Didn’t even need to click that to know the answer was just “I want more money and I don’t care about them.”
My landlord raised rent £100 the same month the cost of living went mental.
>Translation: keeping up with average rents has got nothing to do with the value of the property on the open market. But if you’re looking to sell to another landlord, and you’re not gouging as much as you could be, they’re going to think it’s a property unlikely to deliver the monthly income they think they’re owed.
An angle I hadn’t considered, but that sickens me to my core.
People without homes are just speculative assets to these people. They trade in futures of how much income they can extract from working people.
There is no ethical landlordism.
Not surprised at all.
You should go take a look at what utter contempt they have for renters over on r/landlord – I’ve seen names flung around like “rentoids” and “rent pigs” to name a few.
Because they can.
There is no reason in a functional society that landlords should even be a thing.
Labour really need to put rent controls in their next manifesto, its not going to alienate any of their target voters. Lets face it the majority of landlords are going to be conservatives (no i dont have proof but it feels like a fair assumption). Im sure this would galvanise the left and centre to come out and vote for them.
>In 2018, it emerged that buy-to-let landlords have stopped 2.2 million families from being able to own their own homes.
gone quite just now, but was it only 2 months ago they were talking right to buy on another 2.5 million affordable homes?
Land bastards
I think the answer is because they can.
There is no moral justification for private landlordism. Thieves are morally superior (and I say this as someone with a mortgage lol)
Bit of a rhetorical question, really. Of course slave-owners will be in favour of slavery.
Whilst I have no love for landlords, a lot of ire needs to be also directed at management companies. When me and my flatmate both lost our jobs during the pandemic (we worked in hospitality), the landlord took sympathy and personally said we could work something out (this was before the eviction moratorium), however when we went back to the management company to confirm this they backtracked, told us we still owed them and suggested getting on universal credit and taking out a credit card. For hands off landlords I expect a lot of them purposely avoid getting to know their tenants because they don’t want to deal with difficult human situations.
> The relationship I have with the tenant is transactional,” he replied.“They probably earn more than I do.”
Yeah, probably cos they have a *job*. Maybe landlords should try it sometime
The joys of a rentier parasite economy.
Some cunt on radio 2 today was complaining about how she cant afford her 3 buy to let mortgages, honestly the audacity of these people
What happens when they do so too much and they cannot find tenants who can pay? They will be screwed if they price themselves out of the market and the banks won’t show them any leniency just because they are a landlord.
They’re selfish bastards?
Rent should be capped at a set percentage of the value of the property (and no more) based on independent valuation of the property.
This will have 2 benefits:
1) rents can be better regulated
2) it’s in landlords interest to keep the property well maintained. If the value drops they can’t charge as much
Churchill said all you need to know about landlords
Like many others, this is a predictable article, and I agree by default with its entire content.
What I do find interesting however is that these landlords actually agreed to talk. That deserves respect, even if the rest of their opinions are at odds with 95% of us.
Tenants don’t give the landlord any breaks either.
Being a landlord is a business and you don’t just chop down the price of chips because it sucks that they are expensive now.
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Didn’t even need to click that to know the answer was just “I want more money and I don’t care about them.”
My landlord raised rent £100 the same month the cost of living went mental.
>Translation: keeping up with average rents has got nothing to do with the value of the property on the open market. But if you’re looking to sell to another landlord, and you’re not gouging as much as you could be, they’re going to think it’s a property unlikely to deliver the monthly income they think they’re owed.
An angle I hadn’t considered, but that sickens me to my core.
People without homes are just speculative assets to these people. They trade in futures of how much income they can extract from working people.
There is no ethical landlordism.
Not surprised at all.
You should go take a look at what utter contempt they have for renters over on r/landlord – I’ve seen names flung around like “rentoids” and “rent pigs” to name a few.
Because they can.
There is no reason in a functional society that landlords should even be a thing.
Labour really need to put rent controls in their next manifesto, its not going to alienate any of their target voters. Lets face it the majority of landlords are going to be conservatives (no i dont have proof but it feels like a fair assumption). Im sure this would galvanise the left and centre to come out and vote for them.
>In 2018, it emerged that buy-to-let landlords have stopped 2.2 million families from being able to own their own homes.
gone quite just now, but was it only 2 months ago they were talking right to buy on another 2.5 million affordable homes?
Land bastards
I think the answer is because they can.
There is no moral justification for private landlordism. Thieves are morally superior (and I say this as someone with a mortgage lol)
Bit of a rhetorical question, really. Of course slave-owners will be in favour of slavery.
Whilst I have no love for landlords, a lot of ire needs to be also directed at management companies. When me and my flatmate both lost our jobs during the pandemic (we worked in hospitality), the landlord took sympathy and personally said we could work something out (this was before the eviction moratorium), however when we went back to the management company to confirm this they backtracked, told us we still owed them and suggested getting on universal credit and taking out a credit card. For hands off landlords I expect a lot of them purposely avoid getting to know their tenants because they don’t want to deal with difficult human situations.
> The relationship I have with the tenant is transactional,” he replied.“They probably earn more than I do.”
Yeah, probably cos they have a *job*. Maybe landlords should try it sometime
The joys of a rentier parasite economy.
Some cunt on radio 2 today was complaining about how she cant afford her 3 buy to let mortgages, honestly the audacity of these people
What happens when they do so too much and they cannot find tenants who can pay? They will be screwed if they price themselves out of the market and the banks won’t show them any leniency just because they are a landlord.
They’re selfish bastards?
Rent should be capped at a set percentage of the value of the property (and no more) based on independent valuation of the property.
This will have 2 benefits:
1) rents can be better regulated
2) it’s in landlords interest to keep the property well maintained. If the value drops they can’t charge as much
Churchill said all you need to know about landlords
Like many others, this is a predictable article, and I agree by default with its entire content.
What I do find interesting however is that these landlords actually agreed to talk. That deserves respect, even if the rest of their opinions are at odds with 95% of us.
Tenants don’t give the landlord any breaks either.
Being a landlord is a business and you don’t just chop down the price of chips because it sucks that they are expensive now.