It seems we may have set up a method of working that is incorrect and seek your opinion. We own several properties in husband and wife names, we then set up a Limited Company and lease these to the company for a peppercorn rent. The Limited company then lets the properties and manages them to […]

The National Landlords Association (NLA) is demanding that Liverpool City Council (LCC) postpones the launch of its city-wide licensing scheme – due to go live on 1 April – because its current application process would put every landlord in Liverpool in breach of the law. The NLA claims that the current online application process provided […]

Finally I have managed to secure a property as my first buy to let. I had posted previous discussions which have helped me in making an informed decision. As I have now my offer accepted, I have to send my solicitor details and start with all the formalities. But before I could dive in this […]

My husband is the executor of my late mother’s estate (her only asset was her home), and I was her only beneficiary. My niece has now placed a caveat on the will so probate cannot be granted until the dispute has been resolved. As executor can he rent this property out? We had no intention […]

Property118’s Landlord Insurance experts have expressed concerns over the Government’s plans to allow private tenants to sub-let properties. Included in last week’s Budget small print, under the title “Support for the sharing economy”, was a clause seemingly giving the green light to sub-letting. See what readers think here. The wording said that the government intended […]

At 4:15pm on Friday 17th April I will be presenting a seminar on buying and selling tenanted property at the Property Investor Show 2015 at Excel London (Theatre 7). FREE tickets and guaranteed entrance to my seminar are available for Property118 members, just click THIS LINK and then complete the registration form to get your entrance […]

We have a tenant that has left the family home, he has left his wife & two kids but the wife is not on the tenancy Agreement. We have served a section 21 notice addressed to the tenant on the agreement.  The council have told her they can’t help her with housing if /when she […]

I bought a flat back in Aug 2014 in auction where there were already 2 tenants living in the property with separate tenancy agreement. I was advised by my agent to formulate new joint Tenancy Agreement with £1,200 rent per month.  They are council tenants and I only have received only £600 since then. I […]

I have recently moved into a flat which was supposed to be rented part furnished. When I did the viewings the previous tenants showed me the furniture that was meant to be staying in the property and I was fine with it.  In real life, when I moved in, I discovered all sorts of clutter […]

After all my years in the industry, I am sure I know the answer to this already but just thought I would pick your brains.  Is there any way of removing one tenant from a joint tenancy ? The tenant has been obstructive and abusive towards his partner, not contributing towards the rent and Police […]

I will be joining the team and collecting the keys to my first property at the end of this week, and getting it ready to let ….  yay! 🙂  I have got most things in place, insurance/home emergency/legal and rent cover etc. I am having trouble finding information out about allowable expenses though, when I […]

I am about to sign a contract with Santander (received all the documents) but I will need to confirm there will be no persons over the age of 17 years (other than me) who will residing at the property – at all time…. Any such other person who will be living in the property must […]

I have a property which is being managed by a letting agent and the tenant who is a single parent in full time work is now over 3 months in arrears. The tenant has had lots of letters sent to her and been into the letting agent to arrange a payment plan to pay off […]

After reading a lot of the articles on this matter I am very concerned.  I have a property that I have let out as rooms since 2006 and after problems with a tenant that has not paid rent the council was called in by her and now I have been informed that I need a […]

I’m keen to hear other peoples views on crowd funding buy-to-let property. I saw in the news today that one firm had just received over £5m of funding so clearly someone thinks this is a big opportunity. In the question below I have named some firms I know of but please remove these if this […]

My father has paid 6 months rent in advance as he is retired, but is now in hospital and unlikely to return to his flat.  Can he get a partial refund? Thanks Monica Hawley

My father recently passed away leaving 11 properties, all with mortgages with an average of around 85% remaining to pay. My siblings and I have little to no knowledge of this area.  A couple of the properties mortgages are up in 2016, which at that time, as understand it, will need to either be paid […]

First post here and glad I found the site. I have a conundrum and am about to walk away from an opportunity if there is no solution. I have found a 3 bed detached house, in need of total renovation, with a house sized plot to the side, and garage at rear. It is a […]

I moved into rented accommodation in the last six weeks.  The landlord failed to inform me of the violent lady downstairs and I have since been assaulted by her. He clearly knew about her violent nature from previous tenants, has he a duty of care to move me? I am a single mum with a […]

So glad there is a platform for tenant support – I feel really screwed!  So my partner and I have been living in a property for just under one year. When we originally looked and moved into the property, WE requested two years as we wanted to keep the high London costs to a minimum […]

Hello all, I own the freehold of a block of 4 flats in Southport town centre. I have planning permission to turn the top and bottom flat into 4 flats but have been advised by an estate agent not to poor any money into small town centre flats as there are too many already. I […]