How Freeholders and Managing Agents Can Abuse Leaseholders Legally

In this piece LettingFocus.com looks at how freeholders and their managing agents can abuse leaseholders and LettingFocus founder, David Lawrenson,  explains why he tends to avoid leasehold properties. I contributed to an article for “The Times” the other week, which looked at the various ways leaseholders can get “turned over” by unscrupulous freeholders and their managing agents. Here, based on […]

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Consent to Let Scam How Freeholders Rip Off Leaseholder Landlords with Consent to Let Fees

Summary: Landlords are being ripped off by freeholders for “Consent to Let” fees that the freeholders are not entitled to levy. Readers of this blog will know that all things being equal, I far prefer to buy a freehold property rather than a leasehold one. The many reasons for this are explained at length in “Successful Property Letting – How […]

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