The Government is right now in the middle of another campaign of pure SPIN: The need to License Landlords.
With the advent of the hopeless deposit scheme, its administrative nightmares and the way it bends over backwards to help the tenant is filling us with such foreboding. One case had the tenant abscond after 10 months without paying the rent due. The deposit scheme made the landlord wait 4 months before the deposit was finally handed back to its rightful owner. And why? Because the authorities we waiting to contact the tenant to get their permission!! As they had done a runner with no forwarding address - a futile process.
Where do they get these people from who make such idiotic decisions?
Will this proposed licensing scheme be any better? No way.
The new scheme has identified "accidental landlords" (as a new source of tax revenue?) as a "problem" as they do not understand their obligation to the tenants.
Like any scheme from this vacuous Government it will reduce the supply of private rentals at a time when no amount of social housing providers can satisfy the demand for homes. And they [social landlord sector] still have serious problems with BAD tenants.
When will we have the suggestions for a tenent licensing scheme? I wonder.
Please make any comment as this area needs a balanced review.
