{"id":347,"date":"2010-06-05T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T11:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/landlords-suffer-double-rental-arrears-in-2010.html"},"modified":"2010-06-05T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T11:09:11","slug":"landlords-suffer-double-rental-arrears-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/landlords-suffer-double-rental-arrears-in-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Landlords Suffer Double Rental Arrears In 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

It does not come as a big shock to anyone to find that landlords are suffering through a terrible period of rental arrears at the moment. With unemployment on the rise and people having real financial difficulties rental arrears have more than doubled over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n

As I think I have said before, landlords in the UK<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> have a real image problem. I would like to use an example to illustrate. Say there was a huge car company that ceased paying its employers their wages. Where do you think all the sympathy would be directed? Towards the poor people being robbed of their income I would hazard a guess. And yet when a landlord\u2019s income, on which they rely, is suddenly stopped the sympathy is usually directed at the person who has stopped paying.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not saying I have no understanding for the tenants who are good payers who have something go wrong in their lives I am just making the point that landlords do it tough when their living is stopped too. The reason I choose to make this point now is because I think a lot of the things that are happening to landlords can be traced back to this image problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

Things such as a huge hike in CGT is seen by the public as mainly affecting professional property investors and why should they care about them. The politicians have a free pass to do as they please as public perception is that landlords are a group of rich fat cats.<\/span><\/p>\n

If only it were true.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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