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Landlord publicly criticizes Shelter after it bans her from their Facebook Page
Posted on 03/07/2017 by Sulgrave Estates
Landlord Dr Rosalind Beck who has previously criticized Shelter has been banned from its Facebook page. Undeterred she has written an open letter calling for people to stop donating to the charity and for Shelter to change its name. Dr Beck does not mince her words and writes as follows: -
“Shelter’s latest campaign is about mental health issues being caused by housing (by ‘housing’ you can of course read ‘landlords’).
What Shelter omits to mention is that landlords also suffer from all kinds of anxiety, depression and so on. When we have awful non-paying tenants – who are often helped by agencies such as Shelter – it feels horrendous. We have all the stress of being cheated out of large sums of money and having to face court, and later fix all the damage they’ve done and clean up all their mess and rubbish, and also often face verbal abuse as though it is outrageous of us to ask the tenants to pay the rent.
In these situations, when we have done nothing wrong, we also have so-called housing charities trying to find any little mistake in the paperwork to ‘win’ more time for their non-paying client in our properties.
When the tenants finally leave, they usually owe thousands of pounds so they have enjoyed many months of rent-free accommodation courtesy of the landlord – mostly money that the landlord will never receive as the court judgements are largely unenforceable.
Shelter then constantly repeat their mantra about ‘losing a private rental being the main cause of homelessness.’ Yes, that’s a really clever thing to say.
As the vast majority of evicted tenants are evicted because of non-payment of rent and damage, it is the tenant who has caused their own homelessness. Why don’t they say tenant behaviour is the main cause of their homelessness?”
Beck goes on: “The sooner they are seen for what they are, and people stop donating and they get shut down, the better for everyone. In the meantime, I have a message for them: Shelter – start providing shelter or change your name. And in the meantime, lay off those of us who actually provide roofs over people’s heads.”
Property Industry EYE has asked Shelter whether Beck has been banned from their Facebook page and have sent Shelter the letter, inviting them to comment.