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Managing heating allowances and noise disturbances in a lodger agreement?

Managing heating allowances and noise disturbances in a lodger...

Hi folks, on the lodger’s agreement, our lodger’s heating allowance states 5 hours a day. However, our lodger contracted pneumonia a month ago. She is back to work but probably is still on the mend.

0:01 AM, 9th January 2024, About 11 months ago |  15

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Management company demanding previous owner’s service charge?

Management company demanding previous owner’s service charge?

Hello all, happy new year and I hope you can advise how we should proceed. My son bought his flat and moved in May 2023. As part of the conveyancing process, he paid an apportioned service charge for the...

10:16 AM, 8th January 2024, About 11 months ago |  14

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Disabled tenant & PEEP – Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan – Help!

Disabled tenant & PEEP – Personal Emergency Evacuation...

Hello, Can you help? A PEEP – a Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan – has been requested by the management company for a tenanted flat. I own a 2 bed flat in a small 2000 block. Ours in on the...

9:32 AM, 4th January 2024, About 11 months ago |  15

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Nasty surprises with leasehold charges?

Nasty surprises with leasehold charges?

Hello, my daughter is about to buy her first property and, unfortunately, due to property prices and mortgage availability, she will have to go leasehold, which is something we have no experience of. We...

0:01 AM, 4th January 2024, About 11 months ago |  29

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Tenant paying rent – what happens when the bailiffs come?

Tenant paying rent – what happens when the bailiffs come?

Hi, The Bailiffs are coming to evict my tenant (Mr D) on 10th January. However, Mr D has paid his rent for January (well partially, it went up in July, he has never paid the new rent but continues to pay...

10:18 AM, 3rd January 2024, About 11 months ago |  9

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Diversification – is renting out garages a good alternative to residential?

Diversification – is renting out garages a good alternative...

Hello, We have been residential landlords for over twenty years now and it has gone well. We now want to make a further investment – through an SPV limited company – and are a bit concerned...

0:04 AM, 3rd January 2024, About 11 months ago |  7

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Landlords – Who gets your vote?

Landlords – Who gets your vote?

Hi, Do landlords have a viable political home? It appears not. Historically the Conservative party has been the party of the landlord, permitting the market to control itself to a large extent. This is...

0:03 AM, 3rd January 2024, About 11 months ago |  116

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What if I gift a holiday in my annexe and someone doesn’t leave?

What if I gift a holiday in my annexe and someone doesn’t...

I am considering gifting my annexe accommodation to terminally ill people as a holiday, referred to me by a charity that only does this. This is only a potential issue, as it has not happened yet! What...

10:22 AM, 2nd January 2024, About 11 months ago |  12

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Mechanical heat recovery ventilation damp problem?

Mechanical heat recovery ventilation damp problem?

Does anyone have experience with mechanical heat recovery ventilation units? I have a top floor flat with 2 bedrooms facing north, and a kitchen and sitting room facing south. The outside walls of the...

10:06 AM, 2nd January 2024, About 11 months ago |  65

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Help needed with my unauthorised tenant?

Help needed with my unauthorised tenant?

Hello, I have a situation where I was preparing a property for rent and the builder passed a copy of the keys to the neighbour who was their friend, to allow carpet fitters to attend the property. The...

9:40 AM, 28th December 2023, About 11 months ago |  32

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Agent’s Cancellation Charge even though contract has expired?

Agent’s Cancellation Charge even though contract has expired?

Hi all, My contract with both Agent and tenant has expired and has been running on a monthly rolling basis for several years now. However, the Agent still trying to charge me £1000 due to the existing...

8:51 AM, 27th December 2023, About 11 months ago |  19

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Can I change to SPV from a trading limited co. that I no longer need?

Can I change to SPV from a trading limited co. that I no longer...

I’ve got a limited company that has accumulated surplus profits over many years and zero liabilities. I am now out of that business so don’t need the company as a trading vehicle and want to...

18:30 PM, 21st December 2023, About 11 months ago |  7

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Landlords duty of care to tenant?

Landlords duty of care to tenant?

Hello readers, I have a 30-year-old tenant who keeps the property very clean and in most ways is an ideal tenant. However, her ex-boyfriend who shares custody of their 5-year-old daughter is becoming in...

11:49 AM, 21st December 2023, About 11 months ago |  16

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£13000 in debt and not the only landlord?

£13000 in debt and not the only landlord?

I gave my home to a rental agent who has disappeared and left me £13k in debt and hasn’t paid me any rent. When I went to his office it was just another landlord who was in debt with him for 20k and...

11:29 AM, 21st December 2023, About 11 months ago |  13

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Rent payments after section 21 notice being held back by Agent?

Rent payments after section 21 notice being held back by Agent?

Hello Everyone, I hope you can answer this please as I am not sure the agent is right in saying this to me. The tenant was issued a section 21 in July 2023, to vacate by October 2023.

14:45 PM, 20th December 2023, About 11 months ago |  9

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Our complaint against a housing officer?

Our complaint against a housing officer?

We have recently made a complaint against our local council whose housing officer made false claims about us and the handling of an eviction: “To whom it may concern, I am writing to make a formal...

14:35 PM, 20th December 2023, About 11 months ago |  8

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What is the official definition of a second home?

What is the official definition of a second home?

Hi all, I’m after some advice, please. I have a property fully paid up and currently carrying out refurbishment works inside and out. However, I do not live in this property. This is ongoing and...

14:04 PM, 20th December 2023, About 11 months ago |  14

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What type of tenancy for an Annex for a couple working for me?

What type of tenancy for an Annex for a couple working for me?

What type of tenancy should I have for an Annex? I have a newly converted separate barn conversion in my garden. I am thinking I’d like to get a couple in there to help both in the house and garden.

16:28 PM, 19th December 2023, About 11 months ago |  7

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Previous property management refusing to transfer my credit?

Previous property management refusing to transfer my credit?

The property management Company of a block of flats has been taken over by a Right to Manage (RTM). The RTM is transparent regarding all transactions but the previous management company are the direct...

10:12 AM, 19th December 2023, About 11 months ago |  1

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Leaseholder Certificates – qualifying or non-qualifying?

Leaseholder Certificates – qualifying or non-qualifying?

Hello everyone, If I buy a high-rise property and fire remedial works are required is the status of the flat lease “qualifying or non-qualifying”, which is used to determine who pays for the works;...

10:04 AM, 19th December 2023, About 11 months ago |  5

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