This Saturday Slot post is the sixth part of my weekly series of posts on Court Hearings (in the UK). You can see the others >> here.
Judgment time
So. You have finished making your presentation about your case. You have cross examined your opponents witnesses and you think you have picked up on all [...]
Like many people who blog, I am a great admirer and reader of Problogger, written by Australian Darren Rowse. He has issued a 7 link challenge on his blog today. As it might be quite interesting for readers, here are my seven links:
1. My First Post. This is called My first posting and was written [...]
My Notable property person this week is Irene Hancock of Executive Living. She is an experienced landlord and winner of the East of England NLA Property Women award for 2010. Here is her story.
1. Please introduce yourself. Say a bit about yourself and your company
I am married with three grown up children and one new [...]
I have discussed this situation before, but am prompted to write about it again, as a result of the recent experience one of my Landlord Law members.
He tells me that he arranged for a letting agent to protect the deposit, which they did with My Deposits. He then went away travelling for a year. While he was away, [...]
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 to enter [...]
A recent case reported in Legal Action Magazine serves to remind us that tenants who rent a room in a shared house and change rooms, are also starting a completely new tenancy.
Pilakoutas v. Schofield, Sheffield County Court, 22 May 2009
Here Professor Pitakoutas was a landlord by purchase of a house in multiple occupation. The tenant, [...]
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Five Interesting Things That Google Tells Us About The Property Industry
This is a guest post written by Ruben Martinez from property search engine Gartoo.
Google and the property industry
It comes as no surprise to hear that Internet giants Google are expanding into the property industry with their new property listing service on Google Maps. After all they own a vast amount valuable industry data about what [...]
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