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[Interlaken]

You are running a business not a charity. I think social media is a fantastic tool for the savvy landlord - well spotted.

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Sounds fishy to me. Wait until they let him back into the UK before doing anything.

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I think you need more details on the cat. If if is a kitten then expect mega damage but an older cat maybe quite fine. I take a pet bond of £1-200 against damage and inspect regularly. Not had any of the flea and other damage myself but at end or tenancy I insist on a deep clean of everything and...

[Interlaken]

So at the start of each tenancy do you provide new appliances? What happens to the old ones?...

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Whaaat! An average new boiler costs around £2,400. I agree with the RTM group and get leases altered. How do you go on if one flat uses more hot water than another under the existing system?

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If you don't have an inventory stating condition of all this at the outset of the tenancy then don't expect to win any claim.

Try to hang on to the overpayment.

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As Mariner says if you don't have inventories showing shed and other conditions before and after - if noy don't bother as the DPS will go against you.

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I'm 64, have older siblings and spent the first 17 years of my life in a London flat with coal fires or no heating and parents who smoked 30 a day Players Navy Cut (untipped). None of us currently has any health problems.

Nanny state.

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I use the DPS insured scheme. I always let on a 6 month shorthold and allow to go periodic.

Early this year when a tenancy went periodic the DPS did not advise me of the need to declare what was happening and 2 months later sent an email saying that deposit was not protected. I just...

[Interlaken]

Contact your MP and have a moan to him.

[Interlaken]

Don't grind it up and snort it but otherwise seal it off and it should be fine. Bet there is loads of it out there still. I haven't seen any myself for the last 5 years.

[Interlaken]

Get a gas safety certificate done now. (Does he have his own boiler or is heat/hot water from a central boiler somewhere in the premises.) Give him a copy of the certificate, the S21 notice and How to Rent 2019 now and give him these or put it under his door and photograph with your phone this action...

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I meant the company/branch manager stand as guarantor any muppet can answer the questions but that does not give any security to the landlord....

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I use the DPS Insured. Minimal contact with them and you keep the deposit until end of tenancy. Gives you plenty of bargaining power.
I keep the deposit in a Client Account.

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There are already a lot of older (over 50) persons in HMOs in my area. Most are on benefits and not fit to work due to mental or physical health problems. Lots have addiction issues.
If this is the sort of tenant you are looking for then go for it.

[Interlaken]

The referencing stuff you write about is all standard stuff. Why not ask the employer to step in and sort some of this out or the branch manager. I have had this happen before quite successfully.

[Interlaken]

I would not be happy with this scenario.. Tell the agent you want to let to persons in provable, regular employment and if he can't sort that change agents.

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Is this a conversion or a purpose built flat? If a conversion look up the planning details online via address at council's website and see what size bedroom was given consent for at Planning Permission stage.

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It's all very well quoting this but does he actually work and is he any good. Any good tradesman owns their own gaff I find.
Agree with MdeB - see the bank statements or forget it....

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Put a notice up in the bathroom/toilet and in the tenancy agreement saying ' only put into the toilet wasted that has passed through your body and ORDINARY toilet paper. NO WET WIPES'. Agree tenant is responsible.

I find that quilted toilet paper can cause problems too - it is just too...