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Student Accommodation – Remember the New Rules
A very late Easter this year may mean that students are already considering their student accommodation, anticipating their summer break, perhaps already discussing whether they…
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Spring Has Sprung – Time to Check Your Property
Spring has sprung and brings with it the need for spring cleaning. Yes, that is down to the tenants, not you, but they may uncover…
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Landlords – Were You Ready for 20th March 2019?
The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act came into force this week on 20th March 2019. This has confused some landlords (probably the deliberate intention)…
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Big Plans from the Housing Secretary
I have written before about the regular replacement there seems to have been over the last few years in the posts of Housing Secretary and…
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More Competition for the Buy to Let Private Landlord
The private landlord has a hard time; whilst many are aware that tenants will seek private rented properties because of better standards, sometimes better areas,…
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Fixed Term Tenancies Under Threat from IPPR
The latest to call for private rental sector change is the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Don’t you, as a private landlord, love it…
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Tenants ‘Too Scared to Report Rogue Landlords’
Tenants ‘Too Scared to Report Rogue Landlords’ read the headline in the Manchester Evening News Advertiser. This was one of two adjoining articles which I…
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Tenant Fees Bill to Become Law This Year
It still needs Royal Assent, but the Tenant Fees Bill seems set to become law on 1st June 2019 and will apply to all tenancies…
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Insurance – Make Sure You Have Enough
Insurance will often seem money for nothing; most of us live quiet, peaceful lives and, though anyone can be burgled, or have a fire, this…
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Xmas is Coming – the Landlord’s Getting Flak
We are coming up to Xmas and despite the Xmas songs and Xmas markets, some landlords may think ‘so what’. Of course, they are right…
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Article in the Guardian 10th September 2018
We all live busy lives, so I hope you will forgive my reporting on an article in The Guardian from 10th September this year. I…
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Improved Protection for Private Sector Tenants
‘Improved protection for private sector tenants’ read the headline in the Manchester Weekly News (18th October 2018) in a column written by the Citizens Advice Bureau. …
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Universal Credit Continues Failing
This is hardly a new topic and won’t surprise any private landlord, but on all sides, there are reports of how universal credit is failing…
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Be Prepared for Mould in the Winter Months
A wonderful summer has ended; the complaints from tenants, or their neighbours, have been about rowdy parties and insects but not about mould and condensation. …
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Summer Days and Checking Tenant Ways
The long, hot summer days continue and whilst many tenants may decide to ‘staycation’ because of the heat, there are a few things landlords and…
