Christopher Rattew
Christopher Rattew
Registered with Property118.com
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Manchester Landlord
Registered with Property118.com
28th November 2022
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Manchester Landlord
11th February 2025, 1 year ago
With 5 occupants in 2 or more households, the HMO requirements of planning permission, licences, etc. would apply. The rent-a-room relief is quite small, and it may be better to set it up as a business and claim all the...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Simon Gear at 28/05/2024 - 12:57
Reply to the comment left by Cider Drinker at 28/05/2024 - 12:57This is progress in that it removes a restriction imposed on landlords by lenders. It is better to have flexibility. It is possible now to offer longer contracts subject...
Read More →28th May 2024, 2 years ago
This looks like some progress. However, while there is a shortage of properties, tenants are unlikely to have many offers of longer tenancies. Government actions, such as the Rental Reform Bill generally make matters worse. The Government needs to be...
Read More →19th February 2024, 2 years ago
If short-term lets are not allowed, properties available for a short-term would have to be left empty, making the shortage worse. About 10% of our lets are less than 6 months. The shortest in the past year has been 32...
Read More →15th February 2024, 2 years ago
I have proposed before that businesses should be able to deduct all expenditure for tax purposes. This avoids all the bureaucracy. If this is done, the government would get the tax later as capital gains tax, which would balance out...
Read More →12th February 2024, 2 years ago
I would see what their situation is. It may be a case of collecting payment when the tenant has the money. We had one tenant who paid the January and later rent in November, after leaving the flat in the...
Read More →18th December 2023, 2 years ago
I have made my own proposals. These complement those given here and could be used alongside them. I have assumed measures that will not worsen the public balance sheet. My solutions for cutting domestic carbon emissions This is based partly...
Read More →27th November 2023, 2 years ago
We have done nothing to improve EPCs, as they are flawed, but we are taking steps to improve energy efficiency, including making plans and choosing an architect. The chancellor made full-expensing permanent for some company expenses. This should be extended...
Read More →24th November 2023, 2 years ago
There are spare rooms available, but there are barriers. At present you need an expensive HMO licence and more complicated insurance and mortgages. A step they could take to enable people to let rooms in the home is to exclude...
Read More →15th November 2023, 2 years ago
We do our own agreement, which is a modification of the RLA's (now the NRLA). This has the advantage of better suiting the tenants and the property. In this case, the Landlord made an agreement and did not want to...
Read More →15th November 2023, 2 years ago
The contract would take precedence over a higher fair-rent assessment. You word must be your bond.
Read More →15th November 2023, 2 years ago
The rule is simple. You should stick to what you agree. We do not have an annual review clause and have a clause relating to inflation from the 1 September when or before the tenancy begins, and the clause covers...
Read More →30th October 2023, 2 years ago
This probably does not go far enough. We have a large house, which we divided into 11 self-contained units, although they still share the utilities. This may not be covered by the HMO changes. If all tenants were paying the...
Read More →12th October 2023, 2 years ago
Studies such as this can be useful. However, people like Generation Rent use such correlation studies like a drunk uses a lamp-post - for support rather than illumination. A lot more needs to be done to consider the reasons for...
Read More →22nd September 2023, 3 years ago
Sunak should not be blamed, but those who worked on the plan before him. I had continued as normal, as it was impossible to meet our responsibilities and meet the required EPCs. Sunak had no choice. We may have been...
Read More →20th September 2023, 3 years ago
We used heat-recovery ventilation. The tenants did not understand it and closed the inlet vent, so ensure that the air inlet vent is never closed. I will tape over ours. This method should not increase bills significantly. Positive pressure ventilation...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Trevor Leigh at 29/07/2023 - 07:13
Reply to the comment left by Trevor Leigh at 29/07/2023 - 07:13Use heat-recovery ventilation
Read More →Reply to comment left by at 28/07/2023 - 11:51
Reply to the comment left by at 28/07/2023 - 11:51WE have properties that cannot meet it, because double-cavity walls are treated as solid and LED tube lights as incandescent, because they are not on the spreadsheet. Lofts with 320 mm...
Read More →28th July 2023, 3 years ago
I looked at the bill. The dates are there, but not a lot of the other information rumoured in the media. If all we hear is true, the bill is completely unworkable, so I am ignoring it. However, We expect...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Tessa Shepperson at 22/07/2023 - 08:31
Reply to the comment left by Tessa Shepperson at 22/07/2023 - 08:31The schedule is 6(1)Any building which is occupied only by persons within the following paragraphs— (a)one or more persons who have, whether in the whole or any part of...
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