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Here’s A FREE Marketing Website Every Landlord Should Use To Find Tenants
05 Jul 2010 / category / 7 Comments
Chaps, good news, I’ve come across a cool new marketing service that is 100% FREE for landlords. But that’s not the best part; from the money we save, we can [...]
This Is How Important Images Are When Marketing A Rental Property
28 Jun 2010 / category / 10 Comments
It still amazes how many landlords/agents advertise properties on websites like Gumtree without using images. That shit should be criminal. There really is no excuse. Even if you don’t have [...]
My Tenant’s Disgusting Taste In Furniture Has Ruined My Life
24 Jun 2010 / category / 12 Comments
Right, so the other day I took a viewing, right? I already discussed how I refused a DSS tenant that was my friend. Ok, well that was only one half [...]
I Refused A DSS Tenant Who’s Also My Friend
19 Jun 2010 / category / 6 Comments
I’ve slowly started to spread the word amongst my friends, family and those people I know, but don’t really know, about the vacant property I’m shortly due to be in [...]
The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Periodic Tenancies
14 Jun 2010 / category / 10 Comments
The other day I wrote a blog post about how my selfish tenant has decided to abandon me and my property by unexpectedly giving me notice. That obviously wasn’t the [...]
Interview With The Angry HIP Consultant
10 Jun 2010 / category / 20 Comments
For those of you unaware, a few weeks ago, the newly formed Coalition Government scrapped the Home Information Packs (HIPs). Unsurprisingly, most people were more than pleased to see the [...]
My Tenant Gave Me Notice While I Was On Holiday
07 Jun 2010 / category / 7 Comments
For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been in Vegas for the past 2 weeks; soaking in the sun, drinking extortionately priced cocktails and ogling at beautifully slutty women. [...]
Is This Online Letting Agent Advert Distasteful?
31 May 2010 / category / 4 Comments
A few weeks ago my radar picked up a Tweet from @ffields regarding the marketing methods of a new Online Letting Agent, PropertyMatch.com. The Tweeter muttered the following: @ffields Distasteful [...]
This Is How I Helped My Friend Avoid Paying A Tenancy Renewal Fee
24 May 2010 / category / 15 Comments
It was only a few weeks ago that I was having a mental ejaculation about how I thought it was unfair that tenants are charged admin fees and renewal fees, [...]
My Tenant Wants Me To Pay £300 For A New Curtain. She Must Be On Crack
18 May 2010 / category / 17 Comments
Yesterday, I facetiously mentioned on Twitter about how one of my tenants’ wants me to pay a ludicrous £300 for ONE poxy curtain. Since I have a spare 20mins right [...]
This Country Would Be Awesome For Landlords If I Was In Control
12 May 2010 / category / 5 Comments
I’m not big on politics, for many reasons, but mainly because it’s bullshit. I heard some snotty chump on the news the other day saying that he thought democracy was [...]
Techniques Tenants Can Use To Avoid Letting Agent Fees
07 May 2010 / category / 7 Comments
The other day I ranted about how I think it’s unfair that high-street letting agents Charge Tenants An Admin Fee for simply being a consumer. It’s those kinds of fees [...]
Ajay Ahuja Has Threatened To Take Legal Action Against Me
04 May 2010 / category / 11 Comments
Oh shit, here we go again. I have another potential legal battle on my hands. Brief Bio on Ajay Ahuja Ajay Ahuja is known in the BTL industry by many [...]
Ajay Ahuja Gets Investigated By Undercover Sky News Journalists
30 Apr 2010 / category / 3 Comments
Oh dear, it seems Ajay Ahuja has been investigated again, but this time by a pair of cheeky undercover journalists from Sky News. The report was aired yesterday evening, but [...]
Why Do Letting Agents Charge Tenants An Admin Fee?
27 Apr 2010 / category / 60 Comments
I’ve never understood this, so I’m hoping someone kind, gentle and sexy can shed some light onto the matter… Most high-street letting agents charge both tenants and landlords fees, which [...]
Guide On Landlords And Pets
25 Apr 2010 / category / 5 Comments
Over the past 4-5 years, I’ve only had one tenant with a pet (which was a dog), and that was because it was forced upon me. Initially, my tenant didn’t [...]
The Council Stopped My DSS Tenant’s Benefits, I’ll Probably Starve To Death Now
21 Apr 2010 / category / 4 Comments
Earlier today, my one and only long-term faithful DSS tenant called me to explain how the council had suspended his benefits because the Tenancy Agreement fixed-term had ended. I was [...]
Guys, Want To Live With A Creepy Homosexual In A Trendy Part Of London, Rent Free?
14 Apr 2010 / category / 6 Comments
Earlier today I was pointed in the direction of an extremely creepy ad listing on Gumtree. Here it is: Do you fit the description? Are you male, aged between 18 [...]
Gavin And Stacey Meet An Overly Stereotyped Estate Agent
11 Apr 2010 / category / 3 Comments
Any Gavin and Stacey fans up in this bitch? Last week I got my hands on the “Gavin And Stacey” boxset. Prior to getting the boxset, I had never seen [...]
Why The Fuck Do The Council Side With Rent Dodging DSS Criminals?
08 Apr 2010 / category / 21 Comments
Why is it that when a DSS tenant falls into arrears, the local council ADVISE them to stay in the property until they are able to be legally evicted? A [...]
Tenant Reference Form
02 Apr 2010 / category / 2 Comments
I previously wrote down a small List Of Tenant Credit Check Services and briefly mentioned why I think they’re worth performing on prospective tenants. The two main reasons are because [...]
List Of Tenant Credit Check Services For Landlords
24 Mar 2010 / category / 3 Comments
Do you bother credit checking prospective tenants? I never used to because I could never be bothered, but as I gained more experience, I realised there are a lot of [...]
Estate Agent Uses Shitty Marketing Angle To Entice Homeowners To Sell
16 Mar 2010 / category / 5 Comments
So, check it out. I received this letter through the post the other day from Savills estate agent: I have a house in Bishop’s Stortford, and according to the letter, [...]
Tips For DSS Tenants That Can’t Find A Property To Rent
08 Mar 2010 / category / 46 Comments
I’m usually writing about DSS tenants in bad light, but that’s because I’ve had shitty experiences with them. However, I know there are a lot of genuinely decent DSS tenants [...]
Why You Shouldn’t Always Trust Your Estate Agent
04 Mar 2010 / category / 6 Comments
Updated Article: 04 -03 – 2010 I was engrossed by an article I was reading on the BBC website the other day, The Secret Agent, which surfaced a few of [...]
Give Prospective Tenants The Benefit Of Doubt At Your Own Risk
02 Mar 2010 / category / 3 Comments
A landlord can never be sure how good or bad a tenant is going to be until they actually move in and take residency for a few months. But there [...]
I Was Gonna Stop Cannabis Farming For My Landlord… But Then I Got High
22 Feb 2010 / category / 7 Comments
I’m more frequently reading cases involving entrepreneurial tenants that are renting properties so they can develop their own cannabis farming business in them. The latest case comes with some cool [...]
My Tenant Has Changed The Door Locks, Can He Do that?
16 Feb 2010 / category / 5 Comments
Just a quick answer to an ever increasingly asked question: can tenants legally change the door locks? In short, yes. The tenant does not have to give the landlord a [...]
Landlords And Tenants Shouldn’t Neglect The “Wanted” Section
09 Feb 2010 / category / 1 Comment
The traditional way for prospective tenants to find accommodation would be to walk into a letting agent, look in the local paper, scan through local advertising boards, or look through [...]
6 Lies Commonly Told by Landlords
05 Feb 2010 / category / 8 Comments
1] “That will be fixed by the time you move in” If you notice something broken or off-key during the viewing, ensure it’s attended to before you sign any contracts, [...]
Do You Have A Useful Service To Offer Landlords? Advertise it for FREE
01 Feb 2010 / category / 4 Comments
Some of you may have noticed a new sponsor advert on the right hand sidebar, “Your local Landlord Directory”, while the rest of you probably didn’t care enough to notice. [...]
I Hope All Estate Agents Aren’t This Unfunny
30 Jan 2010 / category / 3 Comments
I know a lot of people dislike me and my blog because of the kind of crap I dispose on here, which is totally cool by me. To each their [...]
Estate Agent Walks Into Property And Takes Viewings Without Notifying Tenant
25 Jan 2010 / category / 4 Comments
Right, so this is what happened today on this miserable Monday. A work colleague of mine received an alarming phone call this afternoon from his heavily pregnant wife. She had [...]
Are You Dealing With Rogue Letting Agents? Get In Touch
13 Jan 2010 / category / 12 Comments
If you’re dealing with rogue letting agents, or have done so in the past, please contact Claer Barrett (claer.barrett@ft.com). Earlier this week Claer left a comment on one of my [...]
Same Libel Threat, Different Person Threatening Me
12 Jan 2010 / category / 27 Comments
Urgh, it’s happening again! This is the 4th incident where I’ve been told to remove content from my site because it’s supposedly libellous. It’s like Groundhog day, because the threats [...]
Landlord Junk I Want To Achieve In 2010
04 Jan 2010 / category / 19 Comments
Happy New Year, folks! I hope you all had a great transition. So, it’s a New Year and people are beginning their journeys to fulfil their resolutions. Great! I never [...]
Common Misconception: Rent Is Guaranteed With DSS Tenants
29 Dec 2009 / category / 18 Comments
I’ve heard a lot of people claiming that rent is guaranteed when Housing Benefit (HB) pay rent directly to the landlord on behalf of DSS tenants. It was actually the [...]
Shit You shouldn’t Write Or Put In Your Tenant’s Christmas Card
21 Dec 2009 / category / 6 Comments
In my previous blog post I asked the question, are you going to bother sending your tenant a Christmas card. Continuing on with my run of festive blog posts, I’m [...]
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