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Well hopefully I can get a boiler and c/h fitted to replace the nightstore heaters in one flat , I am quite happy to pay 1/3rd.

No problems here either , but what earlier on in the year looked very buoyant with our AirB&B / Booking.com holiday lets are now zilch.

We have one empty at the moment as unfortunately the tenant of 12 years had a heart attack and died aged 42 , its all redecorated , new EPC and new bathroom fitted , its empty and can stay that way for a few months.

Tried it yesterday with Dorset Council , there must be a few enquiring as they had a recorder message saying " No holiday "

Nor EPC,s ,I had one done yesterday

I dont know how long for ,but my son who now runs what was my International Transport business sent 12 trucks and trailers to France empty to collect supermarket wine , he said the rate had never been so good !

Its getting that serious that I might have to get a Screwfix delivery of a lawnmower as our gardener has emailed (with his last bill) to say he cannot attend to this is over.

Are your Airbnb and Booking.com bookings down ? I have noticed that ours have dropped considerably in the last 2 weeks, but a house that sleeps 8 in Weymouth is still getting bookings with Blue Chip

All the Ebay sellers have upped their hand gel prices, my son and 2 partners run a company called Medisave , they sold 20000 face masks, 1000 hand gels and 600 packs of wipes last week and cant get any more .

Rent to family or friends , the wont be family or friends for long. My daughter rang last week "Dad I have seen this lovely house , you wouldn't buy it and rent it back to us " ,reply was you are quite right I wouldn't.

My wife's cousin is a staunch Labour man and before he retired was a shop steward at Britannia Insurance, when I spoke to him yesterday he told me he voted Conservative and intends to vote Conservative in future as he feels Brother Corbin has let him down and ruined the Labour party.

Cant he get enough work in his own country ?

Apart from Howsy,com, Openrent, Upad , the online letting agents +more

I now have it written into Tenancy Agreements that the electric supplier is SSE and the gas supplier is British Gas and cant be changed without my permission (which I wont give )

I know who I will be voting for tomorrow, milkshake down his suite or not.

Off topic also, I have turned one of our properties into a holiday let, with good response in its first week of being on Blue Chip,s web site, our son has turned 6 of his properties in a South Coast seaside town into lets via. Bookings.com, airB&B and Trip Advisor, I am beginning to think this is the way to go and they are exempt from council tax ( only one) as they are a small business.

I have a 2 ground floor bed flat empty at the moment, as we have 2 other holiday let properties locally and have cleaners and a weekly laundry service I have decided to furnish the flat and make it a holiday let, I have been thinking about it for a while what with tenant find fees being passed on to us but today's announcement and the proposals from Brother Corbin (if he gets in ) are frightening. To this end, I have today been in touch with Blue Chip to give me an appraisal to see if it will work, we use them for the other 2 holiday let properties, our son had 5 Airbnb /Booking. com flats that seem to get booked all year round.

I will use the (true) excuse my property insurance states working professional tenants only.

Yes I may well have to and swallow my charge of £30 to do all the time consuming paperwork and the check out inventory .luckily I don't get many tenants leave (the previous one died at 57 ) ,but when the rules change I will increase by 20%

I always have a Profesional inventory clerk do the inventory for me , I have just had a check-in inventory done with well over a hundred photos and 43 pages of text, it cost me £ 65.00 ,it is written in my tenancy agreement that the check out inventory is carried out at the cost to the tenant. I manage our properties my self but not dream of letting without an inventory.

Sammy , how much do you charge to come over to the United Kingdom to change locks ?