I am a landlord I have taken in new tenants who were moving Because they knew the existing landlord was collecting rent and not paying Bank, It was also nearer to there work ,I actually went and collected mother and children while husband and his friends moved there stuff in to house,
I knew on the grapevine there existing landlord was not good at given back all of the deposit so when I went to collect mother and kids I kind of had a look to see how tidy they were leaving existing apartment , The landlords wife was there you could see the place was well looked after,
Long story short story there landlord tried to keep most of there deposit same landlord was collecting rent and making no repayments for as long as he could get away with it for,
There is supposed to be 11000 tenants homes where the landlords are not meeting mortgage repayments ,
I hope the 20% extra you are paying them will long term lead to them being able to buy there own home,
I also hope we come up with a system where your employees can own there own home close to where the work,
The tenants I have are a lot like the kind of people you employ good people who get up in the morning and go to work ,to be honest I would rather take a bit less from them knowing it is going to be looked after,
I think some Landlords have a different Business Model where they are providing a service which the Government used to be doing and not expecting to get paid in all cases,
I take a big Deposit up front tenants know they will always get it back,
In fact I would Welcome a system like they have in Austria where a large deposi t is put in an account for tenants and landlord all interest is credited to tenants,