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Social Referencing at LRS helps stop terrorists
23/05/2013 
lrs_keeperFollowing the horrific death of a member of the armed forces yesterday in the southeast of London, Landlord Referencing would like to address and reiterate the extremely poignant question that every landlord and letting agent should be asking themselves before they take any tenant on; WHO IS LIVING IN YOUR PROPERTY? Eyewitness accounts, including some [...]
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Leave a commentAnimal antics highlight welfare changes via youtube
Characters in a new animated online video are helping to get the message across, to people across Greater Manchester and Nottingham, about important changes to their benefits. The five-minute clip which features talking animals is being used by housing association New Charter as a fun and informative way to help people understand how they will [...]
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A government report has found that councils are wasting billions of pounds, by not intervening with anti-social families more effectively. Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has published new findings showing the huge savings that can be made for the taxpayer from turning around troubled families, by intervening more effectively in problem households. The Department for [...]
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A lawyer has told a select committee about her concerns that the process of evicting tenants could be lengthened via reforms to anti-social behaviour laws. The Home Affairs committee heard evidence from a number of housing professionals yesterday regarding changes to the powers available to landlords to tackle anti-social behaviour in their neighbourhoods. This follows [...]
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Landlord Referencing Services would like to address the reasons behind the questions that we ask of landlords and letting agents upon registration of our service. What with the recent (unprecedented) influx of landlords and letting agents joining our unique landlord networking system right across the UK, following the introduction of the Universal Credit pilots and [...]
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Labour leader MP Ed Miliband has promised to protect the rights of private renters, as part of his party’s ‘One Nation’ philosophy. Mr Miliband highlighted the potentially divisive rift between private renters and home owners in a speech to the Fabian Society. As well as attempting to provide more security for renters via introducing more [...]
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The housing minister has launched a tenant training and support programme this week, in an attempt to train tenants to hold their landlord to account. Mark Prisk’s new training program aims to train 5,000 tenants to engage with their landlord on a range of different issues and share experiences of setting up tenant groups, delivered [...]
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Census 2011 figures show that the number of people renting from a private landlord have nearly doubled in the past decade, whilst home-owners with a mortgage fell by 800,000. The proportion of residents of England and Wales living in private rented accommodation increased from 9 % in 2001 to 15 % last year. In 2001 [...]
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After making their neighbours lives a living hell an elderly couple have become the oldest people to receive an ASBO, and have been threatened with prison if they breach it. Joseph Gallagher, 85, and his partner Dorothy Womersley, 71, of Grimsby, Lancs, were hit with anti-social behaviour orders after the pair abused the family next [...]
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Violent crime victims who suffer minor injuries will not get compensation under changes which have come into effect in England, Wales and Scotland today. Victims who suffer injuries including a broken nose, mild concussion, temporary deafness or minor burns will be among those no longer eligible to claim compensation. Ministers claim the reforms will slash [...]
