Bankrupt councils

[Long slender neck]

Perma for our yahoo news correspondent.

[BoniO]

Perma for our yahoo news correspondent.

Tad harsh, it made me laugh to be fair.

[Dunners]

His own head?

[The Reverend]

I’ll probably get a ban for even mentioning this but when I logged back on for the first time after a week off the top 6 notifications were from CEB who on Tuesday had gone through my old posts and liked a load of them.

Presumably I’m doing exactly what he wanted by mentioning this. He does something which he knows will get my attention and if I mention it the old “Rev is obsessed” accusations will come out again. I really should know better than to indulge such manipulative behaviour but seeing another user goaded into a perma banned whilst I was away makes me want to warn others about such behaviour.

I’m guessing he won’t stop until I’m perma banned. This upsets me because I genuinely enjoyed this board. During my week off I reflected a bit and asked why I even post on here in the first place. It was to talk about Orient and ask the occasional “big” question as I’m genuinely interested in what people have to say on these topics. I was foolish to get dragged into a feud with somebody who clearly has a long history of winding up other boarders.

Anyway. I’m sure the inevitable will happen and I’ll be booted soon. Well done. You won. I would like to once again share my appreciation to Admin. A genuinely decent guy who has my respect.

[CEB]

Perma for our yahoo news correspondent.

Tad harsh, it made me laugh to be fair.

Yeah, I laughed too. The sheer straight to the nuclear option tickled me

[Tuffers#2]

Only person who can buy that will be a cash buyer not reliant on a loan . Likely to be someone who wants a Buy To Let Investment. I have seen them go for a lot less that that in there though as it is such a poorly maintained block. You sound very bitter about private landlords for some reason you are not disclosing. You cannot accept that they play a very important role in supporting the local authorities house those they have a duty to accommodate .

Waltham Forest Council have a good working relationship with Private Sector Landlords, Landlords have Licenses and attend Seminars and gain Accreditation.

Waltham Forest also offer various grants to Private Landlords to improve their accommodation for tenants. The Council would hardly offer grants if Landlords were ‘scum’.

Grants such as these;

https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/guidan ... 20services.

You can continue seething and being venomously envious but why not try and just improve your lot and feel better in yourself? I am always willing to offer advice and guidance as I know things.

Envious not a chance. Councils offer to do up places because scumlords won't cut into profits. Earn some money by graft rather than benefit from others Misery.

You are either trying to antagonise me or are really showing your ignorance about the subject. If the latter, I feel really excruciatingly embarrassed for you.

I can reliably inform you that there are thousands of very satisfied private tenants out there who have an excellent relationship with their Landlord and mutual respect for each other and would find your bluster so far from the truth. There are all kinds of private Landlords. The ‘accidental’ one property Landlord who finds themselves with a flat say spare by inheritance possibly or have bought elsewhere with a partner and cannot sell their former home so decide to rent it out.

There are medium sized Landlords with say 10 to 100 properties and then there are the larger Landlords with several hundred. The larger one are a big business employing people. There will be a few bad apples like everything else but it is really difficult to be a bad Landlord these days as the penalties can be vast including:

Having property seized by councils who will manage them.

Having rent seized and fined multiple times the amount.

Being banned from being a Landlord.

Your adversity to private landlords may have been appropriate in the ‘Rachman’ years of the 1960’s but not in 2024, far too many saveguards thankfully with Licensing Regulations which ‘police’ the pitfalls you allude to.

Never feel embarrassed for me Scumlord.

London landlords see rental incomes soar 32.9%

https://www.mortgagestrategy.co.uk/news ... soar-32-9/

[Tuffers#2]

Perma for our yahoo news correspondent.

Tad harsh, it made me laugh to be fair.

Yeah, I laughed too. The sheer straight to the nuclear option tickled me

Hopefully you mean the words Tickled you

[CEB]

I'm going to guess your finger, someone else's finger and a courgette.

That’s two out of three

[Daily Express bot]

Envious not a chance. Councils offer to do up places because scumlords won't cut into profits. Earn some money by graft rather than benefit from others Misery.

You are either trying to antagonise me or are really showing your ignorance about the subject. If the latter, I feel really excruciatingly embarrassed for you.

I can reliably inform you that there are thousands of very satisfied private tenants out there who have an excellent relationship with their Landlord and mutual respect for each other and would find your bluster so far from the truth. There are all kinds of private Landlords. The ‘accidental’ one property Landlord who finds themselves with a flat say spare by inheritance possibly or have bought elsewhere with a partner and cannot sell their former home so decide to rent it out.

There are medium sized Landlords with say 10 to 100 properties and then there are the larger Landlords with several hundred. The larger one are a big business employing people. There will be a few bad apples like everything else but it is really difficult to be a bad Landlord these days as the penalties can be vast including:

Having property seized by councils who will manage them.

Having rent seized and fined multiple times the amount.

Being banned from being a Landlord.

Your adversity to private landlords may have been appropriate in the ‘Rachman’ years of the 1960’s but not in 2024, far too many saveguards thankfully with Licensing Regulations which ‘police’ the pitfalls you allude to.

Never feel embarrassed for me Scumlord.

London landlords see rental incomes soar 32.9%

https://www.mortgagestrategy.co.uk/news ... soar-32-9/

The rental income may have increased but so has interest rates , property licensing, Agency Fees, building materials, insurance premiums and builder’s maintenance rates. All allowances have practically vanished due to George Osbourne so Private Residential Property Letting is not a good business to be in.

[Tuffers#2]

You are either trying to antagonise me or are really showing your ignorance about the subject. If the latter, I feel really excruciatingly embarrassed for you.

I can reliably inform you that there are thousands of very satisfied private tenants out there who have an excellent relationship with their Landlord and mutual respect for each other and would find your bluster so far from the truth. There are all kinds of private Landlords. The ‘accidental’ one property Landlord who finds themselves with a flat say spare by inheritance possibly or have bought elsewhere with a partner and cannot sell their former home so decide to rent it out.

There are medium sized Landlords with say 10 to 100 properties and then there are the larger Landlords with several hundred. The larger one are a big business employing people. There will be a few bad apples like everything else but it is really difficult to be a bad Landlord these days as the penalties can be vast including:

Having property seized by councils who will manage them.

Having rent seized and fined multiple times the amount.

Being banned from being a Landlord.

Your adversity to private landlords may have been appropriate in the ‘Rachman’ years of the 1960’s but not in 2024, far too many saveguards thankfully with Licensing Regulations which ‘police’ the pitfalls you allude to.

Never feel embarrassed for me Scumlord.

London landlords see rental incomes soar 32.9%

https://www.mortgagestrategy.co.uk/news ... soar-32-9/

The rental income may have increased but so has interest rates , property licensing, Agency Fees, building materials, insurance premiums and builder’s maintenance rates. All allowances have practically vanished due to George Osbourne so Private Residential Property Letting is not a good business to be in.

It's the Scumlord business. No sympathy for the Cockroaches who profit.

[Daily Express bot]

Never feel embarrassed for me Scumlord.

London landlords see rental incomes soar 32.9%

https://www.mortgagestrategy.co.uk/news ... soar-32-9/

The rental income may have increased but so has interest rates , property licensing, Agency Fees, building materials, insurance premiums and builder’s maintenance rates. All allowances have practically vanished due to George Osbourne so Private Residential Property Letting is not a good business to be in.

It's the Scumlord business. No sympathy for the Cockroaches who profit.

There ain’t much profit these days.

[Omygawd]

Threads like this remind me why there is rarely any meaningful debate about social care, its complex nature and inter-dependencies and how it is potentially placing Council's under huge financial strain that can help contribute to bankruptcy. Better for a slanging match about Private Sector landlords to take place rather than contribute to the overall debate.

[Proposition Joe]

Largely because it's such a complex discussion. Much easier to just fling sh*t at stuff.

[Tuffers#2]

The rental income may have increased but so has interest rates , property licensing, Agency Fees, building materials, insurance premiums and builder’s maintenance rates. All allowances have practically vanished due to George Osbourne so Private Residential Property Letting is not a good business to be in.

It's the Scumlord business. No sympathy for the Cockroaches who profit.

There ain’t much profit these days.

32.9 % in London isn't much profit ?

[Tuffers#2]

Threads like this remind me why there is rarely any meaningful debate about social care, its complex nature and inter-dependencies and how it is potentially placing Council's under huge financial strain that can help contribute to bankruptcy. Better for a slanging match about Private Sector landlords to take place rather than contribute to the overall debate.

How much is being wasted keeping scumlords
Profits so high ?

[Dunners]

A decent thread on how the homelessness crisis has contributed to the financial plight of many local authorities.

[Proposition Joe]

Hewitt's a good journo on housing issues.

[Dunners]

He is. And so is Peter Apps and Vicky Spratt.

[Long slender neck]

The Tories really are a disgrace. Any chance the reported £20Bn Hunt has to play with will go to councils?

I expect they'll use it to give tax cuts to the rich and leave Labour to clean up the mess.

[Hoover Attack]

Threads like this remind me why there is rarely any meaningful debate about social care, its complex nature and inter-dependencies and how it is potentially placing Council's under huge financial strain that can help contribute to bankruptcy. Better for a slanging match about Private Sector landlords to take place rather than contribute to the overall debate.

How much is being wasted keeping scumlords
Profits so high ?

How much has been wasted keeping house prices artificially high?

[Hoover Attack]

He is. And so is Peter Apps and Vicky Spratt.

Apps and Spratt sounds like a cracking tv detective show.

[Dunners]

Apps is also a local boy. Lives with his wife and kids in Walthamstow. I bump into him occasionally, but have never asked if he has ever been to the Os.

[Hoover Attack]

Could you ask him if he'd be up for co-starring in a new tv drama I'm working on?

[Proposition Joe]

Peter Apps sounds like a character from a modern day Day Today reboot. Presenting the news with Algorithm Monthly or someone.

[Dunners]

He's too busy rehearsing for a sitcom I've been working on. Still trying to master his lines on just how many copies of a particular fanzine the runner-up in a competition gets.