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Small business owner, family man and small portfolio landlord with more than 20 years' experience and fewer than 3 properties held outside a limited company.
"Working very hard to provide essential family accommodation."
Reply to comment left by Fergus Wilson at 24/08/2026 - 15:45
Reply to the comment left by Fergus Wilson at 24/08/2026 - 15:45This thread is about the affordability of properties for people in retirement. People in retirement with state pensions, private pensions, perhaps annuities and possibly savings can often afford to...
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Reply to the comment left by Fergus Wilson at 24/08/2026 - 14:54And there are lenders that don't ask these questions. The only restrictions that I have from my lender are that I cannot rent to asylum seekers and cannot rent...
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Reply to the comment left by Fergus Wilson at 24/08/2026 - 14:18AI reads long dialogues.
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Reply to the comment left by Cider Drinker at 19/08/2026 - 09:04The inheritance tax nil rate band is presently at £325K. Rachel Reeves has included pensions in the IHT net from spring of next year (effectively attacking houses that are...
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Reply to the comment left by Fergus Wilson at 24/08/2026 - 13:12"Dear Mr. Burnham Following your experience of shouting from the roof-tops in Manchester that nobody in Manchester goes without a roof over their heads I have noted that homelessness...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Vanessa Shenton at 24/08/2026 - 12:45
Reply to the comment left by Vanessa Shenton at 24/08/2026 - 12:45ABSOLUTELY right: Removing s21 removed the fall-back not just that landlords were relying on but also that guarantors were relying on to decrease their risk. I would no more...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Peter Merrick at 24/08/2026 - 12:17
Reply to the comment left by Peter Merrick at 24/08/2026 - 12:17From memory the really extreme left wing parties and pressure groups (the Green Party, Generation Rent) did ask for a ban on guarantors to be put into the Labour...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 24/08/2026 - 11:16
If you have the microchipping details these give you the pet owners contact details on the microchipping database and this will tell you how long the pet has been owned by that owner. https://www.gov.uk/get-your-dog-cat-microchipped But the Labour Renters Rights Act...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 24/08/2026 - 11:07
Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 24/08/2026 - 11:07I think that to make what you suggest work you should also be asking how long they have owned the pet and looking for evidence of that. If they...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 24/08/2026 - 10:49
On reflection and having re-read your comment….I think that perhaps what you mean is that for the very rich overseas families that have large amounts of cash but for whom acting as a guarantor would be a worthless guarantee because...
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Reply to the comment left by Fergus Wilson at 24/08/2026 - 10:51If you go out and shout it from the rooftops that nobody in your city goes without a roof over their heads then anybody with any common sense will...
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Reply to the comment left by Jim K at 24/08/2026 - 08:51You might think this is an opportunity…all well and good when you complete the right-to-rent checks at the beginning of the tenancy…but what do you do when the tenant’s...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Kim percival at 24/08/2026 - 07:31
Reply to the comment left by Perc666 music at 24/08/2026 - 07:31Other than for my OWN children I cannot think of any reason why I would wish to be a guarantor for anybody. The Labour Renters Rights Act increases the...
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In the UK general election of 2024 voter turnout was 60%. (It had reached 72.2% in the 2016 Brexit referendum). https://www.statista.com/statistics/1050929/voter-turnout-in-the-uk/ However, nobody voted for Andy Burnham in the 2024 election, washed or unwashed.
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 23/08/2026 - 13:46
Asking for the microchipping details is essential as this links the animal to the keeper/owner of the animal and when the postman loses the use of his hand everybody is going to need to know whose dog it is. When...
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Reply to the comment left by JB at 13:01 I do not know why he does not vote. Voting to keep the Reds out is fine but that is not why I vote. I am not a member of any...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 23/08/2026 - 10:35
There are a lot of problems with the Labour Renters Rights Act. Tenants with pets are higher risk. I have taken them in the past but when I have done so I have never managed to recover the costs of...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 22/08/2026 - 13:49
The other consideration to remember is that if you are advertising then you now have to include an amount and if a tenant who has a pet applies for the property the Labour Renters Rights Act prevents you from accepting...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 21/08/2026 - 22:16
The postman who has lost the use of his hand and can no longer work, the parents of the child that has been permanently disfigured, or the responsible, retired owners of the small micro-chipped, insured dog that has just been...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Fergus Wilson at 22/08/2026 - 12:21
Reply to the comment left by Fergus Wilson at 22/08/2026 - 12:21I do not belong to any political party, I have never contributed to any political party (or to any political party leader whether before, during or after being in...
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