2025-12-08
Landlords - a group of people just out to make as much money as they can from the poor and dispossessed? So how does this differ from any other business?
In my far away youth I rented a flat beside a railway line so that I could attend my workplace, which was in an unfamiliar part of the country. Looking back it was quite OK - one or two niggles but I think I gave as many as I got! I had previously rented during my workplace year as a sandwich course student - again, it was OK except that when I left, my deposit was obviously firmly ensconced and not to be parted from it's current billet.
You could say that I was treated badly, but I was also learning lessons about life which would stand me in good stead.
Fast forward to today and a landlord puts his side of the rentings story, and yes, there is no aspect of life that government cannot make worse whilst professing the best of intentions - especially by meddling in the relationship between landlord and tenant. I guess this answers the question posed in paragraph one.
