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It's publication coincides rather nicely with the new government and is clearly aimed as a pressure piece as Labour announce their Renters Rights Bill.

Sounds like fake news to me!

Regarding regulation I just wanted to make the two general points: 1) That continually increasing regulation tends to place upwards pressure on rents. 2) If the legislation is such that it infringes upon landlords property rights and their ability to control or recover their own property, then...

I lived in HMO's both when I was a student and after I graduated, some were pretty poor and others not so bad. HMO's do get a bad rep - and not unjustified in many instances. There are however some decent ones out there, but they need to be very well managed, as housing a number of unrelated...

You are not making sense.

Many private landlords house problematic tenants - but in my experience they tend to be the bad landlords with the substandard properties - hence my earlier point that bad landlords tend to get the bad tenants and vice versa.

Sorry, I'm choosing not to answer as its not an argument I wish to get into.

I have anecdotal experience. My rental properties that I offer are in a good condition and well maintained and managed and I look after my tenants. Subsequently when I advertise and prospective tenants come and view the property, a two way process is in operation, the prospective tenants are...

Slum tenants need them. Good tenants do not deserve bad landlords, similarly Good landlords do not deserve bad tenants.

Ah, envy - the usual driver of the socialist is rearing its head! I am not sure the system is broken, although I do agree its likely to get worse the more politicians of every stripe meddle with it. On the whole the bad landlords tend to get the bad tenants and the good landlords tend to find...

Not really - I ensured my properties were safe and fit for purpose long before the regulations came along that now exist. I have a property next door to one of mine that runs as a HMO and its an absolute tip, rat riddled death trap with rubbish piled up outside and the whole house is a visual...

The point is that the more regulation there is, the more upwards pressure there is on rents. People like Jacob call for ever more and more regulation and then wonder why rents are going up.....

I have just received back a property that had the same tenant in it for the last 14 years. It's a property I built myself and took great pride in building - I built everything myself including the stairs which had several turns in them and was one of my first forays into proper woodworking...

Surely these people are providing a service by renovating houses - Do you think people should do homes up for free?

Not if you don't vote.

The hate comes from the far left whose real agenda is driven by spite and envy of those who 'have' - they dress it up as empathy for the poor, but this is clearly a lie as they don't care if the poor are helped as long as the wealthy are harmed. The fact their solutions always lie with the...

But you need Landlords in order to offer the rental properties to those who need or want to rent. If you drive out the small local landlords then you are left with either the state/council or large corporates who may or may not step in to fill the void that you seem intent on creating - and if...

Quite, as long as the rental property is maintained to a good standard it doesn't matter who owns the property, indeed much of the state or council managed social property is in a far worse condition than much of the privately owned and managed rental homes. Rents are fairly priced as long as...

But you will only deepen the problem further if you attack landlords with yet further regulation and tax hikes and price controls

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