Tag: Cautionary Tales

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Landlord in Scotland banned from letting

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th July 2012, 14 years ago | 1

A landlord in Edinburgh is the first in the city to be banned from letting out properties after failing to...

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Tenants Changing Suppliers – The Pitfalls

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19th June 2012, 14 years ago | 8

Tenants, utility suppliers, landlords and change don’t often mix too well. I wanted to share a problem that I have...

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Estate agent secretly tried to let home he should have sold

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th June 2012, 14 years ago | 0

An estate agent tried to make some money on the side by renting an empty home he was trying to...

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HMO landlord fined £5,500 for letting filthy home

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st May 2012, 14 years ago | 5

The landlord of a filthy and overcrowded shared house was fined £5,500 after admitting 23 licensing and management offences to...

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Struck-off solicitor branded slum landlord for house of filth

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th May 2012, 14 years ago | 3

A struck-off solicitor and an estate agent who managed a house shared by 12 tenants who lived in filthy conditions...

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Property firm’s buy to let advert claims ruled misleading

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

A property firm’s claims that buy to let was a safe alternative to keeping money in a savings account were...

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Landlords urged to only deal with ‘safe’ letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th May 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Letting agents are urging landlords to make sure they only do business with firms offering a money protection scheme. Firms...

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Landlord hopes sink over buy to let flood insurance

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

The likely results of losing flood insurance are sinking-in to landlords with at risk property as much of the country...

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Drugs police raid a cannabis factory once every hour

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Drugs squads are raiding a cannabis factory nearly once every hour and seizing drugs worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Property hijacks prompt fraud alert from the FSA

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Financial watchdog is alerting landlords to watch out for property hijacking by fraudsters and crooked mortgage brokers. The Financial Services...

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Is your name listed in the fraudster’s phone book?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Property investors targeted by fraudsters are about to receive a letter or email from financial watchdogs warning them crooks are...

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Landlord may face jail over HMO arson killings

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th March 2012, 14 years ago | 1

The landlord of a shared house where a mum and her three-year-old daughter died in an arson attack may face...

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Crooked landlord admits stealing student deposits

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th March 2012, 14 years ago | 1

A university had to take on extra staff to deal with complaints about a landlord who stole deposits on student...

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Landlords conned out of £100,000 in subletting scam

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th March 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Fraudster Rose Chimuka conned landlords of out of more than £100,000 by posing as a mum to rent their homes...

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Police on high after closing 5,000 cannabis factories

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th March 2012, 14 years ago | 6

Police are on a high after closing 5,000 cannabis factories across the North West in the past three years –...

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Sorting the Rogues from the Ridiculous

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

5th March 2012, 14 years ago | 12

I’m an amiable kinda guy, the office joker in the roman helmet, more predisposed towards seeing the good in people...

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Jail for HMO landlord who couldn’t afford to pay fine

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st March 2012, 14 years ago | 2

– News Sourced by Property118 News Team – Buy to let landlord Abdul Hanif was jailed for allowing a tenant...

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HMO landlord let tenants live in a garden shed

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

An HMO landlord was fined £4,000 for letting 16 tenants live in filthy and dangerous conditions – including in a...

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Buy to let property scam netted £450,000

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th February 2012, 14 years ago | 5

A sham property investment company that conned landlords out of £450,000 has been wound up by the Insolvency Service. Modo...

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Buy to let fraudsters target landlords and letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Police are warning about fraudsters who are ripping off landlords and tenants by posing as bogus letting agents. Scotland Yard...