Landlord Advice Category

Property listings are an important part of a DIY landlord’s journey. Without a suitable listing, you are unlikely to find a tenant. Sadly, it’s not often that tenants come along out of the blue and offer to rent your property. In most cases, you’ll need to do a bit of legwork. This usually involves creating a property listing for sites like Zoopla, Rightmove, Rentify, and Airbnb. So far so good, but unless your listing ticks all the right boxes, it may not yield much joy. And as any sensible landlord knows, voids are to be avoided at all costs.

In this article, David Boultbee from Ultra LEDs shares his tips for keeping your student properties safe when they’re unoccupied this Christmas.

On paper, being a successful landlord is easy. The right property + the right tenant, mixed with a smidgeon of luck, and voila! You have a successful buy to let business raking in the cash. Unfortunately, there is also a lot that can go wrong!

Illegal sub-letting affects both landlords and tenants. Desperate tenants end up paying over the odds to rent poorly managed, sub-standard accommodation whilst landlords lose out on rent and face expensive court cases to evict illegal tenants. Unfortunately, it’s depressingly common.

Rogue landlords are a blight on the private rental sector landscape, yet more often than not they manage to evade prosecution. In a bid to tackle the problem, a database of rogue landlords was put in place in 2018 by the then prime minister, Theresa May. Local authorities can now add rogue landlords to the database and tenants can search it if they want to make sure their landlord isn’t famous for all the wrong reasons.