Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
So, we now have a new government, and they have announced their plans for the private rented sector. Here is a quick summary. Mad Miliband and Energy Ratings First off, my fear that Mad Miliband was going to require properties in the private rented sector to be energy performance rating grade C in the next year or so has not […]
Read moreHow to keep your landlord happy and why it matters This blog is about what good tenants do. (Silly tenants don’t). This matters because if you are a tenant and keep your landlord happy, he/she will almost certainly keep any rent increases low (and probably below the rate of inflation) and keep your rent below local market rents. He/she will […]
Read moreIn this post, I look into the strange world of Lewisham’s selective licensing scheme for landlords – where nothing is as it seems. They seem confused at the town hall, but not as much as we are. Also, a Labour MP and architect of a different selective licensing scheme in London appears to have forgotten to have a valid license […]
Read moreHow to do Viewings In my last post, I explained why I am not a fan of group viewings and why bidding wars for properties to let are most unlikely to happen in practice, (at least if a landlord or letting agent is doing their job properly). So, following on from that post, how should a landlord or letting agent […]
Read moreThis article is about block viewings and bidding wars for rental property and why one rarely exists and the other is a unicorn, existing only in the imagination of out-of-touch politicos who don’t understand the private rented sector. Block Viewings and The Tenants Bidding War Unicorn I have seen some daft ideas touted about what could be Labour policy for […]
Read moreProperty118 and a Tax Advice Battle There has been a challenge to a tax scheme promoted at Property 118. One wonders how this will turn out as it raises many questions, not least about HMRC. Some years ago, Mark Alexander of Property 118 secured a brilliant win against “The Man”. The Man was the West Bromwich Building Society, who like […]
Read moreDon’t Bother Paying for Credit Reports, Get Tenant Applicants to Get Their Own Detailed Reports and Send to You For many years I have used the credit check facility provided by the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA). The cost of this is £12 per tenant applicant (that is with the discount for NRLA members) and you pay a little extra […]
Read moreOne result of the Tenant Fees Act was that landlords were reduced to only asking for a weeks’ equivalent rent as a “holding deposit” or to be strictly correct on terminology, (and so not to be confused with deposits against damages and non payment of rent), a “reservation fee”. In the old days, we used to charge tenants an equivalent […]
Read moreI rather like the feature on online letting agent’s OpenRent system where their system is able to screen out all the applicants who have not read your conditions properly. So with OpenRent you have a “pre-screening” option where you can state things like No Pets, No DSS, Not Suitable for Students, Min Income Required from Applicants, Min Tenancy Length and […]
Read moreDemand the Release of the Data on Excess Deaths Caused by the Covid “Vaccine” If you believe in national sovereignty, your rights, democracy, free speech, bodily and mental autonomy, the ability to think and express yourself freely within the reasonable confines of the law, (which includes the right to offend someone and the right to hold a different position to […]
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