![]() The private rental sector will continue to burn Not just the scheming double-crossing politicians who live for a sound bite and cannot plan more than a few months ahead because if they could, they would have created the social housing and council houses that are so desperately needed in this country. ![]() Renting a house out to families does not make us bad people, we are simply meeting a demand that countless governments have failed to meet over the years.Īnd this is why we get the politicians we deserve. We also need to make clear that we aren’t all loaded to the gills with cash and many of us rely on our rental income, particularly if we have retired. ![]() We need to make clear as landlords that not having section 21 means not having confidence in getting our property back. Those are tenants who don’t pay rent, who trash our property and who cause problems for neighbours. We need to make clear as landlords that the reason why we need section 21 is to get rid of bad tenants. It then makes perfect sense for landlords to sell up and it’s unlikely they will sell to another landlord so, yet another house leaves the PRS. The unintended consequence of a rent freeze in Scotland is that landlords will simply become fed up because while we face growing costs, our income will not grow to meet them. Thankfully, Property118 had a story this week about the Labour Party in the Welsh Senedd refusing to introduce a rent freeze because – and I take my hat off to them for saying this – they have looked at what is happening in Scotland, and they fear the real prospect that landlords will simply pack up and leave the sector. Leaving aside the fact that there is no landlord organisation prepared to get their hands dirty and get involved in a real fight, we do need to organise ourselves and explain the law of unintended consequences. No landlord organisation is prepared to get their hands dirty Yes, the government has had a bad week or two for publicity, but to bend straight away to the criticism that followed the publication showed me your intentions for the private rental sector more than any speech or manifesto will. This brings me back to the kite flying exercise with the story in The Times.We are loaded, after all, we can afford to repair them. The same people don’t care if our properties get trashed. It’s fairly obvious now that all non-landlords don’t care if we face months or years of non-rent payment because we are obviously loaded. We need to stop referring to section 21 as no fault evictions but where there is no reason given.Not abolishing section 21, so the media tells us, will see millions of people being dumped onto the streets without a reason because all landlords are bad.The BBC does not even pretend to be impartial when reporting on the subject. This creating legislation that plays to the crowd is no way to run a government and while pressure groups have a role to play, the one-sided argument to end section 21 is beyond belief.The landlords were outnumbered because barely anyone stood up for us. Predictably, all of the relevant organisations and faces kicked up a stink. The story that appeared in The Times was an off the record briefing from ministers and it was clearly a kite flying exercise so the government could judge how the idea of not scrapping section 21 would go down.I’m ticked off about this for a number of reasons (add your own in the comments below…): Then she confirmed in Parliament that the abolition plan will now go ahead. Liz ‘Blundertruss’ has struck again.įirst, she raised my hopes that common sense will prevail on the proposed abolition of Section 21 when it appeared it would remain. It’s not looking good for landlords, is it? What with rising interest rates, mortgage availability and the government handing bad tenants an opportunity to live rent-free in our homes!
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