Consequences of scrapping section 21 etc

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Presumably your friend has carefully set aside the £5500 unpaid rent so you won't be on the hook for it if it is found to be legally owed. Perhaps they'll let you hold on to it until this is all sorted?

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Or if totally incompetent, then just pay a local handyman £50 to do it.

(Cue further information revealing the entire bathroom floor has collapsed justifying huge compensation and entitlement to hotels.)...

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Bashing private landlords is a very profitable multi million £ industry.

Lawyers, councils, politicians, charity CEO's have made fortunes out of it....

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Didn't pick up on there being no working shower or bath at all. If that is the case, then it's a different kettle of fish....

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As an extremely rough example, not taking into account loads of other factors;

Work out what the rooms/garden/attic/garage individually are worth as a proportion of the £1500 for the whole property.

Wildly and generously guessing the bathroom is worth 20% of the whole property....

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I think it's a lot more than that, even well before covid.

https://assets.publishing.service.go...0_web_0921.pdf

£130 (if I'm reading it right)?

Plus solicitors costs unless you're very confident you know what you're doing.
-I've done a few in the past but...

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I'm sure many would want everyone else has to pay for their housing.



Local authorities have consistently proved they couldn't run a heavily subsidised whelk stall at a profit....

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But not everyone needs social housing, it should only be for those who cannot support themselves....

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4 countries wouldn't fit my definition of "many"? It's certainly not most.



https://www.oecd.org/social/social-h...brief-2020.pdf



I think that is about the right level in developed countries for those who genuinely need it....

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Social housing accounts for less than 10% of the housing stock in most EU and OECD countries.

We have double that in the UK. Do we really have double the number of vulnerable people who can't support themselves?

I'd say we need less state dependency, not more.

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The Antis claim scrapping section 21 has "worked" in Scotland. It hasn't, it just takes a long time for the consequences to filter through;

The Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL) says their members are reporting drops of 80% or more in the number of properties available to...

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I am clearly not asking that.

I am questioning your advice of threatening the landlord to "sort it or agree a reduced rent".

It is poor advice, I've made the point, I'm not going off down any tangents, I'm out of this one....

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I specifically asked how they would react to such a threat....

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Jpucng62 has already given excellent advice of how to address the situation in post #5.

I am questioning the advice of threatening the landlord to "sort it or agree a reduced rent"....

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Really?



How do you think a reasonable landlord or letting agent would react to such a threat?...

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Why is it the landlord who is "not making something available"?

If the neighbours set up a glamping site on the tenant's front lawn, is the landlord expected to sort it out or agree a reduced rent?...

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I received draft licences before full licenses. It's another layer of pointless bureaucracy for councils to justify their £1000 fees....

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Really?

Thank goodness for Maggie Thatcher's section 21....

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Cannabis farm coming up to a 3 month crop harvest?

Good bit of leverage for a signed deed of surrender before the end of the month.

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A reduced value considering the age.

https://www.factotum.co.uk/2017/07/0...ure-life-span/

The average age for a sofa is 7-8 years.