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[AndrewDod]

Maybe we should do this sort of fun and dance game every election. When Jeremy Corbyn is voted in as PM, we can rapidly address that by saying that the great British public really didn't know what the consequences of voting in a fascist, race obsessed/racist, Marxist government actually were. So when...

[AndrewDod]

Ditto that. They are also known to be the most crooked of freeholders, producing the most unrealistic quotes which cannot easily be challenged.



Missing this notice was the least of your problems. try missing actual payments and see what happens.



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[AndrewDod]

The lease WILL say something. It will also omit things.

For example does it mention anywhere in the lease that the lessor is entitled to hold a reserve fund, and if so does it mention the purpose of such a fund. How are service charges calculated - why do you have a surplus in the first...

[AndrewDod]

Sounds as if you need a LOT of training before doing such a job. You need to read and to understand the lease....

[AndrewDod]

Apart from legally mandated improvements you take the property as seen. You do not seem helpful if you are asking for improvements having agreed a contract.

An agent is an agent for th landlord. Your condition that the agent protect the deposit is not relevant and none if your business...

[AndrewDod]

No it is not. It is taken by the agent (as agent) for the landlord. There is no such thing as a private deal "between you and the agent" -- if there is one then both landlord and tenant should find a different intermediary....

[AndrewDod]

It is much better to have the landlord protect the deposit than the agent - so your fears have no real basis. Indeed any landlord who lets the agent protect the deposit is an idiot....

[AndrewDod]

Interested to know that 90% of people investing in the stockmarket have gone bankrupt. This fact should be widely disseminated....

[AndrewDod]

Yes that is exactly what will happen.

Prices are long overdue for a fall - and it will be unfortunate if the abolition of S21 was the trigger (instead of the gradual increase in interest rates which should have occurred over the past 5 years). On the income side, rental yields at the moment...

[AndrewDod]

Borrowing at 6% (or even 2% right now) to invest makes no sense at all....

[AndrewDod]

This thread is absurd. There are many many problems with leasehold properties. Contractual obligations which are clearly stated and which increase ground rent according to to some estimate of inflation is hardly one of them. The many other mechanisms via which freeholders are enabled and facilitated...

[AndrewDod]

Well you can get whatever answer you want by asking the wrong question. Presenting a small part of a package deal of causes and effects as if it were the whole thing will get a bizarre answer.

Do you want £100? A good idea -- Yes, or No.

I have faith that most people are...

[AndrewDod]

Doubling every 33 years is way way below even the lowest estimates of inflation. That sounds like a great deal. Doubling every 15 years or so would be at about general inflation (or even every 5 years given a few years of a Corbyn disaster)....

[AndrewDod]

We presume that any government seeking re-election right now would not want to harm tenants (or at least the majority of tenants who are decent folk) even further. Since abolition of S21 would have a massive negative impact on tenants we presume this will not be progressed....

[AndrewDod]

Actually not so much. The intent can actually be kindly or non-existent. See the cigarettes example and the immediately prior text

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/la...iscrimination/

"Intent" is rather difficult to determine which is why the outcomes are so troubling....

[AndrewDod]

Nowhere did I "encourage" anything. I merely commented on the (inevitable) effect of ill-considered (dumb) legislation.

I write as someone who has successfully sued an employer under the race relations act - but I am under no illusion whosoever that the legislation actually helps...

[AndrewDod]

Herein lies the problem with this sort of legislation.

In an employment context, firing a man because his wife is pregnant would not fall within the legislation. Nowhere does it say that the woman is the tenant - she is only ever referred to as the wife of the tenant.

If...

[AndrewDod]

How much do they have in the bank?

Choosing tenants wisely relies on wise assessment of all information (of which the above is key) - not "employment checks". Actual income is always less important (disposable income and savings depends on how much one smokes, drinks, eats out,...

[AndrewDod]

Please explain what bearing the Equality Act has on this.

The law dictates that people have to be treated harshly, then they have to be treated harshly in order to uphold the spirit of the law. Unthinking dumb laws are the problem - cannot see what possible relevance Equality has to do...

[AndrewDod]

You don't have a share of the roof. You have a share in the ownership of the entity that owns the roof. If I own shares in Tesco, that does not mean I own any rights to some beans on a shelf...