Richard Jackson

Suzanne has so much great knowledge to share on her site at the Independent Landlord, and now the new podcast with Richard from Alphaletz too. It's full of great free legal advice and tips from first hand experience as well as feedback from their own landlord communities.... Read More

Alphaletz is perfect for this and now has auto rent reconciliation with new Bank Rules. It’s free for the first three properties and very simple to use.... Read More

Agreed, me too. Hopefully the Welcome Pack will be ideal to help!... Read More

The Welcome pack is completely free and it's brilliant. It gives the tenants a great first impression when you let them know where everything is and who to contact. It's so much better than just walking into an empty property. It's part of a great customer service.... Read More

Hi Andrew, we have just launched a new app designed for exactly what you’re looking for, at a very reasonable price. In fact Property118 sent an email out about a month ago when we were looking for a few more testers. Would be delighted to show you the product or you can start a free trial! richardja@alphaletz.com and www.alphaletz.com... Read More

I am looking at a similar senario because this year will be our first as a Ltd company. So if just living off the property income and wanting to take out say £85K, then I assume the best way would be to pay the two directors the basic rate income at zero tax (£11850 each), then zero on the first £2000 of dividends each, which would be £27,700 total, then if you took the reamining £57,300 as dividends between you, its only 7.5% tax. So the total tax bill would be £4297.50. Is this correct? What I dont understand is when does the corporation tax get deducted. So if you make £100K profit but pay out £85K as above, is the corporation tax just on the £15K or still on the whole £100K? Cheers... Read More

I had a similar issue with a bed that the tenant broke then tried to claim that he got a bad back from sleeping on it! He contacted a 'no win no fee' solicitor which meant I had to hire a solicitor too. The tenant did report the broken bed and I told the lettings agent to fix it, but they didn't so I am also going back to them too. The advice I got was to just pay them say £500 'to go away' which I refused. If this goes on, more and more tenants will try the same thing, so I will fight it even if it costs me more money. They also left the place in a terrible state and were a problem tenant from the start, always late with the rent and I had to issue notice to get them out.... Read More