‘No-one talks about rogue tenants’ – landlord campaigner tells The Neg
Craig Littlejohn, who is behind a petition to Parliament calling for greater landlord protections, wants an "expedited court process" for evictions.
Landlord Craig Littlejohn has explained to The Neg why he started a petition calling for “greater protection” for landlords and an “expedited court process” for evictions.
Littlejohn, who calls himself an “accidental landlord”, only rents out one property in his native Scotland, but is experiencing severe problems with a tenant who has stopped paying rent.
Requires response
And his petition on the Parliament website (main picture) has clearly struck a chord, collecting more than 10,000 signatures in just over two weeks, which is a figure requiring a response from the Government.
If the petition manages to achieve 100,000 names, then it triggers a parliamentary debate.
They are giving us no protection at all.”
“There are a lot of good landlords out there,” he told The Neg, and “they are giving us no protection at all.”
He says the Renters’ Rights Act, which comes into force in May, is “giving tenants more and more rights”.
Rogue tenants
“No-one talks about ‘rogue tenants’, and I’m just trying to protect the good landlords.”
The RAF serviceman was reposted from Fife to Oxfordshire a few years ago, prompting the decision to rent out his four-bedroom house.
And he is now owed more than £7,000 in overdue rent, with a wait of 12 months for his eviction application to be processed by the courts in Glasgow.
The petition says: “We urgently need an expedited court process for mandatory grounds (ASB/arrears), a vetting database for repeat offenders, and a higher deposit cap to help sustain the rental market.”
You can sign the petition here
The leftie Government believe their own rhetoric.
Why else did they waste time sabotaging all of The House of Lords amendments to The Renters Rights Act?
The House of Commons is filled with self righteous MPs who will all be looking for new jobs in 2029. Where else can they collect £94,000 plus expenses?
They voted down welfare reform. Those of us working are paying for higher benefits for those who are not.
We need to show that landlords have a high stake in UK society.
Investing in property, keeping up with standards and paying an extra 2% income tax, making 22%, 42% & 47%.
At least Kier Starmer and Rachel Reeves will be paying it on their own homes now rented out.
We need to show we are not to be trampled on, especially as we pay more tax to pay for those not working.
The more who sign the more we are hard to ignore.
If you are partners, please sign individually.
HMG reacts to volume not quality of argument.
Absolutely agree with this, all the RRA will do is cause more problems than it could ever resolve. Everything worked very well for good landlords and good tenants and good agents. Most of the legislation was already included as standard in AST’s produced by good agents for years. What this is doing is making it harder for both good tenants and landlords. It will not get rid of the bad landlords or tenants. AND surely it is discriminating to have a so called “bad Landlord” list but no “bad tenant” list!?