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One for you Trev
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Yeah, heard about this today Brydo, nothing of much relevance for me in there to be honest.
Don’t understand what a league table of landlords is going to do to help, not like tenants really have a choice of landlord, you just go where there is a suitable place in the right area, regardless.
Looks like this green paper was put together by people who have no experience or done any research on what the social sector market is really like.
i do accounts for a company that owns and lets a lot of properties and its all well and good the govt protecting tenants what about the good landlords whose tenants trash their properties and leave owing thousands in unpaid rent. currently by the time youve been through the eviction process any arrears has increased by 3 months on top of any arrears that triggered the eviction application. then theres the cost of putting right whatever the previous tenant did to the property. recently one property needed nearly 8k of work to make it livable again. even if you get a judgement against them its a waste of time as they disappear.
Just to add what mitch said above and how about 5 years ago I had a letter along with the rest of the neighbourhood from the local council asking if we had any objection to the building of 30 affordable houses over the back from us.
No objection, houses go up except, it’s more like 50 to 30 house but still no problem as everyone is fine with that.
A couple of years go by and you just wouldn’t believe those houses were only 5 years old with the mistreatment they’ve been given by tenants who think the World owes them a living, don’t worry about recycling bins, just chuck it in the street.
Unfortunately in among those tenants there are those that do care, I know I was once one of them, but government, local and national need to make sure these, don’t give a Monkeys folk get reprimanded for their actions.
I see where you guys are coming from, one of the shows we enjoy watching is ‘can’t pay, take it away’ and it really shows the difference in tenants, good and very bad.
We’re ones who treat the house as our home, even when we have repairmen here they comment how nice it is – we here stories of repairmen who have refused to do jobs on health issues!
We are mid terrace of a row of 4 and our immediate mid-terrace neighbour is the complete opposite to the rest of us – she refuses to put her bins out, instead stacking up piles of rubbish in the garden along with tv’, washing machines, table and chairs…. basically it’s a dumping ground. I had a trench dug under our dividing fence, had wire mesh folded 4 times and placed underneath then back-filled with stones…… all because rats were coming from her garden in to ours…. fortunately it’s worked and we don’t have that problem for now. She has broken windows that the housing refuse to fix as she hasn’t paid for other stuff they did, so they remain broken. And 2 kids screaming all day. We started helping her out when we first moved in, did tip runs, got the place looking nice, but she just lets it go again, so we gave up – social service visit her regularly – but nothing gets done.
Sorry yes, got carried away there… i agree with Chris, there should be a standard charter of somesort where accommodation should be maintained. If tenants can’t do this by themselves due to health / medical reasons, then support and assistance should be given in teaching them.. there is no excuse for not maintaining a basic level of hygiene. And if all else fails, then a deduction of their benefit to fund the maintenance of the accomodation.
This is one of the biggest things that really grinds my gears!
my council house is a concrete box built in 1748 I think lol
yet like you Trev when I have workmen from the council in etc they always comment how nice , clean , looked after it is internally – I don’t think it looks great as I’ve always have good standards, hygiene etc etc. But compared to some of the houses they have to enter it must look like a show home, a rather small and dingy 1 Bed show home at that
but moving on to the points raised above about A LOT of social housing tennants not looking after their houses, the communal grounds and gardens etc, well that actually hurts my soul a bit
you just need to look at the design of the modern social houses that are being built , how modern and light they are – but unfortunately when they build 30/50 here and there it’s Chantelle and her 3 kids who get allocated them, the “ex” lives there too, although he claims he doesn’t.. the place doesn’t get looked after, they are horrible neighbours to live next to for the genuine good folk who love and cherish their new house. 9 times out of 10 there are dogs that are not picked up after. Gardens end up looking like something from that idiot Mikey Carrol who blew his lottery winnings about 10 yrs ago
but because the state/housing association provide the house they think they don’t have to lift a finger, look after it, cos it’s not theirs! The council will fix it!
ive a friend who works in repairs for the council and they do the housing association houses aswell andnhe said it’s sickening , Sinks n toilets broke , sockets pulled throug roofs, doors and cupboards ripped off their hinges , walls booted in
absolutely sickening, I would love one of these new builds and would invest my time and money into keeping it as it should be , but you’d end up with the Beverley hillbillies next door. And their parties, dugs, litter and noise all day long
a lot of us in here are probably all council/social housing and you’ll see all these issues for yourself
like the poster above mentioned 5 years down the line these beautiful new homes look like slums and the scumbags move on
there should be a screening process which looks at your age, your previous homes and behaviour then the place you are going to ie is it full of elderly and disabled tennants in place not just awarded points cos you’re a single parent with 17 kids who turn it into a war zone on the first warm day
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