Council tax reduction

[Berlingogirl]

If I were you I’d phone the court. My local court is very helpful. They can’t give you legal advice but can explain the forms....

[Berlingogirl]

The council got back to me. Even with just one person in the house it is still a HMO so I can't get the discount. As I'm sick of the bother I've been having with the HMOs I'm going to evict the tenant in one and keep the other as a HMO for the moment....

[Berlingogirl]

My HMO is no linger a HMO because there's only one person in it and it's going to remain this way until I can get him out and a family in.

I am responsible for the council tax.

Can I get a reduction for just one person?



I've been on the phone to my...

[Berlingogirl]

Turbine Terry,

Interestingly enough, I've had the same experience recently.

[Berlingogirl]

I'm trying to trace a tenant who owes me money. She is not replying to my texts and is refusing to provide me with her new address. I've texted her to say that I will add a tracing agent's fee to what she owes me but she didn't reply. The tracing agent's fee is nearly £550.

Am I likely...

[Berlingogirl]

I put in my tenancy tenancy agreement that 'pets, whether agreed or not will increase the rent by £25pcm per pet'....

[Berlingogirl]

This is how I let my houses now (not horrible fittings though) - nothing in them except basic cheap floor coverings. I am sick of tenants leaving my white goods, especially the cooker, in a filthy state.

The gardens are just lawns where ever possible although I have paved over one large...

[Berlingogirl]

I no longer take a tenant who needs a guarantor - and that's all there is too it. Why take on a risky tenant when there are so many less risky tenants wanting property?

[Berlingogirl]

I’d get rid of everything even the cooker if it’s not a fitted one. The less you leave in the less you are responsible for....

[Berlingogirl]

Yes, that's a problem. You can open that kind of catch with an ordinary table knife or similar.

[Berlingogirl]

My tenant had exactly the same problem only last Sunday with a fairly new front door. It's a upvc one fitted by a a well known company that sounds like their styles are safe. I phoned said company because the door wouldn't even close let alone lock and the tenant had to go to work and leave the door...