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Landlord Money & Saving Costs

This section looks at the financial costs of being a Landlord. But in particular, I try to focus on ways that Landlords can save a few bucks here and there.

The Value Of A Pound Vs The Value Of A Percent

19 Jul 2011 / Landlord Money & Saving Costs / 5 Comments

If you’re anything like me (congratulations if you are), you frequently bookmark webpages that you find interesting and/or useful because you think you’ll refer back to them one day. It’s [...]

Free Tenant Credit Check Service For Landlords

11 Aug 2010 / Landlord Money & Saving Costs / 0 Comments

A few weeks ago I put up a link to a free service that allows landlords to market their vacant BTL on the biggest property portals online e.g. Rightmove. Well, [...]

Minimizing Landlord Maintenance Costs

20 Oct 2009 / Landlord Money & Saving Costs / 1 Comment

Continuing from my previous blog post on landlord maintenance costs (How Much I’ve Spent On Maintenance Costs Over The Years As A landlord) I’m going to quickly ramble on about [...]

How Much I’ve Spent On Maintenance Costs Over The Years As A landlord

07 Oct 2009 / Landlord Money & Saving Costs / 14 Comments

There was an interesting/good question asked in the forum yesterday, what kind of maintenance costs landlords have had to pay over the years? Fortunately, over the last 5 years of [...]

List Of FREE Products For Landlords

04 Oct 2009 / Landlord Money & Saving Costs / 2 Comments

Last week I wrote an article covering a list of Ways Landlords Can Market Their BTL Property For Free, so to keep on track with the FREE theme (because everyone [...]

Landlords With Empty Properties Are Entitled To Council Tax Exemption

20 Mar 2009 / Landlord Money & Saving Costs / 9 Comments

A month or so ago I had a tenant check out of tenancy so I was waiting for new arrivals. However, before I got new tenants to move in, I [...]

Lowering Rent In Exchange For Tenant’s Decorating

01 Feb 2009 / Landlord Money & Saving Costs / 9 Comments

I’ve been taking viewings this week for a property that’s due to become available very shortly. Admittedly, the property isn’t in tip-top condition and people have pointed that out to [...]

Always Get Quotes- Otherwise The Skidmark Of Humanity Will Fuck You

26 Nov 2008 / Landlord Money & Saving Costs / 2 Comments

My heart always beats a little quicker when a tenant calls because silence is only broken when there’s a plate of shit to be served. I’m still waiting for the [...]

8 Ways A Landlord Can Save Money

06 Oct 2008 / Landlord Money & Saving Costs / 3 Comments

In this current financial climate everyone is feeling the warn urine falling from above, tainting our lives; every penny is actually starting to make a difference. Perhaps if we all [...]

Financial Costs Of Being A Landlord

01 Sep 2008 / Landlord Money & Saving Costs / 7 Comments

The other day I was mumbling about how the costs of being a Landlord is slowly escalating, as new shitty little schemes are slowly being introduced. The latest scam being [...]

I Just Got Cheaper Landlord Building Insurance

10 Jul 2008 / Landlord Money & Saving Costs / 2 Comments

All I’m hearing on the news is that we should all strap up, tighten our purse strings, and brace ourselves for a rough financial patch. That got me thinking, ‘where [...]

Calculating Your Profit And Loss

06 Nov 2007 / Landlord Money & Saving Costs / 11 Comments

Buy To Let is a business, period. Anyone that has a property on the rental market is running a business, regardless of how dislocated they are from the project. I [...]

Credit Card Calculator

17 Oct 2007 / Landlord Money & Saving Costs / 0 Comments

I previously put up a Mortgage Calculator; but because a lot of people have been paying their mortgages with credit cards, I decided to go one step further and put [...]