Cautionary Tales

Don’t Shoot the Messenger # 8

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

30th December 2011, 14 years ago | 20

When a tenant has a beef with their landlord, I’m the guy they go to. My job is to either...

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Essex Landbanking Firms Shutdown

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st December 2011, 14 years ago | 0

Three more landbanking scams have been uncovered and moved into liquidation by the Company Investigations (CI) of the Insolvency Service....

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Cameron veto may mean buy to let regulation by EU

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th December 2011, 14 years ago | 16

Mortgage lenders are quietly furious behind the scenes that Prime Minister David Cameron’s Euro treaty veto may have scuppered their...

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Cleaning Costs are Adding Up

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th December 2011, 14 years ago | 72

Landlords are seeing a rising amount of deposit disputes over the cleaning of properties according to The Association of Independent...

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Below Market Value Agent Advertised Misleading House Prices

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th December 2011, 14 years ago | 1

Estate agents quoting misleading below-market-value home sale prices have been reprimanded by the advertising watchdog. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)...

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Landlord Fined £4,000 after Tenant Flees Buy to Let Blaze

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th December 2011, 14 years ago | 1

A landlord was fined £4,000 for failing to carry out fire safety work at a rental property after a tenant...

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Warning: Upsetting Footage For Landlords

Author: Frazer Fearnhead

7th December 2011, 14 years ago | 8

You can reference tenants, you can use your own judgement to select ones you think you can trust and you...

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Landlords Urged to Sign up for Tenant Property Passport

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th December 2011, 14 years ago | 0

Landlords are being urged to sign up for a new passport scheme for tenants that build a six-year rental history...

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The Pointless Housing Benefit Helpline

Author: HMOLandlady

5th December 2011, 14 years ago | 8

I’ve just come off the phone to our local housing benefit “help” line, scraped myself off the ceiling and stopped...

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Drug Dealing Landlord is Worth Just £266

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th December 2011, 14 years ago | 0

A drug dealing landlord who planned to run a cannabis factory in a charity hostel has assets of just £266...

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Be Wary and Be Vigilant

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th November 2011, 14 years ago | 0

Over the course of the last 3 years at Landlord Action I have been contacted by many disgruntled investors trying...

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Judge Strips HMO Landlord of £112,500 Illegal Rents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th November 2011, 14 years ago | 0

A landlord who defied planning laws to convert three houses in to houses of multiple occupation (HMOs) has been stripped...

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Tenants at Risk in 1 Million Shoddy Buy to Let Homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th November 2011, 14 years ago | 2

One in three buy to let homes have major safety hazards putting tenants at risk, claims a government survey of...

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Landlord Forced Tenants to Share Cramped Rooms

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th November 2011, 14 years ago | 0

Landlord Pavlos Chatzinopoulos was fined £2,515 for making tenants share with cramped rooms with tenants they did not know. Swindon...

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Letting Firm Probe Follows Student Complaints

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd November 2011, 14 years ago | 40

A student landlord who charged a tenant £290 for cleaning two flies from a windowsill is under investigation by a...

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HSE Warning to Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd November 2011, 14 years ago | 0

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have issued a warning to landlords, saying they will prosecute those “who fail in...

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Water Damage the Biggest Costs to Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd November 2011, 14 years ago | 1

Leaky pipes and sinks cost the UK’s landlords £2million a day and over 9 billion litres of water a year,...

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Holding Court? Holding hands more like

Author: Nick Stott

22nd November 2011, 14 years ago | 5

As I sit here in a Civil Court’s waiting room waiting to be called (here pursuing a tenant on behalf...