Tag: Housing benefit
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Is rent hiking a good business model?
It’s been a while since I wrote anything in my ‘Don’t shoot the messenger’ series. Mainly because I kept getting shot ha-ha.
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Taken over management of a property with a LHA tenant ...
I would like some advice about one of my LHA tenants?
I have recently taken over management of 4 properties with Housing Benefit...
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NLA concerned by cap on Local Housing Allowance
Yesterday the House of Commons gave a second reading to the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill which caps future increases to Local Housing...
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Rent Guarantee Insurance for LHA Tenants
I suspect very few of our readers expected to see the words Rent Guarantee Insurance and LHA Tenants in the same headline!
Following...
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Petition to criminalise none payment of rent to landlords
Housing Charity “Crisis” report that only 1.5% of private landlords will let their properties to housing benefits claimants.
![No job + no guarantor = No Home and Crisis wonder why?](https://www.property118.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Crisis-Logo-250x250.jpg)
No job + no guarantor = No Home and Crisis wonder why?
According to the housing Charity “Crisis” only 1.5% of private landlords across the UK are willing to rent to benefit claimants...
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Big thank you to the BBC
I would just like to say a big THANK YOU to the BBC for giving me the opportunity to put forward a landlords perspective on why so...