Teesside Landlord again shows it cannot manage its 'unruly' tenants as council is gratned yet another closure order .

Local Tax Payer yet again has been lumbered with the costs of a Landlords failure to vet its tenants, as calls for a Housing Provider to be referred to regulators grow…..

30th August 2024

Author HBC Exposed

Two properties in Hartlepool have now been hit with closure orders after locals describe the ‘hell on earth’ unleashed by a Teesside Landlords blatant inability to get to grips with its ‘unruly’ tenants.

Teesside Magistrates granted three-month closure orders on No’s 40 and 50 Fraser Grove—both flats said to have been managed by Teesside landlords Thirteen Housing Group….

The closures come after Hartlepool Borough Council, representing the Hartlepool Community Safety Team, made strong cases for both properties. But the Council court costs totalling £4,598 for their bid to try & bring some peace back to the local community has not come without its controversy, following claims Landlords Thirteen Housing should have picked up the legal bill & NOT that of the local tax payer. .

A Nightmare on Fraser Grove

Residents near 40 Fraser Grove were said to have been enduring relentless disturbances which included Discarded drug paraphernalia, Round-the-Clock Noise, filth and vandalism.

Chaos at 50 Fraser Grove

The situation at nearby 50 Fraser Grove was said to be equally dire, with neighbours said to have been ‘living in fear’, with claims the flat was a hotspot for drug use and dealing,

One incident reportedly led to an Armed Attack, with two men armed said to have been armed with an axe and machete smashing a neighbour’s window, & demanding money from the tenant at 50 Fraser Grove.

Hartlepool Borough Council was seemingly quick to champion the closure orders as a ‘significant victory for the community’, bringing much-needed relief to residents who have endured months of distress.

However, the £4,958 in costs now shouldered by the supposedly ‘cash strapped’ council has led to claims that Thirteen’s willingness to allow local councils to take the brunt of the costs involved in whats said to be significantly ‘complex’ cases is indicitive of the landlords inability to manage its housing estates effectively, with the Teesside Landlords seemingly ‘walking away’ leaving the local tax payer to endure the financial burden of its inability to adequately background check its tenants.

Thirteen Housing Group recently come under significant public scrutiny over a recent rent increase to its tenants on the back of an announcement shortly after that it turned over record breaking revenues whilst managing to dodge the payment of what would have been a substantial corporation tax bill.

Thirteen’s tenancy management services & estates upkeep has long been a bone of contention for many of its long standing tenants who claim communities are being significantly effected by Thirteens consistent 'poor management', with many of the housing estates managed by the Teesside Landlord resembling ‘ghettos’, reinforcing calls for the landlord to be refered to the Housing Regulators or face calsl for the housing stocks to be put back into control of the local councils they were originally taken from…