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Holiday let to be taken over by golf club?

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27th July 2022, 4 years ago | 11

Hello fellow hard-working property providers, We have a holiday let (5 bed 2 bathrooms) next door to where we live....

Can I conduct viewing in tenant’s absence?

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27th July 2022, 4 years ago | 10

My tenant is still within the 12 months fixed term agreement and has told me he was buying elsewhere. Therefore,...

Buy-to-Let Newbie financing question?

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27th July 2022, 4 years ago | 3

Hi all, I have a question related to starting a small property business. I own a 50% share of a...

Cladding repairs needed to remortgage?

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25th July 2022, 4 years ago | 5

Has any leaseholder, coming to the end of their mortgage term, been able to re-mortgage with a B2 defective fire...

Legal Cover – What cover?

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22nd July 2022, 4 years ago | 7

Has anyone had experience dealing with Legal Cover? I was sold the add-on extra as ‘if you need to evict...

Service Charge Dispute – Multiple Managing Agents?

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22nd July 2022, 4 years ago | 5

We are a block of eight Leasehold apartments. The Freeholder has always chosen the Managing Agent, changing every three years....

Tenants complain but won’t take action?

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21st July 2022, 4 years ago | 10

Looking through the thousands of posts on this forum, you quickly get the impression that landlords are wicked scoundrels and...

Mother left 13 year old daughter and three dogs?

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21st July 2022, 4 years ago | 13

Help, after being four months in arrears the mother LEFT her 13-year-old daughter with three nasty dogs in our two-bedroomed...

Exempt accommodation providers – who are their agents?

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19th July 2022, 4 years ago | 5

Has anyone released their property to or entered into short-term lease arrangements with a managing agent who then goes on...

Claims history declaration on rent guarantee insurance?

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19th July 2022, 4 years ago | 3

Hi, Could I please ask for a specialist opinion? I have had a claim made on my Rent Guarantee Insurance....

Charging an extra week’s rent to buy deposit insurance?

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19th July 2022, 4 years ago | 2

Hi everyone, A friend of mine who owns a small portfolio of let houses like me has asked me if...

Common parts fire risk?

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18th July 2022, 4 years ago | 4

Hi, I have several flats in conversions in two-storey buildings. Yes converted pre 1991 Building Act. On viewing properties to...

Window opening onto a neighbour’s shared courtyard?

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18th July 2022, 4 years ago | 7

We rent a recently refurbished a terraced cottage with upstairs windows at the back of the property opening outwards onto...

Absent Owner and Nonpayment of Management Fees?

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18th July 2022, 4 years ago | 17

The owner of a flat in a development where I also own a property has not paid any fees or...

Managing a mini HMO?

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18th July 2022, 4 years ago | 4

I recently exchanged and completed on a mini 3-bed HMO with 3 sitting tenants in situ on 3 different ASTs....

iHowz Publish their Response to White Paper

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15th July 2022, 4 years ago | 3

iHowz landlord association have published their response to the Government’s White Paper “A Fairer Private Rented Sector” They have sent...

Local Authority insisting on trivial repairs?

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14th July 2022, 4 years ago | 36

Hi Folks, Recently had a tenant run to environmental health after I told her I’m not willing to re-house her...

How can the police decide it’s not criminal?

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14th July 2022, 4 years ago | 18

Hello everyone, I have had a story of one of my trashed properties make it into the Salisbury Journal >> ...

Capital gains tax on rented property that was 50/50 but now 99/1?

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14th July 2022, 4 years ago | 3

I have just sold a rental property and am slightly unsure regarding capital gains tax. We made a profit of...

Abandoned car – can I remove it?

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14th July 2022, 4 years ago | 13

My evicted tenant remains non-communicative and I’m just glad to have the empty property back. The neighbours now tell me...

The relevant parties that own the missing head lease are deceased?

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14th July 2022, 4 years ago | 2

My partner is the executor, of his parent’s house. In his mum’s will, it is to be sold and divided...