Landlord Property Management Category

With over 2 million students in higher education in 2018/19, it’s safe to say the student housing market is pretty big. Despite what people may think, students can make great tenants as they’re easy to find and simple to please.

Most tenants are not going to go to the trouble and expense of changing the locks in their rental home, but you should be aware that it can and does happen on occasion, especially in aggravated eviction cases. Before you blow your stack and head over to the property with two mates and a sledgehammer, read on to find out whether your tenant is justified in changing the locks, what you can do about it, and how you can recover your costs if the worst does happen.

With interest rates at the lowest they’ve been for a while, now could be a great time to re-mortgage, but for landlords it can take a lot of time and effort to find the right deal. Given that interest rates could increase at any time and that the available deals are always changing how do you know when it’s the right time to re-mortgage your rental property?

Picture the moment: you have spent time and money trying to evict a wily tenant. The happy day has finally arrived when you can gain entry to your rental. You unlock the door, praying the place hasn’t been trashed. So far so good, no major damage, but wait, the rooms aren’t empty!

Property auctions are not for the faint of heart, as fans of Homes Under the Hammer will know. Bid on the wrong property and there is no going back. Once the gavel slams down, that property is yours, for better or worse. Unlike a regular purchase, you can’t back out of the sale, even if you belatedly discover it has Japanese knotweed flourishing in the back garden.