Point taken that if he cannot come at the weekend to view and it is going to be his home. He is a Housing Officer and so will be working for La or Council?

I have advertised a good size flat in a small town via an established Letting agent. A chap who lives some 60 miles away and will be working from home has got a colleague locally to visit the place and an offer has been made on it. (e will not be seeing the flat himself (as far as I am aware) and prefers...

As long as he passed all usual credit checks I can't see an issue here. Perhaps just a Zoom or facetime meet to prove ID ?
Last March saw me take my first ever virtually viewed tenant and she has proved exemplary....

This with bells on !!! It is not even a matter of him not wanting to see the flat (which is odd), i would be more concerned with his reticence on you meeting him !!!...

It's very easy to make assumptions about situations like this.
And family is always complicated.

Maybe the father made promises he wasn't in a position to honour (lots of people don't like to discuss plans for post their own death).

It's a strange arrangement either way,...

Hi my husband was given a property as a deed of gift after his mother passed away in 1991 from his father. My husband put in place through the solicitor that his father could live rent free in the property but had to pay bills and any repairs or updating. His father married later the same year. The...

This is different, we have a freeholder who has had dealings with the leaseholder and is likely to know if a letter is genuine....

We have served a S146 Notice to a Leaseholder who has abandoned the Flat. The Flat was given to the Leaseholder originally by a relative and he has run up significant debts which mean there is no equity in the Flat sale proceeds. In addition, there is drug activity evidence and the Flat has been subsequently...