Given current practice I expect Labour to decide to ban guarantors in the next Renter’s Rights Bill. Why should people with rich parents have an advantage over those that don’t? (Although perhaps tha… (View Post)

It’s kind of spectacular just how anti-free market the last Conservative government was. The entirety of the British state appears to have abandoned any idea that market forces & market prices ar… (View Post)

This is supposition, but I suspect that MPs were swayed by stories of constituents borrowing money at usurious rates in order to outbid other renters for rental properties. It’s pretty obvious that, … (View Post)

As a renter, would you pay a years rent to a landlord with absolutely no legally enforceable contract in place? You have the same problem the landlord does - you can’t realistically risk this much mo… (View Post)

Every clause is there for understandable reasons, but the net result is a system that’s even more rigid & makes it impossible for people who can’t prove their credit-worthiness through “normal” c… (View Post)