Tips for tenants
As the value of money keeps going down and the cost of things keeps going up, your landlord is at some stage going to want to increase your rent.
That’s understandable, but if you have just received a letter from your landlord setting out a whopping big increase, your first thought (or maybe your [...]
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Tips for tenants – is that rent increase valid?
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Five tips to help you deal with your tenants rent arrears before they happen
With the current economic climate rent arrears is the number one problem for landlords. Here are some tips to help you deal with them before they happen (always the best time to deal with a problem!).
1. Always, always reference tenants. Make no exception to this rule. Remember – con men succeed because they are persuasive. [...]
Tenancy Agreements 31 days of tips – Day 11 – rent
This is day 11 of my 31 days of tips on tenancy agreements series. To see the rest of the series click here.
Setting the rent
The owner of a well known letting agency in Norwich told me once that they had a saying in the agency, that ‘the greedy man goes hungry’. [...]
The Advance Payment Scan – another internet scam to watch out for
We have written on the Landlord Law Blog about scammers before. Ben Reeve has kindly drawn my attention to this article on the BBC web-site which warns of yet another internet scam, the “advance fee fraud”.
This is where you are asked to wire money to a friend or relative to prove that you can [...]
Urban Myth – landlords can take tenants property if they are in rent arrears
It is in many ways unfair. Here is a tenant, living in the landlords property and paying no rent, The landlord meantime, still has pay the mortgage, is responsible for keeping the property in repair, and cannot repossess without getting a court order, which normally takes four to five months.
However, despite all this, a landlord [...]
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Warning to landlords of pre 1997 high rent common law tenancies
Common law tenancy changes on 1 October 2010
As you should be aware by now, on 1 October (unless the coalition government decide to change things) all non regulated/common law tenancies where the rent is between £25,000 and £100,000 will convert automatically to assured shorthold tenancies.
Except that some of them won’t.
As pointed out by the PainSmith [...]
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