Comments on: HMO regulation what the new rules mean for landlords

By: madan

madan — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:22:39 +0000

Some councils are sending out court summons to landlords wrongly alleging that they don’t have a HMO even though the law says they don’t require it. The fine of up to £20,000 for complying with the law and NOT having a HMO license, (if you plead guilty just to avoid going to court) is the real reason for making these false allegations against Landlords. The statistics don’t cover the numbers of landlords falsely accused of not having a HMO license or the millions of illegal money pouring into the Councils who can virtually make up the laws to ROB THE LANDLORDS and squeeze them dry.

By: Joanne Bassett

Joanne Bassett — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:27:20 +0000

I am a tenant and I can see why the government wants to set up a website so future potential tenants can check out the landlords, but surely this will end in lots of civil actions for deformation, as mentioned, and the good landlords could get bad tenants who post untrue statements and put potential tenants off those landlords. I don’t think this will work, although there are websites where you can check out the reliability of a builder so why not a landlord?

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:52:18 +0000

**** off labour

By: dave jobson

dave jobson — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:15:24 +0000

Under this government the number of people on the affordable housing list has doubled to nearly two million. Government’s answer – to hammer landlords who fill that gap by letting rooms in shared houses. So now it will be even harder for nurses etc. to find affordable accommodation. Well done Mr Brown. Good job you’ll soon be gone isn’t it.