Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
AVOID BAD NEIGHBOURHOODS WHEN YOU BUY Always avoid bad neighbourhoods when you buy property, whether to let, to live in yourself or to improve. Bad neighbourhoods can be harder to spot than you think and demand real, close local knowledge. We all learn by making mistakes and I am now exception to this. These days, I think I have now […]
Read moreSo, it is 1985 – and at the age of 23 I have just completed on buying my first lovely 2 bed flat in southeast London. I still drive past it from time to time. A BIT ABOUT HOW I STARTED OFF AS A LANDLORD It cost £36,000 and the mortgage was £30,000. Interest rates were about 10% I recall. […]
Read moreSo, hydrogen and heat pumps are supposed to the new ways to heat our homes. But the trouble is, the sums do not add up. Hydrogen and Heat Pumps Perhaps this is deliberate – and designed to keep us all poor (and also totally under surveillance) as per The Great Reset control-surveillance system being rolled out under cover of this […]
Read moreIf you are on a variable rate, you ought to fix your mortgage now, whilst rates are still low and before they go up – which seems inevitable. There is still some record low rate mortgage deals around. For example, there is a five-year fixed rate at 1.65% available as I write this, but with real inflationary pressures breaking out […]
Read moreA few words on tenant selection and my experiences using OpenRent. I very much like OpenRent and use them most of the time now. It is fast and efficient, though just one thing bugs me about how they work. I do not like the way they impose their tenants screening system, when they decide you have had too many enquiries. […]
Read moreThe Covid Cult ought to be starting to unwind, except for the fact that the main stream media tend to not report on where the cult of the ID and Surveillance System (which they call Health Passports) is losing ground, usually because of the increasing evidence that the Covid “vaccines” are not working as expected. Why so many main stream […]
Read moreWell, don’t say I always try to paint investing in the private rented sector as being totally without risk! NATIONALISATION AND CONFISCATION OF PRIVATE RENTED PROPERTY So, here I go again with this look at the possibility of nationalisation and even confiscation of private rented property. Many of you will be saying that this is not possible, but then people […]
Read moreGenerally, in life, most people you will go to for advice are honest and will give you the best information they can, within their level of competence. But it is true that in the world of buy to let, as in all walks of life, not all advice is of equal quality. Check the Motive of Advisors It is not […]
Read moreA New Non Gas Boiler Will Cost You More, But Greta Wills It So, now that the Covid “Pandemic” fear is easing off a bit, at least for now, we can expect a whole lot of new fears about global warming, or as we now have to call it, “climate change” to come to the fore in the controlled press. […]
Read moreYou should always chase a tenant who left owing you money – whether that was rent money or losses as a result of damages they caused. You owe it to other landlords. I will explain why in this piece. I am happy to say it has been 22 long years since I or any of the properties I manage had […]
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