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Burgalaries - the statistics 24 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
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Report finds landlords happy to let to tenants on benefits 22 Aug 2013 | 02:17 pm
A study conducted by DSSmove.co.uk last month has reported that approximately 75 per cent of agents and landlords are happy enough to rent out their properties to tenants receiving Housing Benefit. Y...
Dodging the tenants punches 21 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
When I refer to dodging punches I am luckily talking metaphorically. I know it happens that tenants can get violent. Thankfully this is one thing I haven't had to deal with yet. We did advise one l...
"Buy-to-let booming!?" 20 Aug 2013 | 12:49 pm
I know the latest headlines are proclaiming a buy-to-let boom. I don't think so. I would call it steady growth when much of the rest of the economy has stagnated, shrunk or flat lined. Ex-Chancello...
Tenants dissatisfied claims website 19 Aug 2013 | 11:56 am
A new tenant website claims that 37% of tenants would not rent another property from their current landlord or using the same letting agent. In it's survey of 2000 tenants it found that: 39% of tena...
Boiler problems - google it! 17 Aug 2013 | 01:15 pm
I've bored you at length in the past with my search for the perfect boiler. Fear not ...I"m not about to subject you to any more of it. I did eventually find what I thought was the perfect boiler. ...
Universal credit to be delayed 15 Aug 2013 | 03:55 pm
Despite the coalitions original plans to have all claimant on universal credit by April 2014, there now appears to be no confirmed date for universal coverage to be implemented. Once again this throws...
TDS - 'Superstrike' minister responds 14 Aug 2013 | 12:19 pm
We have recently written about the implications of the 'Superstrike' case which has thrown some confusion over the status of deposits held by landlords for tenancies that have become statutory periodi...
Interest rates may rise soon 13 Aug 2013 | 12:08 pm
Landlords who may think that interest rates could stay at their current low level for another 3 years may be in for a bit of a shock according to the latest article in the Telegraph. We highlighted l...
Stuck in a postcode time warp 12 Aug 2013 | 12:28 pm
Areas aren’t always as you remember them – photo courtesy of C Law @creativecommons I’m searching for an investment property and spending most of my Saturdays in the town where I grew up, viewing ho...
