Tag: Housing benefit
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...
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...
