I AM sick to death of reading about poor landlords complaining about rents being late and bad tenants.

Well, I don't feel sorry for them.

Landlords choose their own tenants, not the council.

Though, they like to blame the council.

The council have a good system of vetting tenants for the landlords.

The tenants have to register with the council, giving him a chance to find out whether a tenant has a good history before he gives him a flat.

Landlords have been moaning about the condition of their own properties, well if the landlords don't like investing money into their own assets that is their look-out!

Morecambe is beginning to look like a 'shanty town', boarded up windows, street beggars, drugs and brothels.

Brought into town by a lot of our local landlords: who don't have the problem as they often live in surrounding rural areas.

If landlords don't re-invest their easy gained profits back into their properties, then why should the council be expected to subsidise them.

It is the local home owners who are affected by these rundown flats, as it brings the house prices in that area right down, thus creating cheap houses for landlords to buy and recycle back into yet more flats and slums.

Landlords are supposed to be running a business, most business people in trouble seek to sort out the problem or turn to a new line.

You don't write to the local paper because you can't sell shoes, if you can't rent flats properly then get a new job!

Stephen Tyson

Morecambe