by Sally Lawson | Apr 26, 2012 | Blog
A large section of my job role involves gas and electric safety checks and their annual renewals. This is obviously imperative to ensure tenant safety and Landlord compliance. On a weekly basis, I inform tenants and landlords of due dates for safety checks, arrange...
by Sally Lawson | Apr 12, 2012 | Blog
A social tenant Rebecca Powell, has just won her case against Hounslow Council, in a ruling by the supreme court, that she cannot be evicted as it is against Article 8 in the European Convention on Human Rights, to be evicted, even though she was in £3500 worth of...
by Sally Lawson | Apr 9, 2012 | Blog
Karen Mills, Property Acquisitions Specialist On a daily basis I get enquiries from landlords asking ‘what should I buy?’ and ‘where should I buy it?’ ‘What is going to give me the best return/ appreciation?’ There is no simple answer to this question. There are many...
by Sally Lawson | Mar 2, 2012 | Blog, Franchising, Front page, Published Articles
I discussed in my first article about the legal positions to consider in setting up a letting agents business, items that are involved between a letting agency, landlords, tenants and staff as these are the backbone of understanding everything that we do as a letting...
by Sally Lawson | Feb 15, 2012 | Blog
You may get asked about these at it is a big discussion topic on the forums at the moment. As you know you must never take the equivalent of more than 2 month’s rent as a deposit (over 1/6 of the annual rent) or else you risk creating a premium lease, and therefore...
by Sally Lawson | Feb 15, 2012 | Blog
From April 6th 2012, all letting agents will have to be satisfied that an EPC has been commissioned prior to taking on an instruction from a landlord and obtained within 7 Days of marketing the property to let. The previous regulation insisted on an EPC before...
