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Old 10-04-2010, 23:25   #41
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Re: Selective Licensing of Landlords

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Originally Posted by turkishdelight View Post
If this happens,i think the landlords will put up the rents to cover it,so in the end the person renting the house will pay for it.
Sadly, somethings you just can't put a price on.

Maximum fine for buy to let landlord after tenant dies in bathroom tragedy.
'A faulty 30 year old electric radiator contributed to a mother of two being electrocuted while taking a bath in her rented accommodation in Cornwall.'
Maximum fine for buy to let landlord after tenant dies in bathroom tragedy - RL news

Here's someone else who wouldn't be able to carry on as he is, if his properties needed a licence, and benefited from inspections.

Landlord fined over 'house of horrors' that had a tarpaulin roof and holes in the walls | Mail Online
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