>“I think part of the reason [landlords are villainised] is that we’re the only class of people that can be villainised because you can’t go after blacks, whites, gays anymore,”
Right…..and it has nothing to do with:
>the value of properties in the UK’s private rented sector has grown by 77.6%
And yet despite them amassing this extra wealth, we are still seeing HUGE rental price increases, even now during what is essentially a full blown recession and cost of living crisis.
I cannot speak for most areas, but where I live most landlords are exceedingly wealthy people, and I do believe that most of their upset is that their profits aren’t growing as fast as they were – Yet their profits ARE still growing.
So please excuse my lack of sympathy for their growing wealth not growing as fast as they would like, while many people are literally becoming homeless and children are going without food in desperate times.
>Ben Beadle, chair of the NRLA, laments that landlords aren’t “feeling very loved” at the moment.
Literally the only people I know who would say they love their landlord are related to them, and pay below-market rent.
Why else would anyone love a parasite?
Edit: Reddit has now permanently banned me without explanation. I can only assume it was because I criticised landlords. Disgusting.
It’s kind of hilarious that they all seemed to be annoyed by the notion of ‘good landlords’ when the average tenant would probably consider a landlord to be ‘good’ for just fulfilling the minimum expectation of a landlord in terms of providing and MAINTAINING a property suitable for humans to live in and not attempting to squeeze every penny they can out of the the situation in a dishonest and cynical manner.
I think property management companies also are a huge part of the overall problem in the sense that they often fail tenants and landlords and get carried away with their own sense of self importance and whatever they are able to leech off the status quo.
If it really is a vocation then behave accordingly, if it isn’t then don’t pretend otherwise.
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> Ben Beadle, chair of the NRLA, laments that landlords aren’t “feeling very loved” at the moment.
Who the hell would begin to love a literal societal vampire?
– no new large level social housing
– lesser dense living
– make housing unaffordable by letting Banks and Bankers make merry
And this is what happens.
And these morons will fight to keep a lid on the new housing starts
>“I think part of the reason [landlords are villainised] is that we’re the only class of people that can be villainised because you can’t go after blacks, whites, gays anymore,”
Hooooly fucking shit – that’s gotta be the most tone-deaf out of fucking touch comment I’ve heard in a fucking long time.
Nobody gets seconds until everyone has had their firsts, how is that difficult to understand.
The US has the NRA messing up the country and we have the NRLA!
It sounds like jealousy from the uneducated to me, anyone with a pension will profit from this.
So don’t claim your pension and tell your grandmother to get back to work.
And start seeing success as a good thing, stop thinking ‘just because I can’t have it, nobody can’
Before you ask, I work 80-100 hours a week, I doubt you work harder than me
I can’t think of another sector of the economy where the product is so bad, often with health consequences for its customers, where any effort to improve matters through regulation is so strongly opposed by the supplier.
Genuinely “good” landlords would not be opposed to regulation.
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>“I think part of the reason [landlords are villainised] is that we’re the only class of people that can be villainised because you can’t go after blacks, whites, gays anymore,”
Right…..and it has nothing to do with:
>the value of properties in the UK’s private rented sector has grown by 77.6%
And yet despite them amassing this extra wealth, we are still seeing HUGE rental price increases, even now during what is essentially a full blown recession and cost of living crisis.
I cannot speak for most areas, but where I live most landlords are exceedingly wealthy people, and I do believe that most of their upset is that their profits aren’t growing as fast as they were – Yet their profits ARE still growing.
So please excuse my lack of sympathy for their growing wealth not growing as fast as they would like, while many people are literally becoming homeless and children are going without food in desperate times.
>Ben Beadle, chair of the NRLA, laments that landlords aren’t “feeling very loved” at the moment.
Literally the only people I know who would say they love their landlord are related to them, and pay below-market rent.
Why else would anyone love a parasite?
Edit: Reddit has now permanently banned me without explanation. I can only assume it was because I criticised landlords. Disgusting.
It’s kind of hilarious that they all seemed to be annoyed by the notion of ‘good landlords’ when the average tenant would probably consider a landlord to be ‘good’ for just fulfilling the minimum expectation of a landlord in terms of providing and MAINTAINING a property suitable for humans to live in and not attempting to squeeze every penny they can out of the the situation in a dishonest and cynical manner.
I think property management companies also are a huge part of the overall problem in the sense that they often fail tenants and landlords and get carried away with their own sense of self importance and whatever they are able to leech off the status quo.
If it really is a vocation then behave accordingly, if it isn’t then don’t pretend otherwise.
* numerous edits for various reasons
> Ben Beadle, chair of the NRLA, laments that landlords aren’t “feeling very loved” at the moment.
Who the hell would begin to love a literal societal vampire?
– no new large level social housing
– lesser dense living
– make housing unaffordable by letting Banks and Bankers make merry
And this is what happens.
And these morons will fight to keep a lid on the new housing starts
>“I think part of the reason [landlords are villainised] is that we’re the only class of people that can be villainised because you can’t go after blacks, whites, gays anymore,”
Hooooly fucking shit – that’s gotta be the most tone-deaf out of fucking touch comment I’ve heard in a fucking long time.
Nobody gets seconds until everyone has had their firsts, how is that difficult to understand.
The US has the NRA messing up the country and we have the NRLA!
It sounds like jealousy from the uneducated to me, anyone with a pension will profit from this.
So don’t claim your pension and tell your grandmother to get back to work.
And start seeing success as a good thing, stop thinking ‘just because I can’t have it, nobody can’
Before you ask, I work 80-100 hours a week, I doubt you work harder than me
I can’t think of another sector of the economy where the product is so bad, often with health consequences for its customers, where any effort to improve matters through regulation is so strongly opposed by the supplier.
Genuinely “good” landlords would not be opposed to regulation.