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[Berlingogirl]

Under the current climate you have no choice other than to keep the tenant. Have you written to him about the arrears? If not do so and include a rent statement and remind him of his agreement to pay in installments. If he fails to keep his installments and you issue a S21 he might stop paying altogether....

[Berlingogirl]

Sometimes I think now is a great time to get another BTL and then sometimes I don't. However, a property has come up next one I already own and it's in a good position re: railway, buses, Mways, shops and banks. It is a 2/3 bed with off street parking and cellar. I'm going for it....

[Berlingogirl]

I would have liked to have read that but getting onto the link without all that faffing around .... well, I gave up in the end

[Berlingogirl]

I suggest you don't supply any white goods. I no longer do. Some of my earlier properties do have some white goods and over the last two weeks I've had to buy a fridge freezer, washing machine and tv (in HMO).

It's unreasonable to phone the LL at 2 am, I've had this too and no longer answer...

[Berlingogirl]

My mtg arranger found several lenders who would be ok. However, one of them specifies 'no DSS'. I asked if they had a definition of DSS in the small print but it wasn't mentioned in the 'forbidden' tenants list.

If my mtg is approved I can't let to DSS. I would define DSS as somebody, of...

[Berlingogirl]

It might not be rats, it might be mice (they can be surprisingly loud) or squirrels.

[Berlingogirl]

I contacted my council and the rat man came out a couple of hours later with a T shaped tube thing full of blue grain which he put behind some bushes in the garden. It was free. I've not seen any rats since but the blue grain is going down. Apparently slugs and mice will also eat the bait....

[Berlingogirl]

He's now put the bike in the living room where he knows he can't store it as the Env lady said it's a trip hazard there too. I'll have to put a sign up. This is very frustrating. At the moment there's only two people in a 5 bed HMO so I'm supposing he thinks it doesn't matter. grrrrrrrrrrr

[Berlingogirl]

I think you need to contact your local council. Can you see the end of the neighbour's pipe? If so, stick an extension on it to divert the waste water into their garden.

edit: can you confirm that the extension is of a permanent nature? ie not a wooden construction.

[Berlingogirl]

I would urge the OP not to give up on lodgering (don't you just hate it when somebody makes a noun into a verb?), especially if the additional income is needed. Sharing your house with others can also be great fun. My first two lodgers were a Pakistani girl with long black hair, and a French girl with...

[Berlingogirl]

I would start a money claim online MCOL for the outstanding amount so the T gets a ccj asap. This will then show on their credit report and will alert any landlord that does a proper tenant reference.

If you do the money claim at the same time as possession I believe this does not show...

[Berlingogirl]

Sharing a house with somebody else is never easy 100% of the time, even with a person you love. Sometimes you've just got to rub along together.

I let 3 rooms in my house for 4 years to get me through uni. It wasn't easy all the time and sometimes it was very difficult. One lodger came...

[Berlingogirl]

In 25 years I've only increase two rents with the tenant in situ. Apart from that I've not put rents up with one tenant being in a property for 7 years. I increase the rent when a tenant leaves....

[Berlingogirl]

You're welcome.

[Berlingogirl]

I no longer let with anything in. I do have two properties with white goods in and this week has been a bad week. I needed to replace a fridge freezer and a washing machine. And last week I had to replace a tv at a hmo

I'm up north and it's normal to have no white goods.

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[Berlingogirl]

I think that's the best way forward. You'd need to explain clearly the reason for asking for the information as I doubt many people outside the landlord sphere would know why you're asking. I'd feel embarrassed to have to ask ...

[Berlingogirl]

I know where Hudson01 is coming from. There has to be a switch off time for dealing with the kind of issues a landlord might encounter when housing these difficult to house people. I've been phoned at all hours due to such issues as: at 1 am 'We've fallen out. Who gets the tenancy?'; at 3 am 'I've lost...

[Berlingogirl]

There's cousins and there's cousins. My cousins are the children of my parents' brothers and sisters, but some people call relatives 'cousins' even though they might just be a very distant relative. I don't think there is an easy way to obtain proof. You could ask at your local council what proof you...

[Berlingogirl]

I'd say that it's the landlord's responsibility, without doubt.

[Berlingogirl]

Been there done that. I took a hard to place family, a homeless one, from the council. NEVER again! It was one problem after another. They wanted a 'council' house and stopped paying the rent in an effort to get me to evict them. Even if the rent had been paid direct to me they could have asked for...