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Landlords – Beware of Guaranteed Rent Schemes

You may have heard of guaranteed rent schemes. They are the ones that promise landlords rent for between five and ten years. So instead of finding tenants for your property, you can hand it over to a company or letting agent and enjoy a guaranteed monthly income without having to worry

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Landlord Vision Training Video: How to Migrate from Landlords’ Property Manager

If you have been using our Landlords’ Property Manager software and are thinking of switching to Landlord Vision, you may be wondering whether your existing properties and tenancies can be migrated over. I am happy to announce that a migration path is now available and can be seen in the our new video demonstration: http://www.landlordvision.co.uk/lpm-faq.html […]

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Student Accommodation ‘Unacceptable’

A survey conducted by the National Union of Students of nearly 3,000 students has found that nearly a quarter of them are living in vermin infested accommodation, despite the fact that they could be paying up to £1,000 per month.

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Repeat Offender Landlord Fined Again

A landlord from Darlington has been fined for a second time for continuing to allow tenants to live in a squalid shared house of multiple occupation (HMO). The landlord had previously been taken to court in March of last year for breaching HMO regulations and fined £3,300,but despite the hefty fine and the subsequent

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Landlord Vision Training Videos: Learn How to Record Credit Notes and Refunds

We’ve now put live two great training videos showing you how to record credit notes and refunds in Landlord Vision: How to Record a Supplier Credit Note How to Record a Supplier Refund Balance your books correctly using our informative video support centre!

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NLA Celebrates Licensing Scheme Victory

The National Landlords Association (NLA) is celebrating today after Milton Keynes City Council abandoned its plans for a Selective Licensing scheme across the length and breadth of the city. The council has apparently decided that the introduction of a selective licensing scheme will do nothing to solve the issues of anti-social behaviour and poor housing […]

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Leave Landlords Alone! Says RLA

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is calling on one of the UK’s leading housing charities, Shelter, to stop campaigning against landlords in the private rental sector. As an example, the RLA refers to a recent report published jointly by Shelter and British Gas, which claimed that more than 200,000 tenants had faced eviction in the […]

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Are Your Prepared for a Void Period?

According to research carried out by the National Landlords Association (NLA), 90% of landlords are completely unprepared in the event of a rental void. 19% of landlords with only one rental property were prepared to use their income from a main job to cover the deficit; 17% would rely on savings; and 16% would just […]

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Landlord Vision Training Videos: New Ways to Create Portfolios and Your First Tenancy

As we are constantly improving and adding new functionality to Landlord Vision, the next couple of videos released on the website are to show the new, improved way of creating a portfolio and first tenancy: How to Create a Portfolio How to Create Your First Tenancy        

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Green Deal Financing Extended to Landlords

The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Davey MP, announced at the recent Ecobuild 2014 conference that the Government’s Green Deal Payment Plan has now been extended to help landlords make their properties more energy efficient.

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RLA Calls for Landlord Support in 2014 Budget

The Residential Landlords’ Association (RLA) wants the Chancellor to make provision for private landlords in the upcoming budget. It says that the government needs to do more to support private landlords, who now provide homes for as many as one fifth of households in the UK.

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Landlords Face Potential PI Claims after Recent Bad Weather

Property solicitors are warning landlords that they could soon be looking at personal injury claims or worse if they don’t take care of trees growing on their land. A large number of trees and heavy branches have fallen in the recent spell of nasty weather. Obviously it is difficult to prevent this type of thing […]

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Landlord Repossessions Freefalling

According to figures released by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), the number of buy to let properties being repossessed by lenders is at its lowest point for six years, which is indicative of a strong market for buy to let businesses.

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5 Tips for Spotting the Next Big Area for Buy To Let Properties

There was a very useful article in the Daily Mail money section yesterday, which offered advice on how to spot an up-and-coming area before everyone else cashes in. This, as every property investor knows, is the key to making your capital grow and ensuring an excellent rental yield. So what were the DM’s tips?

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