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Maximise Your Rental Property Profit
Increasing
the profit on your rented property
investment means either raising the amount of annual rent received from
tenants
– or reducing the level of expenses. Here are a few ideas to get
you started. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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The Down Side of Being A Landlord
We see lots of blogs and media hype expressing
the virtues of investing in buy-to-let and becoming a landlord, but very few
ever point out the adverse facts that also coincide with joining the ‘To Let’
brigade. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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7 Questions You Must Ask Your Letting Agent
Contrary to the myth, all letting agents are not
the same. Some are good at what they do, some are mediocre – and some are very
very bad. Identifying the rogue agents is crucial, if you hope to turn your
letting into a smooth and painless property investment strategy. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Landlord Headaches and How To Solve Them (Part 1)
Landlords and buy-to-let investors operating in
the UK can save themselves time and money, and prevent problems developing into
major headaches, by following a few simple tips. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Landlord Headaches and How To Solve Them (Part 2)
There
are often simple remedies to life’s problems, though
we may not always realise what they are until it’s too late. Here
are five more commonsense tips on how to make your lettings easier
to manage, run smoother and be more profitable. To read more, click on
the article heading or image ...
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The Dangers of Being a Landlord
If you are a property investor and landlord and
rent a house or an apartment to tenants, you must observe what the law
instructs you to do. Failure through ignorance or avoidance can lead you into
very deep water – and sometimes, it can deliver a prison sentence. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Those Thieving Tenants
New research has exposed alarming evidence of
widespread identity fraud in the private rented sector. Tenants are acting like
vultures, feeding on the personal information of their predecessors and
committing gross acts of theft. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Barred from Entering My Own Rented Property?
Landlords and tenants often fall foul of the law
when they mistakenly prevent the other from entering a rented property. It’s an
all too common occurrence that sometimes finds itself being resolved
through the courts. In the interests of clarity, let’s set the record straight. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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The Essential Guide to Letting
Here are a few tips for any novice property
investors just starting out along the buy-to-let learning curve. I strongly
believe that knowledge and forewarning brings power … so fellow landlords,
here’s some power to your elbow. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Reasons for Undertaking Property Inspections
Regular rented property inspections are a task
every landlord or agent should attempt to perform, because they are the only
way a landlord can be certain their investment is being cared for appropriately
by the tenants occupying it. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Shared Tenancies are Not for the Feint Hearted
When friends or work colleagues decide it may be
a good idea to pool their resources and rent a property together, it almost
always proves to be a recipe for disaster – both for the tenants and for their
landlord. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Landlords and The Law of Furnishings
Some of the legal obstacles involved in letting
property are not that difficult to overcome, once you understand what is
expected and how you should go about meeting the appropriate regulations.
Amongst these is the requirement to supply compliant furnishings. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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The Best Decision a Landlord Could Make
There are secrets of success only an experienced
landlord would know … and after 30 years of letting my own and other peoples
properties, there is one decision I made all those years ago that has certainly
proved to be the best I have ever made as a landlord. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Residential Landlord Associations in the UK
Have you been trying to find the contact details
of a local Landlords Association in the UK, but have the found the task
difficult and laborious? Look no more. All the hard work has been done for you. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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Rented Property Insurance
Landlord insurance is a subject many property
investors tend to shy away from, as they quite wrongly believe it is an
unnecessary expense that reduces the potential of annual rental income.
Unfortunately and with hindsight, many live to regret making this flawed and poorly
judged decision. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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The 7 Deadliest Landlord Sins
Common errors of judgement can have alarming
consequences for landlords who take their eyes off the game. To read more, click on the article heading or image ... |
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HMO Planning Consent - An Attack on Student Lettings
From 6th April
2010, a new law means that most new Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) will
require planning consent before they can be let to tenants. |
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