer and we’re screwed basically
All world is going to collapse, the problem is greedy companies ( shadow gouverment ) is pulling strings and sucking money where they can, they don't card about general public.
I can tell you for sure that this type of disrepair would not be tolerated in most cities in the U.S.
As a stop gap until repairs are made, these renters or land lords need to purchase good quality air filters and dehumidifiers. From experience it does make a difference. Some of the electricity needs to be covered by the landlord for running them most of the day/night.
I do not understand for the love of the mankind, why the heck the UK is accepting the refugees and adding pain to their crumbling economy? I understand that if these are some highly skilled immigrants that can push landlords to improve the housing. But these are sorry-people who are left to keep the system more in shambles. The improvements only come if the people at the receiving end do not or do not have a status that make them agree to compromise.
I think we all agree that these conditions are appalling. But I feel that they are extreme. Tenant satisfaction is higher in the private rental sector, 80%, than in social housing. So please lets not lose sight that a vast majority of private landlords provide quality accommodation. The rental reform bill will cause new problems for both landlords and tenants in its current form. Gove need to consult with landlords otherwise there will be a exodus of good landlords thus further exacerbating the housing shortage
Good landlords will have no problems but if the landlord game no longer suits, they are welcome to sell.
I don’t think many are happy renting. Extortionate rates stop you saving for a mortgage and having your own home. Can be kicked out any time. Need permission for absolutely everything making it feel like a house not a home….and then there’s the terrible landlords who charge extortionate rent for dumps which causes depression.
Social housing tenants are mostly blood suckers that wouldn’t tick a box ‘satisfied’ because they know there is always more money to be extorted from the tax payer. Most private rental tenants will just put up with whatever because they know they are lucky to have somewhere in the current environment and if they cause to much fuss they will be replaced, so insecurity keeps them ‘satisfied’.
Why not name the landlord who refused to comment? These rogue ones won’t clean up their act until some of them become infamous
A TV documentary some years ago highlighted the case of a landlord prosecuted and ordered by the court to upgrade the property. The programme followed up but months afterwards the landlord still hadn't taken action and there didn't seem to be any legal follow up.
We need more regulations and bigger fines for landlords that don't listen.
@@sakhter4044 Doesn't matter, I even went to court and won against my Landlord. Still a year later the work is not done - even with an improvement notice. Seems like landlords can just ignore indefinitely and nothing happens even if the ignore everyone.
Once my existing estate agent in Liverpool was relocating us in order to get more from the overseas students. The shared house I was put in, to my astonishment, was inhabited by Jamaican drug-dealers. Not the nicest of people, loaded, always on spliff + the occasional hooker and wanting you to pay for their heaters working 24/7. Anyway the washing machine was permanently broken. There used to be police raids as well 🎭
Will they do a documentary on bad tenants?
@sakhter4044 And those tenants who damages property and don't pay rent on top of that?
Would you like to be a landlord?
Then move. percentage wise there are far more bad tenants than bad landlords.
You're a landlord aren't you...
@@thedragonbrawler9311 I was before the Democratic party started protecting the deadbeat tenants. At any given time there are more problem tenants because stable tenants tend to stay put. I had many long term tenants so I did not have to deal with the garbage out there often. Screening is a very important part of the business.
the tories have refused to protect private tenants because the tories are private landlords.
Put the tenants in a hotel, make the landlord pay, until the property is for them to return. Also make the landlord refund the rent for the entire time they've been there. Landlords that whine 'we're not all like that', great, it won't affect you then, will it.
Well said
At 5:32 that's a slime mould...that needs a lot of water/dampness to crop up. I used to get that on the wooden fence outside my house after it had been raining for a week. Not a suitable condition for anyone to live in, condemn the building!
The tories believe in Victoriain values and that the poor should live in Victorian housing and work under Victorian work standards
@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn I inherited all my money, never done a day's work in my life. Do I deserve what I have?
These rogue landlords need locking up.
Confiscate their assets, too.
I used to live in a dam and moldy house, rented by a private landlord. While living there I had a terrible chesty cough. I suffered with it for about a year and I noticed after a month of moving out I didn't have it anymore. I was always on at the landlord about the dampness and he just painted over everything. I even complained about coughing constantly and he said I can't prove that it's coming from the house 🙃
@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn ermm maybe Google it?