A LANDLORD has been awarded a licence despite her friend claiming that “it’s quite difficult to manage Chinese tenants”.

Wan Jing will be allowed to rent her Partick house out to five people amid claims her partner broke into the property while tenants were sleeping.

Ms Jing claimed that her partner ‘Dan’ drove to the house on Keith Court after midnight on April 28 this year to try and resolve a rent dispute.

And she admitted that the argument arose over after the tenants blamed her for there being a bad smell in the house.

Despite the allegations against her and her partner, Ms Jing told Glasgow’s licensing committee: “The tenants were phoning me asking for all their rent back in the middle of the night and they were refusing to pay future rent. They threatened to destroy the house if I didn’t agree with them.

“I initially tried to pacify that by offering to visit the next day but in order to avoid a further disturbance I agreed that my partner Dan would drive to the property immediately.

“He drove there around midnight and proceeded to unlock the door and the tenant shouted that he was not getting in and they were going to phone the police.”

A Police Scotland spokeswoman confirmed that officers had attended and reminded Dan and Ms Jing of the rules around landlords accessing properties.

And when asked why Ms Jing didn’t wait until the following day to attend the property instead of sending Dan, her friend, who was translating, said that Chinese tenants don’t understand the concept of boundaries.

Glasgow’s Houses in Multiple Occupancy (HMO) Unit also revealed that Ms Jing had previously been operating as a landlord without a licence.

During an inspection in June the property was found to have no cold water supply, an overgrown back garden and was requiring fresh paintwork.

Licensing committee chairman Alex Wilson hit out at Ms Jing’s management of the property and insisted that being demanding wasn’t an exclusive trait of Chinese tenants.

He added: “You were renting this house out as a multiple occupancy without having a licence. If there was a fire and you were unlicenced you’d be looking at a very long jail term.

“It concerns me that you’ve been running this unlicenced and there are items that our officers picked up that you didn’t pick up.”

Despite those comments, committee members gave Ms Jing a HMO licence for a restricted period of one year and issued her with a severe warning regarding her future management of the premises.