Landlords
- Thread starter Bagpuss
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What percentage of the population are private landlords?
I bet.....and yes I am a betting man, the vote that you claim is less than 3% of the electorate.
Working together was plan a. It failed. Tories did not approve of the things I believed in. So with no plan a, it's plan b. Vote them out in order to achieve a clampdown on landlords. To me it is a simple 2 step precedure. I am not prepared to wait infinitum in the vain hope that Tories will change their views and take some action. It's not party politics but principle and pro action!
No you're right. I am not a media whore. Just a grafter who won't give up.
So by your reckoning or so it reads to me we have no Tory councillors working to stamp out the blight of absent landlords? Sorry but can't accept that as I know of at least one Tory councillor who like yourself is pro-active in the area he was appointed to in trying to sort this sort of thing out. There are probably a lot more on both sides who are aiming to sort their various wards out.
Just because you believe the leader of the council to not be pro active on this issue does not therefore follow that all are Tory councillors aren't.
To my mind (probably a new thread) area coucils might not be such a bad idea because our elected councillors of both parties just seem to be interested improving the areas they live in rather than the whole of the borough.
Of course we can discount from that theory the councillors who work tirelessly for wards in which they don't reside. Time you ALL worked together for the residents you were elected to represent IMHO.
thing about landlords. How do they always manage to screw you out of your money when you're leaving a property.
I have had and seen several negative experiences with landlords. My first was around 1998ish when i lived in the flat above the post office on blackburn road. There was an electric meter and i had to go and get old 50p from the old robbing bastard downstairs who owned the post office. I was paying for gas in that flat. Stupid me not knowing about the heating there was run by electric & the oven run by electric. Only the post office downstairs had gas installed. I later found this out by bashir who runs the post office now when i mentioned how the hell did i run up a gas bill of 300£ when i left it was still owing.
Worst living conditions i have seen are bedsits. In my experience they are horrible places to live just by the fact you have to share your kitchen and bathroom with complete strangers. Alan duffy owned them on wellington street where i was stopping. I didn't even have a lock on my door to the room because he wouldn't fix it, every time i came home the guy across the hall came in and 'borrowed' my stereo. Eventually i was robbed by one of his druggy friends. Incidently this was on wellington street and from the window of the back bedsits you can see.....THE POLICE STATION!!
Even worst there was bedsits in a large property on hartman street. Two of my friends lived there. Only good thing to come out of that place was meeting a guy there and becoming friends. So you walk through the door and you have 2 doors left and right. On the left my friend lived. It was a average sized living room leading to another smaller bedroom. A bedroom which was also a kitchen...well not a kitchen but a bedroom that had an oven smack dead in the middle of a carpeted room...no kidding!!. On the right i never seen in the room, nor would i want to. I'm guessing the actual kitchen must of been in there. A heroin addict named dennis lived there and thought he was god(it actually said lord dennis thompson on his mail) only good thing about him was he didn't wash and who wants to share a bathroom with a smackhead. Upstairs you see 2 doors. one leading to a bathroom and the other to my friends room. A small room that has a door in the opposite corner from where you enter. You go through this door there the tiniest of lobby's. In this lobby was an oven and a fridge and you had to squash through to get into the bedroom. The guy that owned it used to be the Asian guy that owned the newspaper shop next to the second hand shop around the corner and he should of been prosecuted
Incidently the 2 friends moved into bedsits(of which was apparently named flats though kitchen and bathroom was also shared). In the old butcher shop on park road. Living conditions wasn't as bad but the funny part is he never even bothered to remove the tiles or the hooks from the ceiling!!!
I have had and seen several negative experiences with landlords. My first was around 1998ish when i lived in the flat above the post office on blackburn road. There was an electric meter and i had to go and get old 50p from the old robbing bastard downstairs who owned the post office. I was paying for gas in that flat. Stupid me not knowing about the heating there was run by electric & the oven run by electric. Only the post office downstairs had gas installed. I later found this out by bashir who runs the post office now when i mentioned how the hell did i run up a gas bill of 300£ when i left it was still owing.
Worst living conditions i have seen are bedsits. In my experience they are horrible places to live just by the fact you have to share your kitchen and bathroom with complete strangers. Alan duffy owned them on wellington street where i was stopping. I didn't even have a lock on my door to the room because he wouldn't fix it, every time i came home the guy across the hall came in and 'borrowed' my stereo. Eventually i was robbed by one of his druggy friends. Incidently this was on wellington street and from the window of the back bedsits you can see.....THE POLICE STATION!!
Even worst there was bedsits in a large property on hartman street. Two of my friends lived there. Only good thing to come out of that place was meeting a guy there and becoming friends. So you walk through the door and you have 2 doors left and right. On the left my friend lived. It was a average sized living room leading to another smaller bedroom. A bedroom which was also a kitchen...well not a kitchen but a bedroom that had an oven smack dead in the middle of a carpeted room...no kidding!!. On the right i never seen in the room, nor would i want to. I'm guessing the actual kitchen must of been in there. A heroin addict named dennis lived there and thought he was god(it actually said lord dennis thompson on his mail) only good thing about him was he didn't wash and who wants to share a bathroom with a smackhead. Upstairs you see 2 doors. one leading to a bathroom and the other to my friends room. A small room that has a door in the opposite corner from where you enter. You go through this door there the tiniest of lobby's. In this lobby was an oven and a fridge and you had to squash through to get into the bedroom. The guy that owned it used to be the Asian guy that owned the newspaper shop next to the second hand shop around the corner and he should of been prosecuted
Incidently the 2 friends moved into bedsits(of which was apparently named flats though kitchen and bathroom was also shared). In the old butcher shop on park road. Living conditions wasn't as bad but the funny part is he never even bothered to remove the tiles or the hooks from the ceiling!!!
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And besides Britcliffe being berated on this site and by Jones he has been councillor for St. Andrews Ward Ossy on HBC for 26 years without even coming close to being beaten, sounds to me he's dong most things right for those who elect him
Its not that long since we had 8 labour councillors 1 Labour County Councillor and 1 Tory councillor, in Ossy, oh by the way that 1 Tory Councillor was Britcliffenot very hard to figure out, conservative council.plus ozzy has been so fer many a year.
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That is not true ask Gayle.
I don't need to do that, he won by around 140 which believe me is quite easy in St Andrews ward, and that's with no disrespect to Gayle, in fact I don't think he's ever had a majority under 100, I know his top majority is nearly 500That is not true ask Gayle.
I would go one step further. When these policies are brought forward by myself I have tried to get support and received none from Tories even ones in Barnfield woodnook. I have taken it to full council and watched every Tory vote against.
You are right. Politics is about you own area. Everything is controlled and it is very difficult to get the information, find a forum you can present it so it has a chanc of debate and progression. Scrutiny Committee has been strangled by the Tories and the Constitution gerrymandered so many times debate is no longer possible in a real sense.
ask Dave Mason ex Tory. They are told nothing and not allowed to discuss anything. It has been a breath of fresh air for him to be independent an be invited to Labour meetings where the state of the Borough is discussed at every meeting.
You are right. Politics is about you own area. Everything is controlled and it is very difficult to get the information, find a forum you can present it so it has a chanc of debate and progression. Scrutiny Committee has been strangled by the Tories and the Constitution gerrymandered so many times debate is no longer possible in a real sense.
ask Dave Mason ex Tory. They are told nothing and not allowed to discuss anything. It has been a breath of fresh air for him to be independent an be invited to Labour meetings where the state of the Borough is discussed at every meeting.
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Thanks for Brightening up my morning, that was hilarious
I expect you to try and stop me. You demonstrate what I am up against. You should be listening to residents, this thread and supporting my efforts for residents benefit. Not the Tory Party or party politics.
You are all in it for yourselves and not removing the scourge of Hyndburn. Landlords.
ShoooooooooooooooooooooooshHow many houses do you own, just the 1 is it?
I think the scourge of Hyndburn is you ya divvy
Well Margaret If Jones didn't come on here just to mouth off, I wouldn't need to make any comments, when he stops so will I, in the words of the Meerkat simples'Earwigo' again
Perhaps this belongs in Anything Goes
Who created this situation that some of us have to live in and put up with on a daily basis?
not just the national and local politicians- estate agents who profited from selling houses for investment at inflated prices with the promise of a speedy return on your investment-solicitors who advised property investors to broaden their portfolio's by diversifying into the buy to rent sector-property investment seminar specialist's who created a culture of buy now and sell it on to another junior investor-the culture of providing benefit payments to those who are not in control of their lives- shall I continue to apportion blame for this state that society is in?
not just the national and local politicians- estate agents who profited from selling houses for investment at inflated prices with the promise of a speedy return on your investment-solicitors who advised property investors to broaden their portfolio's by diversifying into the buy to rent sector-property investment seminar specialist's who created a culture of buy now and sell it on to another junior investor-the culture of providing benefit payments to those who are not in control of their lives- shall I continue to apportion blame for this state that society is in?