Busy courts have fined several HMO landlords for poorly managing and maintaining their properties in several separate trials.
Swansea Council announced 21 successful prosecutions against HMO landlords with two cases of letting houses in multiple occupation without licences.
Dean Ricketts pleaded admitted failing to licence two HMOs to Swansea Magistrates Court.
They fined him £2,000 and ordered £578 costs.
In the other case, Abdul Muhith pleaded guilty to failing to license an HMO. He was fined £1,600 and ordered to pay £289 costs.
In Uxbridge,, West London, HMO landlord Sandeep Bhambra was fined £4,000 for renting a filthy and dangerous house to 16 tenants - including garden shed.
Council investigators were called to the house by disgruntled tenants whose ceiling had collapsed. They discovered the 16 tenants in a house licensed for 13.
The shed was also rented out despite a ban made almost two years earlier.
The house was described to Uxbridge magistrates as dirty, overcrowded and unsafe as fire safety equipment was not maintained.
Bhambra admitted five charges of failing to manage and maintain his property and was also ordered to pay £500 costs.
Liquiat Shah and his wife Parveen Bushra were fined £6,000 and ordered to pay £786 costs for letting a house without an HMO licence by Rochdale magistrates.
Two landlords were fined £11,000 for breaking house in multiple occupation management rules in Newport, South Wales.
Magistrates found Saeed Zafar guilty in his absence by magistrates on charges of failing to licence an HMO and not running licensing or running the property properly.
Zafar was fined £2,000 for failing to licence an HMO and £500 each for breaching eight management charges. He must also pay costs of £974.
In a separate case, Louis Marshall, was found guilty in his absence at Abergavenny Magistrates Court for failing to renew a HMO licence. He was fined £5,000 and ordered to pay £744 costs.
