"Scumlord"

[SueDonim]

I think that's true with most things - pick a subject.  A car dealer selling dodgy cheap cars, exactly the same situation, they are getting the poor into vehicles, there are problems, customers complain, the dealers are being picked on...they just want to make money, give us a break !

Same old generalisation. Some car dealers sell dodgy cheap cars. Others sell good cheap cars so that people who can't afford or don't wish to buy a new one get to have a car. Why shouldn't they make a living if they are doing what they do with honesty and integrity? Just like landlords. Give us a break!!!!!!!!!!!

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There are those who don't know the industry/business [insert word of choice] who disagree for no good reason, and there are those who do know the industry/business who make submissions to tell the government what is wrong with its plans and why they are bad/won't work. The government goes ahead anyway (because most of them don't understand the industry) and the people affected tend to continue to disagree, especially when the results they forewarned come about.

that's kind of irrelevant really, even if the forewarned issues do occur - you've simply done your civic duty by making submissions and can feel good about that.  But it does not entitle anyone to disregard the rule of law as it is then set in legislation, simply because they disagree(d).

I didn't say anyone should disregard the law. You complained about people with a sense of entitlement. I complained about people who feel entitled to an opinion when they don't know enough about the subject to have an informed opinion and the fact that some of those people are lawmakers who ignore the information they are given. And from the OP's first post, the article doesn't actually show that the landlord in question has done anything really wrong. He has clearly been up for a few minor transgressions but it sounds like they were more getting caught by circumstance than deliberate.