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A typical time-line in evicting a tenant
23/05/2013 
rebeccalynchCLICK HERE TO READ MY PREVIOUS INSTALLMENT We applied to the courts for possession in August and were given a date of the 15th of October for the court hearing. At the hearing, neither Maria nor her partner bothered to turn up and we were ‘awarded possession’. They were given until the 29th of October [...]
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Leave a commentDealing 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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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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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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Tenants: Couple, Lyn and Simon, with four children.Source of income: only the woman in employment, but claiming some benefits.Duration of tenancy: two years. Monthly rent: £400. Lyn was, in effect, another single mother of four, as her husband was, in the considered opinion of Adrian, ‘a big, fat, lazy waste of space,’ with foul-looking [...]
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NOTICE TO QUIT! WHO’S SHAKING? Does serving a notice to quit encourage the tenant to pay up or tell the tenant that they have another 60 days (minimum) rent free accommodation ? What is your success rate in getting arrears paid and future rent paid on time after serving notice ? Mr Trevor McMaster ~ The City [...]
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Liverton Terrace: Asking price: £77,950. Purchase price: £75,000. Monthly rent: £375-£450. Initial rental return: 6% We bought this three-bedroom house in a small town near where we lived, despite knowing nothing about the area. It turned out that it had a bit of a reputation; we usually found out this kind of thing after buying [...]
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My previous post provoked an interesting debate on another website about whether it is morally wrong to be a landlord. One comment read as follows: Depending on your outlook on life I agree that some people will disapprove on buy to lets. Holistically I am one of them but in this day in age I [...]
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