…..a personal if informed rant! Our regular guest blogger Ben Reeve-Lewis gets on his soapbox. The Conservative / Lib Deb coalition housing benefit plans So the new coalition government is gradually putting a plan together and have turned their eyes on housing benefit reforms. They have made bold and popular statements that appeal to many…
Landlords and locks and keys Locks and keys in rented properties can often cause problems. Landlords like to retain control over their properties and this includes having sets of keys so they can gain access whenever they want. Tenants, needless to say, don’t like the idea of their landlord, or indeed anyone else, being able…
Our regular guest blogger Ben Reeve-Lewis tells it like it is. Different strokes for different folks Some of you may be familiar with the programme ‘Property Ladder’ from a few years back or the even more popular “House Doctor”. Both programmes involved decorating and preparing property for sale. And you may recall the main thing…
Can tenancy deposits be more than two months rent? This is a question I was asked recently, and I am finding it harder than I thought originally, to answer it. The answer I have come up with is that you can, in that it is not illegal, but it may not be a very good…
Guest blogger Tom Derrett, of adrsolution.co.uk looks at the development of low cost ADR and its implications. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) There is a general trend in government and in society to give statutory authority to forms of alternative dispute resolution as a way of easing the burden on the court system, and on the…
Another interesting post by our regular guest blogger, Ben Reeve-Lewis. Margaret Thatcher and the right to buy Some of you may be able to remember when Margaret Thatcher’s government introduced the right to buy scheme back in the 1980s, a mandatory scheme forcing social landlords to sell properties to their tenants at a massive discount….
I met two of my Landlord Law members a while back at one of the Landlord & Buy to Let Shows, and we were chatting generally. They rent to students in London and Plymouth and they were saying how different it was in the two places. This struck me as an interesting topic for a…
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