You're a mug then. Why are you bothering with this if its not earning you a profit?
Honest question.
Well I am not talking about myself, I am explaining the situation as I understand it and offering a reasonable counterpoint against the anti landlord posters.
As for why bother? Isn't that the point a large amount of landlords are not making a profit anymore and many have slipped into making a loss or a due to slip into loss over the next few years. They are trying to leave due to all the recent changes in being a landlord and the situation over the next few years is set to get worse with even more trying to leave before 2025 or 2028. People are asking why are landlords leaving and I am trying to explain why.
"He can do what he/she likes. If the mortgage is being paid off by the tenant then they are increasing the landlords capital for them and hence profit when they sell. Whether or not the landlord owns 50% of the property, or 100%
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How can you argue taking out a £200k mortgage, doing nothing whilst your tenant pays money into your pocket, to pay your mortgage, then selling it for £200k (plus inflation) is not profit I do not know...
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To be fair I didn't say no profit, I said the profit is no where near as much as it appears and sometimes slips into a loss. Take a typical 200k property the rent pays nothing towards the 200k in a commonly used interest only setup that is favoured by landlords. So after 25 years at 3k tax per year the Landlord will have had to pay out £75,000k tax on the rent. Plus lets say over that time £25,000 on refurbishments, £15,00k on repairs, £5k on checks, insurance and when it comes to sell the landlord will have to pay £200k to the bank for the property plus what ever other bills I forgot. So we are on £320k the landlord will have paid out after 25years on that 200k property. This is not even counting capital gains tax, and all the costs in selling the property.
The mistake some people appear to be making is they come across as thinking the rent pays off the 200k and when the landlord sells they get 200k profit from the sale into there bank which is wrong in this situation at least as the 200k doesn't go to the landlord in this typical setup.
The two main points are the rent is often not used by the landlord to pay the value of the property which is what the anti landlord posters are complaining about. The profits at the point of sale is not 200k into the landlords bank account. I am not saying no profit, I am saying at the point of sale its far less then you would expect in many cases.