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25 Years in the UK Housing Sector
It is 25 years since I graduated as a housing professional. I had spent a year in a local authority housing office and seen how…
Articles by LK
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Female Tenant Moves Out Due to Violence
A female tenant had lived very happily for 4 years in a private rented property. The landlord was delighted with her as a tenant as…
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Television Landlords – And Real Life
Television – the square-eyed monster as it has been called – plays an enormous part in our daily lives. It entertains us, it educates us,…
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Are Private Landlords So Bad at Gas Safe Checks?
In my previous working life, part of my role in working with private sector landlords was to ensure that annual Gas Safe checks took place…
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What the New Prime Minister Must Do
We should soon know who our new Prime Minister will be, and they need to act quickly to sort out the Right to Rent mess…
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Landlords Can No Longer Charge Prospective Tenants Fees
It seems a very long time ago that I warned moves to remove the fees landlords charged to prospective tenants was on the horizon. I…
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How to Calculate the Rent for Your Property
Who am I to tell anybody what rent they should be charging for their properties? Well I’m not going to even try. But there are…
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Could This Really Be the End of the Private Rental Sector?
I have worked with the private rental sector for 25 years, but I won’t be having a party. I have seen the how attitudes have…
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More Landlord Interference from the ‘Government’
Just when you feel that there is nothing else the government, or prospective government, can do to make it harder for a private sector landlord…
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Health in the Private Rental Sector
I came across a story about health in The Independent from earlier this year. Research had found that people living in a privately rented home…
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Landlord – You Just Can’t Do It
It never ceases to amaze me that in 2019, with the training available from landlord associations and accreditation schemes, to say nothing of the information…
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Government Determined to Scrap Section 21
That the government plans to scrap Section 21 will be no surprise to any private sector landlord who keeps in touch with what is happening…
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Can a Landlord Evict Without a Solicitor?
I have spent years persuading intelligent and competent landlords that solicitors are usually unnecessary. In almost all cases, they can undertake an eviction without the…
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Debt and the Private Landlord
I was browsing the Internet when a couple of items hit me in the face. ‘Reduce debt payments by 85 per cent’ said one. Though…
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Does the Government Ever Think Properly About Tenants?
There’s been a lot in the media about the benefits to tenants of a longer, standard tenancy and 3 years seems to be the favoured…
