Letting agents and greedy landlords
02-September-2010
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Wealthy people who buy up houses to let and their treacherous minions the letting agents that bleed their tenants dry make me sick.  Such a despicable example of pure greed and what is the government doing about it?  As usual, absolutely nothing! "There you go, of course you can buy as many houses as you like, and don’t forget to rent them out for as much as you can get so your tenants can cover you’re mortgage."

I really hate way the housing market works these days.  It's very polarised, designed to make the rich richer and the poor poorer!  There is a real shortage of 'affordable housing' in this country now that the property market has gone nuts and house prices have gone through the roof.  The only real option for some of us is to rent, and unless you’re a single teenage mother or an asylum seeker, renting a council house is pretty much out of the question.  So what else do you do?  You rent a house privately of course and that leaves you at the mercy of unscrupulous landlords and their letting agents.

It really grates on me that there is no such thing as fair and reasonable rent.  Landlords are always hiking up the price to get as much money as they can, squeezing tenants for every last penny.  It’s just ridiculous, particularly here in the South East where we live together like sardines.  Some private landlords that rent the house themselves are okay.  I have had good experiences as well as bad.  So many of them however, are just out to get you to pay their mortgages on their second home.  If these people hadn’t bought up all the houses there might be a few left that the rest of us could afford!

House Rent, Letting Agent

When it comes to renting a house, another thing I hate is inspection day.  The letting agency that I rent through at the moment, insist on inspecting the property every six months even though I’ve been there for nearly two and a half years and have always looked after the property!  I have nothing to hide and I am clean and tidy etc., but I just don’t like the thought of these people wandering in when I’m at work (they don’t do inspections at weekend) and nosing around.  It feels almost… degrading.


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You are paying landlords when you stay in a motel. In fact all you are doing is paying the most wealthy landlords when you do this.
*Jackie  30-Aug-2010 10:44

 
For the record I would never rent a house from a parasite landlord. They are the bedbugs of humanity. I choose to stay in hotels and motels, even if it costs me double. There is no way I would hand my money over to a landlord
*the real athair_siochain,  28-Aug-2010 05:37

 
Trent B another ID from beachsunriver, a parasite landlord who lives in Sydney and charges $380 a week rent for a cubby house , you are lower than a snakes belly.
*the real athair_siochain,  27-Aug-2010 09:20

 
A question to the real athair siochain.

I see that you travel the world constantly, moving from one place to another all the time.
Tell me, how are you funding this life style?
Are you staying in rental accomodation when you do this?
*Trent B  23-Aug-2010 22:59

 
So you finally admit that your a liar.

I always knew it. You have always lied and stretched the truth in all your posts. You never really had any figures but you made them up and strtched the truth in all of them. Thats why you could never provide any proof in the form of web links. You certainly do not do renters any favours with your lies. You only make them look bad.

Do not come back Asshair
*John  19-Aug-2010 23:50

 
I had to find a way to get into the landlord site. what better way than pretend to be a landlord. a read of my post shows I still give it to the landlords,.

PFG why not get a few guys to give the snoopers a lesson, they need to be put in their place,,,,,,
*the real athair_siochain,  14-Aug-2010 07:16

 
Inspection every 6 months we wish! We have one every 2 months through Clyde Letting in Glasgow. Recently received 2 within the last 3 weeks, 2nd one was unauthorised when we were away on Holiday. But they did leave a compliments slip to let us know they had been snooping while we were away. Bless them.

Will be contacting them first thing Monday to complain about this ongoing "harasment"
*PFG  14-Aug-2010 02:38

 
I must say that this is interesting. This Athiar guy says he despises landlords in here yet openly admits to being a landlord on another site. Either way, he has been caught out as a liar.
*Shirley  12-Aug-2010 20:22

 
Would the two of you please take your private fight elsewhere? As none of us know the facts we cannot comment and are really not interested anyway.
*anon  12-Aug-2010 11:14

 
Athair Siochain.
I thought you said you hated landlords. Yet in the "Landlord.com" forums you have actually admitted that you were a landlord?

So are you telling lies here or are you telling lies there?

Either way I think this proves once and for all that you constantly lie.

See below. I have copied for all to see!

athair_siochain

Registered: 03/05/10
Posts: 9

03/25/10 at 06:43 PM
#22
I have never told a tenant to leave they do have a 12month lease, I make it known to them they can stay till they get something better, one tenant has been in the house -- 11 yrs paid the rent two weeks in advance all that time, and the garden is great. one time he asked me if he could paint the bedrooms, I said yes and gave him the paint, it is more than 3yrs since I had a property vacant.I exchange greetings cards during the year, so we are all happy, so you have to understand how I feel when most of the landlords I know are ratbags, make jokes about the very people who pay to look after the LLs properties, my properties are well looked after, so we are all happy. that is the way it should be,,,,,I have been on many newspaper sites in the US over the years and I find a lot of articles on greedy landlords, so I assumed it was worse there than here in Surfers Paradise
*John  12-Aug-2010 05:56

 
Below we see a post from our good old friend Athair Siochain [real name asshair].
Read below. We see him giving everyone his opinion and advice on being a landlord.
Yes thats right. In this thread he says he`s a landlord, but in weekly gripe he says he isn`t. So once again we see him telling lies.

Liar exposed.

Landlord.com

Username:- athair_siochain

Registered: 03/05/10
Posts: 9

03/25/10 at 06:43 PM
#22
Athair Siochain says:-
I have never told a tenant to leave they do have a 12month lease, I make it known to them they can stay till they get something better, one tenant has been in the house -- 11 yrs paid the rent two weeks in advance all that time, and the garden is great. one time he asked me if he could paint the bedrooms, I said yes and gave him the paint, it is more than 3yrs since I had a property vacant.I exchange greetings cards during the year, so we are all happy, so you have to understand how I feel when most of the landlords I know are ratbags, make jokes about the very people who pay to look after the LLs properties, my properties are well looked after, so we are all happy. that is the way it should be,,,,,I have been on many newspaper sites in the US over the years and I find a lot of articles on greedy landlords, so I assumed it was worse there than here in Surfers Paradise.

*****An interesting post from someone who says they hate landlords. Either way, we`ve caught him lying once again.
*John  12-Aug-2010 05:50

 
Not quite true, you sold them all.
You said that these violins were half the retail value.

You forgot to mention that they were still triple the price you paid for them.

Asshair actually made money out of people who trusted him.

Shame on you Asshair! Shame on you!
*John  12-Aug-2010 05:02


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