Tom Ashworth

Same sum for me. Thousands on a terrace to save the tenant a couple of hundred a year and I never see a penny of it back in rent. I've done the cheap stuff, loft, draughts, a decent boiler, and...

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yes we still approve the actions it takes (e.g. messaging contractors, updating tenants, filing docs) but it's just simpler / faster to manage now. We use OpenRent to find our tenants (much cheaper than an agent), then we use the...

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Same here. Had a tenant turn up on my doorstep over a deposit a few years back. The tenants having my address I can live with. It's the rest of the world I'd rather didn't.

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What gets me is the landlord opened the whole rent up over £50 a month. Before I put any of my terraces up I look at what the same sort of house is being advertised for a few streets over,...

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The £65 I can live with. It's the evenings. Every year there's another portal to sign up to and another certificate to upload, and none of it gets a tenant's tap fixed any quicker.

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Insane student HMO heating costs?

21st October 2026, 3 weeks ago

The fan heaters worry me more than the bill. Found a 3kW one plugged into a four-way strip behind the bed in one of my terraces, and the plug was warm when I picked it up. A boost timer won't...

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Yeah we were on ~50hrs/mo for years with 11 properties, but weve since moved to abodient which has actually cut that down to around ~5hrs or less. I'd recommend shopping around for solutions for self managing landlords, worked out for...

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Tom Ashworth

Tom Ashworth


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