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Buy to Let Property Renting is a Business
Many landlords are employed in business or professions; private renting is an additional income, perhaps to provide an income in older age, so I am…
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Squirrels – Some Unwanted Pests Have Fluffy Tails
Both being ‘townies’ born and bred, it was a source of great delight to find that we had squirrels in the trees at the end…
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Brexit, Europe, and Home Ownership
I am totally sick of the Brexit saga for the UK to leave Europe, and suspect many of the population feel the same, irrespective of…
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The Priorities of the Chancellor
Chancellor Sajid Javid’s spending round, outlining departmental budgets for 2020/21, have proved a disappointment to housing professionals, local authorities and those in need of housing,…
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Don’t Let Bed Bugs Bite Your Buy to Let Profits
Mention bed bugs and it feels like a step into the past; Families living in over-crowded accommodation, children crowded into one, possibly urine stained and…
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Nightmare Tenants – Slum Landlords
It was a typical August afternoon – rain coming down in sheets and a dark and dull day. What to do? You guessed it –…
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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…
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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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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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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…
