James O'Brien vs landlord | LBC debate

James O'Brien speaks to caller Salma, who is a landlord, who believes she 'already pays enough' in taxes due to the costs of maintaining the flat she rents out.

"Part of your job, if you want to call it a job, is to provide them with a cooker, you can't start complaining about it!", James says.

Landlords and shareholders are facing a tax hike at the Budget next week after Keir Starmer suggested they were not "working people".

Starmer, who has repeatedly promised that so-called "working people" will not have their taxes increased, said that he did not consider people whose income derived from assets such as shares or property to fall into that bracket.

"They wouldn't come within my definition," he said.


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[mistsofbabylon]

Private landlords (and, of course, developers) buy up all of the properties in order to rent them out. Supply goes down, demand goes up. So that drives housing prices up and regular folks can't afford to buy homes. Instead, they are forced to rent from these people who use real estate as an investment. And then these private landlords have the gall to suggest that they are solving the housing crisis. The self-righteous stupidity astounds me. I will never say that being a landlord is easy, but please don't act like you are doing God's work.

[peterm]

Why is she complaining? Buying a cooker for the rental property is an outgoing which reduces the profit and so the taxable income!

[RatluBoogerbag]

We live in this weird world where landlords perversely believe they are Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi rolled into one.

[zoeloutay]

As if she's trying to pretend that buying a cooker is more difficult than doing a full time job 🤦🙄🤣

[michaelkimber]

This woman lives in a world of full entitlement. How dare she suggest she's solving the housing crisis. The tenant is paying her flipping mortgage 😡 and apparently should be grateful for a cooker. Gawd help us. Thanks James for reminding her of her responsibilities. 👌

[ClarkLamontBeedie]

In the last 3 years I've paid 27, 900 quid on rent on a property that's worth approx 200, 000 if it hit the market tomorrow; that's a 10% deposit on a 300, 000 property. The property was unfurnished other than white goods, the most the landlord's had to do is spend 150 quid to replace an old radiator; I've paid my landlord's deposit+7900 quid profit in 3 years and they've had to "invest" 150 quid of that back into the property; how dare these people try and claim they "work hard for their money" or they're somehow hero's for taking a deposit; Pay your F*CKING TAXES. If I buy a car and start running it as a taxi I shouldn't get a tax break on those earnings because "I'm providing a transport service".

[brianferguson]

Tennants are buying properties
Just not for themselves. They are buying it for landlords.

[crankypantsmcduff]

My private landlord is a slumlord. My house is falling apart, he increased the rent, threatens me repeatedly and he does this with all 28 homes he owns, takes off on holidays and I've been waiting 6 months for my new tenancy agreement. He has the cheek to complain he has to do repairs. Don't buy homes and let them out if you pull your face and don't follow the rules when us tenants have to. I have no empathy whatsoever for private slumlords. Maintenance thats exterior and things like electric and gas and central heating and plastering etc are legally on the landlord yet i have to pay others to do it, my roof started leaking 6 weeks ago but he's more interested in his pub. I've started legal proceedings against him now. I'm disabled, my son has Cystic Fibrosis and my little one has a heart condition but thats all ok to live in a damp and broken home, he'll throw me out if i complain too much he says.

[andy.]

Landlords are solving a problem they have created, so no thanks is neccessary to them.

[mart]

Double taxed. FFS this woman is living in la la land. Yes you paid tax on money you earned and pay tax on money you earn from rent. Different sources of income. Thicko

[Tadao-Lao-qt]

A man who owned a corner shop bought loads of homes around his shop in a not so nice area in my city. He made decent money from the corner shop and butchers so he decided to make the homes affordable for families. 25 years later the city and area is well short after and he has since passed away his sons manage his homes and he wanted it to continue being affordable for people as his dying wish. He also helped people who had problems with the law get back on their feet by giving them a job and reference so they could rehabilitate back into society. He was an amazing human and he has nice respectful sons. Still go to the store from time to time, just to support the family even though I do not live close to the shop anymore.

[essealants]

This is the problem with a lot of private landlords they do not understand their resposabilities, and pile more pressure on their tennants because they are terrified of reporting issues because this is the attitude they are met with,
Or the land lord then tries to increase rent, then issue a section 21 when the tennant says no chance.

[PsilentMusicUK]

"I've had problems every single month as a landlord"

There's a very simple way to remedy this so you'll never have to deal with these problems again - don't be a landlord.

[Fky]

“I have to make the property I let out liveable???

[joeknight]

She wants all the benefits of earning money from a property that is having its mortgage paid for by someone else without the costs that go along with it.

[alexfleet]

41% of council houses bought under the right to buy scheme are being let on the private market.

So let’s thank landlords for the service they provide which seems to pushing up house prices as well as taking housing stock away from those on long waiting lists to get a council house.

Let’s thank landlords for helping with the housing crisis that they contributed to.

[Standard_Jay]

" Landlords are solving a crisis "....they in fact helped cause this crisis. Buy to let mortgage products introduced in the late 90's bid up house prices massively forcing more people into renting. And round and round we go.

[Ken-hexe]

No landlord becomes one to ‘help’ with the housing crisis which is primarily caused by people buying multiple properties to make profit thus pushing up prices and causing those that have to rent to be priced out of the buying market. Most rents are so exorbitant that renters couldn’t save enough to buy even if they wanted to

[mollyschannel]

It's her choice to be a landlord!!.. What is she complaining about!.. It's her property! Unbelievable 😂

[CC-jbid]

Masked slipped, she’s annoyed she has to pay for the upkeep of the property she owns and not the tenant who is paying her mortgage for it

If landlords could get away with it they’d invoice tenants for this