Letting agents and greedy landlords

I have just been ripped off renting my flat from a company called Xpress Properties or BEST 4 HOMES Ltd in Oxford - the director is known as Carl Afilika - this man has taken deposits and rent and not paid it across to the landlord - he is using mailing addresses for offices and his only intent is to defraud tenants and landlords alike - DO NOT DEAL with him and report any incidents to the Police and Trading Standards. Please also read past threads on this man on this site - I wish I had.

If the people who are complaining about paying high rent suddenly found themselves owning some property, they would charge what they could get for that property.

Athair Siochain.
You say you want to rid the world of landlords because they are evil.

Tell us then, what solutions have you in place for the people who choose to rent.
Working temperarily over seas or inter state, those studying at uni away from home, those building new houses, those that have sold a house and looking for another, all choose to rent, those who want to try living in a new area before committing to buying.

What is the alternative for the hundreds of thousands of people who find renting convenient?

I guess the bottom line is landlords are here to stay because rental properties are not only needed but wanted as well. Sure, you can jump up and down and ask for landlords to be hanged on websites all day, but people will always choose to rent.

So unless you can give us an alternative, nothing willchange my angry little friend!

Anarchist is a partial anagram of athair siochain, do we understand him a bit more now?

Asshair. In the 10 years you say you`ve been working towards ridding the world of landlords, have you actually come up with ay solutions for those people who choose to rent. See examples below.

1. Uni students studying away from home need temperary accomodation want to rent.
2. Travelling work conditions. We rent
3. While building a home. We rent
4. While trying a sea or tree change. We rent
5. After selling our homes and looking for others. We rent
6. Extended holidays. We rent

What alternative solutions do you have for people who need to rent temperary accomodation?

Have you got any answers?

Or are you really just all talk?

I could have become a landlord . owned hundreds of houses because I understand how the system works, also have worked as a general building forman/clerk of works on major building projects throughout the world, not many landlords could claim that kind of experience.
I am not that kind of greedy human being, I do not pay rent as I built my own home to live in, not to make money,. would never use others to pay for my pleasurable lifestyle. on the human side I have organised major festivals around the world, so I do know how to organise. add to that the knowledge I have regarding the activities of greedy landlords and moneylenders. how they have filled the seats of parliament and our courts with their like., is going to be a great tool in the future , the richest woman in the world has made all her money from collecting rent, and many of those properties were acquired by her ancestors taking out the owners of properties and hanging them, then claiming ownership, this is fact, and it can never be hidden. landlords are the bedbugs of humanity, I wrote that 15 years ago and it is now common knowledge all around the world., finally I am not what some call a socialist because most socialist governments in the world are conservative., Capitalism and Communism are no different, they both exploit the people who actually do the real work,, they both execute those who try to discredit their corrupt activities,

If you are not on the property ladder yet, there are plenty of bargain houses out there to buy in poorer areas that need doing up a bit, spend your cash on this type of house, and don't waste your cash on flash cars and holidays, within five years you should be able to move up the property ladder a bit, that is how it goes, that is what I did, got around on a cycle till I was 26, then cheap motorbikes till 34, then a robin, now at 48, two 940 volvos and a detatched house with big driveway and small mortgage,

After the career, the house is the priority where cash is concerned, not buying flash cars, going pubbing and clubbing and purchasing unnecessary consumer items, if you spend your cash on the latter instead of saving, you will be unlikely to get your own house without help, don't then complain when you havn't got a deposit for a mortgage.

If you work and try hard in life you may end up as a "have", if you laze around at school and work you may end up as a "have not" it is all up to you,

Don't complain later on in life when you see that there are people out there with more dosh and property than you, it is not their fault that you didn't do well in life.

Siochainathair, Please pay no attention to MikeP(r**k) and Congo, it is very obvious they both still live at home with their mothers and have no idea of the problems of finding suitable housing.

"siochainathair, there is nothing to stop you becoming a landlord,"

I think there is. First of all he's thick, and secondly, it would be against his principles to become a 'bedbug', or 'a parasite milking tenants', to quote some of the phrases he uses to describe those who are more succesful than he is. He'd rather sit behind his computer and regurgitate weary socialist dogma than get off his backside and make a success of his life.

Sorry tennants was spelt tennents on the can of beer in my hand.

siochainathair, there is nothing to stop you becoming a landlord,

And there is nothing forcing most people to become lifelong tennents.