In addition to 2 licenses, insurance, boiler/electrical/gas certificates repairs maintenance

The welsh assembly has gone to war with private landlords with the most biased impossible contradictory set of laws since boris party rules

apparently landlords cant go in but they can they cant they can they cant

in the end they cant

I dare anyone to try and read the additonal 100 pages of rules on landlords in wales

Not 1 single word in it about tenant responsibilities

Absolute madness

End result....Destroyed properties endless legal battles, illegal sublets, drug dens, the end of private houses rented to anyone on housing benefits as landlords have zero protection..They cant even enter their own property with out an injunction from a judge in any situation...Look out for endless housing disasters, gas leaks, fires, violence, drugs the usual and more homelessness

The politics of envy at work again..Its communism by any other name trying to force punish landlords and make their lives a living hell....

On another note I was an excellent tenant ...on another note there are crap landlords..swings and roundabouts 

No swings anymore it's 100% loaded against landlords 

Honestly it's the most disgusting legislation I've ever seen

Look out for drug dens, illegal subletting, overloading houses, vermin, and house flats going up in flames....100s of council flats were razed to the ground in Llanelli in the past 3 yes...all destroyed by tenants...it's in the interests of landlords to maintain their asset, their houses...it's not in the interests of tenants who are not accountable for anything...stolen rents, damage, years of stress and legal battles all on the landlord....

There is literally no law that allows a landlord into his own property if his tenant doesn't allow it....eve no damage, 1000s of rent arrears, rats, even flood and fires you cant go in without a £1500 injunction 

No one in govt cares as long as they bash landlords for cheap votes and soundbites that sound good on TV but create a living hell in reality...exactly what this former great town has become 

He says his worst opponent is drugs, in terms of his work to help his folk transitioning from sleeping rough to having an address and getting back into society.

Never been a landlord and no desire to do so. It’s fine when you’ve got great tenants that pay the rent on time, look after your property etc. However, all you need is the tenant from hell and you end up having to devote so much time, energy and expense.

For those that have more energy and appetite for that and do it properly, I take my hat off.

Sadly the WAG have failed completely and utterly to look at both sides of the story, their laws are utterly mindless, contradictory and self defeating

Im sorry but the WAG deserve every single bit of the criticism theyre getting for their disastrous housing policy. This will soon get way worse, homelessness will rise, drugs and anti social problems will multiply, debts will grow for landlords and tenants, properties and neighbourhoods destroyed, houses reposessed etc. This is not the time for some dispassionate mealy mouthed cliches , the WAG's policies on this is a national disgrace ...Have a read of page 56 of the link posted here. It basically says in no circumstance can a landlord enter their own property in any situation without a judge allowing it at a minimum cost of £1500. Bad tenants are aware of all of this and many will exploit it to the maximum. The narrative that all tenants are poor struggling decent people and landlords are all greedy cruel people is a load of nonsense perpetuated by labour for cheap votes. 

Fund the habit be it shoplifting robbery sx working what ever.  Tha inevtiably leads to criminal convicitons which lead to jail terms which leads to more drug issues which leads to less employment chances which leads to more crime, it is a vicious cycle. I am by nature a pretty cold invidual but i genuiely do feel sympathy for these folk caught up in this cycle. No one wants to be an addict (gambling,drink or drugs) it’s a horrible way to live, but in all honesty i’d never let my gaff to someone in that circumatances it’s not their fault but if you are an addict you would have no qualms defaulting on rent or flogging any white goods in the place if you need a fix) their housing needs really need to be

Picked up by social housing followed by a course of treatment to get them clean and sober again)

Where is the WAGs sympathy for peaceful people and decent landlords doing all the right things and yet caught up having to deal with this? Drugs dens, violence, noise pollution, thousands of pounds of damage , stolen rent, illegal sub letting, thousands of legal fees, years of stress and zero support from anyone or anywhere. Landlords are being bullied out of existence and neighbourhoods and decent hard working peple having their lives destroyed thanks to these disgraceful biased laws passed by the WAG

The recent landlord legislation is a disgrace

The recent roads decision is also a disgrace

The senedd are overseeing the collapse of the welsh economy with endless self defeating laws

and massive fall in living standards across the board. This goes hand in hand with industrial collapse drugs rife, drug crime rife, higher alcohlic rates etc We are soft on crime ,soft on drugs soft on everyone apart from hard working people and small businesses. These are the backbone of welsh society, the people upon whom we rely to work hark, provide their skills and services and pay their taxes to pay for the public services..These people havent had any help they have been thoroughly exploited , ignored and taken advantage of for decades by the senedd and westminster....

The town centres have been decimated and allowed to rot by the decision makers who have preached about getting out of our cars yet destroyed town centres in favour of massive out of town retail parks to which you can only get to by car.. The irony of these self defeating policies is lost on these politicians ....Buses have also been non existent there and nowadays taxis are also impossible to get n doubt because of the endless paperwork involved...Even job centres do not offer jobs anymore ? The future is bleak. It looks at this rate as though millions will be workless long term sick and machines will replace them to ensure maxiimum profits for the billionaires and wales is walking straight into that trap like welsh sheep. why not support sme's before theyre all wiped out? The senedd desnt seem to have the backbone for that..Far easier to sell out all our lovely little towns to the nandos tescos who can in turn send all their profits abroad...

Anyone who questions the status quo in wales and why we are always the poorest uk region is shouted down as a daily mail reader or a shy tory. Its a real stale environment where debate isnt allowed or considered. plaed meanwhile offer no alternative, no vision so desperately needed, they are asleep at the wheel, overly obsessed with just 1 subject, the language.  We need a arty to tap into welsh aspirations, identity, pride, to reward hard work and ensure all big corporations pay their taxes. Alas some of that is still in westminster where theyre in the pockets of the wealthy...But the senedd are doing nothing to make it better, only worse

What I have seen is the shortage of workers , especially low skilled people , who just go about their jobs not being seen day to day ..but their input is missed immediately when these simple jobs are not done ....in my experience eastern Europeans were brilliant at these low skilled jobs ...and we're happy to do them because they appreciated the chance at coming to UK ....(I nearly said the B word but it's not March yet )

Spot on. Combined together theyve created the perfect storm of a collapsed economy with over half a million extra people now on long term sick since covid...This collapse is thanks mainly to these 2 parties....A combination of their greed, ego, arrogance, stupidity, complacency, failure to listen, lack of empathy for the workforce and neglect has lead us to desolation 

As a poster here rightly said, the best description of the senedd is "the road to hell is paved with good intentions"

Those start ups are just the first 5 minutes of a lifetime journey...They really become irelevant and the trouble is after that 5 minutes theres no support but wrse still all the wrng decisions are made to make the econmic environment work....The fact job centres dont offer jobs is just 1 example of the mess we are in

Let me know your thoughts in 10 / 20 years Im talking about the whole environment and what really affects you and yur business minute by minute day by day year by year...the roads the parking the rates the endless paperwork, the tariffs, the licenses, the unfair competition and double standards on rules, the enormous burcracy, the rising social problems, the endless laws on cars, the charity shops wiping out competition who have to pay rates? The rates , why are they only changed temporarily by the senedd not permanently? The endless tax law changes the list is endless. How will you deal with labours new proposed law to allow women 18 months paid leave for the menopause? Are you able to pay that?

Everyone is lacking workers on a crisis level and please unlearn whatever youve learned about brexit. Its local people who wont work, the system created by politicians  discourages it and punishes workers instead. Anyone would think theres some kind of masterplan to have millions more onlong term sick and get robots to do their jobs to maximize profits for the uber rich?

Good luck with your businesses thoughI mean that

Haha! Well, I don't exactly disagree with that (at all) but if the alternative is the Tories' "Greed is Good" philosophy ( see Gordon Gecko/ Boris Johnson) I know which one I prefer.

Tricky stuff, this - I have been a tenant (often) and married to an occasional landlord (just the one - she has 'occasionally' owned properties! 

The main problem in the housing market is that:

1. the Tories - despite their promises - have disastrously failed to build enough 'affordable housing', and

2. since buy to let attracted a lot of sharks, the sector got a bad name and is now being reined in - harsh on the many fair and genuine landlords.

So - too few houses or flats leads to ridiculous rents, and ridiculous rents (paydays) attract crooks and shysters.

Theyre both disastrous for different reasons 

Now there will be far fewer houses available and far more destroyed thanks to the corruption and idiocy of both main parties

Are you Mr Angry from Steve Wright in the afternoon?

are you roger irrelevant off the viz?

You can't say that to the dodgy roofer 

This is what gets me. There is legitimate criticism to be made of Welsh Labour/The Welsh Government. Believe me, I have plenty of my own and no doubt on the particular issue of landlord/tenant legislation, they could do a lot better. Yet somehow I find Wil Chip's account reasonable but yours OTT. Why is that? I'll explain. 

Your opening comment to this thread goes a long way to explaining your greivances. The comment above is a litany of right wing stereotypes and memes. I've said many times now that your comments could be lifted word for word from the comments on a WoL article. As I said earlier, there is a small yet vocal right wing minority in Wales who reinforce each other and promulgate a particular narrative about the Welsh Govt and the Senedd. Your comments are riddled with signifiers that you also adhere to that narrative. The trouble is that it is not a balanced view. One of the primary cheerleaders of this is a certain Andrew RT Davies who offers absolutely nothing in the way of an alternative and has based the official opposition to the WG on s**t stirring. He is a genuine empty can, rattling the most. I truly, truly wish that the right in Wales would do a better job of holding Labour to account. Goodness knows it is not healthy that they have enjoyed a majority here for 100 years. I truly, truly wish that they had a vision to build the Welsh nation but for the most part, the Welsh right is only interested in "Britishifying" Wales, imposing a "British" national identity on us. To my mind THAT is nationalism and there are many who are obsessed by it. 

Now much of the criticism that you have levelled at the WG is nothing to do with them. Much of it is to do with societal changes. Much of it is the responsibility of the UK Govt. Much of it, where it falls to the WG, is hampered by a budget that is set in London that our elected SM's cannot alter. And even where you hold an opinion, legitimately, on a WG policy I still find your stance OTT. Roads for example. We know that carbon emissions are having a serious negative impact on health, security, the economy, let alone the wider environmental implications for the other life on this planet that we share. We cannot just build roads willy nilly. The fair criticism here is that the WG did not at the same time explain what the alternative will be. Albeit that the HS2 £5Bn we're losing out on would go a long way to fund the alternatives we need.

You accuse Plaid Cymru (not "plaed") of being obsessed with the language and nothing else - how woefully (willingly?) ignorant. Plaid are highly active campaigning across a wide range of policy areas, not least of which is to build Welsh democracy and improve the way we are governed. Goodness knows they have their failings - and I have my own frustrations - but your comment is no more than a lazy trope.

As for being shut down for criticising Labour, do stop playing the martyr. You have been criticised for regurgitating right wing tropes and narratives. I'm sure you have legitimate concerns and complaints, many of which you do touch upon. I hold out some hope in so far as you call for a party that will tap into Welsh aspiration and pride and take Wales forward. There is at least a party aligned to your political views that is pro-Wales (as opposed to yet another UK party) and that party is called Gwlad. If you wanted to do something positive you could get involved and build the positive case for a different approach. I might not agree with your ideas but I could at least respect that endeavour.

Or pay an agency and end up doing everything yourself anyway. Cough D*rlows

John Cleese as in his role with the two Ronnies explaining the British Class System.

“I look down on him” etc. 

Well you would, as a professional roofer

I was the 4th one just out of shot 

Absolute rubbish I can back every single word Ive printed with facts to back it up, you cannot. It is you who is spouting endless cliche and generalization, daily mail reader blah blah blah. Heard it all before its utter bilge that you think you can get away with it, being with the majority. Not any more you cant, that appeasement of these nonsense petty laws is whats seen this great country and the town of Llanelli fall down. Lets get to the truth instead. Youre so far indoctrinated you cant even see the facts and the truth in front of you nor smell the weed under your nostrils.

 Plaid are the only hope really but have they done enough? Judging by their results of course not. Didnt they close down a local bilingual school and reopen it as welsh only despite the entire village being against it? If so thats hardly listening to the constituents is it? I want them to break through but theyre light years behind the SNP in scotland

Pm me direct if you want to get factual and truthful instead of playing to the gallery like so many

 Try reading that back mate. Nearly every word was b******t. You're just a boring pub boor.

Careful Wil the saucepan is hot 

I'm coming with Wil. 

Behave.

We can only dream EO. 

At which end of the lineup?

If it was on of those school photo cameras, you could be on the left extreme and then run round to the right and be in the photo twice.

Oh no not Wordle .

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