Comments on: Landlords credit checks and happy tenants – two surveys http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/2008/11/16/landlords-credit-checks-and-happy-tenants-%e2%80%93-two-surveys/ From landlord and tenant solicitor Tessa Shepperson Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tessa Shepperson http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/2008/11/16/landlords-credit-checks-and-happy-tenants-%e2%80%93-two-surveys/comment-page-1/#comment-3009 Tessa Shepperson Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:24:24 +0000 http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/?p=193#comment-3009 I wrote a post >> <a href="http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/2009/10/25/how-to-protect-yourself-against-rogue-landlords/" rel="nofollow">here</a> (how to protect yourself against rogue landlords) about tenants checking up on their landlords and the post gives details of a company which provides a landlord referencing service. This is a good idea and no doubt more tenants will start doing this. There is a blog post >> <a href="http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/2007/06/13/the-tenants-dilemma/" rel="nofollow">here</a> (the tenants dilemma), which is quite a few years old (2007), on a report done by the CAB on retaliatory eviction. Which sadly is with us still. Although most landlords want tenants to stay as long as possible. I wrote a post >> here (how to protect yourself against rogue landlords) about tenants checking up on their landlords and the post gives details of a company which provides a landlord referencing service. This is a good idea and no doubt more tenants will start doing this.

There is a blog post >> here (the tenants dilemma), which is quite a few years old (2007), on a report done by the CAB on retaliatory eviction. Which sadly is with us still. Although most landlords want tenants to stay as long as possible.

]]> By: Jon Patience http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/2008/11/16/landlords-credit-checks-and-happy-tenants-%e2%80%93-two-surveys/comment-page-1/#comment-3008 Jon Patience Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:10:04 +0000 http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/?p=193#comment-3008 Tessa, are you aware of any services which will warn a tenant of a poor landlord? Or how many feel that they cannot assert their rights because Section 21 gives their Landlord carte blanche to evict them in retaliation? Don't get me wrong, I get on fine with my Landlord. But it would be very interesting, for example, to know how many tenants have been threatened by their Landlord - a figure that is conspicuously missing. Sadly, tenants have little choice but to rent a house based on nothing other than a "hunch" about their prospective Landlord - I'm genuinely interested as to why it's fine for a tenant to have to follow a hunch but not a Landlord? Tessa, are you aware of any services which will warn a tenant of a poor landlord? Or how many feel that they cannot assert their rights because Section 21 gives their Landlord carte blanche to evict them in retaliation?

Don’t get me wrong, I get on fine with my Landlord. But it would be very interesting, for example, to know how many tenants have been threatened by their Landlord – a figure that is conspicuously missing.

Sadly, tenants have little choice but to rent a house based on nothing other than a “hunch” about their prospective Landlord – I’m genuinely interested as to why it’s fine for a tenant to have to follow a hunch but not a Landlord?

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