The note was a very nice touch ! Great job on the SS to ucvunknown <| sep |> Alright then . You stoners come up with the best excuses . Might want to put that creativity toward something meaningful . <| sep |> Just to throw in some perspective , I ' m not just a normal person who rents , I work in housing as an advisor , I know both sides of the coin and I am more than aware that tenants can be fucking awful , but to be honest , landlords are worse . Seriously , these people are making 80 , 000 per year per building of an average of 8 flats at the flat housing benefit rate and yet are far too tight to replace a window , or put down new carpet which is something that they should have done in the first place . Like I said in my other comment , there are some fucking awesome landlords and I ' m fortunate to have one as mine , but generally speaking they are moneygrabbers who use it as a business to make even more money than they currently are . People pay rent for a reason . That rent is paid to you as an income and if they ' re following their tenancy agreement then so should you . I just don ' t buy it , especially when it ' s me who has to deal with frail old women who are panicking and worried about their eviction notice of only 2 months they ' ve just been given because the landlord wants to sell . Or the single mother whose partner left her and their 2 children owes 1 month ' s rent and her landlord is on her back whilst she ' s been slaving away working 2 jobs just to try and keep herself steady and not be a benefitdweller , or the couple who went to housing standards because their property was black with mould but they ' ve been slapped with an eviction notice too for going to authority to get their shitty landlord to actually put work into his business , or the guy who ' s having to leave the home he ' s lived in for 7 years because the landlord had their building repossessed , or again , the single mother who ' s just had a baby and the landlord decides to throw her out because they don ' t allow children , or the guy who ' s sick and on a sickness benefit because he broke his leg in 6 places whilst working , his benefits were stopped because of a fuck up on the housing benefit side and yet it was him who was evicted and punished . Fuck me , I could go on and on and on and on and on . These are all very real and cases I ' ve dealt with in the past fortnight alone . So you can ' t sit there and type away about how good landlords are and why there are rules in place . A home isn ' t a special privilege , it ' s a right . I would say 90 % of people who rent that I work closely with are completely normal and don ' t cause trouble and I see around 3050 people per month as just my own , nevermind my colleagues who also see the same amount of people . So the amount of foot traffic that comes into my building about rogue landlords and shitty properties is staggering , and yet I live somewhere pretty affluent so it ' s not even like I live in a shithole town where it ' s expected . You may be a good landlord , but believe me , for every 1 good landlord there are 5 bad ones .