Bob Birchmore
Bob Birchmore
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Landlord in Manchester/Rochdale area for last 15 years.
Registered with Property118.com
17th March 2022
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387
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Landlord in Manchester/Rochdale area for last 15 years.
9th September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Two possible reasons I suppose. First with landlords bailing there as less tenancies and therefore less cases of arrears. Also, landlords are now very fussy about who they rent to. One bad tenant could cause a lot of financial and...
Read More →7th September 2026, 2 weeks ago
So, it’s OK to own BTL property via a limited company but not as an individual. According to the Greens then it is only private landlords who will be abolished if they ever get in.
Read More →3rd September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Let’s be realistic here, people (including tenants) will just buy them from Lidl drill a hole in the wall and plug them in with no more thought than plugging any appliance in. Tenants will have proof that their electrical system...
Read More →26th August 2026, 4 weeks ago
What is a Section 21”style” eviction when it’s at home? Section 21 is gone. Section 21 was mandatory the tenant had to go provided that all the paperwork was straight. Now evictions must be carried out under Section 8. All...
Read More →30th July 2026, 2 months ago
Another day and yet more articles about landlords bailing out, the PRS shrinking, rents rising etc. Once again you can stitch today's article titles together to make a picture about what is going on. So we have “The exit signal...
Read More →21st July 2026, 2 months ago
Maybe he has bought a place so his status is now not compatible with the job title, in which case he is showing some integrity.
Read More →16th July 2026, 2 months ago
“Rents hit record high as property supply falls” Similar headlines pop up on a nearly daily basis from all sorts of organisations including tenant organisations. However, opinion apparently remains divided. On the one hand you have people who know what...
Read More →14th July 2026, 2 months ago
Tenant bodies are cutting off their nose to spite their face. All the things they demand will reduce the supply and increase the rent of properties. They see housing as a human right that should basically be free. Lots of...
Read More →14th July 2026, 2 months ago
It would seem that as a way to “help” tenants the Government is actively encouraging them to challenge any rent rises. It’s a way to freeze the rent for more than a year and does not cost the Government a...
Read More →11th July 2026, 2 months ago
Desperate times as their customer base is steadily shrinking. They are not doing the punters a favour, they just want to hang to their business
Read More →Reply to comment left by Simon Gear at 09/07/2026 - 08:56
Reply to the comment left by Cider Drinker at 08:56 Exactly! Upping an EPC rating saves a few hundred pounds a year for the tenant and adds nothing to the value of the property if sold, that is why owner...
Read More →3rd July 2026, 3 months ago
Talk about “the PRS punishment beatings will continue until morale improves”. Huge disproportionate fines for every slip are all the Government will put forward as incentives to make PRS landlords comply with whatever market killing ideas they come up with....
Read More →29th June 2026, 3 months ago
Remember these people are not your friends they want to extract as much as they can without forcing you totally under. They are only lowering rates because of a shrinking market as landlords are selling up ending their mortgages and...
Read More →18th June 2026, 3 months ago
Stronger yields are one thing, but is it worth the risk when that yield could be wiped out by a fine for quite a simple slip up, or by a tenant not paying rent and smashing the place up for...
Read More →11th June 2026, 3 months ago
The politicians’ current plan seems to be to bundle asylum seekers off to outfits like Serco to house as cheaply as possible resulting in them being put into HMO’s located in poor, cheaper housing areas far away from the rich...
Read More →11th June 2026, 3 months ago
A selection of todays 118 headlines “Tenants face rent squeeze as landlord supply falls – RICS” “Affordable areas see fastest rent rises as supply stays tight” “Rental affordability worsens in most UK regions – Propertymark” Just stick a few connecting...
Read More →10th June 2026, 3 months ago
Virtually nobody is building social housing as the payback at social rent levels will take a very long time plus the houses also have to be maintained at the cost of the provider. While right to buy may have been...
Read More →29th May 2026, 4 months ago
Just another nail in the PRS coffin. Next, they will introduce punishments for landlords whose tenants commit anti-social behaviour. In line with the way things are going the council will be able to issue a £40,000 fine and send the...
Read More →20th May 2026, 4 months ago
A double glazing company telling landlords to upgrade EPC ratings. Vested interest or what? Anyway double glazing alone won’t get you a D let alone a C. It does not seem clear if a new C is going to be...
Read More →7th May 2026, 5 months ago
Being a landlord is risky enough with yet more risks in the pipeline to worry about. There are over a hundred ways you can slip up and incur the inevitable huge fine that seems to be de rigueur for everything...
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