We Don’t Work in Property — We Work in Customer Service
Author: Julie Ford
18th November 2024, 1 year ago | 2
Julie Ford
Local Housing Allowance Freeze: Rising Rents and Decreased Affordability Deepen the Housing Crisis
Author: Julie Ford
4th November 2024, 1 year ago | 11
What a Landlord Must Do if a Tenant Leaves Possessions Behind After Eviction
Author: Julie Ford
28th October 2024, 1 year ago | 10
Rent-to-Rent Disaster Averted – How I Helped A Landlord Reclaim Control of Their Property
Author: Julie Ford
21st October 2024, 1 year ago | 5
Tenant In Prison – How I Helped To Solve The Rent Arrears Problem
Author: Julie Ford
14th October 2024, 2 years ago | 8
How landlords can respond to extensive flooding of rental properties
Author: Julie Ford
7th October 2024, 2 years ago | 6
Why the Standard Rent-to-Rent Model Will Struggle Under the New Renters’ Rights Bill
Author: Julie Ford
30th September 2024, 2 years ago | 11
A Tenant’s Right to Sublet: Key Provisions from the Housing Act 1988
Author: Julie Ford
23rd September 2024, 2 years ago | 30
Why Failing To Increase Rent Annually Is Bad for Business and Bad for Your Tenant
Author: Julie Ford
2nd September 2024, 2 years ago | 13
E-Bikes in Rental Properties: Key Considerations for Landlords
Author: Julie Ford
27th August 2024, 2 years ago | 11
Protecting Tenants’ Deposits: Navigating Legal Requirements and Unfair Damage Claims
Author: Julie Ford
12th August 2024, 2 years ago | 0
The Realities of Private Sector Landlords: Profit, Costs, and the Rental Market
Author: Julie Ford
5th August 2024, 2 years ago | 1
Understanding Section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985: Repairing Obligations
Author: Julie Ford
29th July 2024, 2 years ago | 13
What Can a Landlord Do if the Cost of Repair Exceeds the Deposit Held?
Author: Julie Ford
15th July 2024, 2 years ago | 10
The Importance of Material Information When Advertising a Property to Let
Author: Julie Ford
1st July 2024, 2 years ago | 0
The Dangers of Renting Your Property to a Charity for Subletting to Vulnerable Tenants
Author: Julie Ford
22nd June 2024, 2 years ago | 9
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With over 30 years of extensive 360° experience in the Private Rented Sector, I bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the table. My career has encompassed roles from Housing Law Caseworker at a national solicitor firm to Head of Property and Asset Management in the City. I have had the privilege of managing properties for high-profile clients, including premiership footballers, actors, and A-list comedians.
I successfully founded and ran a Lettings and Property Management company, building an impressive portfolio of over 500 single-let properties. After selling the business, I transitioned to the third sector, providing specialist housing and homelessness law advice for Citizens Advice, and working with a local homeless charity to optimize their mixed property portfolio and lease options.
Currently, I serve as a board member on the Zoopla Lettings Advisory Board and act as a judge for several industry award ceremonies. I am also a frequent property commentator in the media. In addition, I am a qualified property and civil mediator with over 600 mediations to my credit, and a registered expert witness for the courts.
Reply to comment left by Property Gal at 16/09/2024 - 18:26
Reply to the comment left by Property Gal at 16/09/2024 - 18:26Yes, as a leaseholder you would need your own insurance that covered alternative accommodation, the cost if which should then be recoverable from the freeholders insurance for liability
Read More →Reply to comment left by adrian buchanan at 16/09/2024 - 11:18
Freeholders should have adequate insurance to cover for the work they are responsible for. But as a leaseholder you should have an insurance product that covers you for alternative accommodation, which could then be claimed back via the FH insurance
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Reply to the comment left by at 16/09/2024 - 10:13Frustration only applies to contracts which have become impossible to perform. A supervening event changes the circumstances of performance of the contract so significantly, that the parties no longer need to...
Read More →24th June 2024, 2 years ago
Hi Mike, under deposit protection regulations, you are only legally responsible for protecting the deposit when you Receive it. So the non-protection is the current LL/agents problem. When you purchase the property you inherit the existing AST with all its...
Read More →Reply to comment left by peter kessler at 17/06/2024 - 16:28
Reply to the comment left by peter kessler at 17/06/2024 - 16:28HI Peter, This is an all too common situation i am afraid. Local councils across the Country are telling tenants the same. This advice actually goes against the Homeless...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Phil Heath at 17/06/2024 - 15:21
That is one of the reasons why an immediate ban of s21 wouldn’t be legally possible, because landlords would need to be able to regain possession for reasons other than the tenant breaching the tenancy. In the now defunked Renters...
Read More →17th June 2024, 2 years ago
Hi JB, if Labour do get into power they will not be able to abolish s21 with immediate effect as they are claiming. All legislation has a process that needs to be followed before it becomes law It must pass...
Read More →10th March 2020, 6 years ago
As the other replies have said, there is more to this situation than just a blanket ban on those in receipt of benefits. If you have had your tenant for 5yrs, they keep the property in good nick, they don’t...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Rob Crawford at 20/02/2020 - 14:23
Reply to the comment left by Rob Crawford at 20/02/2020 - 14:23Live in tenant, so can’t be AST, Tenant Fee Ban doesn’t apply here
Read More →3rd February 2020, 6 years ago
Do you need the higher rated EPC so that you can rent it out? A property with a G rating can still be used as a rental property it just needs to get an exemption. There are a number of...
Read More →Reply to comment left by David Walmsley at 27/01/2020 - 14:49
Reply to the comment left by Dave Walmsley at 27/01/2020 - 14:49Having read the draft bill, it does state the commencement date is April 2020 but effects tenancies from July 2020. The draft bill is full of errors as it...
Read More →23rd January 2020, 6 years ago
The date the AST was signed is a bit of a red herring as it’s the tenancy start date that is important. From the classes you have posted here this looks like a very old AST which the LL is...
Read More →7th January 2020, 6 years ago
Usually for someone to be classed as in occupation they need to be using the property as their main and principle home. If the boyfriend has another property that he has a tenancy for, then I would say he is...
Read More →29th May 2019, 7 years ago
I understand the new regulations for correct service of a S21 (form6a) does require the most up to date version of the How to rent guide to have been issued. Interestingly legislation supporting the new S21 service and validity contradicts...
Read More →4th February 2019, 7 years ago
Your tenant can appeal the outright possession if they believe the S21 was not served correctly for some reason. They also appeal if the court made an error on the original possession order, this is called the slip rule. A...
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