It is not often realised by those outside the profession, that the Law Society produce some excellent handbooks on all sorts of legal topics. This book is a good example. This book is really intended for housing law practitioners, essentially those looking after landlords and tenants in the social housing sector – mostly local authority…
I have always been a great admirer of Claire Sandbrook, and the way she has developed and built up Shergroup, her enforcement business (not a traditionally female friendly area of practice). As you would expect her book, now in its 10th edition, is authoratative and thorough. Published by Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell, this is a…
A review of the Essential Guide to Flatsharing – from the owners of the SpareRoom.co.uk web-site
I have recently been told about Tenant Txt, a web-site which landlords (particularly those with a large number of properties, and social landlords) can use to contact their tenants. The landlord signs up to the web-site, and also signs up his tenants. They say whether they want to be notified via text, email or twitter….
From time to time I do book reviews on the Landlord-Law site, and several of these have been for a publisher called How to Books. They specialise in publishing really nice self help books on a wide range of topics. Books reviewed for them in the past include Tony Booths excellent Buy to let Handbook…
While doing some writing for Landlord-Law I discovered that the new Equality Web-site is live. This was set up by the Equality Act 2006 which also set up a new Equality and Human Rights Commission. This will deal with discrimination over all areas, rather than, as before, just concentrating on specific areas such as race,…
I get sent books from time to time to review for my Landlord-Law site and I recently received a copy of Regulating Conditions in the Private Rented Sector: A Practical Guide, by Caroline Hunter and Andrew Dymond from Arden Chambers published by Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell. I was quite looking forward to receiving this, as the…
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