New rules for landlords

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  11 October 2015     17:25286974
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  The reds are making a song and dance over this but employers have had to do checks on potential employees for ages.
  
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/right-to-rent-scheme-risks-discriminating-against-immigrants-warns-andy-burnham-a6689311.html
• Guest 698

  • Registered: 28 May 2010
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  12 October 2015     11:45286985
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  Most private landlords use letting agents. One such local agent tells me that his ideal tenants are working married couples from Poland. Burnham's posturing is just pork-barrel politicking.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  12 October 2015     12:28286987
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  Who would be prosecuted in the event of an illegal immigrant being found renting a property? Doubtless the owner and the letting agent would both say the other was responsible.
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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  12 October 2015     13:14286988
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  Even if the landlord and/or the letting agent sees documents how are they supposed to know if they are real or fake.
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• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  12 October 2015     14:57286989
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  I think the people doing the enforcing have to be reasonable and if the photocopy taken of the I.D. looks genuine then no action should be taken.