by John Raftery | Mar 11, 2015 | Landlords
With an expected absence of any detail, the Communities and Local Government Minister, Penny Mordaunt announced yesterday at the LGA Fire Conference the intention of the government to enforce PRS landlords to install smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors in their...
by John Raftery | Mar 11, 2015 | Evictions, Landlords, Tenants
Most experienced landlords will have had bad experiences with tenants’ pets damaging their properties or causing a nuisance with neighbours at some point in the past. I had a tenant in my early landlord years that had another mouth to feed virtually every time I...
by John Raftery | Mar 10, 2015 | Housing Market
I watched yesterday’s Panorama programme about the housing crisis in this country. The truth is that it is more of a crisis in some parts of the country than in others. Close to where I live now you can find a 3 bedroom terrace house in the centre of a village and...
by John Raftery | Feb 25, 2015 | Landlords, Tenants
Whether it’s the Labour Party with their ludicrous talk of rent controls and a National Landlord Register or the recent Green Party leader, Natalie Bennett, making a complete fool of herself on the radio when trying, and failing miserably, to explain how...
by John Raftery | Jan 29, 2015 | Tenants
It’s never a bad idea to give some guidance to tenants on what their responsibilities are. It’s all too easy for tenants to not read their tenancy agreement so give them a separate document outlining these responsibilities otherwise they might assume that...
