Best way to deal with a non paying tenant in rented farmhouse

[glasshouse]

You missed the last paragraph off....

' so WTF would anyone want to be a landlord now ,
fekem let the council sort peoples accommodation and see how short they will be without private landlords '

So what will private landlords do with the houses?
Burn them?
(I hear the welsh are threatening that)

 

[slackjawedyokel]

So what will private landlords do with the houses?
Burn them?
(I hear the welsh are threatening that)

Lots round here being snapped up for holiday lets.

 

[7610 super q]

Shame. Nice little bit of income for retired folks renting property out, ideal way for first timers to get a roof over their heads. Oh well, fudge it then. Another industry bites the dust. I presume the market will soon get flooded with folks off loading properties, and house prices will crash. I assume this is the long term game plan ?
Let um get on with it then. The moronic leftie scroungers will have no idea how to maintain their own houses once they've bought them for nowt .

 

[David.]

We are making the assumption that all BTL property owners are as decent as the TFF collective.
This is not the case, and there are plenty of slum landlords preying on the vulnerable; the sector has to be regulated to take account of these types.
Whether local Council housing officers have the resources and spirit to enforce the rules remains, as ever, to be seen.

 

[serf]

So what will private landlords do with the houses?
Burn them?
(I hear the welsh are threatening that)

There inhabitable after some tenants been in them without burning them , some will be sold to FTB some AirBnB short term breaks ect Council may buy a few ,

 

[theboytheboy]

New EPC change and section 21 removal mean our rental will become an air BnB or I will move into it, stay one night a week and have lodgers that basically have the place to themselves.

I don't see why anyone would get into renting property going forwards.

 

[ollie989898]

I’d be doing that too, if the cottages weren’t in the middle of the farm.

Any idea what your buyers intentions are; live there, BTL etc?

Do holiday accommodation instead, make the same money but properties left unoccupied for much of the year. Less grief.

 

[unlacedgecko]

We are making the assumption that all BTL property owners are as decent as the TFF collective.
This is not the case, and there are plenty of slum landlords preying on the vulnerable; the sector has to be regulated to take account of these types.
Whether local Council housing officers have the resources and spirit to enforce the rules remains, as ever, to be seen.

Colchester borough council have the means and the will. Indeed, it can be quite lucrative, as landlords will pay council costs, and council charges for repairs will be approx 30% above those of private contractors, plus a hefty admin charge.

 

[serf]

Shame. Nice little bit of income for retired folks renting property out, ideal way for first timers to get a roof over their heads. Oh well, fudge it then. Another industry bites the dust. I presume the market will soon get flooded with folks off loading properties, and house prices will crash. I assume this is the long term game plan ?
Let um get on with it then. The moronic leftie scroungers will have no idea how to maintain their own houses once they've bought them for nowt .

Folk more interested in paying the rent on the latest landrover product than the rent on the roof over their heads .....

 

[Happy hillbily]

Do holiday accommodation instead, make the same money but properties left unoccupied for much of the year. Less grief.

Fine if your outside wales. Drakeford and co going to allow councils to charge up to 300% on council tax for second homes, but if you run it as a business and go business rates instead of council tax there upping the minimum occupancy from 70 to 182days occupancy in any 12 months, which if your outside the major costal touristy areas is going to be bloody difficuult.

 

[BrianV]

Fine if your outside wales. Drakeford and co going to allow councils to charge up to 300% on council tax for second homes, but if you run it as a business and go business rates instead of council tax there upping the minimum occupancy from 70 to 182days occupancy in any 12 months, which if your outside the major costal touristy areas is going to be bloody difficuult.

Down here they used to do short term winter lets (4 or 5 months) in furnished holiday cottages, is that not an option in Wales if you can't get enough summer bookings?

 

[Happy hillbily]

Down here they used to do short term winter lets (4 or 5 months) in furnished holiday cottages, is that not an option in Wales if you can't get enough summer bookings?

Not sure going to have to look in to it soon. The Mrs (it's her house which she bought in her early 20s) is rather stressed with work ATM, and I get a gob full every time I bring the subject up. But will need to sort it soon.

 

[toquark]

The changes in BTL will completely stuff tenants in the long term. I could understand it from a labour government which was simultaneously building public sector housing, but the fact that they are being proposed by a Tory government which isn’t is unbelievable really.

Where do they expect people to live? I rented for years before I bought a place, there is no way I could have bought without a long term tenancy agreement which allowed security to earn and save.

 

[GmB]

Approximately 20 months here.

I offered my tenants approximately 6 months worth of rent to go (both cold hard cash and dropping rent owed) but they declined, with hindsight probably because they would find it hard to rent elsewhere (given the sheaf of final demands for credit cards etc which continue to arrive).

Fee-wise, it wasn’t too bad I don’t think; around the 1K mark (solicitor handled it all including the ‘bribe’ for about £600, which I thought was good value).

Im not letting it out again; a cottage at low EPC-E would need EVERYTHING doing- probably costing 150K+. Instead I will take back possession of the other half of the semi too and will look to put the money towards a full rebuild to get a proper 21stC house rather than a small-roomed compromise.
Needless to say, I will not put the new house into long-term-let (nice view, quiet location near Alnwick 🏝).

Ifvthe govt of the day wants to get rid of S21, and wants landlords to insulate to the rafters then it’s a F*** Off from me. Most private landlords are BTL in it for the investment. If the sums change, the houses will not be available to rent at a rate that is in any way affordable.

By affordable, I mean that I’ve been letting my two 3-bed cottages for £450 and £500 pcm - I’ve erred on the low side as they are fairly difficult to heat and get damp if not ventilated due to having cold walls.

As far as I know, EPC C requirement has yet to be confirmed and there is also a limit at the moment of, If I remember correctly, £3500 the landlord has to spend on improvements.

 

[ollie989898]

Fine if your outside wales. Drakeford and co going to allow councils to charge up to 300% on council tax for second homes, but if you run it as a business and go business rates instead of council tax there upping the minimum occupancy from 70 to 182days occupancy in any 12 months, which if your outside the major costal touristy areas is going to be bloody difficuult.

Second homes being taxed I have no issue with in principle but it would need to be done carefully.

 

[Tarw Coch]

We are making the assumption that all BTL property owners are as decent as the TFF collective.
This is not the case, and there are plenty of slum landlords preying on the vulnerable; the sector has to be regulated to take account of these types.
Whether local Council housing officers have the resources and spirit to enforce the rules remains, as ever, to be seen.

There’s a huge variation from top to bottom in both landlords and tenants

 

[serf]

There’s a huge variation from top to bottom in both landlords and tenants

You'll get splinters sitting there

 

[Tarw Coch]

You'll get splinters sitting there

As the old saying goes, why let the facts get in the way of a good argument

 

[Wurzeetoo]

Do holiday accommodation instead, make the same money but properties left unoccupied for much of the year. Less grief.

I would have agreed with you once, but watching a program with the Mrs last week about a Cornish camping park having complaints about sheep making too much noise next to them has left me thinking I’m so far removed from a people person I’m best off not becoming a host any time soon

 

[Vader]

It has kicked the bottom rung away

Not really.
Just ppl not prepared to start on bottom rung.
2 bed terraced near us for 60 grand.