Tenants from Hell Beware

Councils are been given more powers to insure that licensing regulations on landlords are followed. The aim of this is to allow councils to impose stricter rules for landlords.

Landlords will no longer be able to accept tenants without checking their references first. If the tenants don’t have decent references they will not be given the keys for the property. The council will be introducing these schemes into areas that have older housing around the town.

Research has shown that 225 landlords have signed up to the pilot scheme. More than 100 future tenants were interviewed, which resulted in one in eight of those interviewed being rejected after failing to provide the correct or satisfactory references.

The voluntary licensing scheme is fully operational in some areas of the UK. The whole purpose of this scheme is to help private landlords raise the standards and reduce antisocial behaviour.

November 17^th 2008

• Private rented sector review proposes licences for landlords
• Missed rent payments worrying struggling landlords
• Buy to let landlords break to buy more.
• Property sales fall by half
• Turning to renting for affordibility
• Government demands cause Anger and Confusion among the banks.
• Let property landlord fined for not making gas safety checks
• Conference programme announced for forth coming NLA event
• The buy to let market in the UK is heading for a nasty fall
• Residential landlords must show their EPC to new tenants
• Buy-to-let dead dismissed by NLA