Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Update on The Damage That Some Tenants Do

We have been deluged with shocking and disgusting pictures from Landlords following the launch of our campaign The Damage That Some Tenants do.

Landlords from all over the UK have sent us their photos of the disgusting mess they have been left to clean up after tenants have left.

In addition to these photos Landlords have also emailed us with their stories of how some tenants have abused Landlord's property, leaving a trail of damage and debt often running into thousands of pounds.

We have now posted a selection of these photos onto our Facebook page to highlight the Damage That Some Tenants Do.

The reason for posting these pictures on Facebook is to counter the Shelter Facebook campaign Evict Rogue Landlords. Shelter's campaign makes no mention of the Damage That Some Tenants Do and concentrates solely on the small percentage of bad Landlords who blight the industry.

NetRent spoke to Shelter and tried to explain that there are bad Landlords and bad Tenants and focusing on just bad Landlords will not help the industry raise standards, it will simply polarise opinion. Shelter were not interested, they believe that the problem is with Landlords and tenants are the victims.

Our campaign The Damage That Some Tenants Do is a direct response to Shelter's campaign and is designed to bring some balance to their one-sided attack on Landlords.

But we need your help.

We need more Landlords to send us their photos of the Damage That Some Tenants Do. We will post a selection of these photos onto our Facebook page.

When we feel we have enough photos we will bring these to the attention of the media to re-dress the balance and show people what too many Landlords have to deal with.

Please send your photos of the Damage That Some Tenants Do to support@netrent.co.uk

It is vital that you include your name, address and telephone number. We will not publish your contact details but we need to ensure that we have a record of where these photos have come from.

We ask all Landlords and Letting Agents to visit our Facebook page and please click 'Like' to indicate that you support our campaign.

Click here to visit the NetRent Facebook page.

Over 7,700 people have clicked that they 'Like' Shelter's Evict Rogue Landlords campaign.

We are asking all Landlords and Letting Agents to help us re-dress the balance and support our campaign The Damage That Some Tenants Do.

Please visit our Facebook page now and click 'Like'.