If only it was that easy! All my tenants had references and guarantors . The law is sided to the tenant, they know how to exactly do things, they just get the property struck off without you knowing. 2 of my properties were run down over a period of time. I knew nothing about until we were contacted be neighbours to say they had left. Disconnected extractor fans in the bathroom, piles of wet clothes stacked against a wall, tumble dryer vent moved and pointed into a back porch to create dampness! All this to get moved up the ladder on social housing, they had just built new houses in our town! When I brought a team in to sort it all out, they did in in minutes! There was no long lasting damp, just surface that was sorted with a squirt of bleach and open the windows! I got the black list lifted with 1 phone call, they didn’t even come out and check they buckled when I questioned the credentials of who came out and condemned my houses. By then you are down rent, lock smiths and don’t forget council tax as they have had it down as free to them so they can decorate! When I called to claim it as I was re vamping the whole properties I couldn’t as it had been used, tenant just gives a post code that’s not chased up, Landlord needs to have a meeting with a council worker. The lady on the phone told me it’s just not fare on the Landlords! Don’t forget the stress it causes and lawyers letters which are a waste of time because if you do win in court, they can pay you back £10 a week! Lawyer said don’t waste anymore money! Only saving grace I had is I managed to blacklist them due to unpaid rent! Neither of them asked for their deposit back, which to me is an obvious sign of them in the wrong! 1 even had the cheek to call me asking to remove the blacklist, I said give me my £1500 and I will, she went into a rage saying I had my chance and never took it! Scumballs!!! Can’t forget the threat of violence toward my factor after to her and her children! None of these tenants were social, all private tenants!