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Forget it IIWY. They'll just say that you should have noticed the garden gate yourself.

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Have you tried NFU Mutual? They provide my landlord's cover after subsidence.

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Who invited the council to inspect?

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Go for it! It's a Corona essential isn't it, when people are only allowed in the garden?

Someone on my thread suggested this thing: https://forums.landlordzone.co.uk/fi...6&d=1620140561

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If the kitchen & bathroom are still functional, I just give them a good clean, and paint the walls magnolia. Sometimes I replace the taps or toilet internals if these are the only faulty bit.

(There is nothing more heartbreaking than to have a beautiful kitchen abused by your tenan...

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My cheeky tenant sent me a bill today for all his 'improvements'. He's changed the bathroom & kitchen taps, <God knows why> plus installed a new fence.

I replied that I was happy to reimburse him £100 only for the washing machine seal which I okayed in advance. He seems to have...

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I think you may be over thinking this. I've not asked permission to install an over bath shower at any of my flats. (It's just a higher tap, surely?)

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GF suggested one of those basins built into the cistern. However the ones I've seen only had a cold water connection.

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I think we both know that the council will put up so many hurdles to this, that you might as well not bother, don't we?

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I think I'd prefer 6 months to no s21 at all. That was on the cards, wasn't it?

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I recently ordered 1970's 5p, 10p and 50p pieces to show gf how big they used to be. We'd noticed that the new notes were slightly smaller than the ones they replaced. I put it down to the government making them smaller so that you wouldn't notice how little they now buy.

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I suspect agent will be unsympathetic. It's the landlord you need to speak to.

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Well that's a lot of leading questions, isn't it? Are you sure you're a landlord?

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BTW, also you need to keep paperwork confirming you've done any improvements that aren't immediately obvious. EPC assessors will only credit you for things they can see. Insulate the walls yourself, even with photos, and they'll turn a blind eye to any improvement you've made.

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Nah. He's on Carrie Baccy. (No sex if you don't push my green agenda.)

Regarding insulating floors, I thought there was meant to be a profit over a certain no. of years before you had to do the work? I'd have thought taking up the floor to put in insulation would take decades to pay back,...

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SimonRW,

LOL. I just realised you are joshing.

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Yeah. I believe they're meant to read every 2 years as a minimum. They can probably work out when the by-pass was done from the consumption figures.

Presumably your tenant is not asking you to pay the £800? Sounds like a guilty plea to me. ...