You couldn’t make it up – or could you?
Tenancy referencing firm UKtenantdata was referencing a tenant employed by Glasgow City Council.
Glasgow is of course in Scotland – where fees charged to tenants are banned.
UK tenantdata had neared the end of processing the application, but needed an employer’s reference.
Glasgow City Council said there was a charge of £26.35 for providing the reference, and the charge would be deducted from the applicant’s next pay packet.
Tony Williams of UKtenantdata said: “It appears to be fine for Glasgow City Council to charge fees when every agency north of the border can’t.”
We wonder if this is the sort of thing that will happen in England when tenant fees are banned.
Comments (6)
I trust this one will go to court?
For everyones information it takes an employer around 30 seconds to validate an employee’s status through our secure referee portal, we then conduct underlying checks on the company, the employee contacts and run a separate company report before sign off. Now lets do the maths £26.35 x 2 = 1 minutes work £52.70, per hour this equates to £3162.00. And the socialist Scottish Government thinks this is acceptable -give me a break!!
This is councils all over double standards they license landlords yet the quality of the homes they provide or the lack of maintainence there in is staggering why are these ROUGE LANDLORDS not taken to task a case of the fox guarding the hen coupe…….
But YOU SHOULD DO AS THEY TELL YOU (after all they are the council don’t you know!) not as they do! Everyone knows how totally arrogant and money grabbing councils are and they are the ones who bad mouth private sector landlords.
A story to store at the back of your minds to bring out regarding double standards.
There are a lot of ROGUE councils out there. Perhaps Glasgow leads the way!