Arthur Allen
Arthur Allen
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Registered with Property118.com
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Reply to comment left by robert fisher at 27/11/2025 - 18:25
Reply to the comment left by robert fisher at 27/11/2025 - 18:25Can someone please explain what the costs are for incorporating? I understand that it will depend on your portfolio but I am totally confused as to what you do....
Read More →17th February 2023, 3 years ago
I have just listened to the video and I have just one quick question before I seriously consider going down the Smart Company route - would I have to sell my properties to the Ltd Company and therefore have to...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 12/05/2022 - 10:58
Reply to the comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 12/05/2022 - 10:58Believe you me, this 2 year Empty Property Premium is up and running. We bought a property in Sept 2020 which needed completed renovation. We had to apply for...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Rob Thomas at 20/04/2022 - 10:35
Reply to the comment left by Rob Thomas at 20/04/2022 - 10:35I have to say also that the whole EPC scenario depends on the person carrying out the EPC. I have ten properties - when the last EPC was carried...
Read More →28th March 2022, 4 years ago
I have come across this before and have found that the person who does not want to have the credit check done or have their name on the contract has also been evicted from other properties. This is a way...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Chris Byways at 09/02/2022 - 09:27
Reply to the comment left by Chris Byways at 09/02/2022 - 09:27I have just asked this question on another thread as I hadn't seen this one. I have a number of properties and all but one of them were a...
Read More →9th February 2022, 4 years ago
Has anyone had any experience of their EPC rating dropping down a level when they have renewed it? I have a few properties and thought I was going to be OK with the new EPC regulations coming in as only...
Read More →22nd September 2021, 5 years ago
This sounds absolutely great but let's hope all these apartments don't end up like our investment. We purchased an apartment in the heart of Cardiff Bay in 2007. It was an absolutely fabulous apartment. We were told it was going...
Read More →Reply to comment left by John Maynard at 15/04/2021 - 09:42
My son is an electrician and does a lot of work for a letting agency. He does not charge per item and if he has a list of things to repair then he just charges his hourly rate that he...
Read More →12th April 2021, 5 years ago
I also did this through my local council and it was a nightmare! We had just refurbished the flat with brand new carpet etc. They had it for approximately 1 week and I had a phone call from my management...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 19/11/2020 - 10:25
Reply to the comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 19/11/2020 - 10:25Trouble is we won't even be able to do that in a minute and sell up if they decide to clobber us with a higher rate of capital gains...
Read More →Reply to comment left by James Mann at 05/05/2020 - 09:30
Reply to the comment left by James Mann at 05/05/2020 - 09:30Totally in agreement with you Veronica. I am in the same boat. All my tenants pay on time and have been with me for years. I have not increased...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Dylan Morris at 28/02/2020 - 09:44
Reply to the comment left by Dylan Morris at 28/02/2020 - 09:44Yes it's not an issue if it's not in an escape route.
Read More →Reply to comment left by Chris Sandeman at 28/02/2020 - 09:34
Reply to the comment left by Chris Sandeman at 28/02/2020 - 09:34That is quite true and landlords can't be made to change them to metal but it is noted on the electrical inspection report that it's not metal where it...
Read More →28th February 2020, 6 years ago
I've just been told by my son who is an electrician that if the fuse board is in an escape route or under the stairs then it has to be changed to metal. If it's not in those positions then...
Read More →14th December 2019, 6 years ago
Can this partnership also be done if there are still mortgages on the property? I have started up a new partnership with my twin sons and we have just bought a property together. I also have a large portfolio of...
Read More →22nd October 2019, 6 years ago
I had a tenant who asked me to do this many years ago as she had been advised by one of her friends working for the local council that this was the way forward. I gave her Notice to Quit...
Read More →11th March 2019, 7 years ago
This also happened to me. My tenant was over £3,000 in arrears - this was due to the fact that she had to take some information into the council for her housing benefit to continue and she hadn't bothered to...
Read More →23rd January 2019, 7 years ago
I give up! - I'm selling all my 11 properties.
Read More →6th August 2018, 8 years ago
This increasing tax on landlords so annoys me. Over the years I have worked extremely hard to build my portfolio. I live in a fishing/sea faring area and a lot of people who are at sea pay no taxes at...
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