"Labour will give renters a default right to have pets, which is the case in many countries, including Belgium and Italy." tweeted Tom Copley, London Assembly Member this week. A man who clearly knows an evil landlord when he sees one and who has never had to hoist a feline urine soaked sofa out of... Continue Reading →
I love that my tenants (most of them) use our recycling bins but a little bit of retraining is required this week. I keep finding plastic bags and those microwaveable food containers in the brown bin, well, actually in all three bins and it's no fun sifting them out before bin day. Especially as the... Continue Reading →
Bit of a problem this last two weeks in that I've had two tenants give notice saying their flats are too cold. This distresses me a great deal, as we go to a huge amount of effort to ensure we have happy tenants, but in both these cases there are steps we'll be taking to... Continue Reading →
A few months ago I was reading about a place I really want to visit one day, Prince Charles' amazing Highgrove Garden and how it has its very own Thyme Walk, a description I found captivating. As you know I spend a ridiculously large amount of time (no pun intended) caring for and planting at... Continue Reading →
An interesting question arose this week about what should be a landlord's responsibility. Our rental apartments are in blocks i.e., I take a cruddy old Victorian block converted badly in the 70's / 80's and redesign the interiors to make fabulous new apartments within the same spaces. I like that all our tenants are in... Continue Reading →
Being a full time landlord means life is full of surprises, and I don't mean the kind wrapped in a big bow which when opened taste / small / feel good! A tenant moved out on 31st Dec and as the new tenant couldn't be in until 18 Jan, I decided to give the one... Continue Reading →
Back before the big crash, I transferred some property mortgages to the Heritable Bank Plc, a 132 year old Scottish incorporated Bank which had "a long tradition of providing specialist finance solutions to companies and individuals in the UK" and which had been bought by Icelandic bank Landsbanki in 2000. You used to go with... Continue Reading →
