Homeless charity Shelter has stepped up its efforts to rid the market of rogue landlords, landlordtoday.co.uk reports.
Shelter has made clear its desires to ensure rogue landlords are not allowed to operate in the market, although the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has said its methods are not quite right.
The RLA would typically agree with Shelter's calls for rogue landlords to be exposed and removed from the property market, though this time it has said the charity is using emotional clichés which could end up adversely affecting tenants.
Shelter and the RLA both want to see rogue landlords cease trading so that reputable letting agents can be sure their clients are genuine. The RLA has claimed that Shelter's use of the word "rogue" in its campaign should be substituted for "criminal" however and that Shelter should reconsider its "five point plan" to ensure nothing can come back on the tenant.
Amongst the points raised by Shelter that the RLA took issue with are a raising of the fine threshold for rogue landlords, a national website listing convicted rogue landlords and a government summit to discuss the issue further.
The list, it claims, is full of "spurious regulation" that could wrongly be used against reputable landlords and damage their reputations, rla.org.uk reports.