James Brand
James Brand
Registered with Property118.com
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Registered with Property118.com
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Reply to comment left by Dean James at 28/03/2026 - 10:13
Reply to the comment left by Dean James at 28/03/2026 - 10:13It is comedy pricing now. Just failed an EICR because they weren't happy with the way the last electrician did things. Happily quoted me over a grand (having paid...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Dev S at 27/03/2026 - 05:04
Reply to the comment left by Dev S at 05:04 Agree. I have fully refurbished several houses – often 6 figure refurbs. They take about 5 years to start to go downhill a little bit and by 10 they need...
Read More →22nd March 2026, 1 month ago
Funny this article just popped up. We are struggling to fill a room in a house where until now we have only ever had planned voids in the last 30 years! Running our ads through AI suggested we were already...
Read More →2nd March 2026, 2 months ago
"What the landlord exodus looks like in practice". I read this well written article to my wife. When I got to that bit, we both said "That's us!". We are literally downsizing portfolio landlords who have been selling houses as...
Read More →24th February 2026, 2 months ago
Who does the private rental property belong to please? I have worked myself into the ground, and gone without, for 30 years to build up my portfolio. Why should I actually ever be forced to take anyone that ! don't...
Read More →24th February 2026, 2 months ago
I have made similar videos. I mistakenly let to a family on benefits that must have all had mental health problems. Certainly none of them ever worked other than for cash in hand, and they got every benefit going, some...
Read More →22nd February 2026, 2 months ago
Reading this sort of rubbish everyday just makes me want out. It's not because my rental homes aren't up to scratch, but simply because I just want to be left alone to have sensible agreements with my grown up working...
Read More →17th February 2026, 2 months ago
The concern here is understandable. My 14 year old daughter has expressed discomfort in sharing that her parents are landlords, as she perceives a real negative sentiment towards landlords among her peers. These same peers love the Green Party and...
Read More →12th December 2025, 5 months ago
I have been a landlord for 29 years and have really tried hard throughout to do everything right, even despite my tenants in a lot of cases. I feel I now need to quit. Whilst I could in theory afford...
Read More →9th October 2025, 7 months ago
"He said: “There aren’t many people who can say their wages have risen 28% over the past five years. And when pay rises aren’t in line with rent increases, keeping within the threshold of affordability, i.e. spending no more than...
Read More →30th August 2025, 8 months ago
Every epc I have ever had seems to give similarly pointless returns on investment. Many suggestions have also been based upon incorrect assumptions. I despair at the stupidity of pretty much everything in the PRS these days.
Read More →17th August 2025, 9 months ago
Make it unprofitable and high risk to be a landlord and then act confused as to why landlords want to sell up. So damn frustrating, for those of us that ran our portfolios properly. My only s21 was actually for...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Steve Arnold at 12/08/2025 - 18:33
Reply to the comment left by a Northernpleb at 12/08/2025 - 18:33It actually is a death by 1000 cuts. I believe I have been a good landlord for 30 years with literally hundreds of tenancies in that time. I have...
Read More →16th April 2025, 1 year ago
This country is destroying itself very rapidly. Remember one thing ACORN:- Most tenants have to be tenants, most landlords don't have to be landlords. The article above read like a landlord hate campaign. It is not a fun role any...
Read More →11th April 2025, 1 year ago
"This is an unpalatable opinion for many people, but it appears increasingly to be true: often, those benefitting are those who’ve recently arrived in the country." Correct. Sold 2 of my houses, once beautifully refurbished, for top money to separate...
Read More →27th March 2025, 1 year ago
I know the pain. I had tenants that were a few thousand in arrears and had turned the house into a 3 floor dustbin and the garden into a jungle. After about the 50th broken priomise by the tenants I...
Read More →10th March 2025, 1 year ago
Why on earth are mortgage payments and rental payments still compared like that in this day and age when clearly they are not for the same thing? Rent also includes the entire maintenance of a property - the new boilers,...
Read More →7th March 2025, 1 year ago
I am down to my last 6 rental houses, having sold roughly one or two a year since COVID rules basically ripped up my contracts and I saw the way things were heading. For the avoidance of any doubt this...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Steve Rose at 22/02/2025 - 08:52
Reply to the comment left by Steve Rose at 22/02/2025 - 08:52"I can see where you're going wrong if "Is he up to date with his rent" could be considered anywhere near a sufficient reference." - Not me going wrong,...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Steve Rose at 22/02/2025 - 08:04
Reply to the comment left by Steve Rose at 22/02/2025 - 08:04"5) I leave the dross to the council to house, or to people like you." Thanks for that. I have been a landlord for 30 years with hundreds of...
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