A damning report on Channel 4 Dispatches series on Monday night showed the ways in which landlord’s dupe potential tenants and use heavy handed tactics to evict when they become a ‘problem tenant’. The documentary tended to focus on one landlord and then go on to imply that all landlords were the same in all areas of the country
A representative from Shelter was repeatedly asked to comment on the findings and appeared to generalise the findings to attack all landlords throughout the UK. In this day and age it is nice to know that unbiased journalism is still alive and well.
A campaign by property portal NetRent is attempting to highlight the issues faced by honest landlords and the inequality in the current legal framework in essentially protecting a tenant when they cause thousands of pounds of damage to a property and then just walk away.
NetRent are seeking landlords to provide information on rogue tenants to attempt to redress the balance. Click here for more information on helping this campaign.
