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Landlords from hell on Channel four
I have just seen Jon Snow’s Dispatches program on landlords from hell and I have to say that it makes very depressing watching. Tenants forced out of properties without due process because the landlord...
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Ben Reeve Lewis’ Friday Newsround #15
[Ben Reeve Lewis explains why he is against prosecution for the sake of it, and boasts a full set of teeth ... ] This week’s inspiration comes from two sources. Firstly, nobody in our field of...
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Ben Reeve Lewis Friday column
[Ben Reeve Lewis regular Friday feature has been temporarily re-named - no news today, just a manifesto for world domination ... (Note that Ben's views do not necessarily reflect those of the...
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Bad landlords – three successful prosecutions
We hear a lot about the lack of prosecutions by Councils against bad landlords, so this post looks at some cases where landlords WERE prosecuted. With serious consequences for them. The cases came to...
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Landlord demands rent up front and threatens eviction
This is a worrying blog clinic query from Levi, who is a tenant I have been renting my room from my landlord for 4 weeks now (this is a pay weekly room). I have completed all of my payments, however...
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Rooms, Rogues and Renters – what its really like in London
A post from The Landlord Law Blog: Everyone should watch this horrific BBC1 documentary (while it is still on iplayer) showing what it is really like in London today if you are on a modest income and...
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The rogue landlord campaign 6 years on
A post from The Landlord Law Blog: Almost 6 years ago to the day I wrote an article that was printed in the Guardian Society Section titled “The battle against rogue landlords is flawed”, pointing up...
View ArticleASBOs made against anti-social landlords
Local authorities and the police are starting to get tough against bad landlords. In Manchester an ASBO was made against landlord Mansha Shaheen in November 2005 preventing him from using or...
View ArticleMore trouble for ASBO landlord
I have received in the post a copy of an article about ASBO landlord Steven Dickens, mentioned in my earlier post, who it appears is in more trouble. Fresh charges are mentioned in the article, which...
View ArticleSouth Tynside Council gets tough on rogue landlord
When a South Tynside landlord tried to evict his tenants rather than get an HMO license he was asking for trouble. And he got it. When one of his tenants applied for re-housing the Council realised his...
View ArticleMore on rogue landlord Dickens
My anonymous correspondent has sent me a further cutting in the story of ASBO landlord Steven Dickens. You can see my previous post here. It seems that the charming Mr Dickens will be facing fraud...
View ArticleKiller landlord
Be careful who you lodge with! Lodging with tunisian immigrant Abder-rahmen Dhaou cost Kynan Eldridge his life. The landlord stabbed him after an altercation about some rent believed to be as little as...
View ArticleLuckless landlord meets Nearly Legal in court
There is interesting post on the Nearly Legal web-site recently on how a tenant (with the help of Nearly Legal) fought back against a nightmare landlord. None of my landlords of course would dream of...
View ArticleTwo more bad landlord stories
Landlords may moan about the new HMO licensing rules, but two stories which have come my way recently show that there are still bad landlords out there. Firstly, this report on Youillscar Mohammed a...
View ArticleASBO landlord Dickens again
My anonymous correspondent (postmark Colwyn Bay) has sent me a cutting from the Big Issue Magazine, which shows that ASBO landlord Dickens is facing yet more court appearances. He has now received a...
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Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose
I did my Q&A this morning, something I do every other Sunday morning, and which see I wrote about nearly a year ago on this blog. I always get far more questions than the 10 that get answered (I...
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Policing the Landlords
I have just listened to an interesting program on Radio 4 (via the listen again facility) which is on problems tenants at the lower end of the market experience. The presenter finally managed to speak...
View ArticleAgents letting property subject to a re-possession order
There is quite a lot of discussion about tenants evicted unfairly by landlords in retaliation for something that they have done, such as complain about repairs. However there is another type of unfair...
View ArticleAnother mortgagee / tenant eviction case
I have another mortgagee evicting innocent tenant case for you. Here I was consulted by the letting agent who had been contacted by the distressed tenant. She had just found out she was being evicted,...
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Landlords responsiblities for fire safety
I have been sent a press release by the Fire Brigade regarding a sucessful prosecution of a landlord who was found guilty of breaches of fire safety legislation and ordered to pay nearly £13,000 in...
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