Re: Is a landlord allowed to do this?

JNugent wrote:
|| Rob wrote:
||| JNugent wrote:
||||| Rob wrote:
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|||||| nully wrote:
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|||||||| Mike Harrison wrote:
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||||||||| A landlord has a flat for rent.
||||||||| The rent for a new tenant who is working full time would be
||||||||| £400 pcm. (This could be considered the market rate rent for
||||||||| the flat.) However, the rent for a new tenant on Housing
||||||||| Benefit is £450 pcm. This is because the rate of Local
||||||||| Housing Allowance applicable to that property is £450 pcm.
||||||||| The landlord refuses to accept Housing Benefit tenants on a
||||||||| lower rent.
||||||||| Apologies if this is a dumb question, but is the landlord
||||||||| allowed to do that? Are they not defrauding the benefits
||||||||| system by artificially raising the rent level to take
||||||||| advantage of the LHA?
|||||
|||||||| Why on earth not? DSS claimants are hugely more expensive
|||||||| tenants - they are at home more hours so use more utilities,
|||||||| they strain relationships with neighbours, they do moonlight
|||||||| flits with the rent, they inevitably leave more damage... If a
|||||||| landlord is willing to take on those extra burdens, why the
|||||||| hell should he not charge a higher rate to take account of it?
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|||||| 2/10
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||||| Why the over-reaction (not only from your good self)?
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||| Nobody who makes such sweeping, prejudiced generalisations can
||| really be taken seriously.
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|| "Generalisations" in business are necessary. Ask any insurance
|| company.

True, very true. That's why they don't insure darkies - we all know what
they're like.

There is a difference between calculated risk and ignorant prejudice.

||| Back in the 90s we rented our house out on an AST to a seemingly
||| respectable young couple who both worked for the same large
||| accountancy firm. They set fire to the cooker - and said nothing,
||| broke the front door by kicking it in when the bloke was too pissed
||| to find his key - again saying nothing, and left a few days earlier
||| than we agreed (when I would have checked for damage) having nicked
||| all our potted plants. So what does that say about working people?
||
|| They were working, were they?

Well they were both employed by Touche Ross (as was), whether sitting on
one's arse all day doing very little counts as work, who am I to say.

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Rob


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