Gas safety inspection in tier 3 area?

[Lots on]

Thanks guys, it’s going ahead....

[Lots on]

Gosh yes thanks KTC good point, nothing changes tomorrow. I do have another one coming up in December though so I’ll need to check on that....

[Lots on]

Does anyone know whether gas safety inspections can still go ahead in a tier 3 area? The town has just been moved into tier 3 and inspection is due tomorrow. Don’t want it to be an issue with the tenants. It’s fully agent managed, I’m going to drop them a line but in the meantime if anyone knows...

[Lots on]

Thanks for this. I’m attached to the tree as it was planted by my late father and he was very fond of it. However if it is jeopardising the house it has to come out. It is a 1960s house in the SEast, I imagine the soil is clay. Not aware of any drains problems at present. There is a tenant living...

[Lots on]

Thanks FF. I would like it checked out in situ though.

[Lots on]

One of my rentals has a fig tree in the garden whose trunk is about 2 meters from the house ( living room). It has got quite big (its branches are growing against the bedroom window on 1st floor) and I will get it professionally pruned back at the end of winter. It’s just occurred to me that fig...

[Lots on]

That was certainly my experience. When I remember the “ full house “ of horrors in Leytonstone I shudder. Tax dodging, sexually harassing landlord, smell of urine in the ground floor bedroom, mushroom growth above the kitchen sink, withholding of deposit. We had the lot. We were naive, poorly organised...

[Lots on]

I find them ok now ( landlord for 7 years) but have learnt that their interests do not always align with mine. Although I see the situation as me paying them, part of their business model is also keeping tenants happy to ensure a steady stream of student customers ( on the premise that students talk...

[Lots on]

My suspicion is the government knows that successive governments, starting with the Tories but enthusiastically embraced by new labour, have stoked the housing market because of all the juicy job and tax spin offs you get when people see property not as a necessity of life, but as an investment. The...

[Lots on]

Agreed, Lawcruncher. Well put....

[Lots on]

Also with BG. For the peace of mind. I don’t want to be scrambling around for a plumber in the middle of winter....

[Lots on]

antonio111 Thanks, that’s a really useful tip. I’ll check that one out....

[Lots on]

Absolutely it was conscious, I can no longer call myself accidental but I had to transition in that situation from having it thrust upon me to owning it. It does take time, there’s a process of educating oneself....

[Lots on]

In defence of “ accidental landlords”... sometimes life leads you somewhere you hadn’t intended to go. 7 years ago I had to take the reins of my dad’s two rental properties because he had alzheimers and wasn’t coping, I had power of attorney. I was scared and frankly hated the responsibility....

[Lots on]

I kind of agree Jon66, lockdown has worked to my advantage in many ways. I work from home, have saved on 2 hours of commuting a day which has enabled me to front run a refurbishment, do a lot of reading and get to grips with all the legalities of setting up a new tenancy etc. So far touch wood it’s...