Live with the landlord or not??!!
When you are looking for a room to rent, you usually have two initial options to consider. This being whether you want to rent a room in a property where the landlord also lives or whether you want to live …
Changes to Local Housing Allowance / Benefit payments
There has been much written in the press and seen on the news about changes to the Benefits systems. As a landlord we have chosen not to accept tenants on Local Housing Allowance (LHA) due to the extra hassle and …
Tenancy Deposits
As of 6th April 2007 tenants were given extra protection with regards to deposit money that they were handing over to landlords if they were signing an Assured Shorthold Tenancy agreement. Prior to this date landlords could hold that deposit …
Another new Chelmsford property to the portfolio
In the next few weeks we will be managing another HMO in the Chelmer Village part of Chelmsford for another landlord that we have been introduced to. The house is already up and running with tenants but we have been approached to …