Michael Bond
Michael Bond
Registered with Property118.com
10th January 2015
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Registered with Property118.com
10th January 2015
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11th August 2021, 5 years ago
I have a large proportion of Listed Grade 2 buildings in my partly inherited portfolio. The criteria for assessing an EPC are mysterious and irrational and seem to depend on the whim of the assessor. On one recent occasion I...
Read More →27th July 2021, 5 years ago
EPCs are a farce and will remain so until they overhaul the system. Are they supposed to measure eco-efficiency as defined in emissions of CO2 etc... or whether they provide a warm comfortable home for a tenant... or whether they...
Read More →7th July 2021, 5 years ago
The first part of the message assumes that all landlords are idiots. Of course we talk to tenants in arrears and try to sort it out with them long before the problem breaks the surface. I have doubts about the...
Read More →28th June 2021, 5 years ago
Then ask during the public half hour of a meeting of the full Council which official had reported this to which elected member, when and in what circumstances??
Read More →28th June 2021, 5 years ago
What an excellent comment, Ian. Thank you for putting the issue so clearly and crisply. What chance that those who like to pontificate on these things could be compelled to read your words before they next open their mouths?
Read More →24th June 2021, 5 years ago
The NRLA has got this badly wrong. Those who "discriminate against tenants in receipt of benefits" are doing no such thing. They are discriminating against policy administered by characteristically incompetent local authority officials. The potential tenants are casualties caught in...
Read More →21st April 2021, 5 years ago
There is no point in landlords just telling each other how good we all are. We need this information to be published in the national press (and BBC??) to counter Shelter lies. What has been done about this?
Read More →20th April 2021, 5 years ago
This may look superficially attractive but does not take into account the nature of local government and those who work for it. Who has not spent hours trying to find a telephone which someone actually answers only to be told...
Read More →17th April 2021, 5 years ago
Could Property 118 maintain a list of "electricians a reader has recommended" and another of "electricians a reader has warned us to beware of"? if so could you do the same for plumbers?
Read More →12th April 2021, 5 years ago
I guess the answer depends on how well you know the council people personally. Can you trust them? In the case of an elected councillor how secure is he/she in the seat? A change of political control at an election...
Read More →30th March 2021, 5 years ago
I have certainly heard of cases in which planning officials have tried to enforce a condition on FHLs ("holiday cottages") that they might not be used for permanent occupation, or occupied for more than 30 days by the same tenant...
Read More →18th March 2021, 5 years ago
This comes from a "housing charity" which has no houses for rent, no bedsits in HMOs, no hostels, and can offer no shelter of any kind to anybody, in spite of an income of about £70 million a year including...
Read More →21st February 2021, 5 years ago
I had a similar with Worcester Bosch. My local plumber hit a problem which he was not sure about and advised me to call one of their engineers. The man arrived, took one look at the problem which required him...
Read More →7th January 2021, 5 years ago
I am in negotiation with a Housing Association and others to provide land on which will be built houses to be let to villagers at an affordable rent. This is in a Dorset village which attracts buyers looking for holiday,...
Read More →21st December 2020, 5 years ago
We, private landlords, are giving our tenants more help than the "social sector" are giving theirs. Why is this not headline news in the newspapers, and on TV, even though obviously BBC are not going to mention it?
Read More →15th November 2020, 5 years ago
Many District Judges sitting on housing cases have only limited knowledge of housing law. Why would we seriously think the court staff would get it right? They are civil servants. Getting it right is the least of their concerns.
Read More →20th October 2020, 5 years ago
it is essential that specialist housing courts are presided over by specialist and specially trained judges. Currently District courts dealing with housing matters are presided over by District judges whose previous experience has usually been as solicitors with a particular...
Read More →13th October 2020, 5 years ago
Rough sleepers are the small tip of a huge iceberg of insufficient housing across the country. Th rest of the iceberg is made up of young people sofa-surfing, young families living in their parents' spare bedroom, etc. Could not some,...
Read More →8th October 2020, 6 years ago
I sometimes say to one of my tenants: "My house. Your home". Before the current deluge of pro-tenant regulation introduced as a result of the pandemic I believe the average length of a PRS AST was about 4 years and...
Read More →15th September 2020, 6 years ago
This boggles the mind. But perhaps we should not be too surprised. Since when have we expected local government officials to be either competent or efficient? I find some people like to live in HMOs -- usually "young professionals". I...
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