Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
What are the best sources of information for landlords? Best Sources of Information for Landlords Well, I am a member of the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) and I get their magazine, which comes six times a year. I have been a member for over 30 years. I also get the excellent “Property Investor News” and the “Your Property Network” […]
Read moreLandlords who let HMOs may know about the sudden increase in cousins, uncles and aunts. Tenants who want to rent a shared house with more than two unrelated people will know about it too. Here is the standard definition of the family groups that could form a “household”, this from Birmingham local authority. I chose Birmingham because it is quite […]
Read moreThe Coming Digital Prison and what you can do to try to Prevent it Happening This post is not about property. But in many ways is far more important. It looks at what could happen in 2023 and coming years as well as considering the madness since March 2020. Today, many respected senior scientists, including professors of medicine, epidemiology, physics […]
Read moreIncome to Rent Ratio In this post I look at why it is time to adjust the income to rent ratio to require applicants to show an income of at least 2.5 times rent. And also, why I think inflation might not prove transitory. A few blog posts ago I talked about why I did not think rents are going […]
Read moreIn my last blog post I looked at why I do not think rents would fall much, even in real terms over the next year. I also don’t think house prices will fall much in real terms either, at least not over the next 12 months. OK, I will admit when the Covid “pandemic” and the insane lockdowns had just […]
Read moreIt is interesting to hear the comments of people who I know who are not landlords but who glean bits of news from mainstream media about the private rented sector. They say things like “It must be so hard for you landlords with interest rates going up!” I tell them, “No, it is not a problem, because if you have […]
Read moreIn this short article, I look at annual inspections, why we do them and what we look for. I also look at the costs of tenant changeovers, when one tenancy ends and another starts. Annual Inspections We do annual inspections on our properties, usually just ahead of Winter, normally in late October or November. Apart from that we do not […]
Read moreIn this article, I examine how it was that many people who would identify themselves as “centre left” ended up being supporters and cheerleaders for huge global corporations controlling the media as well as technology and pharmaceutical products. I also look at the strange phenomenon of the disappearing “centre” and “centre right” and how people who are “not left” automatically […]
Read more“Always follow your instinct” is a good mantra to live by. Some years ago, we were letting a property and we thought we had found a good applicant. As usual, I had requested the applicant provide all the documents we needed to see. And he was fine with that. In fact, he said, why don’t my wife and I come […]
Read moreIn the first part of this piece about how we reduce the large number of time waster enquiries we get, I looked at how we put certain information in the advert text. This is specific information which relates to the property and our referencing processes. We do this to cut the number of enquiries down from people for whom the […]
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