From: JNugent73@mail.com 
  
 On 05/09/2025 11:25 AM, Roland Perry wrote: 
  
 > 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? 
  
 An edge case which illustrates the real point, beautifully. 
  
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