Trevor Leigh, Author at Property118

Trevor Leigh

It will potentially cost a lot more than £7400 to get a property up to epc grade c. Part of the problem is that we can only guess at what the next version of EPC will dictate. The quarter wits...

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The solar panels will add critical points to the EPC. At present the EPC allows no points for batteries but we are nevertheless putting them in so that power microgenerated can be time shifted for use free of charge by...

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Reply to the comment left by Martin Thomas at 02/04/2026 - 10:536 epc points per 2.5 kw

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Reply to the comment left by Ian Denston at 31/03/2026 - 13:07Without question the effects of the RRA thus far have been negative. Landlords.cashing out has hit supply of homes to rent and indeed landlords have served notice to bring...

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Reply to the comment left by Ryan Stevens at 31/03/2026 - 10:31Landlords should not be so put upon in the event that rent is no longer being paid

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Reply to the comment left by Desert Rat at 20/03/2026 - 22:59You do need a UK address for service. Furthermore you need a UK Bank account into which tenants can pay their rent. If you no longer have the latter,...

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The address for service on the title can be updated to a PO Box or office address and so long as inbound correspondence or notices by way of service come to the attention with the landlord I see no problem...

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The landlord's address for service does not have to be the landlord's residential address. It costs very little to take a POBox; or a facility at a local business centre. You definitely don't want tenants having your private address; it...

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Reply to the comment left by Carol Wilson at 08/12/2025 - 13:38hopefully you would be able to redact by blacking out those details in the box for owner

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Reply to the comment left by Ian Hayes at 14/03/2026 - 17:19We have had quite.a.lot of inspections under selective licensing but not much in terms of.requirememts. Typically want locks with removable keys removed from bedroom doors. I would be interested...

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Quite right Chris. The Build to rent mob were catering to Yuppies with gyms and bars on site. They were not competing with trasitional landlords offering attractively located family houses. for rent in areas that are mixed owner occupoers and...

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some of the worst landlords are public bodies yet presumably they are immune from these fines

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We have served notice on all tenants we believe to be dodgy. Ie unauthorised sub tenants particularly

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a successful rent applicant would have to prove an annual income of aeound 30 x tge monthly rent. iw id the rent is 2000 per month a gross income of 60000 would be requiree

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Reply to the comment left by Paul Essex at 29/12/2025 - 13:25BTR is mathmatically modelled with clients expecting to achieve performance that ja planned in advance. The RRA with it rights.on behalf of tenants to appeal.rents topple that perception. In...

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Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 15/12/2025 - 16:25There is no policy in existence which the tenant can take out to cover the cost of damage to the landlords property due to the presence of their pets.

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Surprising that HMG does not for.example.specify that the tenant proves evidence of the animal having had its injections. I am sorry to say HMG's ill consoder3d policies will.turn rentals into slums. In my experience often tenants who acquire pets have...

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Or who.trash the place? We obtained a high court order for posseasion against a residential tenant who was so addled with drugs that she didnt take her dog out to poop. As my colleague put it, youd want to wipe...

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Reply to the comment left by Damo Zaz at 10/12/2025 - 21:06the state cant stop you leaving, however if you realise your UK investments the Government will have a bite out of it.

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not necessarily. if you were to have an office address at which you properties are registered that would suffice

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Trevor Leigh

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