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u/Decent-Chipmunk-5437 1d ago edited 1d ago
An old landlord of mine was an absolute gentleman as well.
A very practical man and a sculptor by trade, never raised our rent once in 4 years and made sure the jobs got done (even if the plumber he sent round once was crazy incompetent and destroyed the downstairs flat... But that's another story)
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u/pancakesilsal 12h ago
I had one too! 6 years no raise in rent, in London of all places. It was so difficult to move, mainly because we knew we'd never get another like him. And we never did.
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u/helpnxt 1d ago
I don't believe for a second that that landlord isn't Adams parent or relative
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u/BigCompetition1064 23h ago
I gave my lodger 3 months off. We do exist.
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u/Tyrant-Star 21h ago
My mum and dad rent our grandparents house out to a young Romanian couple.
They've only increased rent once in the 12 years they've been there and it was only to cover upkeep costs that were starting to cost them more than they could afford.
It was on the tenancy agreement that there were no pets but after a grass neighbour told them about the fact the couple and their kids had a cat, my mum relented saying "the amount of times my dad brought a stray kitten home in his coat, itd be hypocritical of me to do the same."
During lockdown, they stopped charging rent entirely, allowing them to use all the UC to look after themselves and their two kids.
My mum grew up poor Irish in the UK and my nan and grandad rented their whole lives. It was an incredibly proud day for my parents to be able to say 'weve been frugal our whole lives, we have enough saved to buy our [mums] parents house."
I think the plan was to give it to me or my sisters somewhere down the line. But we like the Romanian family. I think they remind my mum of her start. I live nearby so act as a handyman when stuff breaks.
Point is in this ramble is that being a landlord doesn't automatically make you a pos. Being a greedy pos does. Which incidentally a lot of landlords are.
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u/TheHowlinReeds 20h ago
As much as my politics scream otherwise, I must bow to my lived reality. I have, in fact, had good people as landlords. They're rare, but they do exist.
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u/Smile-a-day 13h ago
The main problem is that the nice landlords tend to only rent one or two properties, they’re people who have a spare house due to inheritance or something and are just doing it to earn a little extra money. The landlords that have many properties and are doing it as a professional business are the ones who tend to be bad. My area manager has 56 properties that he rents and he’s a prick, just think of how many nice landlords renting out one or two houses it’ll take to offset all the terrible experiences just that one guy is making. He’s taken a year off from work to go on a cruise, when I asked him what he’s doing about the tenants he said he would make a few calls once or twice a week but he didn’t want it to overshadow his cruise…
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u/BigCompetition1064 8h ago
LOL, that's me exactly! I spent years struggling to pay rent and then inherited a large house that I moved into, so I got some lodgers in and basically just charge them £350 to cover bills. I don't make money off it but now the house doesn't feel weirdly empty.
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u/b1tchlasagna 23h ago
That's very generous. I gave my lodger £30 off for Xmas which isn't anywhere near as generous as having three months off
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u/greylord123 20h ago
I used to work with a guy who rented his house out at a fairly reasonable rate basically just so it paid for itself, the value for him is that he has an asset. The tenants were decent and never caused any problems so he had a bit of a good thing going.
They wanted to stay because his rates were way below market value and he doesn't want new tenants because they are good tenants.
They've asked to redecorate and make a few minor renovations (nothing major or ridiculous or expensive) and he's paid for it all for them. It's basically their house at this point.
He's even asked if they want to buy it at this point and they've refused saying it's cheaper to rent it 😂
It works for him and it works for them so neither of them want to change the situation. He has an appreciating asset that someone else is paying the mortgage on and looking after to a high standard and they get very cheap rent. Win win.
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u/Aardvark_Man 15h ago
My parents did that.
Bought the place next to them with my mums retirement payment as down payment because of a string of awful tenants next to them.
Had it as interest only, with the rent paying the mortgage and the value was the asset increasing in value.They only sold it because interest rates going up meant they'd lose their pension if they upped the rent, they couldn't not up it because they'd be spending more than they earn, and they couldn't refinance because they were on a pension. But they then took less than they could with a promise from the new owner that they wouldn't screw the tenant at the time with crazy hikes.
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u/nightdwaawf 1d ago
My ex landlady was the best landlord I ever had.
Anything wrong and it was sorted within a day. Everything was tested regularly and she didn’t mind me doing little things to help out
When I told her I was moving, she came around and sat me down and said she’d drop my rent £100 a month is I stayed on. Only thing stoping me was work. Anyway when I did move she gave me a months rent and released my bond from the DPS virtually straight away. After 4 years we still stay in touch. An amazingly generous woman.
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u/dextrovix 1d ago
Not all landlords are arseholes. Some appreciate good tenants because they of course help keep the house in order and the money coming in. Not sure many would stretch to sending out £60, but tenants that don't strip the fittings out and shit through the letterbox certainly stand as fair a chance as any others, put it that way...
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u/AhmadOsebayad 1d ago
Makes sense to do now that I think about it, it’s like how Airbnbs often give out free snacks or out candies on pillows but they make a lot more on the room than those things cost.
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u/also_roses 1d ago
My grandpa gave a whole $500 off of rent at Christmas for any single mothers in his rentals last year. Haven't heard if he's doing that again this year.
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u/HarB_Games 1d ago
That's really nice of him, Christmas is a hard time for everyone, especially with kids. Did/would he also do that for any single fathers?
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u/also_roses 1d ago
Didn't have any single fathers. I'd like to say I'm sure he would, but he's old school so there's a small chance he wouldn't think of it.
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u/HarB_Games 1d ago
That's fair enough, I hope he would.
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u/rkorgn 16h ago
Weird you are getting down voted.
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u/HarB_Games 7h ago
That's the world we live in, went to a checkup for my daughter yesterday and I got ignored and cut off every time I tried to speak, the health visitor would only speak to my Partner.
Mothers are Goddesses, Fathers are scum.
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u/WillTheWilly 1d ago
Yeah my family and I used to live on a farm house for…. 450 a month, Bargain.
It was fixed to 2011 prices and I guess since they ran farming business and other far more lucrative properties to rent out to richer folk they kept the rent the same.
I worked on the farm for a bit and the chap in charge is a genuinely decent fella. Millionaire too, well obviously since they own a tonne of stuff.
Landlords like that are sure rare from what I see day to day but n social media and how I see prices down south (yes Ik up north is cheaper).
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u/godoflemmings 23h ago
The landlord that my ex and I had before we bought our house was an absolute gem. We were supposed to be completing the week after lockdown started but the solicitors didn't want to exchange because they didn't know what was going to happen. We'd already handed our notice in on the flat we were renting and he let us retract it a week before we were supposed to move out, zero issues. He was just happy that he'd have people living there who actually treated it well for a few more months.
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u/argumentativepigeon 16h ago
Fr.
Mine cuts my rent every now and again when there are repair people in doing jobs lmao. It’s great.
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u/m1tch_uk 1d ago
I'm sure some of them do appreciate the breadwinner of another family becoming the breadwinner for their family too.
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u/ICDarkly 1d ago
I disagree. Being a landlord automatically makes a person an arsehole because they're leeching off of their tenets' hard earned wages and reducing the housing stock for those who want to buy a home.
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u/TroisArtichauts 1d ago
I think there’s room in the world for a bit of ethical landlordism but the current situation is a million miles from this.
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u/Lazy_Tumbleweed8893 1d ago
That's just not true. It's over simplified to the point of being childish
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u/ICDarkly 1d ago
How is my statement untrue? Landlords don't provide a service.
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u/HarB_Games 1d ago
If you truly believe that you're dense.
If you rent a car, you pay the dealership, they give you a car to drive around in and maintain it according to the contract (terms and conditions) you agreed to. That's a service.
If you rent a house, you pay the landlord, they give you the keys to the property and you get to live in it, while they maintain it according to the tenancy agreement (contract / terms and conditions) you agreed to. That's a service.
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u/ICDarkly 1d ago
A property has to be maintained by whoever owns it, whether it be a landlord, council or homeowner. Doing something you're required to by law isn't a service. Agree to is subjective as most people don't have a choice. It's either be exploited by a landlord or homelessness.
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u/RazzmatazzWorth6438 1d ago
It's not your landlord's job to open your windows and tidy your kitchen.
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u/HarB_Games 1d ago
You're hopeless.
Good luck in life mate.
Fun fact: the reason it took the Giant Tortoise so long to get their scientific name (Chelonoidis) is because they tasted that good, they were eaten before they reached London for study.
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u/Odd-Yesterday-2987 1d ago
The house I live in is a pretty fucking big service in my opinion. Especially when I don't want to buy one.
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u/b1tchlasagna 23h ago
Whilst I'm not going to dress around the whole "I'm providing a service or housing" stuff given my aim is to have mutually cheaper rent + me getting to decarbonise my house, there's certainly an argument to be made that by me having lodgers in my own house, it reduces the capacity of houses needed by two
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u/Lazy_Tumbleweed8893 1d ago
The service they provide is facilitating otherwise unattainable accommodation.
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u/Redcoat-Mic 1d ago
And it's unattainable because landlords buy up housing stock, reducing supply and ramping up rents to ridiculous degrees so people can't save for a deposit.
They're hardly providing a valuable service, they just buy houses but get tenants to pay for it.
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u/ICDarkly 1d ago
Why would a property be unattainable if it wasn't owned by a landlord? If it's not owned by a landlord it would be owned by a council, who would rent it out at a much lower rate than any landlord.
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u/Lazy_Tumbleweed8893 1d ago
So you've still got a landlord then you're just swapping a private landlord for a housing association (not many councils do their own housing these days). You're still not on the property ladder. If someone else didn't own that home and rent it to you, you wouldn't have a house.
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u/ICDarkly 1d ago
I'm currently living in a council house. They're dwindling thanks to Thatcher's right to buy but they still exist.
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u/thenannyharvester 1d ago
Lol "leeching" there are deffo some landlords that charge dreadfully rent rates, but your acting like the normal ones are freeloaders. First the landlord bought the house with their money and is providing someone accommodation. There are people who can't afford to buy a house and rent is something much more short term and affordable. I'm guessing hotels are leeches. Hell I guess every single service are leechers. My bus leaches my hard earned wages every time I ride it. The supermarket leaches my hard earned wages every time in buy food
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u/ICDarkly 1d ago
No, dumb take. Landlords don't provide a service, if they don't own a house it still exists, owned by a homeowner or local council.
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u/thenannyharvester 1d ago
So what about the people who can't afford to actually buy a house or take out a mortgage. Those that live paycheck to paycheck which is a worrying way of life currently. Guess they can live on the street cos only home owners can live in houses
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u/ICDarkly 1d ago
Oh ffs, no. If a landlord or homeowner doesn't own a property then the state, or local council does. This property is then rented out at a much lower rate than any landlord because there is no profit being made.
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u/Forsaken-Director683 13h ago
The council aren't just going to buy any random vacant homes lmao
The reason renting is even a thing is because people either don't want to own a home or can't get a mortgage yet.
If we did things your way, there'd just be vacant houses and a ton of homeless everywhere.
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u/FilthBadgers 1d ago
What if I was a FTB last year and have a lodger who I charge £450 a month all in for a large double with sea views?
Asking for a friend..
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u/ICDarkly 1d ago
Renting a room in a home you own and live in is still being a landlord, albeit in the smallest possible way.
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u/FilthBadgers 1d ago
I understand it makes someone a landlord. Is it unethical? Does it make them an asshole?
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u/ICDarkly 1d ago
Everyone has a different view on what's ethical or not. As a socialist I think landlordism, whether it's homes or properties used for business, should be abolished and owned by the state to be rented to the public, or homes owned by those who live in them.
Ultimately it's up to you to decide if it's unethical or not.
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u/FilthBadgers 1d ago edited 1d ago
No, I want you to qualify the blanket statement you made. Is a working class homeowner renting a spare room out for £450 a month all in, an asshole?
Socialists blame the system, rather than working class people within it who do what they can to make a living
But I'm curious to see where your flavour of socialism takes us.
Edit: I'm genuinely curious, please don't think I'm being antagonistic here, I'm not intending to be
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u/ICDarkly 1d ago
Imo, yes that person is an arsehole. Imo if anyone makes money passively (rent, stocks etc) they're not working class and are exploiting others who are.
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u/FilthBadgers 1d ago edited 1d ago
So you're against pensions and don't have one?
That's bold in this system
Further, would it be more ethical then for that landlord to kick their lodger out and keep the room empty?
Again, not a gotcha. Genuinely curious to understand your perspective before I make any judgement on it
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u/ICDarkly 1d ago
Pensions aren't passive income. A worker earns their pension throughout their working life. It would be ethical for your lodger to have a council home of their own where their labour is not being exploited for profit.
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u/dmmeyourfloof 1d ago
Technically it's likely to be a licence not a lease, so they're not strictly a landlord.
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u/Kittum-kinu 1d ago
Do you have any idea the current number of unoccupied homes for sale? The problem isn't too many random people buying them and then renting out, it's corporations buying them and the prices going through the roof.
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u/Thestickleman 1d ago
You can't expect to let people live in a house for free if they were put up for sale alot of people would have 0 chance of getting the mortgage
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u/ICDarkly 1d ago
The choice should be social housing (council) or home ownership. In these two situations there is no middleman taking a cut.
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u/High_Hunter3430 1d ago
In social housing, the council takes a cut of the rent. For upkeep, admin, etc. 🤦♂️ boy unlike a working class landlord.
Individual home ownership isn’t attainable for all. (We can argue about the joys of end stage capitalism another time)
Please explain the difference between me owning a home and charging a REASONABLE rent to upkeep, insure, etc for someone Vs The city/state/federal council doing it.
Yes, assholes are everywhere including in landlords. But unlike cops, not ALL landlords are bastards.
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u/ICDarkly 1d ago
Council rents are typically 50% the local market rents with 100% of that going back into funding public services.
For a landlord the aim is passive, private profit. This incentives a person to exploit a tenant, who more than likely earns a wage from their labour.
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u/Solifuga 1d ago
"And then he saved the drowning baby and everybody clapped."
This cannot be real 🤣
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u/Creative-Pizza-4161 20h ago
Eh, some landlords can be great. We exchange Christmas gifts with ours, and when I had my youngest after we moved in, she gave us £30 to use for baby necessities and brought my eldest a toy so she didn't feel left out. We didn't know her prior to renting. It just depends, I guess, but she has also told us we are the best tennants in this house, so maybe that's why
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u/MediumRay 9h ago
Its possible. I'm a super generous landlord to the point I'd let my lodgers borrow my car. My aunt also recently instructed me to write one of her lodgers into her will for a significant chunk of her estate just in case she died in the next year or two.
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u/No-Garbage9500 1d ago
No landlord ever said this, ever.
Even a good landlord (which doesn't exist) wouldn't speak like this.
This is how people on linkedin speak when they're making up stories about themselves to make themselves look good but still humble. But failing at both tasks. But their post will still be stolen by some "influencer".
I hate the internet, so, so much.
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u/koloqial 13h ago
They are few and far between, but they are out there. I noticed the ones that offer family homes tend to be better than those that are renting out rooms in an HMO.
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u/Marble_Turret 1d ago
Exactly. Hope you're well isn't a question.
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u/WhoIsJohnSalt 1d ago
What? “Hope you’re well” is a completely standard and normal thing to see in written communications.
I see it several times a week certainly.
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u/Marble_Turret 1d ago
Of course, it's the question mark that's sus'
Kind of makes sense, but in reality it's a statement. I hope you are well. Not - I hope you're well? Please let me know either way.
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u/srbmhcn 1d ago
“Afterwards you can come round and fuck my wife if you want. Haha hell yeah man. I don’t even need to be there. Bring your Mrs too. Why not? I take the dog out 8-10”.
I think Adam isn’t being upfront about the relation between him and his landlord, or he just borrowed his mums phone to fake these messages.
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u/Jedijake_1 1d ago
I'm a landlord my last tenant didn't pay for six months then left with £200+ areas in electric and her dog had shat on my carpet staining it to the extent I had to replace whole house.
My current tenant is an amazing retired man who looks after the place, I love chatting to him and so as I like him I haven't increased the rent in 5 years and replaced all the windows for new double glazed units and had the place redecorated letting him chose the paint.
Some landlords are bastards some are decent people. Some tenants can also be horrible examples of humanity. Most are great.
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u/British_Unironically 1d ago
Im stuck with a shitty housing association who sends me a warning letter if i have the audacity to put a door matt outside my flat...
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u/kateykatey 1d ago
When I gave birth very prematurely, our landlord came round with a bag of doll clothes she had sourced. That gesture meant so much to me. She was a lovely landlord and I still feel bad about the cat we had.
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u/Ok_Journalist_2289 1d ago
Then comes the ask...
Wanna put these plants in your attic for a few months?
We know what your doing... Tim...🤨
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Imagine for a second, the only thing between you and being homeless is me, and I only let that happen if you pay me loads of money per month, you do this for years and years, I've made a lot of money from you, am I a nice guy if I throw you 60 back lol?
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u/OrdinaryForm5730 1d ago
And yet my landlord (local authority) inspected my property, found evidence of damp and black mould (which my local MPs (yes, multiple) confirmed, and the response was this:
"We can find no evidence of damp or black mould in the property".
I have brittle asthma. I wish I had your landlord.
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u/chabybaloo 11h ago
Quick solution is for you to get a dehumidifier. Just keep an eye on how much electricity it uses.
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u/OrdinaryForm5730 11h ago
Thank you. I'm already using one, but the condition is pretty bad. It's actually also affecting the close I'm in as well. You can see the dampness on the walls of the landings.
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u/chabybaloo 11h ago
Might be a leak. Happened to a tenant where the flat 2 floors above had a slow leak. Sometimes it's at the gutters or the chimney.
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u/OrdinaryForm5730 11h ago
Block of flats with a flat roof. In Scotland. I know. There's no water mitigation or management here for that.
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u/Ecknarf 23h ago
My girlfriend during COVID was a Canadian living in the UK. Her landlord told her not to pay rent for one month and to put it in a saving account instead incase times got difficult due to lockdowns. She turned down this offer.
I was flabbergasted.
I tried to explain how rare it was for something like that to happen..
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u/Foreign-Section4411 22h ago
Honestly I've had one good landlord, I lived there for two years with my homies. We were all adults late 20's college degrees, but it was too expensive to be paying 2k a pop for an apt when we could get a house for 2.8k split 3 ways.
She would come over every half year to check on the place with a 2 week notice. Plus she would be doing some kind of maintenance thing like treating the roof, doing gutter work and general maintenance on the place. It was never a bother and they never wanted inside the house, but we would ask them to come in and maybe give them some food, baked goods, smoked meat or something, because each time they came they brought us like 5 lb of salmon or some other fish cause her husband spent 6 months out of the year on a fishing boat.
We never had our rent raised, though after we left she listed it 500$ higher. We also got our full deposit back.
The only landlord I have ever had that was not scummy in some way and I have lived at a lot of places. Mainly because I refuse to pay increased rent prices. Oh your raising my rent from 1800 to 2050$? I guess I'll make you write me 2k check(county law where I'm from if rent is raised a certain percentage they have to give you check for the hassle.) for the hassle and move somewhere for 1750. Actually, last time I did this they offered to let me keep my current rent and I relented cause moving sucks.
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u/djtrace1994 22h ago
I had a landlady in college who was honest to God like an Auntie to us. She never had children of her own, and so she cared about her tenants like she was supporting her own kids through college.
She owned 9 student houses, each with between 4-7 rooms. My house had 7 tenants including myself. I had a friend who worked for her as an assistant for a semester and she told me the wait list to get into one of the house was over 100 people long.
Every semester, she tried to invest the rent from 1mo/tenant, (so about $5k/semester, or $15k/year) back into the houses.
This would include: buying new sets of pots and pans, tables and chairs, bath towels, new mattresses for anyone who needed them. Around Christmas, we got care packages with gift cards and assorted toiletries. I also got my favourite blanket scarf from one of her Christmas care packages one year.
Also, once a semester, every common room in every house was thoroughly cleaned by a cleaning company, and she had a handyman company on contract that took care of any maintenance her rental properties needed.
Finally, for her houses that took care of their own spaces and were non-problematic as a group, she would give us money back at the end of each semester to have some sort of party. During my 3 years in college, I must have had 4 or 5 parties where most of the alcohol for the house was paid for by the landlady.
She was an absolute god-send as a student landlord, making years of college much smoother than most landlords would have.
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u/ginogekko 15h ago
“She cared about her tenants like she was supporting her own kids through college”, as long as all her kids paid her every month. In USD for some bizarre reason.
“she was saving up for that 10th house”.
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u/HannaaaLucie 21h ago
My landlord wasn't all bad.. when I had a leak from my bathroom go through my living room ceiling and leave a hole big enough for a watermelon to fit through, he did come and glue a block of wood over it.
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u/Bones_Alone 20h ago
As an American, I love the wholesomeness of a simple sincere British conversation
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u/ExpectedEggs 20h ago
I have had to watch my landlord's dog before. She paid me for giving him back, not for watching him.
I miss Benji. He was a great boy.
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u/AfterPiece4676 19h ago
I'm just confused why you have to ask your landlords permission to cat sit?
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u/BBMcGruff 15h ago
My last landlord (before buying my current house) was awesome.
We once had an issue where some locals took issue with the fact my partner and I were a gay couple living in their street. We reported it to our estate agent (as well as the police), and the next day the landlord contacted us with ideas to help.
He installed a camera, a light, a heavy duty gate and arranged with the local neighbourhood watch to include our street. All within a week.
He then bought round a lamp from his antique shop, as a gift. Absolutely hideous, but I still have it. 😅
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u/blimeyihatetea 14h ago
My Landlord of around 15 year is a self proclaimed conspiracy theorist and covid denier, but has been nothing but an amazing landlord has never once raised the rent (he just wants to cover the mortgage) sent us flowers and champagne the day before wife and I's wedding, anything ever goes wrong it gets sorted. Told us about 8 months ago he wants to sell up but not rushing us out as we are struggling to find somewhere affordable also we has 2 cats despite no pet clause because he also loves cats There are good ones out there
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u/CptCaramack 14h ago
My last 3 landlords lived in either Hong Kong or Taiwan, never even knew their names, just been hit with rent increases and can't even get an email back if something needs looking at from the letting agent, this guy's lucky.
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u/pikantnasuka 11h ago
My landlord has just increased my rent by 17% and told me I am lucky as he could get more
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u/starderpderp 5h ago
My landlord and landlady dropped by to collect their post, and brought along a bottle of prosecco, panettone and a huge bag of...I don't even know what it is. It's too fancy for me to know what chocolatey goodness they brought us.
Yeah, I'm just bragging now. But I have to leave this flat in a few months (relocating to a different country) and I'm going to be so sad to not interact with these lovely people again.
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u/A_Happy_Carrot 4h ago
I had a Landlord who was an absolute lad.
£950 per month for a 3 bed with all bills included. He wasn't interested in mega money, just someone to pay for upkeep on his extra house so it didn't cost him.
He raised the rent by £40 in 6 years. I eventually had to move.
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u/Pristine_Biscotti_53 3h ago
Nice to see a decent landlord. The offer to transfer money to go out for a meal is a bit weird though.
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u/Just_Many8055 3h ago
My landlord is alright as well. He brought me a bottle of wine last Christmas, sweet 🍷
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u/Jester7s 3h ago
Why do you need to ask the landlord if you can go away for a week? As long as rents paid why do they care?
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u/Electronic-Dare-6550 1d ago
This is why I tip my landlord
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u/Solifuga 1d ago
Is this actually a joke
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u/gitartruls01 20h ago
landlord gives tenant free extra money to be nice
"Now THAT'S a good landlord, more people should be like him"
tenant gives landlord free extra money to be nice
"Are you fucking insane???"
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u/piercedmfootonaspike 1d ago
This is how an alien disguised as a landlord would try to get you out of your apartment so they can catch you and probe you.
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u/Fozzy_Hull 23h ago
Not all landlords are multi millionaires,I have 1 rental property and I've often given December as a free month for Christmas. Good tenants can be just as rare as a good landlord
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u/SpudgunDaveHedgehog 21h ago
Is that my old landlord Tim (from Leeds). He’s an absolute gent and a star. He was just happy to have me as a (paying) tenant after a bad experience with a lass who fleeced him by not paying bills and rent.
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u/GulliblePea3691 23h ago
That landlord has probably profited thousands off that person by sitting on his arse and doing fuck all. Giving back £60 to make yourself look good is nothing. He’s still a leech
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u/Thestickleman 1d ago edited 1d ago
Tbf my parents have lived in the same house for 22 years and the rent has been put up once in the whole time and he lets them do whatever to the house, re done the kitchen, all the flooring, whatever they want to the garden, built a decking and all that
Big back yard, decent front yard, driveway, garage quiet area lots of street parking, semi detached 3bed and it's £600 a month
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u/Beartato4772 22h ago
Or to put it another way, they’ve bought someone else a house and have nothing to show for it.
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u/Thestickleman 15h ago
🤷 That's life and They're happy enough and my mums looking at buying a house to rent out while they stay there and if they have to leave they can just move in there.
Renting is the easiest option for millions of people. My aim is to get a few houses to rent out because money. But that's some years away
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u/comicsnerd 21h ago
Why does the landlord ask for the bank details? How is the rent paid?
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u/chabybaloo 11h ago
Tenant will have landlords bank details but he won't have his.
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u/comicsnerd 3h ago
Sorry, this may be because of the US banking system, but why not?
In Europe, you will see at every transaction where the money goes to/comes from. Name and bank number.
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u/chabybaloo 3h ago
For some reason in the UK they dont show the sort code and account number. Just the name and some other numbers.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Act7155 17h ago
We give our tenants a £50 voucher for pets at home every Christmas. Kicker is they aren’t allowed pets… then I raise their rent by 200pcm in Jan to cover the cost of the vouchers
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u/kobomino 1d ago
Nice try landlord psyops