Rogue Landlords
- Lawabiding landlords are sometimes defamatorily tarred with the title of ogue landlord.
- This may be a malicious term to satisfy a vexatious local resident who is either jealous of a landlord's sucess or resentful that their community has suffered due to the change in tenant / resident demography with the perception that undesireable transient tenants become neighbours.
- A rogue landlord is one who knowingly or recklesly breaks the law whilst letting property.
- This is not a landlord who sincerely forgets to provide the full 24 hours implied notice that the gas safe engineer is attending to ensure compliance of the heating system.
- A rogue is someone who breaks the law. A Rogue Landlord is one who lets property whilst disregarding the law. Such individuals are likely to jeopardise their tenant's safety or to flout the rules governing landlords.
- Many examples can be cited but proportionally this number is a tiny percent of the whole letting fraternity. Less than 1% would probably fit this category.
- For some - a rogue landlord is a derogatory term to vent resentment when say a tenant fails to recycle on the correct day or the landlord converts a garage to a habitable room to create a legally acceptable 6th bedroom, he becomes a rogue landlord in the eyes of his resentful neighbour and is slanderously misdescribed so.
- See also rip off rents, Rachman, Van Hootstraten Rigsby.
Published: 29 September 2015
Last Updated: 30 November 2021