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This is in the UK. Laws protecting tenants there are, to put it politely, pretty thin.



I'll put it un-politely: they stink!

My first rental in London had bad mould problems. The landlord refused to fix them. We ended up with dehumidifiers throughout the house to keep it under control. When we left after a year, he complained at us for keeping dehumidifiers around when potential tenants came to visit - it raised too many questions! This was a 2200+/mo rental that he had bought for about 100k 15 years ago. What a crook.


There was recently a vote in Parliament to require landlords to keep their rented properties fit for human habitation. It failed: https://fullfact.org/economy/did-mps-vote-against-homes-havi...


What on earth?!? What about hotel rooms? So AirBnB in UK is dangerous?


A lot of MPs are landlords




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