At the end of the day, private landlords can choose who they rent to, no law is going to stop that. This is just like the law regarding not renting to people on housing benefit. That didn’t fix the problem did it, landlords just have another reason why they chose someone else to rent to
A friend of mine got auto rejected by 80% of rental equities last year for having pets. An aging well behaved dog. I think they pay an extra 40-50 currently for the pet allowance. Absolute joke, I welcome this change.
What about renters who are allergic to pets? Is a deep-clean of a property likely to rectify it so that someone with allergies would not be affected? (genuinely curious)
Edit: ha, can’t work out if the downvotes mean ‘stupid question’ or whether they mean ‘fuck people with allergies’. As someone without allergies I am just curious if it would, and if compromise isn’t better.
Why are people telling Landlords about pets?
It’s none of their fucking business.
We had a neighbour with a giant dog barking constantly after they left the house. It made it impossible to be at home, and the neighbours made threats to us, when mentioning it.
After 6 months, we had enough and moved to a street with “no pets”, knowing we wouldnt experience a similar thing.
“No pets” means less people get pets, because they are not allowed. I see this as a good thing, as urban places, with no park in sight and traffic everywhere. Are not a suitable place for pets.
So many pets are neglected, and many dont know how to care for them or can afford it.
“No pets” means No to suffering. For both the pets and neighbour.
I read a household with 1 medium dog or two cats, consume more meat, than an avg family… and pet food is produced under the worst conditions for the livestock.
to many greedy landlords, to many people view a home as an investment opportunity and it never should be, its a right.
Bring back the rent cap for a start, your average working man cant afford to rent anywhere, just a house share, let alone buy, thats not even a question.
Pets? What about children aswell. When we was looking for a bigger place once my partner was pregnant the amount of 2 bedroom rentals that wouldn’t allow children was unbelievable.
Scumlords buying up 2 or more bedrooms to then denying their use. I don’t get how it legal to deny children a home like that.
As a pet owner myself I can’t imagine being denial a home because of my dog.
But as a home owner I can understand how destructive pets can get, and how inconvenient they could cause.
I don’t think this rule is much enforceable. The same way it’s not much enforceable if tenants gets pet after they started the rent.
Where I live the freehold/leasehold agreement states no pets. Will this change override that legal agreement?
This will just pass the costs of pets onto those who don’t have them, a better solution would be to allow deposits to exceed 5 weeks under certain circumstances. If you want pets then the maximum deposit is actually 7 weeks for example.
Personally, I find that all houses inhabited with pets bigger then hamsters smell.
And smell bad. Some less, some more, but all of them nonetheless.
I find the no-pets or “extra charge for pets” rule as reasonable as the “no-smokers” rule.
We had a guy with a dog who didn’t pay rent and his dog shit everywhere inside the house. Made me feel sick!
It’s people like these you want out. But can’t get out due to everything that’s in place. it cost you a fortune to sort out. The letting agent said he seemed nice. Has a dog and wants to know if you would accept.
It’s all good going into a property but sometimes It can go downhill fast.
So they think there will still be landlords when they next get in power? Pretty sure we’ll have eaten them all and burned their possessions for warmth by then.
We really need more homes – build high-rise, modernise planning rules for building height, etc., stop mass immigration and build new cities.
Landlordism shouldn’t exist. The “profession” shouldn’t be viable at all, except for short-term rentals like BnBs, etc.
It’s doing severe damage to the country. Not just in sapping wealth from young workers (making it hard to start families, etc.), but also that there is no incentive to improve the homes themselves – so we have no insulation, maybe not even double-glazing, no induction hobs, no heat pumps, etc. – i.e. completely dependent on a high consumption of gas.
Just make it easier for landlords to be able to recover damage money and let folks live in peace how they please, shieytt
No rent cap, no PR despite party support and vote mandate.
The moves on rail denationalization, removing pet clauses and making evictions harder are to be applauded but real progression, real help for people could come from a rent cap- which Starmer seems to oppose (via his sponsors?)
Also another issue that many homes are not suitable for some pets? There’s a family of 4 living in a 1 bedroom flat near me and they still got 4 dogs living with them with the landlord totally unaware .
Renting in my area is an impossible task right now.
Hundreds of ads looming for a place to stay, and only a few places actually up for rent with ridiculous prices, and stipulations no pets no guests etc.
one even said they’d rent to a young girl only and no boys allowed over that’s how absurd it is in the highlands right now.
If a landlord wants to evict a tenant at the minimum notice because they are selling up, there should be some kind of help for the tenant if they are poor and cant muster a new deposit for their forced move. Ideally a full refund of the deposit from the landlord if the property is in reasonable nick and they are prevented from dirty tricks to deduct from that.
When my brother moved out of his flat, he really cleaned it well so it matched the photos of when moved in, the landlord proceeded to use some professional checking service that spotted there was residual soap power in the washing machine tray so got the landlord to order a full reclean of the flat at my brother’s expense.
This is the problem with the Labour Party. It would be so easy to defeat the Conservatives and add some prosperity to this country: Reverse the tax cuts, reduce nursery fees for working couples, further regulate the energy sector. Do those 3 things and you’ll have all of the middle class voting for you.
However, they then have this nest extreme leftist policies the put a lot of these working class people right off.
This is why i never let white people rent in my properties. Can’t stand my peasants having pets
Bad idea, If I was letting a house for rent o absolutely wouldn’t want to have someone rent my place that has an untrained animal that poos and wees over the carpets. This is the case with some owners, not all owners.
But people in general are lazy, especially with their pets and training.
One of those rules that sounds good on paper but actually isn’t.
U choose them or us, that’s the only choice. Fuck off
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At the end of the day, private landlords can choose who they rent to, no law is going to stop that. This is just like the law regarding not renting to people on housing benefit. That didn’t fix the problem did it, landlords just have another reason why they chose someone else to rent to
A friend of mine got auto rejected by 80% of rental equities last year for having pets. An aging well behaved dog. I think they pay an extra 40-50 currently for the pet allowance. Absolute joke, I welcome this change.
What about renters who are allergic to pets? Is a deep-clean of a property likely to rectify it so that someone with allergies would not be affected? (genuinely curious)
Edit: ha, can’t work out if the downvotes mean ‘stupid question’ or whether they mean ‘fuck people with allergies’. As someone without allergies I am just curious if it would, and if compromise isn’t better.
Why are people telling Landlords about pets?
It’s none of their fucking business.
We had a neighbour with a giant dog barking constantly after they left the house. It made it impossible to be at home, and the neighbours made threats to us, when mentioning it.
After 6 months, we had enough and moved to a street with “no pets”, knowing we wouldnt experience a similar thing.
“No pets” means less people get pets, because they are not allowed. I see this as a good thing, as urban places, with no park in sight and traffic everywhere. Are not a suitable place for pets.
So many pets are neglected, and many dont know how to care for them or can afford it.
“No pets” means No to suffering. For both the pets and neighbour.
I read a household with 1 medium dog or two cats, consume more meat, than an avg family… and pet food is produced under the worst conditions for the livestock.
to many greedy landlords, to many people view a home as an investment opportunity and it never should be, its a right.
Bring back the rent cap for a start, your average working man cant afford to rent anywhere, just a house share, let alone buy, thats not even a question.
Pets? What about children aswell. When we was looking for a bigger place once my partner was pregnant the amount of 2 bedroom rentals that wouldn’t allow children was unbelievable.
Scumlords buying up 2 or more bedrooms to then denying their use. I don’t get how it legal to deny children a home like that.
As a pet owner myself I can’t imagine being denial a home because of my dog.
But as a home owner I can understand how destructive pets can get, and how inconvenient they could cause.
I don’t think this rule is much enforceable. The same way it’s not much enforceable if tenants gets pet after they started the rent.
Where I live the freehold/leasehold agreement states no pets. Will this change override that legal agreement?
This will just pass the costs of pets onto those who don’t have them, a better solution would be to allow deposits to exceed 5 weeks under certain circumstances. If you want pets then the maximum deposit is actually 7 weeks for example.
Personally, I find that all houses inhabited with pets bigger then hamsters smell.
And smell bad. Some less, some more, but all of them nonetheless.
I find the no-pets or “extra charge for pets” rule as reasonable as the “no-smokers” rule.
We had a guy with a dog who didn’t pay rent and his dog shit everywhere inside the house. Made me feel sick!
It’s people like these you want out. But can’t get out due to everything that’s in place. it cost you a fortune to sort out. The letting agent said he seemed nice. Has a dog and wants to know if you would accept.
It’s all good going into a property but sometimes It can go downhill fast.
So they think there will still be landlords when they next get in power? Pretty sure we’ll have eaten them all and burned their possessions for warmth by then.
We really need more homes – build high-rise, modernise planning rules for building height, etc., stop mass immigration and build new cities.
Landlordism shouldn’t exist. The “profession” shouldn’t be viable at all, except for short-term rentals like BnBs, etc.
It’s doing severe damage to the country. Not just in sapping wealth from young workers (making it hard to start families, etc.), but also that there is no incentive to improve the homes themselves – so we have no insulation, maybe not even double-glazing, no induction hobs, no heat pumps, etc. – i.e. completely dependent on a high consumption of gas.
Just make it easier for landlords to be able to recover damage money and let folks live in peace how they please, shieytt
No rent cap, no PR despite party support and vote mandate.
The moves on rail denationalization, removing pet clauses and making evictions harder are to be applauded but real progression, real help for people could come from a rent cap- which Starmer seems to oppose (via his sponsors?)
Also another issue that many homes are not suitable for some pets? There’s a family of 4 living in a 1 bedroom flat near me and they still got 4 dogs living with them with the landlord totally unaware .
Renting in my area is an impossible task right now.
Hundreds of ads looming for a place to stay, and only a few places actually up for rent with ridiculous prices, and stipulations no pets no guests etc.
one even said they’d rent to a young girl only and no boys allowed over that’s how absurd it is in the highlands right now.
If a landlord wants to evict a tenant at the minimum notice because they are selling up, there should be some kind of help for the tenant if they are poor and cant muster a new deposit for their forced move. Ideally a full refund of the deposit from the landlord if the property is in reasonable nick and they are prevented from dirty tricks to deduct from that.
When my brother moved out of his flat, he really cleaned it well so it matched the photos of when moved in, the landlord proceeded to use some professional checking service that spotted there was residual soap power in the washing machine tray so got the landlord to order a full reclean of the flat at my brother’s expense.
This is the problem with the Labour Party. It would be so easy to defeat the Conservatives and add some prosperity to this country: Reverse the tax cuts, reduce nursery fees for working couples, further regulate the energy sector. Do those 3 things and you’ll have all of the middle class voting for you.
However, they then have this nest extreme leftist policies the put a lot of these working class people right off.
This is why i never let white people rent in my properties. Can’t stand my peasants having pets
Bad idea, If I was letting a house for rent o absolutely wouldn’t want to have someone rent my place that has an untrained animal that poos and wees over the carpets. This is the case with some owners, not all owners.
But people in general are lazy, especially with their pets and training.
One of those rules that sounds good on paper but actually isn’t.
U choose them or us, that’s the only choice. Fuck off