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21/05/2013 
DATA CONTROLDealing with a tenant waiting to be rehoused
It’s a funny old business, letting properties. We at TurnKey Landlords speak to a lot of landlords on a daily basis and, of course, are landlords ourselves, and so we hear a lot of stories about people’s experience in the trade. Sometimes they’re ‘ha-ha’ funny, sometimes ‘weird’ funny, and sometimes just plain old not-funny-at-all, downright [...]
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Leave a commentLandlord Blues | Post 7
CLICK HERE TO READ MY PREVIOUS INSTALLMENT Adrian and I were enjoying our morning coffee in Costa, when he screwed up his face. ‘Look at this,’ he said, ‘another person going on about landlords and this time blaming us for neighbour nuisance!’ He handed me the newspaper, and I read the following, which was the [...]
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Deadline passes for tenant deposits in Scotland
Scottish landlords could now face legal action if they have failed to pay their tenants’ deposits into a legally required protection scheme. Those who rent out properties in Scotland were given the deadline of May 15th for placing all eligible deposits with one of three approved tenancy deposit schemes; www.safedepositsscotland.com www.mydepositsscotland.co.uk www.lettingprotectionscotland.com The Scottish Government [...]
Landlord Referencing Support SAFEagent Awareness Week 2013.
Since its launch two years ago the SAFEagent campaign has made amazing progress in promoting the importance to landlords and tenants of identifying agents who are part of Client Money Protection Schemes. All agents regulated by NALS, RICS, ARLA, NAEA and the Law Society maintain and operate separate designated client accounts, where a consumers money [...]
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Homeless charity to trade tenants personal data?
Today it has been revealed that social landlords are planning to hand over rental payment data to a credit ratings giant, in an attempt to help social tenants build their credit histories and access more affordable housing. Later this month Experian and the social investment arm of The Big Issue “Big Issue Invest” will be [...]
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CLICK TO READ MY PREVIOUS INSTALLMENT Two weeks later, Maria came up with the first month’s rent and moved in. In some ways we felt our arms had been twisted as she was cleaning the house for nothing and had the key, but we were stupid to allow a tenancy to begin that way. It [...]
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Social referencing at LRS stops illegal immigrants
Almost 2 million buy-to-let property owners will be legally responsible for ensuring that they only let properties to people allowed to be in Britain under new immigration laws to be announced in today’s Queen’s Speech – with fines running into the thousands for those breaking the law. The Immigration Bill will also limit the ability [...]
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April 2013 Tenant Alert Statistics
Landlord Referencing Services has collated its Tenant Alert data for April 2013, which reveals that the most prolific areas for rent arrears and property damages last month (uploaded via our vigilant community of landlords and letting agents) were in the South West and the South East. Total rent defaults recorded in April 2013 = £90,000+. [...]
