Call to Extend RTB for Private Tenants with discount.

[Leah-Lacie]

Perhaps you should start renting to these "benefit scroungers" rather than professional types, as the "local scrubbers" are less likely to afford a mortgage and buy you out.

 

I was just about to post the same thing - Plus the fact that the professional types will probably be entitled to more of a discount, what with having paid the rent themselves rather than using Housing Benefit, or so I would like to think.

[illuminati9]

I was just about to post the same thing - Plus the fact that the professional types will probably be entitled to more of a discount, what with having paid the rent themselves rather than using Housing Benefit, or so I would like to think.

 

Professional people with more then one brain cell would buy their own house instead of renting. Only reason professional people rent is becuase they are not sure if they want to settle in the area

I wouldn't call anyone working in pound land/ telco on basic wage professional. They are just scrugners milking the system with all the benefit they can get their hand hand

[Cyclone]

you are no rocket scentist for sure. no landlord will sell there hard earn house for big discount to those benefit scroungers. if we are force to sell then we just dont rent it to those losers in life

 

If the RTB applies to every tenant, then who you rent to would be irrelevant.

 

If however you get paid the going market value, then there's not really much of downside to the landlord (except for the costs of replacing the property if that's what they choose to do).

 

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Professional people with more then one brain cell would buy their own house instead of renting. Only reason professional people rent is becuase they are not sure if they want to settle in the area

And because they have recently graduated and don't yet have a deposit saved up.

[cgksheff]

I have been unable to find any details on this proposal, other than a general proposal.

If there are any, I would be grateful if someone could point in the right direction.

 

To my mind the legalities involved in forcing a private landlord to sell would render the proposal unworkable for all private landlords.

 

I think I have seen something, somewhere, which implies that it may only be a condition imposed on properties that became private through RTB in the first place.

[Tommo68]

Landlords have property they have made available for people to rent.

IF people choose to rent their property what business is that of anyone else's.

 

NOBODY makes anyone rent property if they don't want to and NOBODY (except the council and housing associations) dictates to anyone which properties they may or may not rent.

 

Why on earth anyone should think that just because someone has rented somewhere for a while they ought to have the right to buy it. First option if it comes uip for sale whilst they are a tenant perhaps but not the right to buy it.

 

 

I think most people forget why RTB came about originally (at least in part).

 

It was to give ordinary working people the chance to buy their own homes.... I don't think so, more likely it was in part to give working people the opportunity to have a mortgage and thereby be less able to afford to be out of work or sustain lengthy strikes.

 

There were of course other knock on effects... the homes bought off the council should have provided more money to be invested back into building and providing new rentable accommodation. And of course the boost to the building trade that should have produced. The coal board which owned thousands of 'pit-houses' would have had millions released for new investment.

 

Of course RTB was not welcomed by the farmers or owners of land which rented houses to workers needed those houses to recruit new workers when the old ones died retired or left.

 

But since when when has government really ever cared about people in the countryside or rural traditions when there were votes to be gained elsewhere?

[altus]

I have been unable to find any details on this proposal, other than a general proposal.

If there are any, I would be grateful if someone could point in the right direction.

 

It isn't a proper proposal. It's a suggestion by Jeremy Corbyn - the token left winger standing for the Labour party leadership election so they can pretend to themselves that they really are still a socialist party. When the leadership candidates were gathering nominations from MPs to stand, they had to get above a certain number to be allowed to, half the MPs who nominated him immediately went on the TV afterwards to say they didn't actually support him but just nominated him so there was a left winger in the race that people could reject.

[truman]

Good post; perhaps local councils should be able to force private landlords to sell to them, when their tenant is claiming housing benefit.

 

So when the landlord decides not not have HB tenants because of this where will they go?

[illuminati9]

If the RTB applies to every tenant, then who you rent to would be irrelevant.

we have so many losers in this country who hasnt got £200 in their bank. what chances of those dole scrungers getting a deposit or a mortage? even if they can just manage it. who will pay for the repairs. in this country we have fair too many losers, you will always need housing benefit and us landlords. you should be thankful for what we do. as i bet everyone knows a lot of people on housing benefit in sheffield

[El Cid]

So when the landlord decides not not have HB tenants because of this where will they go?

 

Will millions of properties be empty, many private landlords choose not to accept them now, but some are a money spinner, just like the RTB for housing associations, it could be make law that landlords make a profit, but not for generations.

[Cyclone]

we have so many losers in this country who hasnt got £200 in their bank. what chances of those dole scrungers getting a deposit or a mortage? even if they can just manage it. who will pay for the repairs. in this country we have fair too many losers, you will always need housing benefit and us landlords. you should be thankful for what we do. as i bet everyone knows a lot of people on housing benefit in sheffield

 

Renting to people like that sounds like a recipe for disaster. You'd be chasing them for rent which they wouldn't pay, they wouldn't look after the place... It's exactly the kind of tenant that no one wants.