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4 hours ago, Grampa said:

Thanks for that. We gave it all to her when she moved in. Can she deny it? Can we send them again by e-mail? In this way, the contents and all attachments will be clearly seen. Otherwise, it will be her word against ours. We did give her all that at the start of the tenancy.

So 2 days before serving the s21 or s8 we write a letter to the tenant saying please find enclose the replacement and up to date documents relating to your tenancy and post in the same way as above.

1. Gas cert
2. Elecy cert
3. Latest "How to rent guide"
4. EPC
5. Prescribed info relating to the deposit

There is no question they haven't received them then and you are good to go with the s21/s8

Tenant has a rolling tenancy after the initial 6 month's period expired

Hi, we want to serve a section 21 on a tenant however looking at the gov website it says that if the tenancy started after October 2015 and you have not used Form 6a you cannot use a section 21 ?? ,...... does anyone know the procedure for using a Form 6a ? .....  It's AST, first 6 months passed and it rolls on.

Hi. Is it still valid for the court to post it from two different post offices and keep the postage? T is not likely to sign on receipt, so we don't want to go hand delivery or recorded post route.

Thank you, will join. 

Will it offer more than this forum and website, for example? Has anybody had an experience with them. Do you find it's worth paying the fee as a private landlord?

On 10/28/2022 at 9:24 AM, fionaf said:

I use OpenRent £29 that also puts on gumtree and Rightmove etc. I find it astonishing that a property is hard to let. Last time I advertised in August I had 82 enquiries in two days and then closed the advert and shortlisted 14 applicants. 10 of whom I could have proceeded with and chose from a strong bunch. I like tradespeople in particular. Posh folks doing renovations are a no in my book as they have never rented before and can be demanding and aren’t long term, so it isn’t always about vendors etc, it is about the fit for your property and time. 

Thank you, it's really helpful. Looks like we found our tenant but good to know for the future.

FIona, we had tradesfolk in the past but they left the place quite dirty and were walking around in dirty boots, it looks like. What is your experience on cleanliness of this group as tenants? Also, do you find they tend to smoke a lot? (I know the agreement prohibits to smoke inside).

You're a courageous person, Richlist. When I mention on any forum that I don't want unemployed, I'm usually accused of discrimination, shamed and downvoted, LOL. Good for you. We live in sad times when we have to watch what we say. I feel it's more suffocating that living in the USSR where I came from )))

By the way, most agencies now work with city councils to house council tenants with private landlords. Apparently, it's a lucrative business for them. The agency that my hubby does EPC for as a sideline job, told him that council tenants are "brilliant, no problems whatsoever". We live near such block of flats and see police all the time there. The latest was some tenant there stealing a car and parking it right in front of the block. The car owners did some detective works and found it. All good fun )))

We're currently advertising on Gumtree but getting very little response. Do you mind sharing your criteria for potential tenants? Feel free to pm me if you want. )))

Hi. 

Our long-term tenants are buying their own place and the flat is back on the market. The times have changed with Brex*t and tenants getting estate agency service for free. Before we could put it on GumTree, and within a week it was taken. Now we hardly get any interest, and it's not because of the price. We wouldn't even mind paying the agency, but we dealt with agents before, and they seem to be intent in filling the place with just anybody - we were repeatedly pushed to accept tenants who didn't earn enough to afford the rent. 

What are the other ways to advertise your rental property, except Gumtree?

Thank you.

Hi, forum. We pre-selected a few flats we would consider buying. We can't really ask our solicitor to check all of them without paying hefty bill. We went on opendata gov uk but it's not helpful. Any suggestions?

Thank you. What is Section 24? Where can I find it? Maybe, you can link me to it? Thank you.

Thank you. We are not selling. We have bought the property.

Are you talking about Capital Gains Tax when we sell the flat ? ....... I was talking about personal income tax ...... can we put the Stamp duty against our personal tax for the year ? And you couldn't share a link to read up on it?  Thank you.

Hi.

We purchased buy to let property with a small 5 year mortgage.

1. We paid 3% stamp duty on the sale (£4000). Can it be put against tax?
2. Can we put the mortgage repayments against tax because we heard from our mortgage broker that tax relief is fazed out gradually, and we can put 25% against tax in the first year.

Thank you.