A week of very hard work on the Easy Law for Landlords course this week. It was all plain sailing up to module two week two and then I hit two hard topics. Trusts/Equity and then agency law.
I am now on module three part 1 – land law! I am doing my best to make it easy, honest!
Family reactions to the amount of work I am having to do are mixed. Graeme thinks I am working too hard, but Patrick (15) has other ideas.
“Are you going into the office now Mum?” he’ll ask, finger poised on the TV remote, about to switch to a program I don’t like. Thanks Patrick. Nice to feel wanted.
But what happened on the blog?
Monday
DepositGuard – the Landlord Law interview
If you want to find out all about the new DepositGuard scheme, this is the place to do it. I talk to Alan Ward of the RLA and Ben Beadle of TDS. A very informative video. Watch it here …
Questions from a new landlord with a difficult tenant
A readers Blog Clinic question this, the landlord in question seeks answers on possession claims. See what advice was given here …
Tuesday
Easy Law for Landlords – creating content
My weekly post about the development of the Easy Law for Landlords course. This week I am hard at work creating the course content. Read about it here …
Wednesday
Judge error causing landlords delay and expense. This one sparked a lot of comment, both on the blog and on twitter. Take a look here …
Thursday
Should this landlord give in to her tenants demands?
An unusually accommodating landlord wrote into the Blog Clinic with this question. See what we all thought about it here …
Friday
Ben Reeve Lewis Friday Newround #55
Ben reveals a bit of his militant past this week, before going on to discuss the Newham affair. Find out how they have all been doing it all along here …
This landlord wrote to me with his horror story of an eviction claim. The response of myself and other lawyers (some on twitter) to his tale might not be quite what he expected though. See why here …
Further reading:
- I was impressed with David Lawrenson’s insightful blog about the Newham affair
- Here is an excellent article from the Guardian about evictions due to the HB cap from the landlords point of view
- This article on HMOs was perhaps the most popular link on the Landlord Law Facebook page this week
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