Lettings & Management

Is this “The DSS Landlords Ultimate Letting Package”?

Author: Mark Alexander

31st July 2013, 13 years ago | 0

Letting Supermarket have launched a new scheme which they have labelled “The DSS Landlords Ultimate Letting Package”.  The package includes:-...

Rent to Rent Success Stories

Author: Mark Alexander

26th July 2013, 13 years ago | 26

There have been some real horror stories of Rent to Rent hitting the press of late and that’s not necessarily...

Buy to Let Property Sales – Partnering With Estate Agents

Author: Mark Alexander

24th July 2013, 13 years ago | 9

Earlier this year we spotted an opportunity to set up a buy to let Estate Agency. However, due to lack...

Building a letting agency business

Author: Don Holmes

23rd July 2013, 13 years ago | 0

I sold my first letting agency business in 2006. In just 12 years my wife and I had taken the...

Referencing Services for Landlords

Author: Mark Alexander

8th July 2013, 13 years ago | 4

Referencing services for landlords come in several varieties and with numerous options and price structures.  You can get anything from...

Standalone Inventory Software – Any suggestions please?

Author: Readers Question

6th July 2013, 13 years ago | 43

Do you know of a standalone software package for inventories that let’s you insert time and date stamped photos into...

What if my Property Agents go bust?

Author: Readers Question

6th July 2013, 13 years ago | 4

The Property Agents I am using appear to be going downhill. I have not been paid for 2 months. Is...

Reduce your voids – the “move in free” business model

Author: Chris Sheldon

5th July 2013, 13 years ago | 0

We have recently experimented with a “move in free” business model for tenants. We were asked to let several properties...

Rent2Rent contracts – if you’re going to do it do it right ….

Author: Mark Alexander

5th July 2013, 13 years ago | 23

Rent2Rent companies are using the wrong letting contracts Whilst I have never been a fan of the Rent2Rent strategy I...

Landlord seeking advice over poor letting agent

Author: Readers Question

4th July 2013, 13 years ago | 7

I’m looking for some advice here as I’m having no end of problems with my letting agent. I have found...

Deposit Protection – look out landlords, the vultures are circling

Author: Mark Alexander

28th June 2013, 13 years ago | 36

ALL landlords and letting agents need to know that the “no win no fee” vultures are out to get you....

The evolution of the Private Rented Sector – Deed of Assurance

Author: Mark Alexander

27th June 2013, 13 years ago | 116

Why on earth would The Mortgage Works “TMW” agree to three year AST’s? More to the point, why would landlords...

Choosing the wrong letting agent could cost YOU thousands!

Author: terry lucking

21st June 2013, 13 years ago | 5

It’s devastating when you put your trust and faith into a letting agency, you pay them a monthly management fee; and...

Council of Letting Agents (Scotland) announcement

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th June 2013, 13 years ago | 0

Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL) directors are pleased to announce the appointment of Kathleen Gell as convenor of the newly...

ARLA figures suggest lack of housing supply taking firm hold

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd April 2013, 13 years ago | 0

Tenants are now staying in one property for a record duration of 20 months, according to the latest research from...

Free ebook – investing in Cambridge

Author: Mark Alexander

18th April 2013, 13 years ago | 1

Buy to let investors in Cambridge can see between 12 to 15% pre tax income on capital employed. Cambridge –...

Do tenants have choices?

Author: Mark Alexander

16th April 2013, 13 years ago | 8

Am I the only person in the world who is sick to the back teeth of hearing stories of letting...

ICO Data Protection clampdown on letting and estate agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th April 2013, 13 years ago | 0

A targeted campaign by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to get property agents to register under the Data Protection Act...