Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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27 October 2010
21:2876962Again barryw you only partly reading my posts but im used to that now and thats fine.
You will find if you bother to read my posts that have been clear those tennants that need sorting should be.
But a lot of the problems i came across was poor landlords and believe me barryw this is not uncommon in and around priory something that roger has highlighted and i dont know of his case load.
I have nothing against those lanlords dong a good job and providing accomodation, but in ths real world the poor landlords do tend to get away wth it scott free. with little regulation
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
27 October 2010
21:5076967quite right keith, there are good and responsible landlords, my spies tell me that roger is one of them.
hardly a surprise to anyone that knows him.
i have to raise the point again about the flats vacant on the london road(sorry ross).
they are opposite my g.p.s surgery and are identifiable by the peeling paint, the rotting window frames and the general air of neglect.
why should the tax payer subsidise people like this?
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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27 October 2010
22:0676970Howard;
Sadly I presume barryw fell asleep when we had all the problems
in the years gone by
asylum
bootlegging
channel tunnel
Although this can be p;artly blamed on the uncaring tennants
the landlords also didnt care as long as they got there donga.
And of course Howard you will be aware of a particular few landlords of very poor quality we had to continue to get the council/landlords to act on, due to very poor quality accomodation.
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27 October 2010
23:0976987£400 pw will cover repayment on a £300,000 mortgage at 4%.
Three of my four children, who all live in London, are in private rented accommodation, two of them in multi-occupancy student lets partially funded by bank of mum & dad. In one case there are 4 students paying £500/month (£2,000) total in the other five students (total £2500).
The fact that Housing Benefit is so high has caused a boom in 'buy to let' which has lead to a load of chancers getting rich on yours and my taxes, inflated house prices and unrealistic rents.
This is not market forces but a bloody rip-off. It's Perec (Peter) Rachman all over again.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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27 October 2010
23:1276989cannot add to that bob, for once you are spot on.
27 October 2010
23:1876990Howard, what do you mean 'for once'. I thought I was right on the nail in the 'Who Killed Bambi' thread.
p.s.Was it you who deleted my suggestion for a tourism initiative from the front page. I thought it fairly mild?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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27 October 2010
23:2776992not me bob, maybe paul deleted it by accident.
27 October 2010
23:3676995Hee. Hee. Let's see if i can sneak it back on under the radar!
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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28 October 2010
07:5677004Lesley, I appreciate and know that there are good and bad landlords and good and bad tenants - I've experienced both types of tenant in the flat I rent out.
The house in Clarendon mentioned where the maggots are coming out of holes in the ground are outside the basement front door; nothing to do with the tenant and their cleanliness at all.
The concrete laid, is very thin and broken with holes and these holes are where the maggots come through. I think the sewer must have a broken (salt-glazed) pipe and perhaps this is where the dead rats etc. are and where the smell (and maggots) is emanating from.
The whole area needs digging up, the sewer pipe repaired (if it is broken) and a thicker level of hard-core laid down before cementing again.
I have nothing against landlords, nothing at all; I do have a problem with the old Rachman type of landlord though, who are totally unscrupulous.
Roger
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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28 October 2010
08:5977021Roger
Nice comments mate by way of explanation, and to have nothing aganst landlords who provide an adequate roof over some ones head.
But priory did suffer(and at times still does) from absent landlords, who just take the dosh and have no interest on the property.
We can pretend it doesn't happen, but walkng down Folkestone Road soon brings it home.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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9 November 2010
19:3679342have to resurrect this one as the charity "shelter" have stuck their oar in now.
they say that in kent the average housing benefit will be cut by 9%, the issue is not as bad as it seems on the surface though.
housing benefit at present is based on current market rates in each area, so if someone was paying less than the going rate, they would be quids in, this anomaly was being sorted by gordon and alistair before the last erlection.
however "shelter" are now predicting the return of the times when the unemployed retreated from the cities to sea side towns.
the vast rents in london will mean that dover and thanet will be inundated with incomers that have no choice but to leave their homes.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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9 November 2010
19:4579345Dont read too much into special interest pleading, Howard.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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9 November 2010
19:4879347meaning what barryw.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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9 November 2010
20:1779354London has a large population, and ought to look after their population! Not send them over to us to look after! Kent is Kent!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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9 November 2010
20:2779357you will have to get used to the idea of welcoming our new people alex.
dover and thanet are near enough the cheapest areas in the london catchment area, we have plenty of empty properties waiting to be filled.
nobody knows the extent of the exodus and what the favourite destinations will be but hastings have already made plans for it, i feel that our council have also discussed it.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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9 November 2010
20:3079361Kent Invicta! We have the White Horse!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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9 November 2010
20:3279363London can look after their own population, it's their problem!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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9 November 2010
21:4279379do try to take a christian attitude alex and welcome the new sheep into the fold.
it is not their fault that they cannot afford to live in our capital.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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9 November 2010
22:4879385This will be a very big issue if it comes to many people from London moving to Kent.
Until now I have been preparing a campaign for local people, which includes unemployed people finding work, through training and through particular attention. Also for children to take part in some aquaintance with future work prospects. For example not everything in economy functions with a computer and there are such creations as apple and pear trees.
To come on now with thousands of people from London looking for work in Dover and District and the neighbouring Districts, and the neighbouring Districts each with thousands of Londoners unemployed and looking for work in these Districts and ours, is nothing that any responsible Councillor would take light-heartedly!
I'm sorry, Howard, we have enough of our own daily life to attend to, this is our County!
London has city bankers earning millions of pounds a year and receiving bonuses on top of it. London has chief executives earning similar figures, and a massive tourist trade. London has very rich people in general, and a mayor, who, according to PaulB's post a few weeks back, has called for more immigration into London.
Howard, London will have to get used to the idea of forgetting exporting their masses of unemployed people to Kent.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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10 November 2010
20:5579523alex
people can move around the country as they wish, when did boris johnson call for more immigration into london?
