| Dreadful 23:16 - Dec 17 with 2604 views | max936 |
I see that he's stopped the £200 winter fuel payment here, a Labour party for the people indeed, mans beyond a joke, apparently we can't afford it, whilst he lead a party of his cronies over to Qatar to watch the World Cup, needs a good old dunking in the Taff, the absolute buffoon. |  |
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| Dreadful on 23:32 - Dec 17 with 1875 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
The quotes on the link above do not sound convincing on the winter fuel payment. [Post edited 17 Dec 2022 23:35]
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| Dreadful on 23:33 - Dec 17 with 1873 views | max936 |
The guy is a clown, it has to be said. | |
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| Dreadful on 23:43 - Dec 17 with 1860 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
The rental market is in a right mess following the legislative changes. One of my work colleagues is finding it impossible to find anywhere, one letting agent ssid that there was no point registering as they had too many people looking for houses on their books. Things look pretty bad in Cardiff as well.
When interest rates are going up, squeezing landlords with legislation adds to the shortages. Drakeford should have tried a pilot scheme somewhere to test the effects.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/growing-crisi | |
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| Dreadful on 00:20 - Dec 18 with 1840 views | max936 |
| Dreadful on 23:43 - Dec 17 by JACKMANANDBOY |
The rental market is in a right mess following the legislative changes. One of my work colleagues is finding it impossible to find anywhere, one letting agent ssid that there was no point registering as they had too many people looking for houses on their books. Things look pretty bad in Cardiff as well.
When interest rates are going up, squeezing landlords with legislation adds to the shortages. Drakeford should have tried a pilot scheme somewhere to test the effects.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/growing-crisi |
"Drakeford should have tried a pilot scheme somewhere to test the effects."
He was far to busy getting all excited about going to Qatar like a kid at Christmas to concern himself with menial tasks. | |
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| Dreadful on 09:40 - Dec 18 with 1756 views | Catullus |
| Dreadful on 23:43 - Dec 17 by JACKMANANDBOY |
The rental market is in a right mess following the legislative changes. One of my work colleagues is finding it impossible to find anywhere, one letting agent ssid that there was no point registering as they had too many people looking for houses on their books. Things look pretty bad in Cardiff as well.
When interest rates are going up, squeezing landlords with legislation adds to the shortages. Drakeford should have tried a pilot scheme somewhere to test the effects.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/growing-crisi |
I sat in a meeting and listened to the CEO of a major Welsh housing business describe the new rental law legislation in very poor terms. In fact it was said that it was started in 2016 and it was so badly written it has taken 6 years to get i to where it is and it's still poor.
That is the quality we have in the Senedd.
Just look at the news today,
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/wales-ukrainian-refugee-crisis-dis
Yet we have some who defending these incompetent fools. They're no better than Westminster, they are every bit as bad. Until we have a major change in politics, until we get people in who actually want to serve their country, who aren't there to line their own pockets and brag abut how great they are, until that day we will continue to drift down this cataclysmic path ever further into the mire. |  |
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| Dreadful on 11:12 - Dec 18 with 1714 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
| Dreadful on 09:40 - Dec 18 by Catullus |
I sat in a meeting and listened to the CEO of a major Welsh housing business describe the new rental law legislation in very poor terms. In fact it was said that it was started in 2016 and it was so badly written it has taken 6 years to get i to where it is and it's still poor.
That is the quality we have in the Senedd.
Just look at the news today,
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/wales-ukrainian-refugee-crisis-dis
Yet we have some who defending these incompetent fools. They're no better than Westminster, they are every bit as bad. Until we have a major change in politics, until we get people in who actually want to serve their country, who aren't there to line their own pockets and brag abut how great they are, until that day we will continue to drift down this cataclysmic path ever further into the mire. |
What a mess, the politicians made lots of noise about this and now they can't deliver. [Post edited 18 Dec 2022 11:17]
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| Dreadful on 11:22 - Dec 18 with 1690 views | majorraglan |
| Dreadful on 23:43 - Dec 17 by JACKMANANDBOY |
The rental market is in a right mess following the legislative changes. One of my work colleagues is finding it impossible to find anywhere, one letting agent ssid that there was no point registering as they had too many people looking for houses on their books. Things look pretty bad in Cardiff as well.
When interest rates are going up, squeezing landlords with legislation adds to the shortages. Drakeford should have tried a pilot scheme somewhere to test the effects.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/growing-crisi |
Changes have and are taking place in relation to renting in England as well. I totally get that WG are trying to improve the quality of housing stock in the rental market because a lot of the properties are really poor and old, but I think the changes they’ve made have gone to far too quickly. Changes made by the UK government in the last few years to tax relief on buy to let mortgages, forthcoming reductions to capital gains allowances from £12k to £3k over the next few years are accelerating the sell off - people who own a buy to let are being pushed out while the larger landlords who have got their properties off shore, or in a limited company or trust won’t really be affected. A girl i know rents a property, it’s damp and has mould and she can’t get the landlord to fix it - that’s the kind of thing they should be targeting.
I’m renovating an old stone cottage at the moment and it’s current EPC is an F, if I wanted to rent it out going forward it would need to be a C. I’m putting insulated plasterboard at £60 a board, new radiators, a new boiler, low energy lights, more insulation but to get it to a C I’d need solar electric and water which is impracticable and not realistic. Mental. [Post edited 18 Dec 2022 20:28]
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| Dreadful on 11:35 - Dec 18 with 1665 views | max936 |
| Dreadful on 11:22 - Dec 18 by majorraglan |
Changes have and are taking place in relation to renting in England as well. I totally get that WG are trying to improve the quality of housing stock in the rental market because a lot of the properties are really poor and old, but I think the changes they’ve made have gone to far too quickly. Changes made by the UK government in the last few years to tax relief on buy to let mortgages, forthcoming reductions to capital gains allowances from £12k to £3k over the next few years are accelerating the sell off - people who own a buy to let are being pushed out while the larger landlords who have got their properties off shore, or in a limited company or trust won’t really be affected. A girl i know rents a property, it’s damp and has mould and she can’t get the landlord to fix it - that’s the kind of thing they should be targeting.
I’m renovating an old stone cottage at the moment and it’s current EPC is an F, if I wanted to rent it out going forward it would need to be a C. I’m putting insulated plasterboard at £60 a board, new radiators, a new boiler, low energy lights, more insulation but to get it to a C I’d need solar electric and water which is impracticable and not realistic. Mental. [Post edited 18 Dec 2022 20:28]
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If there was anyone with any sense in the offices that make these rules they would evoke dispensations for the renovation of the older properties, after all they'd want to keep the heritage of these older properties. | |
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| Dreadful on 12:46 - Dec 18 with 1634 views | Catullus |
| Dreadful on 11:35 - Dec 18 by max936 |
If there was anyone with any sense in the offices that make these rules they would evoke dispensations for the renovation of the older properties, after all they'd want to keep the heritage of these older properties. |
For anyone in desperate need off a home the first thought would be somewhere secure, warm, dry, free from damp and mould and clean.
If those are the requirements for a C what the heck do you need for an A? Seems to me that the winners here will be the larger, rich landlords, if so then it's Welsh Labour making the rich richer! Somebody with just a couple of properties probably can't afford such an expenditure on new purchases and probably can't afford to put them into existing property. | |
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| Dreadful on 13:21 - Dec 18 with 1602 views | Jack123 |
I caught this announcement on the welsh mews the other day, they were blaming Westminster for having no money.
I see nothing which Drakeford does for the benefit of Wales, but more to the determent, from MPPU, to 20 mph speed, limit, I think the 20mph is going to cost 33 million.
I just pray, that he gets ousted next voting. [Post edited 18 Dec 2022 13:21]
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| Dreadful on 14:02 - Dec 18 with 1560 views | 1462jack |
| Dreadful on 12:46 - Dec 18 by Catullus |
For anyone in desperate need off a home the first thought would be somewhere secure, warm, dry, free from damp and mould and clean.
If those are the requirements for a C what the heck do you need for an A? Seems to me that the winners here will be the larger, rich landlords, if so then it's Welsh Labour making the rich richer! Somebody with just a couple of properties probably can't afford such an expenditure on new purchases and probably can't afford to put them into existing property. |
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| Dreadful on 15:22 - Dec 18 with 1520 views | pencoedjack |
I used to rent out a couple of properties but got out when the council stopped paying me directly as they thought it was better tenants learnt how to manage money & pay bills, so they paid the tenants who had to pay me.
Unfortunately when the rent is not paid the mortgage company don’t give a toss about the tenants not paying & still want their payment.
To think tenants can now go 6 months without paying is totally unfair on the landlord [Post edited 18 Dec 2022 16:04]
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| Dreadful on 15:48 - Dec 18 with 1501 views | Dr_Winston |
I don't doubt that there are many dodgy landlords out there, but the system has swung way too far in favour of the tenants. There should be a register of them too, so no poor bastard ends up stuck with the kind of feral wasters of which there are so many.
I've had problems with one or two in the past (one of the reasons I'm selling up, but not the main one) but got off lightly in comparison to other horror stories that I've heard.
The primary problem is that there are far too many people in power who think that housing is a right. It's not. There are people out there who nobody should be forced to give accommodation to, state or private. [Post edited 18 Dec 2022 15:50]
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| Dreadful on 17:11 - Dec 18 with 1445 views | Catullus |
| Dreadful on 15:48 - Dec 18 by Dr_Winston |
I don't doubt that there are many dodgy landlords out there, but the system has swung way too far in favour of the tenants. There should be a register of them too, so no poor bastard ends up stuck with the kind of feral wasters of which there are so many.
I've had problems with one or two in the past (one of the reasons I'm selling up, but not the main one) but got off lightly in comparison to other horror stories that I've heard.
The primary problem is that there are far too many people in power who think that housing is a right. It's not. There are people out there who nobody should be forced to give accommodation to, state or private. [Post edited 18 Dec 2022 15:50]
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There are people out there who move into properties and just stop paying, who ruin the property and then bugger off owing thousands.
Feral wasters as you call them.
Housing is a right but just like when you go to prison, there are some rights you should lose when you keep breaking the rules.
Maybe we need to fence off a ghetto area and send the worst of these people there to live with each other. it'd be against their human rights though. | |
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| Dreadful on 17:23 - Dec 18 with 1428 views | Dr_Winston |
| Dreadful on 17:11 - Dec 18 by Catullus |
There are people out there who move into properties and just stop paying, who ruin the property and then bugger off owing thousands.
Feral wasters as you call them.
Housing is a right but just like when you go to prison, there are some rights you should lose when you keep breaking the rules.
Maybe we need to fence off a ghetto area and send the worst of these people there to live with each other. it'd be against their human rights though. |
Yep. Stop paying knowing full well it'll take at least six months to shift them. Meanwhile they'll cheerfully trash the place whilst the bills keep mounting up for the owner.
Tenants who purposely don't pay rent should be prosecuted for theft, because that's basically what it is. | |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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| Dreadful on 19:03 - Dec 18 with 1393 views | onehunglow |
| Dreadful on 17:11 - Dec 18 by Catullus |
There are people out there who move into properties and just stop paying, who ruin the property and then bugger off owing thousands.
Feral wasters as you call them.
Housing is a right but just like when you go to prison, there are some rights you should lose when you keep breaking the rules.
Maybe we need to fence off a ghetto area and send the worst of these people there to live with each other. it'd be against their human rights though. |
And many landlords through Thatcher giving away housing stick only to treat the most vulnerable like rats .
Thatchers greatest sin . | |
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| Dreadful on 19:14 - Dec 18 with 1377 views | union_jack |
| Dreadful on 17:23 - Dec 18 by Dr_Winston |
Yep. Stop paying knowing full well it'll take at least six months to shift them. Meanwhile they'll cheerfully trash the place whilst the bills keep mounting up for the owner.
Tenants who purposely don't pay rent should be prosecuted for theft, because that's basically what it is. |
Hear, bloody hear!! |  |
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| Dreadful on 20:21 - Dec 18 with 1343 views | Dr_Winston |
| Dreadful on 19:03 - Dec 18 by onehunglow |
And many landlords through Thatcher giving away housing stick only to treat the most vulnerable like rats .
Thatchers greatest sin . |
You know that you are allowed to read through posts before pressing "Add Reply" to make sure that they're not atrociously spelled gibberish? | |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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| Dreadful on 20:26 - Dec 18 with 1338 views | Catullus |
| Dreadful on 20:21 - Dec 18 by Dr_Winston |
You know that you are allowed to read through posts before pressing "Add Reply" to make sure that they're not atrociously spelled gibberish? |
Only if you can be bothered, which I often am not these days. | |
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| Dreadful on 20:40 - Dec 18 with 1326 views | Flashberryjack |
| Dreadful on 17:11 - Dec 18 by Catullus |
There are people out there who move into properties and just stop paying, who ruin the property and then bugger off owing thousands.
Feral wasters as you call them.
Housing is a right but just like when you go to prison, there are some rights you should lose when you keep breaking the rules.
Maybe we need to fence off a ghetto area and send the worst of these people there to live with each other. it'd be against their human rights though. |
Mate of mine paid his tenants £2000 + wrote off all their rent arrears just to get them out.
The whole house had to be fumigated when they left, and then had it completely refurbished as it was in such a state, he then sold the property. |  |
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| Dreadful on 20:45 - Dec 18 with 1312 views | Dr_Winston |
| Dreadful on 20:40 - Dec 18 by Flashberryjack |
Mate of mine paid his tenants £2000 + wrote off all their rent arrears just to get them out.
The whole house had to be fumigated when they left, and then had it completely refurbished as it was in such a state, he then sold the property. |
Worst case I heard was a guy who had a house in Clase that he rented out. The usual thing. No rent paid from day one. By the time he got them out there wasn't a molecule of copper left in the place. Pipes, wiring, they stripped the lot. | |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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| Dreadful on 21:09 - Dec 18 with 1289 views | majorraglan |
| Dreadful on 20:45 - Dec 18 by Dr_Winston |
Worst case I heard was a guy who had a house in Clase that he rented out. The usual thing. No rent paid from day one. By the time he got them out there wasn't a molecule of copper left in the place. Pipes, wiring, they stripped the lot. |
I know of a case where a guy let out his 4 bedroom ex detached house via an agent. First few payments went through ok, but after that nothing and his only recourse was through the legal route. One of the landlords neighbours was a retired cop who did some googling and discovered the tenant was a con artist from up the line, there were newspaper articles galore. Facing a huge financial loss, armed with the information his mate had sourced the landlord went back the agent and after a few solicitors letters and threat of Court action the agent paid up the arrears which were a 5 figure sum - it turns out they hadn’t done any of the checks, references etc. | | | |
| Dreadful on 21:23 - Dec 18 with 1281 views | Dr_Winston |
| Dreadful on 21:09 - Dec 18 by majorraglan |
I know of a case where a guy let out his 4 bedroom ex detached house via an agent. First few payments went through ok, but after that nothing and his only recourse was through the legal route. One of the landlords neighbours was a retired cop who did some googling and discovered the tenant was a con artist from up the line, there were newspaper articles galore. Facing a huge financial loss, armed with the information his mate had sourced the landlord went back the agent and after a few solicitors letters and threat of Court action the agent paid up the arrears which were a 5 figure sum - it turns out they hadn’t done any of the checks, references etc. |
There are a few lazy useless estate agents out there. Lots of stories of initial checks not being carried out, regular periodic checks not carried out. | |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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| Dreadful on 02:48 - Dec 19 with 1179 views | DJack |
| Dreadful on 14:02 - Dec 18 by 1462jack |
You will own nothing and you will be happy |
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