Tenants evicted under Part 4, can I now rent again

LarryScott said:
Right. A nightmare situation would be where the tenancy agreement is considered valid but the rent is RTB limited.
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That's what I think would happen - the tenancy remains for the 6 years or whatever, but at the limited rent.

This will likely happen when a landlord rents after March. From the Housing Committee, it seems that 'market' rent for a new tenant isn't actually that. It is sort of a reference rent/what the RTB thinks type system. So you're a large landlord, you rent to a tenant at market, that gets reduced but the permanent tenancy remains. You can increase the rent again in 6 years time, but that'll be limited again to this what the RTB thinks type system and/or there will be political interference.

You end up with a sitting tenant for life at a low rent and you're on the hook for all repairs and improvements. An outright disaster. Plus if the tenant is difficult, the stress of the whole thing could take years off your life. Anyone renting after March needs to be beyond careful.
 
LarryScott said:
The new owner though he was going to get (actual) market rent, and the RTB says actually the rent is 40% of market rent due to the baseline from 10 years ago that he didn't even know about.
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Plus he'll have to compensate the tenant for the rent overcharged. He may get fined as well.
 
Greenbook said:
RTB would have a record, that said we all know what RTB record keeping is like, which is another risk here
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There was a post that the RTB won't give out that information anyway (apparently due to GDPR). Essentially, the rent is confidential between the previous owner and the tenant.

When buying to let, you need to make sure you get the old contract and the actual rental.
 
LarryScott said:
When buying to let, you need to make sure you get the old contract and the actual rental.
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Yes, the solicitor when you're buying will have to get that information.

Also, when you rent after March, you'll have to provide the tenant with the previous rent. Presumably, if the tenant is challenging the rent you are charging them, they will be able to confirm with the RTB that the previous rent you quoted them is correct.

Per the Housing Committee, huge work is being done at the moment on GDPR. Presumably issues like this are involved.
 
lff12 said:
Other appliances can generate carbon monoxide also, and meters are very cheap.
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Per the Guidelines, carbon monoxide alarms are only required "Where open flued or flueless appliances (i.e. where combustion air is takenfrom the room, for example an open fire, gas fire, wood burning stove, gas or oil boilersthat are not balanced flued (this list is not exhaustive))" ie. there must be something specific in the house which requires an alarm.

The Guidelines don't say that one must be fitted in case the tenant off his own batt decides to buy something which carried a CO risk.

The Inspectors I've come across are very pleasant young Brazilians and Indians who I'd guess aren't engineers at all and probably not paid an awful lot. They tend to make up stuff, like requiring the landlord to weed the garden as I ended up doing! This is another example. The requirements in the Guidelines are onerous enough (they run to nearly 100 pages and a rented house must be in a state of perfection) without landlords being required to cover what ifs and might happens as well.

When you think about it, if they are covering situations which might happen, stairs should be banned in rented houses and it should be mandated that lifts be installed. Stairs are actually very dangerous and after bathrooms the major cause of domestic injuries and deaths.
 
And of course this feeds into the narrative that all our houses are dumps. The poster's house failed the inspection being he didn't have the CO alarm that he wasn't required to have in the first place.

This is something I feel very strongly about because I've always spent money on my properties and kept them well, yet every single one of them has failed for all sorts of stupid stuff.

Another reason to exit
 
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