From: roland@perry.uk 
  
 In message , at 17:26:16 on Tue, 2 Sep 
 2025, JNugent  remarked: 
  
 >Are there really any slum landlords left in the private sector? 
 > 
 >Obviously, we all know that there plenty of local authority slum 
 >landlords (just look at some of that property and ask yourself whether 
 >it is chronically fit for human habitation), but are there really many 
 >private sector properties unfit, other than temporarily while awaiting 
 >repairs? 
 > 
 >That is something that applies to every house in the country, by the 
 >way. Including yours and mine. 
  
 A friend has a million-pound spare-house which he rents to willing 
 tenants. But it's a 1930's picturesque front-tiled property (may or may 
 not be in a conservation area, I forget) which is completely uneconomic 
 to raise to recently proposed minimum EPC standards. What is he suppose 
 to do? 
 -- 
 Roland Perry 
  
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