{"id":2793,"date":"2017-05-22T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2017-05-22T07:00:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T06:00:58","slug":"majority-uks-landlords-tenants-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/news\/majority-uks-landlords-tenants-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of UK\u2019s landlords and tenants like each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A new research has revealed that the majority of landlords and tenants in Britain have a good relationship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When asked in a survey from landlord insurer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.directlineforbusiness.co.uk\/landlord-insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Direct Line for Business<\/a> about the most important things in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/03\/29\/landlords-show-optimism-britains-buy-let-future\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">relationship with their landlord<\/a>, tenants said they wanted them to respond quickly, set a reasonable rent and draw up fair tenancy agreements.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the survey also suggests the idea landlords and tenants don\u2019t see eye to eye is nothing but a myth as 69% of landlords surveyed explained they had a good relationship with their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/02\/20\/tenants-afraid-losing-homes\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tenants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One third of landlords said they think they are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/04\/05\/continuing-rise-generation-rent-best-friend-private-rented-sector\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">good friends with their tenants<\/a> and only 2% stated they had a poor relationship with their tenants.<\/p>\n<p>However, 15% of landlords also said they had no communication whatsoever with their tenants as all interactions were organised by a management or lettings agent.<\/p>\n<p>Landlords seem just as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/03\/08\/business-usual-uk-landlords\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confident about the future of their rental property<\/a> and the country\u2019s market. A total of 76% said they were confident they could rent out their property if their current tenants decided to move out within the next six months with 27% being very confident there would be no void period, meaning they wouldn\u2019t miss out on any rental income.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"XekiLQ5UTU\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/04\/19\/many-tenants-wont-tell-landlords-damage-rental-homes\/\">Many tenants won\u2019t tell landlords about damage in rental homes<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Many tenants won\u2019t tell landlords about damage in rental homes&#8221; &#8212; BuyAssociation Group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/04\/19\/many-tenants-wont-tell-landlords-damage-rental-homes\/embed\/#?secret=IVwoxtGFB9#?secret=XekiLQ5UTU\" data-secret=\"XekiLQ5UTU\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Christina Dimitrov, business manager at Direct Line for Business, explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe idea that landlords and tenants can\u2019t get on is a fallacy, as many of these relationships are very positive and are often long lasting. Having a good relationship with your tenants is beneficial as they will be more likely to flag problems with the property quickly, enabling the landlord to arrange for a swift repair and therefore minimising inconvenience and expense for both parties.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For landlords, the top three characteristics they\u2019re looking for in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2016\/11\/18\/good-tenant-bad-tenant-infographic\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">possible tenants<\/a> are: paying rent promptly (mentioned by 58%), being respectful of the property and its contents (mentioned by 41%) and being clean and tidy (mentioned by 37%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new research has revealed that the majority of landlords and tenants in Britain have a good relationship. When asked in a survey from landlord insurer Direct Line for Business about the most important things in a relationship with their landlord, tenants said they wanted them to respond quickly, set a reasonable rent and draw<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/news\/majority-uks-landlords-tenants-like\/\" title=\"ReadMajority of UK\u2019s landlords and tenants like each other\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":4341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buy-to-let-landlords","category-uk-housing-market","tag-renter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}