Tag: Letting Agent

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Key Property (UK) Ltd fined £47k for damp unlicensed HMO

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th September 2013, 13 years ago | 16

A letting agent who rented out a damp, dangerous and dilapidated property received a hefty fine following a successful council...

Tenancy Notice Period – Scotland – HELP!

Author: Readers Question

9th September 2013, 13 years ago | 2

I am a tenant in Scotland. I rented my property through a letting agent. The let ran for the 6...

Letting agent regulation for Scotland – Scottish Government plans announced

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th September 2013, 13 years ago | 1

Scotland’s newly formed Council of Letting Agents (CLA) steering group met for the first time yesterday.  The members of the...

Popular questions from tenants to landlords

Author: Mark Alexander

5th September 2013, 13 years ago | 0

It’s not just landlords and letting agents using our property forum these days. Recently we have had several Readers Questions...

Rental Fraud up by 92%

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th September 2013, 13 years ago | 3

The Office of National Statistics reported rental fraud has increased by 92% over the last two years. The total cost...

Landmark Case Shows Scottish Landlords Must Take Deposit Protection Seriously

Author: John Gell

3rd September 2013, 13 years ago | 0

A recent case in Edinburgh Sheriff Court saw a landlord who had failed to protect his tenant’s deposit fined £3,450. ...

Good Landlords Campaign Board of Directors

Author: Mark Alexander

30th August 2013, 13 years ago | 0

One of my goals is for The GOOD Landlords Campaign to eventually become a registered charity. For that to happen there...

Does my Buy to Let lending criteria make sense?

Author: Mary Latham

23rd August 2013, 13 years ago | 9

While fully acknowledging that I am not a financial specialist I do know the residential property market. I have a...

Tenant Referencing Using Common Sense

Author: Mark Alexander

22nd August 2013, 13 years ago | 23

Common sense tenant referencing was pretty much the only option available when I first became a landlord and started letting property...

DPS bond contested

Author: Readers Question

22nd August 2013, 13 years ago | 25

I am a new Landlord and the first tenant has left after she couldn’t pay her rent. Her partner left...

Retaliatory Eviction – Unlicensed HMO

Author: Readers Question

20th August 2013, 13 years ago | 20

In a similar situation to the excellent discussion on Retaliatory Eviction, I can report that I have encountered similar practices...

Guarantee for natural void periods?

Author: Readers Question

19th August 2013, 13 years ago | 45

I’m sure I’ve heard a radio advert recently from a letting agent that was offering a type of rent guarantee,...

Switching Letting Agents

Author: Readers Question

16th August 2013, 13 years ago | 6

We currently rent our property through a letting agency; however the service provided has been nothing short of appalling.  We...

Tenant Disappeared

Author: Readers Question

15th August 2013, 13 years ago | 13

Hi, hope I am in the correct place!!  I rent out a flat using a letting Agent. I should just...

Buy to let anguish – landlord being repossessed – rent paid 6 months up front!

Author: Readers Question

15th August 2013, 13 years ago | 9

My daughter moved to Manchester for work on a temporary contract in March 2013. She stayed with friends initially but...

Question – can landlords claim for use of home as office?

Author: Readers Question

13th August 2013, 13 years ago | 11

I am employed full time and have one buy to let property managed by a letting agent.  I have claimed...

Retaliatory eviction – possibility of civil litigation?

Author: Anon 68

12th August 2013, 13 years ago | 74

We’re a professional couple with a limited company which provides a technology solution to the NHS. It suits our circumstances...

Concerned Mum trying to help her daughter

Author: Mark Alexander

12th August 2013, 13 years ago | 31

This Facebook discussion between a letting agent and a concerned Mum is well worth sharing in my opinion. Please feel...

Will my Letting Agents Section 21 be valid?

Author: Readers Question

12th August 2013, 13 years ago | 33

My letting agent served a section 21 notice soon after the tenant moved in, but only told him verbally a...

Landlord Licensing Schemes – Raising Standards or Raising Funds?

Author: Mark Alexander

9th August 2013, 13 years ago | 118

WARNING – this article might make you want to cry, it might make you want to laugh and it will...