New Landlord's Start Up Help page?

[Chestnut]

May I suggest that this otherwise excellent site should include a basic "New Landlord's Start Up" page for brief advice for New and Potential Landlords?

Time and again a new contributor enters this forum asking for basic advice, either because they think they want to be a Landlord, or, as in a recent case, may have "inherited a Tenancy" - possibly with a sitting tenant and therefore has little or no option to learn the Landlord ropes.

It should be possible to limit the basics to an A4 sheet (or a webpage of no more than two scrolled screens), with references and hyperlinks to more detail, most of which is probably already somewhere on this site.

One for the Moderator............?

[meagain]

Hi Chestnut, well I think that's a great idea (obviously!). Although all the information required is here, it's knowing where to look and what to look for, so links or a start up page would have really helped in my case.

[Mortitia]

Yes Chestnut, that is a really good idea.

It strikes me that a lot of new landlords are not likely to want to read books on the subject as much as members recommend them - that is why they are on the net looking for a 'one stop shop' with the answer to everything in a format they know.

As the recession goes on I think there will be more 'new landlords' in trouble so this could be a popular feature and save the regulars repeating themselves.

Mortitia