Manawatu Tenants Union
December 14th 2017.
From the Irish Times.
Just read an article on about a BBC series called "Today the landlord moved in" followed a range off landlords as they moved into their tenants accommodation and tried to live like they did.While some landlords were shown to be complacent about the grim state of their properties and lacking in understanding the daily struggles of their tenants have in their daily lives.
It was only by being placed in their shoes that the scales were lifted from their eyes,and they could finally see all the faults and repairs that their properties needed,and the unfair rents they were charging for them.
One of the problems being exposed was simply that landlords do not know or care about their rental properties.The key point to understand about property investment is that it is a passive activity like owning shares,it is a constant hands- on responsibility.
Professionalism requires that you divide business and pleasure into separate spheres, this does not mean that tenants and landlords can not be friends. It is just that the circumstances between them is different while landlords want to know everything about their tenants,tenants know little or nothing about their landlord or the property agent.
All landlords -agents should be registered, to bring a bit of balance and fairness into the regulation of rental properties.
Here in New Zealand we have a television programme, centered around renters and the issues,like property managers,who maintain control of tenants lives. It would be interesting to try and understand each others problems with the rental market.
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