Total Landlord Insurance wins “Best Landlord Insurance Provider”

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Landlord Insurance:

Hamilton Fraser Total Landlord Insurance has won ‘Best Landlord Insurance Provider’ at the Insurance Choice Awards against some of their largest industry competitors, including Direct Line for Business and Simple Landlords Insurance.

The Insurance Choice Awards help consumers to find the best possible insurance products and providers on the market and is the only independent insurance awards voted for by UK customers. Companies must receive a minimum of 100 reviews during the voting period to be eligible and the highest-rated firm in each-product category wins.

Winners of the 16 product specific awards and 7 top level awards were announced at The Insurance Choice Awards held on Thursday 12^th October at The Lansdowne Club, Mayfair.

As part of Hamilton Fraser, also parent company to leading industry services such as mydeposits, the Property Redress Scheme, Client Money Protect and Landlord Action, Total Landlord Insurance has an unrivalled understanding of the buy-to-let industry, enabling them to offer landlords the best advice on protecting their investment.

Some of the reviews left by Total Landlord Insurance customers, which contributed to their success, described them as “one of a kind”, going “above and beyond to do their best to get you the cheapest quote” and offering “practical advice for landlords, and updates on relevant legal matters. Excellent.”

Having previously been awarded the prestigious Investor in Customers (IIC) award, Total Landlord Insurance is regularly praised for its exceptional customer service, particularly through their “same name claim handler” operation. Recent claims feedback questionnaires (received between 03/04/17 and 31/07/17) revealed that 91% of customers would recommend Total Landlord Insurance.

Eddie Hooker, CEO of Hamilton Fraser Total Landlord Insurance says: “It goes without saying that I am absolutely delighted to have achieved this accolade.  This is not only recognition of the quality of service we are providing, but also that customers value the additional work we put into providing reliable support and accurate advice. Now more than ever landlords need guidance so protection and raising standards is of greatest importance to us.  Thank you to all our valued customers who took the time to write a review.”

All reviews written by Total Landlord Insurance customers can be viewed here

Based in Borehamwood, Hamilton Fraser, (parent company to Total Landlord Insurance, mydeposits, Property Redress Scheme, CMP and Landlord Action) provides specialist insurance and ancillary services for the private rented sector.

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Council tenant received 200 hour work order for subletting

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Subletting a private landlord’s property without permission is breaking the tenancy contract and permits action to evict the tenant. However, if a tenant sublets a council owned property without permission then this is actually a criminal offence.

Suzie Litanda recently pleaded guilty at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court to twice subletting her council flat between December 2013 and September 2016.

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Directors of block sell assets to themselves undervalue and evade fair share of annual service charge!

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I have an unusual situation which I wonder if any anyone else on Property 118 has previous experience of or has advice on?

I own a two bedroom mansion flat in West London which I bought nearly twenty years ago

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HMO crackdown for bath landlords

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Landlords fined:

Two Bath landlords have received heavy fines totalling £16,000 for failing to hold HMO licences.

Although the landlords held the correct licenses for the Additional Licensing Area in which the properties reside, these were not the appropriate licences for an HMO property, and their houses did not meet the HMO safety requirements, hence the heavy fines.

Elizabeth Vowles, 48, and Hayley Book, 55, from Weston-super-Mare appeared at Bath Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, September 28.

One property was a three-storey HMO shared by four tenants. This property failed to meet the HMO Licensing Standards due to locks on doors, lack of fire alarms and a fire door in disrepair. The other property was a two-storey HMO shared by three tenants and failed to meet the HMO Licensing Standards due to locks on doors and poor maintenance of the garden.

The pair pleaded guilty to the offence under the Housing Act 2004 when the court heard that Vowles  and Book were caught operating two HMOs in the Additional Licensing Area without a licence in January 2017.

Additional licensing was introduced in certain areas in Bath by Bath and North East Somerset Council in 2014 to tackle issues of poor management in small HMOs, those with up to three tenants in them, that do not need a full HMO license.

The landlords had another HMO in the Additional Licensing Area, so should have been aware of the correct licences needed.

The court sentenced Vowles and Book both to a £8,000 fine (£4,000 for each property) and ordered them to each to pay prosecution costs of £550 and a victim surcharge of £170.

Councillor Paul Myers (Con, Midsomer Norton Redfield), cabinet member for economic & community regeneration, said:

“Our Housing Services will try to work in partnership with landlords to improve housing standards wherever possible.

“Additional licensing helps to ensure that occupants of HMOs are able to live in safe and well managed properties. Where landlords fail to licence their properties such as the case here, they are undermining the objectives of the additional licensing scheme.”

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