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[Mrs Mug]

See the link below on how to select a letting agent.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com...mment_67759939

[Mrs Mug]

Do you mean all pensioners should pay lower taxes? Or pensioners who live in certain areas, should pay lower taxes?...

[Mrs Mug]

Have you exchanged contracts?

[Mrs Mug]

Does the advice in the above posts still apply if the landlord is a housing association?

[Mrs Mug]

Surely the cost is a capital cost, as the property needed the work doing when it was bought....

[Mrs Mug]

In the future, when there are energy shortages, they will be able to shut down whole towns, cities etc, and just leave essential buildings with energy.

In my town, they already turn off the street lights at night....

[Mrs Mug]

Marsie says it took no big effort at all, just a couple of coats of floor paint.

[Mrs Mug]

We did this in our own home. It was incredibly noisy. So we bought stair treads, like the ones in the link below. Look around, they come in all sorts of colours and patterns. You can also usually buy a made to measure rug for the landing.


https://www.amazon.co.uk/casa-pura-S...

[Mrs Mug]

Have a look at the website below. Hope it helps.

http://www.lodgerlandlord.co.uk/...

[Mrs Mug]

Ok. Even if the notice was given back in April and it was valid, your mother doesn't have to leave the property by the 25th.

A S21 notice, is notice that if the tenant doesn't leave by the 25th, the landlord will start court proceedings to evict. All court evictions have been stopped because...

[Mrs Mug]

How did she receive the notice, was it posted or hand delivered?

[Mrs Mug]

I'm not sure, but is the OP saying that he has paid to insure the tenants contents?

The landlord should insure his own contents. And the tenant should insure their own contents. So there would be 2 contents policies, but covering different things.

[Mrs Mug]

The link below is a guide for new landlords. Make sure that you have covered everything on it.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com...mment_67759929

[Mrs Mug]

You will probably only need about £5000 worth of contents insurance, so it shouldn't add much to the cost.

[Mrs Mug]

Where are you finding your electricians?