A property developer has urged the government to set up a national tenant register to help landlords avoid ‘nightmare’ residents.
Robert Evans, an entrepreneur with 30 years’ experience in property, said landlords should be able to access the register to see if prospective tenants have a history of rogue behaviour.
Mr Evans said the mandatory introduction of a national register could be used to identify renters who have committed vandalism or anti-social behaviour.
He said: “It’s absolutely right that tenants should be able to run a check on the landlord they’re planning to rent from, but in the same way, it has to be right that landlords get similar help to avoid the nightmare situation of having a tenant who either won’t pay or won’t leave.”
Mr Evans, who set Britain’s first fixed-fee management agency Property Wealth Management, added: “If there’s a robust system in place to identify problem people at the outset, one might argue that it could be a low-cost first step in referencing. If a prospective tenant is on that list, the landlord has the choice then of not proceeding further and avoiding the more costly formal reference process for a tenant who’s never going to be accepted.”
He added that the list would need to ensure tenants were not unfairly discriminated against, but that landlords need more support.
Mr Evans added: “The fact is, we hear many, many stories of problem tenants who are finally removed from one property only to surface a few days or weeks later in another property where the problems start all over again.”
source http://blog.evolutionproperties.co.uk/2017/07/04/property-developer-calls-for-national-tenant-register-to-help-landlords-avoid-nightmare-renters/
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