Labour want German style indefinite tenancies

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Labour Shadow housing secretary John HealeyHealey has gone one further than the pledge in their manifesto of 2017 of committing to make all PRS tenancies a minimum of a three year term. He would like to see ‘German style’ tenancies of indefinite length introduced as a matter of default upon the PRS to increase renter security.

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A tenant from hell can make or break you as a landlord

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Last month, during filming for the next series of ‘Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords’ (due to air on Channel 5 later this year), we carried out an eviction in Cardiff.

Although Landlord Action features in a programme with the term ‘rogue landlord’ in the title

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Mitigating risks of renting to students

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With more than 17,000 UK students facing rent arrears what should landlords who target this tenant be doing to mitigate the risk? Statistics state that the number of students that have been evicted from halls of residence have doubled over the past year rising from 40 to 97.

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Stoke-on-Trent back off landlord with 37 properties!

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Stoke-on-Trent City Council has introduced compulsory selective licensing for all landlords in an area of Fenton. However, the Council seem to have set a precedent or admission by saying it was not in the public interest to force a landlord in the area to licence all 37 properties of his properties at a saving of over £16,000.

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Night shifts vs access requests for viewings

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My landlord has given me notice as he wants to sell the property I am renting. I will be leaving in 2 months at the end of my fixed term contract. My AST has a clause which allows for viewings with 24 hours notice at ‘reasonable’

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Home Office to appeal High Court Right to Rent ruling

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The Minister of State for Immigration, Caroline Nokes announced the Home Office rejected the Judge’s ruling against Right to Rent and indicated the government were ready to challenge the decision through the Court of Appeal.

The Minister said: “In the meantime

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The best luxury one-bed units secured for investors

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Our latest off-plan development is ideally situated just outside the city centre of Nottingham and we are delighted to have secured readers the best luxury one-bed units for the fantastic price of £104,995, with yields of up to 6.6%.

All of the properties also come with a parking space!

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Two Government organisation giving contradicting advice and reviews?

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In a ‘nutshell’ Purplebricks letting agents have made a mess once more.  This time at a DPS adjudication, by again going against my clear instructions, when they entered a claim against the former tenants for the rental arrears, which were due to their early termination of the “fixed term”

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Suspected falsification of employment reference?

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I have just let out two properties in the London area through 1 agent to 2 tenants. The agent provided us Veri Check reference check, employer reference, and passport IDs. However, after I received the tenant’s contact info, something looked odd so I went back to double check the reference by contacting both employers of the new tenants.

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Accountant, Freeholder and Managing Agent all at same address?

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We have just had the latest ridiculous service charge bill (e.g. £250 for common parts electricity when we have one light-bulb on a timer in the hall and have used 120kwh this year!) from our freeholder who we know to be a particularly bad one (Trustpilot shows 94% “BAD� / 1* reviews) when we received the first one last year they assured us they would provide proof of receipts and all outgoings etc

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