Expenses to improve a EPC rating on BTL – capital or revenue?
Author: R Paul
30th January 2023, 3 years ago | 9
R Paul
R Paul
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Author: R Paul
30th January 2023, 3 years ago | 9
Registered with Property118.com
22nd November 2022
Total Posts
1
Total Comments
65
18th July 2025, 9 months ago
Definitely this leaves Landlords open to abuse. At the very least LL's should be invited to attend any inspections - the LL's details will be readily available on the new database after all! The excuse that an abusive LL might...
Read More →24th April 2025, 1 year ago
Make sure the friend signs a lodgers' agreement with your daughter. Daughter can take up to £7500 per year tax free but will have to declare it and this may affect any UC claims. Ideally daughter should ask for rent...
Read More →22nd April 2025, 1 year ago
Shelter’s total income was £57.5m, yet they're claiming a deficit of 2.3m. At the same time the chief executive of Shelter was paid £128,000 during the year, and the charity’s divisional directors are all paid £84,660 a year. Are charities...
Read More →2nd April 2025, 1 year ago
How does the " not raising rents during improvements" work? Just for the day it takes to install solar panels? Or for a set period afterwards? What happens if the low income tenant moves out in that period? Or you...
Read More →20th March 2025, 1 year ago
Britain has become a playground for people who don’t make things or do things but just have things" ...like self-declared journalists who *have* an opinion website and ask for people to donate a hour's wages to fund it.
Read More →Reply to comment left by Derek STOBBS at 14/01/2025 - 11:49
According to the Housing Act 2004, the definition of a tenancy deposit is: 'tenancy deposit', in relation to a shorthold tenancy, means any money intended to be held (by the landlord or otherwise) as security for (a) the performance of...
Read More →20th December 2024, 1 year ago
We need a specialist property tribunal/ court with decision made by a panel of 3persons - 1 for the landlord, 1 for the tenant, 1specialist in rental law. Also I believe the landlord database should be a combined landlord/tenant database....
Read More →10th December 2024, 1 year ago
Either put it up for auction or see if your local council will take it off your hands. Some councils have empty homes schemes where they will bear the costs of refurbishment as long as they can rent the property...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Kevin Sobkowiak at 03/12/2024 - 12:58
This would push rents up by itself. I can imagine many LLs putting rents up well above the current market rate to allow for the time difference between adjudication and downwards adjustment by tribunal. I'd be interested to know how...
Read More →2nd December 2024, 1 year ago
How many council/affordable homes could be built with £20 million? No matter how much money you throw at the system, in the long term that eviction is still inevitable.
Read More →Reply to comment left by C Lane at 27/11/2024 - 19:35
Reply to the comment left by C Lane at 27/11/2024 - 19:35The law of torts actually just says " a reasonable amount of time" it doesn't give a defined amount of days. Most people would consider 14 days enough (unless...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Tessa Shepperson at 11/11/2024 - 10:56
Reply to the comment left by Tessa Shepperson at 11/11/2024 - 10:56I understand that politics is a game of give and take, but giving up on S21 without fighting harder for the alternatives to be more robust and efficient isn't...
Read More →24th October 2024, 1 year ago
Denzel - what you are doing is laudable but one thing bothers me... ...in all your stories I've seen there seems to be tenants in arrears or who can't afford a rent increase, and they get a ONE-OFF payment to...
Read More →18th September 2024, 2 years ago
Why would the tenant be able to claim costs? How would that get the repair made more quickly? Tenancy deposit is there to return the property to the same state it was rented in (and after deductions for wear and...
Read More →18th September 2024, 2 years ago
I would have no problem hiring a specialist as long as the cost of this is allowed to be charged to whomever is proven to be responsible/at fault - be it landlord or tenant.
Read More →15th August 2024, 2 years ago
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Read More →Reply to comment left by Crossed_Swords . at 15/04/2024 - 18:30
@crossed swords: I don't think OP was asking for Open Rent to get the certs done, just a signature of receipt for them. Open Rent send the tenants a copy of the AST, deposit info etc and the tenant digitally...
Read More →11th March 2024, 2 years ago
All my tenants have pets of one kind or another and I've never had any problems or any damages. I charge an extra £20 rent per month which I put aside to replace carpets/flooring when they go - but so...
Read More →7th February 2024, 2 years ago
It's time you stand for council Mick Roberts! Really give em something to think about: https://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/your-council/voting-elections/standing-as-a-candidate/#:~:text=Legal%20Requirements%20to%20be%20a,of%20an%20EU%20member%20state
Read More →Reply to comment left by Simon Gear at 31/01/2024 - 11:23
Reply to the comment left by Cider Drinker at 31/01/2024 - 11:23Damp no...but condensation yes.
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