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Hi everyone. I've been reading some conflicting advice about people who have lodgers and go away for a few months (fixed-term stay somewhere say for a summer job, less than a year, definitely not "moved out", all belongings still in main home and room kept free). Some people say it's fine and that the six-month rule is only a guideline and not fixed in law - including HMRC's own website - and some say it's super strict. Any legal people here to advise? I rang HMRC and the co

Recently I have been getting to know some landlords in Spain. I think it's good for us to network with others - to support each other if nothing else. The Spanish landlords have been explaining to me quite how bad it is for them now. They have a huge problem - an epidemic of squatting - divided into two categories: 'Okupas' - the type of squatters who kick the door in to your property (even if it is your only property/your home) and then live there for years, while the owners

The BRRRR Method to successful property portfolio building is much talked about. BRRRR stands for Buy, Refurbish, Rent, Refinance & Repeat. The BRRRR strategy is how most successful property investors have built sizable portfolios. In this video I break down the BRRRR property investing method and how to successfully apply it

Official Property118 insurance partner, The Home Insurer, is delighted to announce it has won the 2020 UK Customer Service Excellence Award for Best Customer Retention and Loyalty. The award was open to the UK insurance industry and focussed on evidence of customer care initiatives that positively influence the customer journey and encouraged retention and repeat business. With a renewal retention rate of over 90% backed up with a Feefo independent customer review score of 4.9

As everyone knows there is a never-ending amount of pain heaped upon the private individual landlord with unnecessary and expensive regulations and taxes upon taxes. Whilst we sit here wondering where it is going to end, we look at our opposite numbers providing the same services in the council and housing associations largely exempt from the same rules that drive private landlords from the business....

Can anybody define the precise meaning of these two words: Revised Payment & Capitalisation? I know the answer, but judges don’t and interestingly the Banks know it? I fought a case of wrongful repossession and lost....

I and my brother have in Aug 2020 transferred our residential house we live in to our sons who all live with us in the same house. (Essentially we have gifted it to them to plan for inheritance) After reading the gov.uk site...

The proposed Additional Licensing Scheme for HMOs will focus on the 9000+ properties in the City of Westminster where private renters live in multi-occupant homes including flat shares, bedsits, and buildings converted into flats. The scheme billed as part of the council’s wider ‘private rented sector strategy’...