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Universal Credit Landlords – Are you not being paid up to date when a tenant leaves you? Apparently a lot of Landlords are coming across the below more often now and have been asking ‘How come I haven’t been paid for last house?&#8217…

Monday 3rd February at 20:30 BBC1 Panorma is broadcasting an episode titled ‘Cashing in on the Housing Crisis.’
For the landlords interested in the Government and Councils slating us for maybe a bedroom 2cm too small
The post BBC1 Panorma &…

A Northampton Landlord sent me this document and asked if I could get it out there. It would be great to get local landlord’s comments, make sure we inform those that do not already know and ask them to contact their Councillors etc.
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Nottingham homeless in the post again. Nottingham has the highest by A LONG WAY homeless in the region. Us Landlords all know this is because of the Labour Council Selective Licensing who blame it on Tory Govt Benefit Cuts Universal Credit UC.
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Below is a report from Nottingham Council they didn’t want you to see. The one several of us contributed to.
They agreed to send it to us voluntarily, but they didn’t. They paid an external barrister to issue a report on homelessness and th…

In 16 months Nottingham City Council has only managed to issue full licences to fewer than 3% of the applications received and apparently they’ve only done 176 inspections from approximately £9 million+ pounds in.
This equates to over £51,136.00 …

For Landlords who don’t already know Nottingham Council has increased its licensing fee to a whopping £890 and tenants you really need to start standing up and shouting! There will be no houses left to rent soon.
They are charging £890 per house …

Email to Dash accreditation list: Licensing is forcing tenants into homelessness.
Linda, Tell Licensing I’d like full refunds please, I don’t want the houses any more.
Tell em I’m in Mexico for a month. All houses running fine.
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Some figures enclosed, some of you landlords may enjoy for your ammunition elsewhere. Click here to download Selective Licensing Update pdf.
What is interesting to me is only 642 licenses have been issued. Imagine if you had to wait that long 16 months…

Dear Universal Credit Stage two,
This complaint is about you sending letters to me/for me, to someone else in Nottingham where I do not live. Breaking data protection rules and not correcting your mistake quickly. So simple to solve
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Nottingham City Council 5-year Selective Licensing period
A typical family home, under this scheme will see rents impacted by circa £40.00 pcm over a 5-year period. (See table) We have not accounted for other pressures such as landlord tax changes
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This Makes an absolute mockery of their hunting for landlords to place on their ‘rogue’ database that they now plan to give the public access to.
There have only been 10 Landlords put on so far!
When will they learn
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Letter I sent back responding to Nottingham council Selective Licencing demands:
I’m still getting these and I don’t know if they automated or not. As it’s a Sunday, so is someone doing some overtime pushing them out manually?
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Dear David Mellen,
You say in the Nottingham Post ‘We need to listen more’ and you talk about Homeless. I’m gathering you are acknowledging mistakes have been made.
I am the biggest Housing Benefit Landlord in Nottingham and one of the biggest Landlord…

Letter to Nottingham Selective Licensing,
Please pass my words onto the powers that be, so they can see what happens in the REAL WORLD on GROUND LEVEL from us that actually house people.
Screenshot enclosed of Barclaycard message received today.
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