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20th March 2015, 11 years ago | 2
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16th September 2015, 11 years ago
Scottish landlords take tax case to The Treasury Scottish landlords will today meet with senior UK Government officials in London to urge them to rethink planned tax changes for private landlords or risk threatening investment in the Private Rented Sector...
Read More →30th July 2015, 11 years ago
Shared with all SAL members just now via our enewsletter. Thank you Mark
Read More →23rd February 2015, 11 years ago
Hi Vicky We have an advice team who can help you today - we can't post specific advice here as we would need to ask a few questions about the paperwork in place to be sure of the tenancy details....
Read More →28th August 2014, 12 years ago
Hi there Mark and Andrew Late to the fray today - we have two big conferences coming up (agents next week, landlords on 4 November) so it's all hands on deck this week. Looks like you're all clear now, but...
Read More →14th July 2014, 12 years ago
Hi there See above. Please don't shoot the messenger. :-). We agree with you. Here at SAL we believe that the standards should be the same across all tenures -see our earlier post. We are lobbying for that. Best from...
Read More →14th July 2014, 12 years ago
It's a legal requirement. The PRHP is the body which decides if the Repairing Standard has or has not been breached in cases brought to them. The onus is on the tenant to report the landlord to the PRHP if...
Read More →14th July 2014, 12 years ago
Hi there This is correct. You can see the new guidance from the Private Rented Housing Panel at http://www.prhpscotland.gov.uk/prhp/136.26.32.html. Our helpline can give individualised assistance if required too for members. Hope that helps best wishes
Read More →23rd January 2014, 12 years ago
Hi Scott We have compulsory landlord registration here in Scotland and as the OPs say most of the laws around letting are different to those south of the Border. Joining the Association gives you access to Scots law helpline, all...
Read More →14th January 2014, 12 years ago
Firstly yes most of the laws around letting are already different to those in England/Wales as Scots law applies here. Additionally housing is a devolved matter so policy has diverged more since the Scottish Parliament was established. Consumer law and...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Andrew Hayworth at 03/12/2013 - 17:10
Reply to the comment left by "Andrew Hayworth" at "03/12/2013 - 17:10": Hi Andrew Anybody who answers the phone can help you - one of the membership team and it will be most likely Sarah or Maria, with the exception...
Read More →3rd December 2013, 13 years ago
Hi Andrew Please do join SAL, get involved - come to our meetings (all our new dates for 2014 will be announced in January) and events and I'm sure you'll meet like minded people. We would be happy to help,...
Read More →15th October 2013, 13 years ago
The Scottish Association of Landlords has emailed the call to action to our members today. We have asked members affected to contact us directly too.
Read More →15th October 2013, 13 years ago
The Scottish Association of Landlords has emailed the call to action to our members today. We have also asked those members affected to also contact us directly with their concerns.
Read More →Reply to comment left by John Gell at 16/09/2013 - 23:28
Reply to the comment left by "John Gell" at "16/09/2013 - 23:28": Hi all The Scottish Association of Landlords position on Landlord Registration has not changed since we published this piece in January, and we continue to call for proper...
Read More →9th September 2013, 13 years ago
Hi Roxanne Many thanks for your email. Without seeing the documents and the details in them, also without knowing if it is an “assured” or “short assured” tenancy and knowing if the AT5 document was also correctly served etc, it’s...
Read More →12th August 2013, 13 years ago
Well done Property118 for making sure readers are thinking about this - the experience in Scotland is that Landlord Registration has not cleared the bad landlords from the sector as was promised. The enforcement is patchy and the reports of...
Read More →29th July 2013, 13 years ago
Hi there We've been lobbying the City of Edinburgh Council on behalf of members for well over a year on this matter ever since the "Proactive Impact Noise Standard" was brought in. We pushed for this to be reconsidered. The...
Read More →14th June 2013, 13 years ago
The UK/England would do well to look North of the border before spending public money on this and before forcing landlords and agents to spend time and money complying with initiatives that do not deliver benefits for tenants anyway. Earlier...
Read More →12th June 2013, 13 years ago
That's a very useful summary, great to see well informed SAL members like John contributing. Calls to the SAL member helpline during May and the start of June were, as we expected, made in high numbers from those asking for...
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