Dating of gas certificates

[AndrewDod]

Is this a flat? What do you mean by "acquiring a freehold"?

[AndrewDod]

Well no, because these are the only people who should have been furloughed. By sloshing around money where it did not need to be sloshed, they made it impossible to slosh it where it should be sloshed (now only now but over the next several decades of very vulnerable people who actually need state support)....

[AndrewDod]

Well Sweden probably has likely reached a state of herd immunity (which only in fact needs a rather low overall number of infections) -- which is where we should be now, but are not because of the harm an indiscriminate lockdown has caused. A great outcome in Sweden with no (involuntary) lockdown at...

[AndrewDod]

I guess the only point ever to insure is if

a) You think they have calculated a too-low premiums based on the (correct) information you gave (extremely rare) so that you will statistically "win"

b) If the event (if it occurs) will be life changing. Like medical travel...

[AndrewDod]

Yes, RG insurance is pretty much a waste of time. And this is a ludicrous clause at so many levels. I'd drop the policy....

[AndrewDod]

I think closer to 10 to 14 months in many places - pre virus. 4 months almost never happens anywhere with a tenant who resists in any way. In that time they can basically steal £15K.

This average of 4 months will include the 90%+ of tenants who leave voluntarily having been served no...

[AndrewDod]

Have you at least initiated a money claim online ("small" claims court)?

But yes, it is facilitated theft. Not good for democracy, the economy or anything else. State facilitated murder, rape and other forms of abuse are some steps away - but not many....

[AndrewDod]

Many thanks. If that is all they did, they did not finish the job. With vehicle MOTs it is clear that the garage/system can give the appropriate date.

Are gas engineers even allowed to write the next test date on the form according to the legislation?
"Treated for the purposes"...

[AndrewDod]

We all know of the nightmare both tenants hand landlords have scheduling gas engineers for servicing (now more than ever).

I thought it was made somewhat easier by the MOT style dating allowed by parliament in 2018 - or at least I thought allowed - where certificate end-date is carried...

[AndrewDod]

What balance are you talking about? The balance caused by having the inability to act on legislation, or the balance of terrible tenants being subsidised by the great and decent majority?

The whole premise of this thread is wrong. It is not about any sort of balance - between undifferentiated...

[AndrewDod]

It is very easy to get sidetracked by a skewed approach to risk. In reality electrical risks are quite low (the number of residential electrocutions per year is tiny, and the number of those that are due to issues with household wiring or electrical fires in rental properties that would be prevented...

[AndrewDod]

.. and maybe the petal-flower Brits could stoop to picking vegetables instead of relying on handouts...

But anyway, the "vigorous" drug regulatory system ended at least 30 years ago (you should read the 2005 House of Commons Select committee report on the corruption of the UK...

[AndrewDod]

Quite. And to extend that, the heavy price paid by decent people is not only a financial price relating simply to crude rent. They cannot find the product they need at all, and are therefore forced to fund other more expensive products which are a poor fit to their needs. More vulnerable but reliable...

[AndrewDod]

Indeed. And it would also address the glaring anomaly as to what longish term AirBnB rentals actually are - clearly a service which people want to provide in safety, and which other need as an alternative to moving ones family into a hotel during a 3-6 month gap between house moves, or a short university...

[AndrewDod]

As well as a different type of tenancy which is very short term (months) and where the tenant has no scope to do anything at all (including stay beyond that term or breach contract terms with impunity)....

[AndrewDod]

You already have some examples above, but in brief summary:

a) (for both tenants and landlords) The right to be able to have contracts upheld through a properly functioning court system (nothing to do with Coronavirus), or in the alternative for the legislative process to take account of...

[AndrewDod]

Hope you took the actual purchaser price as your baseline (how much you paid) and not the market price....

[AndrewDod]

No, but as with all self assessment be prepare to justify your numbers. If audited and if you cannot, the penalties can be eye watering (and you will remain on the radar afterwards)....

[AndrewDod]

A little more than that. But you said "rough" which I took very literally....

[AndrewDod]

The gutter article you refer to seems nonsense to me. The fact that a job is dangerous (lawnmowing is dangerous) has nothing to do one way or the other with responsibility for doing OR DELEGATING it. The default position is that the tenant keeps leaves out of the gutters (and if they block, makes good...