Category: Landlord Advice
Landlords: What is ahead for 2022?
If you are the landlord, it pays to keep abreast of anything that is likely to affect your buy to let business. Overlooking any new laws or regulations or simply being unprepared for those changes could cost you dearly. So, …
Spring property maintenance tips
In the depths of winter, it might seem a long time to wait for those first welcome signs of Spring. But it comes around probably sooner than you think – the official start of the season is the vernal or …
Housing Health and Safety Ratings System
Your local authority may carry out an inspection of any privately rented property under the standardised Housing Health and Safety Ratings System (HHSRS). Inspections such as this are made to ensure that there are no deficiencies in the property or …
Renting out rooms in your home
If you have a spare room or two in your home, renting out the space could earn you a tidy sum. You would also receive a welcome pat on the back from the government for doing your bit in helping …
Quick tips on getting your property ready for Autumn
Maybe it’s one of the effects of this period of successive lockdowns, but the seasons seem to be coming around even more quickly than usual. With another autumn now fast approaching (it officially starts on 22nd September), it’s time once …
Landlords: Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, and the Law
If you are the landlord of buy to let property, you will know only too well that there is a raft of legislation principally designed to ensure you maintain and respect the health and safety of your tenants. Critically, this …
Being a responsible landlord: getting business contents insurance
Do you need business contents insurance? Just sit yourself down with your landlord’s hat on and start valuing all the contents in your buy to let property (or properties). You’ll probably be surprised at how much they may be worth. …
Making a claim for flood damage to your property
Buy to let properties are obviously no safer from then risk of flooding than any other. While you might take a modicum of consolation from the fact that you are not actually living there, if you are the landlord of …
How to improve the energy efficiency of your property
Slowly but surely the energy efficiency ratings for any let property have grown steadily more exacting. Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) were introduced in the UK in October 2008 and every let property had to have one – rating the property …
2021 legislation changes for landlords
We are two months into the year, so what will the rest of 2021 bring for landlords? Here we look at some of the upcoming legislation changes. (Please note that this legislation is correct at the time of writing). Evictions …
