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Make Fire Hazard Checks on Your Property Inspections
Buy to let property investors need to make fire hazard checks during the regular property inspections that I am sure they all do during their…
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Lifetime Rental Deposits and the Private Rental Sector
With the suggestion that lifetime rental deposits could be an option in the future, could it be that a political party has finally come up…
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Small Bedrooms Are Still Bedrooms
An interesting case concerning bedrooms caught my eye and I initially had some sympathy for the tenants. A couple and their 2 young children, both…
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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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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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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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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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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…
