{"id":764,"date":"2011-05-09T08:31:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T08:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.legal4landlords.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2011-05-09T08:31:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T08:31:51","slug":"further-crackdowns-on-rogue-landlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.withcreative.co.uk\/lforl\/further-crackdowns-on-rogue-landlords\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Crackdowns on Rogue Landlords"},"content":{"rendered":"
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further crackdowns on rogue landlords<\/p><\/div>\n

Latest Landlord News by: Madalena Penny<\/p>\n

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Local authorities across the UK are stepping up campaigns to overhaul properties rented out by private landlords<\/em>.\u00a0 Last week, housing enforcement staff at Derby City Council announced they had been called in to inspect up to 700 homes in the borough in the last 12 months due to complaints about sub-standard housing from tenants.<\/p>\n

As a result of the inspections, 250 homes were slapped with an improvement order out of the 350 they inspected.\u00a0 As was the case in a majority of properties, landlords<\/strong> took the necessary steps and fixed the problem immediately.<\/p>\n

Landlords either through ignorance or design are advised that when carrying out periodical property checks on tenants, they should also carry out a questionnaire with tenants on any problems they have about the property and ascertain if any structural, damp, heating etc is affecting the tenant in question.\u00a0 If a landlord is in doubt about a tenant query relating to a housing problem, an assessment by a professional tradesman is the best route to go.\u00a0 Ensure that the tenant has signed the questionnaire along with an agent or landlord signature.<\/p>\n

With the onus on rogue landlords<\/span><\/em> and the need to strike them and their unethical practices from the sector, a balance needs to be struck between both tenants and their landlords.\u00a0 In Merseyside earlier this year, a consultant at Legal 4 Landlords<\/a> intercepted a case whereas the tenant had accrued 10 weeks rent arrears<\/a> by withholding housing benefit from the landlord.\u00a0 It transpired later on that the tenant\u2019s excuse was due to some broken kitchen tiles that the landlord had not addressed.\u00a0 The landlord was adamant that no such query had been relayed to him.<\/p>\n

At the other end of the spectrum, as was the case last week, some landlords have gotten away with the worst housing offences imaginable.\u00a0 Ordered to pay \u00a330,000 costs, 200 community service hours and a two-year suspended sentence, landlord Steve Boot of Nuneaton had failed to provide his tenant in Coventry with heating and hot-water for 2-years.\u00a0 To make matters worst, the tenant lived with damp, mould and collapsed ceilings, though it beggars belief why something wasn\u2019t said or done earlier.<\/p>\n

As more tenants enter into private rented accommodation and landlords increase their portfolios, so is the need for a more progressive and methodical strategy for measuring performance, as any other business.<\/p>\n

Private landlords are advised to check that EPC\u2019s<\/a>, gas safety<\/a>, electrical checks and general health, safety and environmental inspection and maintenance is routinely carried out; that building insurance<\/a> is up-to-date and that in the case of HMO\u2019s, fire alarms, smoke detectors and landlord provided furnishings are compliant with UK regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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