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Dealing with a tenant waiting to be rehoused
17/05/2013 
turnkeylandlordsIt’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 commentUK’s 1st 3-in-1 “Pay As You Go” Lifestyle, Financial & ID Tenant Reference LAUNCHES
Landlord Referencing Services is very happy to announce the launch of its long awaited “Pay as you go” lifestyle, financial and ID tenant reference – using all 3 references to propagate our databases we are now able to make the whole reference much more powerful in stopping bad tenants from ripping off other good landlords/agents [...]
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In response to Labour’s call for longer tenancy agreements the Council of Mortgage Lenders have responded by warning that such agreements could lead to a rise in rent arrears. Labour argues that the private sector should give stability and financial certainty to private renters by offering predictable rents over a long period. Longer-term tenancies and [...]
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The daughter of a Bristol judge is facing eviction and bankruptcy after defaulting on her rent for 8 months; now owing over £5,000 in arrears. Sarah Kate Hagen has been given 14 days to vacate the two-bedroom flat she lives in with her 8 year old daughter (situated in Queen’s Court, Clifton); after a Possession [...]
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Despite increased financial pressures, generated by government cuts and the Welfare Reform Act (Universal Credit), a major ratings agency has announced that the UK’s social housing sector’s credit worthiness is stable. The report, by Standard & Poor, claims that the majority of housing associations will be able to accommodate to the lower level of government [...]
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According to Experian more and more people appear to be lying about their financial situation in order to open UK bank accounts. In the first 3 months of 2012 Experian claim about 0.44% of all attempts to open a bank account were fraudulent, which is a 23% increase from the last three months of 2011. [...]
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