Cant pay wont pay on TV - people getting evicted for not paying rent

[BrilloPad]

psychcandy now benched. so he might be appearing on the show!

[vetran]

Brits BORROW to buy homes, the Germans live within their means, ie - rent. By the way laws protecting tenants in Germany are pretty good. In UK there is effectively no protection of tenants, but crazily enough squatters somehow got some rights, WTF?

The rights for tenants in the UK are pretty good nowadays they aren't however properly enforced.
https://www.gov.uk/private-renting/y...sponsibilities

If you mean tenants don't have a right to stay in properties indefinitely despite fixed term tenancies expiring then tough buy a house. Renting is completely different to owning, its not "YOUR HOME" its a "RENTAL PROPERTY".

Squatters in private residences lost most of their ridiculous 'rights' a couple of years ago, it still takes a couple of weeks to evict them but that is better than 6- 9 months.

https://www.gov.uk/squatting-law/overview

[psychocandy]

psychcandy now benched. so he might be appearing on the show!

You never know lol.

[MrMarkyMark]

You never know lol.

Don't forget Jeremy Kyle, I can really see you on there

[AtW]

The rights for tenants in the UK are pretty good nowadays they aren't however properly enforced.

The key problem for UK tenants is that almost all agreements are assured shorthold tenancy - when they turn into periodic tenant can be kicked out within 1-2 months, that's way too short.

I had to buy cheap sofa for that reason

[vetran]

The key problem for UK tenants is that almost all agreements are assured shorthold tenancy - when they turn into periodic tenant can be kicked out within 1-2 months, that's way too short.

I had to buy cheap sofa for that reason

how long would you like the notice to be? 1-2 months seems a reasonable notice period to give. Most Permie jobs are that.


If you want long term stability you should buy a house. If you want the flexibility of renting you have to see it as a two way thing.

[meridian]

[QUOTE=vetran;2163271]If you mean tenants don't have a right to stay in properties indefinitely despite fixed term tenancies expiring then tough buy a house. Renting is completely different to owning, its not "YOUR HOME" its a "RENTAL PROPERTY".[\QUOTE]

Not quite. For renters, it's not "YOUR HOUSE", but for many if not most of us it is our home. There's a subtle difference.

Many landlords these days want it both ways, they want to complain about tenants not treating the property as their home but then they want to keep it as an arms-length business transaction. It's a very difficult line to walk when one side can be emotionally involved.

[AtW]

how long would you like the notice to be? 1-2 months seems a reasonable notice period to give. Most Permie jobs are that.

Not having a job is not the same as not having a home to stay in and watch tulipe daily shows on Sky like PC will be doing for the foreseeable future.

Notice to tenant should be very long, 6 months minimum.

The notice to landlord should be shorter - say 2 months.

In some countries in Europe you can't even get rid of tenant if they pay on time, providing housing to people should not be short term game, because it's not a game.

[Zero Liability]

Borrow-To-Let is inherently parasitic as it just reduces house availability and adds extra cost to tenants. There is no added value generated, only inflating the real estate bubble, which in itself should have resulted in a lot of discouragements to those who want to get into Borrow-To-Let, instead the Govt encouraged it by providing crazy tax relief that people living in their own house did not get!

Agreed but only on the basis that the govt and its central bank are doing their utmost to keep lending artificially cheap. It won't last forever, though.

[AtW]

Agreed but only on the basis that the govt and its central bank are doing their utmost to keep lending artificially cheap. It won't last forever, though.

But the house prices always go up anyway, right?