Tag: Housing benefit
BuytoLet Lender BM Solutions allows Student and Benefits ...
BM Solutions relaxes its BuytoLet lending criteria to allow landlords to rent to students and benefit claimants
It was recently reported...
Benefits tenants and the effects on landlords insurance
We have one buy to let property and a friend mentioned in passing that our landlord insurance policy may not be valid on that property...
Universal Credit trial increases arrears by a factor of s...
A Universal Credit trial of a first group of tenants in Torfaen South Wales has resulted in an increase in arrears from £20,000 to...
The Mortgage Works backs down on benefit tenants ruling
The Mortgage Works backs down as the balance of risk has shifted again and The Mortgage Works (TMW) are now committed, once more, to...
Solar Panels – should landlords fit them to rental ...
Some of you may have head of these ‘free’ solar panels we can have on our tenants houses.
A company is offering to put them on...
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.
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...