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My husband and I have been small portfolio landlords since 2007 - and since we retired from our full time careers in 2015, we are down to just 4 properties - 3 of which will not easily achieve a C EPC rating.
Our tenants are all long term, cause us no issues (fingers firmly crossed) and are sitting on rental levels that are CONSIDERABLY below the market rate in our town ... but because of the above we will probably sell 3 of the 4 whenever they next become vacant.
Reply to comment left by Person Of The People at 02/04/2026 - 18:05
Reply to the comment left by Person Of The People at 02/04/2026 - 18:05But Person of the People, how does the fact that the RRA was initiated, designed and created by the last government fit with the scenario you describe?...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Mark Alexander at 17/11/2025 - 19:16
Reply to the comment left by Mark Alexander - Founder of Property118 at 17/11/2025 - 19:16I am so pleased Mark - I'd only said to Dale yesterday that I needed to stop reading Property118 as it only causes me stress...
Read More →Reply to comment left by David Strange at 11/11/2025 - 10:10
EXACTLY what I came on here to say!
Read More →31st October 2025, 5 months ago
I agreed with every word … until "The country has had enough of its politicians – mainly Labour, naturally – conveniently forgetting to follow the rules then apologising and getting away with it." What a short memory the LC must...
Read More →24th October 2025, 6 months ago
colour me impressed - not!
Read More →20th October 2025, 6 months ago
Well I guess there would be a requirement to write an honest reference, so ... some tenants might prefer we don't HAVE to provide one
Read More →Reply to comment left by Paul Edwards at 13/09/2025 - 14:04
Reply to the comment left by Paul Edwards at 13/09/2025 - 14:04I just googled csv and I don't even know now what that means! My husband and I have 2 BTL properties - with ownership 50/50, another 82/18 and our...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Peter Dickinson at 14/06/2025 - 09:35
Reply to the comment left by Ben Beadles Alter Ego at 14/06/2025 - 09:35So since when, regardless of one's political persuasion, has listening to the public and changing or reversing a decision been a bad thing? Imagine how many lives...
Read More →13th June 2025, 10 months ago
So are you suggesting that the Tories who, after all, initiated this determined assault on private landlords over the past 14 years understood this?? I'm not thrilled that the Labour Party aren't actively undoing the harm the Tories did, but...
Read More →6th May 2025, 11 months ago
Nothing new there then! That's always happened.
Read More →15th April 2025, 12 months ago
so they know what they're speaking about
Read More →11th April 2025, 12 months ago
Anyone describing SIR Keir Starmer's government as a communist one cannot have been watching what's going on. His government couldn't even be described as a socialist one - it's simply a pale-ish blue version of the last shower who started...
Read More →21st March 2025, 1 year ago
Who will be paying for the installation?
Read More →13th March 2025, 1 year ago
I do agree with the points made (and we often CHOOSE to allow our tenants to have pets anyway), BUT to blame this ridiculousness, including the banning of taking any additional deposit for pet damage, on the Labour Party (even...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Derek STOBBS at 07/03/2025 - 13:24
We only have 3 BTL's, but they too will all be sold as tenants leave. I would like to make the point tho' that the RRB is not actually a Labour policy or idea since the whole thing was started...
Read More →5th March 2025, 1 year ago
Don't we all already do that???
Read More →Reply to comment left by Jason English at 03/02/2025 - 09:16
Some years ago we were pursuaded by our local council to let one of our houses to a girl who was living in a car with her newborn, after her father had thrown her out of the family home(!) -...
Read More →1st November 2024, 1 year ago
with you (more or less) all the way and just about to share to social media hoping tenants would read - until the last 4 sentences
Read More →1st October 2024, 2 years ago
What no-one in power seems to appreciate is that if we sell up our BTL properties they are indeed very likely to appeal to FTB's - which, we are told, is what the Government want ... but in order to...
Read More →30th September 2024, 2 years ago
We also had a tenant (recently departed thank goodness) who suggested that if I wanted the condensation removed from the freshly stained wooden window sills (which had needed restoration only because they had been scratched to bu**ery by the 2...
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