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Secret Home Sharers Can Run up Fines for Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Sharing digs is booming in popularity as young home-seekers are failing to raise mortgages to buy properties of their own....

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Loan Shark Landlord Fined for Demanding 5,600% APR

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

A thug landlord who ruled his tenants with threats and intimidation lent them cash at more than 5,600% APR. Loan...

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Insurers Will Pay Out Landlords after Riots

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Insurers have reassured landlords with rental properties in riot-hit cities that their homes and businesses are protected. Shocking images of...

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Heat is on Improving Cold Buy to Let Homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Landlords are under fire for failing to keep buy to let homes warm enough as a tenant’s rights protest coalition...

Landlord pays £40,000 for letting death trap flats

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

A landlord who lived a lavish millionaire lifestyle and drove a Mercedes, has to pay £40,000 for renting out death...

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Landlords upset over paying £315,000 HMO fees to council

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st July 2011, 15 years ago | 3

Disgruntled landlords have paid out £315,000 fees in a year to comply with a council’s new house in multiple occupation...

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Shared house was firebomb waiting to explode

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Electrical wiring in a shared house was so dangerous the property was a firebomb waiting to go off, a court...

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Landlords in the front line in war against drugs

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Police, landlords and letting agents are in the front line of the fight against drugs in towns and cities across...

3 Dangerous Types of Tenant – Part 2: Illegal Subletting

Author: Paul Shamplina

22nd June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Over the last couple of years, the problem of unauthorised subletting has been growing. From last year alone, our instructions...

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Buy to let landlord refitted dangerous gas supply

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Tenants’ lives were at risk when gas was reconnected to dangerous fittings after a safety engineer cut off the supply...

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Fines for landlords who ignored fire safety

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

A landlord who ignored council orders to improve his property was fined £2,000 for putting their lives at risk. He...

Financial consumer champion gets a complaint call every 10 seconds

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Consumer champion the Financial Ombudsman deals with an inquiry from a disgruntled financial services customer every 10 seconds every working...

Uproar as Mortgage Express spokesman reveals their Exit Strategies

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th May 2011, 15 years ago | 25

A spokesman for Mortgage Express revealed their exit strategies at the Northern Property Tribes last night which was met with...

“Death trap flat” landlords stripped of HMO licences

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th May 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Husband and wife property investors Michael and Margaret McQueen were branded as unfit landlords by councillors and have lost their...

Cannabis farms are a growing problem for buy to let owners

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Cannabis factories is a growing problem for buy to let landlords as more criminal gangs rent homes to grow the...

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Landlords fined for breaching shared house rules

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th April 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Two Leeds landlords were fined for failing to comply with house in multiple occupation (HMO) regulations. Brian Davison, of Horsforth,...

Many landlords are unaware of health and safety laws

Author: This article was written by guest author - Association of Independent Inventory Clerks

7th April 2011, 15 years ago | 0

According to The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC), many landlords are still unaware of even basic health and safety...

Tenants from Hell (Part 2). Every Landlord’s Nightmare

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th April 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Sequel to Frazer Fearnhead’s popular Guest Blog It’s amazing what you uncover upon conducting a check out inspection. Below are the...

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Spot checks on property businesses slammed as ‘misguided’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Plans by HM Revenue and Customs to inspect landlord and small business financial records in a bid to spot cheats...

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Consumer champion urges crackdown on rogue letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Rogue letting agents that swindle landlords and tenants out of hundreds of thousands of pounds a year have come under...