Jack Jennings
Jack Jennings
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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
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139
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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.
27th June 2026, 2 days ago
I'm sure that many younger home owner's are finding their mortgage costs above a 30% affordability figure (pulled out of thin air by a think tank). Many will have seen hundreds a month added to their bills with no one...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Stephen Gardner at 21/06/2026 - 15:15
Reply to the comment left by Stephen Gardner at 21/06/2026 - 15:15The added worry I have is that most political animals are circling CGT like hyenas viewing a 40 or 45% rate. They all try to justify with a logic...
Read More →21st June 2026, 1 week ago
Although government policy has increased risk and costs, the big game changer is interest rates back to 'normal'. Thirteen years of ultra low rates pumped so much capital gain into housing that although percentage return on the original cost might...
Read More →12th June 2026, 2 weeks ago
Landlords don't have to be landlords. A 5% net return and low capital gains for perhaps the next decade does not sound very enticing compared to other investments. There is increased regulation headaches and costs, evictions that could take over...
Read More →3rd June 2026, 4 weeks ago
All the English councils have to do is offer to buy all 21,000,000 PRS houses and then they can stop whining about how private landlords are not as good as social landlords. They can buy mine if they want but...
Read More →31st May 2026, 4 weeks ago
We might get a court date after a year, be able to present a ton of evidence and get an eviction (unless the tenant is a bit poorly or on a spectrum in which case probably not).
Read More →29th May 2026, 1 month ago
I don't think anyone needs an interactive website to know that the thousands of social homes that were sold off haven't been, and can't be replaced. All the councils are skint and some of the nasty evil private landlords have...
Read More →23rd May 2026, 1 month ago
If Labour want to get serious about housing, they need to build their own social homes and stop selling them. Our property is not a part of government housing. He is another mouth trying to grab the tenant vote with...
Read More →21st May 2026, 1 month ago
As David said, I'm not excited about selling into a weak market as I have ok tenants in place but I also will not be replacing them if they leave. Higher interest and saving rates don't make renting look so...
Read More →19th May 2026, 1 month 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, 1 month ago
Let's not let a bunch of facts spoil a good story..
Read More →15th May 2026, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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 months ago
Getting the last rent rises in before the new tribunal system destroys all hope for the future...
Read More →6th May 2026, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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...
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