I watched a webinar the other day extolling the undoubted cashflow virtues of 2 x 2 ‘s (putting two separate Housing Benefit tenants into a single family house). The webinar leader went through the technical details of the process, most of which I would have been aware of or able to put together myself, but […]

I wanted my house back to sell. I served S21 at the correct time, ie 2 months before the end of the AST. The end date was 27th October 2014. The Tenant got a council flat. Council called me for flexibility on end date, for that week (27th was a Monday). I agreed to this, […]

The property adjoining mine has broken guttering and this is allowing water into their property and damp into mine.  The landlord of that property has been made aware of this several times. What action can I take as it is badly affecting my property. Thanks Andy

To give you some background, I own a terraced property built 1888 which was later fitted with a dpc (drilled into brick) but I’m not sure how long ago this was. We refurbished the property 4 years ago, having all external walls re pointed and painted, we hooked off old damp plaster, allowed an industrial […]

I am a co-director of a RTM (Right to Manage) company of a development which is extremely challenging to manage. We are now at a critical phase – just about to start major works which will cost about £70K. We’ve been leading up to this point for the last 2 years and, needless to say, […]

I have up to £300K to invest in BTL, and would welcome all suggestions for where the best location and what type of property would be for me to invest.  Given problems I’ve had (continue to have) with purpose built new blocks, rip-off freeholders and agents, service charges, etc… I would prefer to avoid leasehold […]

A friend is thinking of buying a property where her sister is the sitting tenant. She has one BTL and shares 2 others as joint leaseholder, but her income (salary) is low. She needs advice on whether this is feasible, if she can get a BTL mortgage, if her sister as sitting tenant would be […]

I doubt lt if anyone here has ever had this problem. I have a tenant 30 yr old Chap that has been renting out a flat for 2 years for £475 per month, his housing benefit was then reduced under new law not to pay under 35s a one bed rate (£450), so Housing Benefit […]

With an eye on the imminent introduction of Universal Credit, the recent a recent discussion – “Is your MP a Landlords champion” – kicked up some interesting points, one of which was the potential loss of tax revenues as a result of Tenants who, instead of passing the housing benefit payments on to their Landlord […]

I’m new here and am after some advice regarding my tax liability with my rental property. I bought a rental property two years ago and refurbished it. It has been rented out pretty much ever since. I bought it mostly because it was close to home and I wasn’t sure whether I’d have the enthusiasm […]

As you will no doubt be aware, the owners of Property118 acquired a 26% share in Letting Supermarket when it was a start up business. It has since flourished and over the coming weeks and months we will be proudly introducing you to some of the team. Kevin Eggleton is the Letting Supermarket agent covering The […]

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Have been browsing here for a while, but havent written anything yet. I’ve been a landlord for 5 years, just 3 properties so far, but now doing it full time as recently lost my job. I have a bit of redundancy money to invest, and because there’s so much new legislation proposed, and changes to […]

Hi my husband and I have owned a mid Victorian terrace since about 2000, when we first purchased it had a separate flat on the ground floor, and first floor was two sort of bed sits. We converted with planning permission and building control into two flats. A one bedroomed flat on the ground floor […]

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I currently own 2 BTL properties which I let out as a private landlord. I also have a consultancy business which is run as a limited company. I am considering purchasing an additional property via the LTD Co as I have a surplus of cash in the company that is not currently earning much interest […]

“Is it possible to obtain a buy to let mortgage without proving income?”  This is a question I am asked frequently. Well, there are a number of buy to let lenders in the market whose criteria stipulates no minimum income however this is not quite the same as having no income whatsoever.  Applicants in these […]

I own the freehold of a upstairs self contained maisonette and someone else owns the freehold of the downstairs maisonette. Whilst reading my 996 year lease it says that I must get consent from the other freeholder if I wish to make any alterations to my flat. My question is what can I do if […]

I wonder if anyone can help by providing some advice regarding foreign rental property? My wife and I currently own 2 rented properties in Australia that have a mortgage against them. We have had them for 7 years and submitting annual taxation returns to the Australian Taxation Office. We are substantially in tax credit and […]

I have a Buy to Let mortgage which has come to the end of its term with the lender and I have now reached retirement age. I have been actively trying to sell the property, but because of the current climate I have so far been unsuccessful. I have now completely re-decorated the property and […]

As I understand it, a HMO is a property that has more than one (unrelated) household within it, where part of the property is shared. As such, this could even be a two bedroomed flat so long as the rooms are let separately (not the whole flat let as a joint tenancy). If this is […]