Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
You 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 […]
Read moreI have been convinced for some time that the whole lockdown and “vaccine” drive is actually not really about public health, if it ever was. After all, this is a disease 99.85% survive. It is now my view that there is probably something more sinister going on. I say this because, despite the censorship happening in the UK under the […]
Read moreENERGY PERFORMANCE CERTIFICATES OF “C” FOR LET PROPERTIES BY 2025 The government still seems set to require all rented properties to have an energy performance certificate (EPC) of at least a “C” by April 2025 for new tenancies and by April 2028, for existing tenancies. This follows news that the Green Homes Grant, which could have helped towards the cost […]
Read moreTENANTS IN OCCUPATION WHO ARE NOT ON THE TENANCY AGREEMENT So what do you do when you go to do a property inspection and you find that people are clearly living in occupation in a property who are not on the tenancy agreement? Well, it depends on the situation. We have found this happens quite a lot. Most of our […]
Read moreGetting to “Yes” with Prospective Tenants In previous blog posts, I explained how we do our marketing to find new tenants and how our screening process works. This is all about the process we use to get to find the best tenants who will say “Yes” to us (and to us minimising the time with the time-wasters so we can […]
Read moreCutting the admin burden of utility contacts Like a lot of urban landlords, we have had a fair bit of tenant turnover this last 15 months as the CoronaPsychosis drags ever on – now with, surprise, surprise, “new, improved mutant variants”. Who’d have predicted that? And right on time to kick any restoration of the rights your Grandparents fought for […]
Read moreOne Weeks Rent as a Reservation Fee is not Enough For some time now, us landlords have been limited to charging just a one week Reservation Fee, once we have agreed to let to a tenant. This is too low as we recently found out – and it increases the risk a tenant will change their mind and walk away […]
Read moreDON’T BUY WASTED SPACE THAT TENANTS DON’T REALLY WANT Buying superflous or wasted space is a waste of money in the business of buy to let. When thinking of buying a property to let, one has to be careful to not buy space or features that are not going to be used or appreciated by a tenant. So, the classic […]
Read moreWe always like to think about our tenant market very carefully – and if you are in the landlord business you should too. So we own and let mainly two bed freehold houses, always with gardens , mostly in South East London and North West Kent. We know this market very well. Our places are not massively up market nor […]
Read moreOn The Budget, Housing and the Coming Inflation This article looks at the budget and housing and says the real story of the budget is a drive for some inflation. A lot of people spend a great deal of time up worrying about what will be in the budget before it happens and then discussing what it all means after […]
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