Jack Jennings
Jack Jennings
Registered with Property118.com
17th May 2024
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A 58 year old guy who retired early and have two properties on rent along with other investments to provide a pension.
Registered with Property118.com
17th May 2024
Total Posts
0
Total Comments
130
Bio
A 58 year old guy who retired early and have two properties on rent along with other investments to provide a pension.
19th May 2026, 6 hours ago
For me, there are several factors that have diminished the appeal of property compared to other investments. 1.Interest rates at pre 2009 levels make landlord returns only slightly elevated to bonds. 2.The risk on a default which might have cost...
Read More →16th May 2026, 3 days ago
Let's not let a bunch of facts spoil a good story..
Read More →15th May 2026, 4 days ago
There seems to be an argument that if every landlord was forced out, the prices would drop so low that everyone could afford to buy. The reality is that in a declining market, lenders would want a larger deposit to...
Read More →15th May 2026, 5 days ago
Very well said. I cannot understand the black hole of ignorance that doesn't link the rise in rents from 2022 with the BOE rates rising from 0.25% to 3.5% in the same year. A 3% rise on a mortgage rate...
Read More →14th May 2026, 5 days ago
The RRA was only ever supposed to fix the renter vote for an increasingly unpopular party. Of course Labour have messed this up and are even less popular now.
Read More →14th May 2026, 6 days ago
Government ministers think that we are as stupid as they are and haven't realised that this will become a rent cap. They make the rules to the game. We'll decide if we're going to keep playing.
Read More →11th May 2026, 1 week ago
Ministers can keep shouting about the PRS expanding until there are only thousands of corporate executive flats and one tatty family home left. Renters wringing their hands and Generation Rant desperate for a reason for funding while ex landlords are...
Read More →7th May 2026, 2 weeks ago
Getting the last rent rises in before the new tribunal system destroys all hope for the future...
Read More →6th May 2026, 2 weeks ago
A section 21 was a "no reason given" end of a fixed term tenancy but everyone allowed the organisations like Shelter to coin a phrase implying that landlords were at fault. There obviously were reasons for ending agreements under S21...
Read More →2nd May 2026, 3 weeks ago
I think that I represent a fair proportion of landlords who didn't want to issue an S21 to their reasonable tenants but will not replace them when they leave, selling at that point.
Read More →1st May 2026, 3 weeks ago
If you want to support good landlords, make sure that the courts are fit for purpose and allow eviction of a bad tenant within 28 days of a report being submitted. All good landlords fear housing someone for free for...
Read More →1st May 2026, 3 weeks ago
Well I really get that warm fuzzy feeling by knowing that tenants could save money if the government was to regulate rent. Never mind that interest rates are up 3% over the last 3 years costing thousands more a year....
Read More →Reply to comment left by Rosemary N. Edwards at 25/04/2026 - 11:40
Reply to the comment left by Ma'at Housing Solutions at 25/04/2026 - 11:40Call me naive but if you have a contract which can be cancelled by either party (subject to conditions) and one party does cancel (within these conditions), the...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Simon Gear at 24/04/2026 - 08:57
Reply to the comment left by Cider Drinker at 24/04/2026 - 08:57Also a 3% increase in mortgage/saving rates since 2022 changes the dynamic of rental economics completely. With no large capital gain in sight to save the day, we are...
Read More →24th April 2026, 4 weeks ago
Who would have thought it (apart from everyone). When interest rates are up and capital gain is low the return from property is not much higher than sticking your money in a bond. Add in toxic legislation and the majority...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 23/04/2026 - 17:21
Probably be 'renting' them out to their own staff.. It's always different when you're dealing with your own resources.
Read More →23rd April 2026, 4 weeks ago
I think most of us are starting to feel like non profit organisations....
Read More →22nd April 2026, 4 weeks ago
When we only have section 8 and the reason involves a breach of contract the council won't care either way. The tenants will have 'made themselves homeless' and so will be off the books, not their problem!
Read More →22nd April 2026, 4 weeks ago
Blimey. Not only is it our legal responsibility (for some reason) to check that a prospective tenant has the right to be in the UK, we also have to pander to the criteria which that individual is 'comfortable' to share....
Read More →16th April 2026, 1 month ago
All we need in this utopian world is that all tenants be honest and as professional as the landlords that are housing them. We also need the corporate landlords, that are obviously the darlings of government choice, to not act...
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