A Manchester landlord with two apartments in a posh block in Spinningfields has been ordered by the management company in charge of the apartments to stop renting his properties out to short-term tenants.
Party Loving Tenants Welcome
Managers at the up-market apartment building complex claim the landlord has been advertising his properties on holiday websites and attracting party-loving tenants who go out clubbing and then continue partying all night long, often with music blaring out until 5 AM (much to the disgust of residents living in neighbouring apartments).
Neighbours claim there are around 30 parties a year in the apartments, which causes considerable disturbance to them. The landlord disagrees with this assertion. He says that in the ten years since he has owned the apartments, there has only been loud noise “once or twice”.
Injunction Served on Landlord
Despite evidence to the contrary, the landlord has denied renting his properties as short-term lets and claims he only ever rents them to professionals. Unfortunately the management company don’t believe him and have now secured an injunction from Manchester Civil Justice centre to prevent him from letting the apartments out on a short-term basis.
According to the director of the management company: “For a long time we have had issues with people who have been letting out the flats like a hotel and as ‘party lets’. This particular couple advertise them for rental over one night or a week, which is against the rules of the lease.”
However, as the landlord points out, even long-term tenants can be disruptive.
