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Hit Man

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Sales and Letting agent

my expertise in the industry

35 years in Financial services and estate agency also a landlord

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If this doesn't explain what PropertyMark is all about nothing will. Agents beware PropertyMark will be deciding your future.

From: Hit Man 11 April 2024 09:09 AM

Polly Neate should buy to Let and see how that goes.

From: Hit Man 02 April 2024 09:09 AM

PropertyMark BETRAYING their Members, covertly leading them astray, utterly disgraceful; perhaps all members should shun them.

From: Hit Man 02 April 2024 09:06 AM

Just need the 15000 Advertisers to remove listing from the other portals, then Agents will get freedom from Rightmove's grip on them.

From: Hit Man 25 March 2024 09:23 AM

If all letting agents just register with HMRC for AML then they won't have a problem.

From: Hit Man 13 March 2024 08:47 AM

So they can provide exam training increase their membership fees and control the industry. In it for themselves not the paying members.

From: Hit Man 07 March 2024 08:43 AM

Yep PropertyMark in it for themselves.

From: Hit Man 05 March 2024 11:47 AM

There are numerous other associations that genuinely prioritise their members' interests. PropertyMark seems to be striving to emulate Rightmove, but there are far superior alternatives available.

From: Hit Man 05 March 2024 08:35 AM

OTM does it all for us I suppose it depends on the area, up North it's bigger and better than Rightmove and Zoopla, probably because the agents in the North all stuck together and continue to promote OTM, and dropped one other portal when the rule applied. Happy Days now we don't need anything other than OTM.

From: Hit Man 17 January 2024 11:43 AM

Using referencing companies is the biggest rip off and also leads to rent arrears, evictions and fraudulent tenants. The best method of referencing is to complete them yourself unfortunately, many agents don't know how easy it is and have relied on referencing companies to long.

From: Hit Man 16 January 2024 09:46 AM

What about Private Landlords Shouldn't they be scrutinised on GDPR.

From: Hit Man 04 January 2024 10:43 AM

Polly Bleat earns in excess of £150k PA and Shelter do not own one single dwelling of provide housing for Homeless, why does this organisation exist? what is their purpose?

From: Hit Man 08 December 2023 11:25 AM

They are not saying that, its up to the landlord who they accept.

From: Hit Man 15 November 2023 11:52 AM

You can save valuable time by asking relevent questions before making viewing appointments if you're referring to benefit tenants its much quicker and easier to ask them what benefits they receive.

From: Hit Man 15 November 2023 11:50 AM

@Annoyed Landlord, there are many landlords that don't comply with the basic regulations If the government want to improve standards all Landlords should be required to be members of an Redress Scheme, registered for Anti Money laundering, hold Client Money Protection Insurance and Client Bank Account, professional indemnity insurance and have a minimum qualification. The Alternative should be that they use a regulated Agent with all the requirements if thats what the government are pushing for.

From: Hit Man 14 November 2023 10:49 AM

Totally agree with no faith... PropertyMark are pushing for regulation of agent to benefit themselves, the majority of Agents do a good job and comply with law, the government should concentrate on regulating Landlords..

From: Hit Man 14 November 2023 10:11 AM

Probably Fake news

From: Hit Man 30 October 2023 08:55 AM

No mention of the real problem which is the excessive tax burdens and legislation thats already making landlords put rents up or leave the market. Throwing in the discrimination card and making out all tenants are victims is typical of these landlord bashing groups they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

From: Hit Man 06 October 2023 09:58 AM

I cant find anyone who wants to work employed let alone self employed

From: Hit Man 04 October 2023 09:08 AM

It makes more sense for landlords to use agents, many private landlords are oblivious to the laws and just wing it until, it goes wrong then they engage with agents for help or they just continue and brake the law unknowingly. The regulation should be that Landlords must hold a qualification and be members of a professional body who will insist on CPD, or alternatively use an agent that does have this.

From: Hit Man 29 September 2023 13:54 PM

What waffle why does this publication keep plugging advertisements, just think how much agents would save if they didn't use referencing agencies they could pass the savings on to staff. Job Done...

From: Hit Man 26 September 2023 10:58 AM

The time frame for process with Section 21 is not the problem, landlords want to get the properties sold with vacant possession and that takes time along with the S21 process. so not really much time.

From: Hit Man 25 August 2023 12:03 PM

High street agency.... what are them?

From: Hit Man 15 August 2023 09:46 AM

Dear Polly, You reap what you sow!

From: Hit Man 14 August 2023 09:20 AM

There are loads of rogue agents advertising properties through Openrent and other online landlord advertising agencies, this is to get around the Portals rules where they only accept agents who are registered with a redress Scheme. Im sure Rightmove and Zoopla are aware of this however, OnTheMarket wont allow these cowboys on their portal.

From: Hit Man 10 August 2023 10:18 AM

We've had at least a dozen complaints from tenants regarding mould this was shortly after the case advertised on the national news about the young boy in Rochdale who died apparently due to mould... all of the cases that went to TPO were dismissed, lot of it is made up nonsense, I would imagine most the cases as in this one was with social housing or private landlords NOT Agents.

From: Hit Man 03 August 2023 08:33 AM

The problem is that private landlords don't look at legislation many live in the past where they think nothing applies to them as long as they are getting their rent nothing else matters. When I speak with some they don't want to to use agents because agents do nothing for their money and cant see the point?

From: Hit Man 25 July 2023 11:05 AM

The whole country is chocker full of cowboy Landlords and Agents that have no clue, especially private landlords, with no Data protection license, No client account, no CMP, no professional indemnity insurance, no deposit scheme and no redress scheme.

From: Hit Man 25 July 2023 09:43 AM

Nothing to do with the extra costs involved with the additional referencing imposed by referencing companies.. just shows you how inapt these referencing agencies are, what a joke...

From: Hit Man 18 July 2023 09:42 AM

I've sold rent guarantee policies and they are not worth the paper wrote on. I don't think the problem is about rent arrears any amount of referencing can't anticipate or determine tenants changes in circumstances. Its more about completing good referencing not half hearted minimum standards that referencing companies and private landlords do.

From: Hit Man 28 June 2023 11:59 AM

Judging by the comments its clear that many don't have a clue how to reference tenants, its widely thought, 'as commented above', that Agents do the referencing when in fact most out source to referencing companies who complete a basic credit search and basic referencing, these referencing companies make a fortune by selling insurance and data to third parties who sell on to other services and the agents get a commission for the introductions. The excuse agents make is they don't have the time to complete referencing themselves and to obtain rent guarantee insurance the referencing companies insist that they use them. Ive been in this industry for over 30 years as an agent and landlord we have only ever evicted one tenants that we referenced the circumstances were unavoidable and therefore we can honestly say that it was not down to poor referencing, we have in the past used referencing companies to find how useless they are, we have been completing our own referencing now for a number of years and have a much more accurate system in place. I can't see the point of a tenant register we already have the knowledge on how to check them.

From: Hit Man 28 June 2023 10:28 AM

I remember arranging Mortgages when interest rates were 15%. Mainly interest only with an Endowment policy.

From: Hit Man 22 June 2023 12:34 PM

its so difficult to find a bank that will allow agents to open a client account, why is this law only for agents and not Landlords?

From: Hit Man 21 June 2023 09:09 AM

Just a plug to try and monopolise his business.

From: Hit Man 13 June 2023 08:29 AM

what should be introduced by government is the reversal of the tax burdens and status placed on landlords, many are not businesses or investors they are old fashioned landlords who have provided homes for families for years in a bid to support their pensions, by all mean regulate Private landlords however, the more that sell up the higher rent will go up and less homes available in the PRS.

From: Hit Man 06 June 2023 09:34 AM

The PRS need to get their own act together and stop favouritism towards complainants.

From: Hit Man 26 April 2023 09:18 AM

This is before deposits had to be protected.

From: Hit Man 24 April 2023 10:26 AM

There has got to be a massive advantage to persuade agents to change software companies the transfer of data is very time consuming, I don't expect many will take this up.

From: Hit Man 24 February 2023 09:30 AM

LANDLORDS DON'T EVICT WITHOUT A REASON! "Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the director of Generation Rent, says: “Private renters will never enjoy stability in their lives or have the power to complain about their home if they can be evicted without the landlord needing a reason." how insane is this woman... Section 21 is used because landlords want their property back there is always a reason, it may be the tenant is not paying the rent, the mortgage term may be ending and the lender wants their money or Landlords are selling up because the government are taxing the life out of them and imposing some ridiculous changes in legislation. There is a easier solution, Fix the BTL taxation system, if its classed as a business then tax it as such, allow BTL as a SIPP in the same way as commercial properties, many landlords use BTL for pensions and finally regulate private landlords on lettings in line with agents there are too many Private landlords that have no clue.

From: Hit Man 10 February 2023 09:39 AM

I agree that some of the awards are silly small amounts therefore, the redress scheme should have considered that. We had a recent complaint from a tenant after asking for our complaint procedure they ignored the process and went straight to the redress scheme, the Redress scheme said they were still happy to accept their complaint and asked me if I would consider just offering them something so they could close the case! We said no and provided a load of evidence that took weeks of our time to conclude with no redress and no claim paid, it should never have even gone to the redress scheme in the first place. Agents should not have to defend themselves from every disgruntled tenant the schemes are using their power with a big stick approach.

From: Hit Man 27 January 2023 12:30 PM

Redress Schemes need to understand that the complainant is not always right, they don't understand in most cases and are very quick to suggest that members should just pay compensation rather than deal with any complaint in full.

From: Hit Man 27 January 2023 09:08 AM

Why would anyone want to use a software thats controlled by Zoopla that restricts timed up loads to other portals and reverse leads. Good Night GoodLord i'll not be using you again.

From: Hit Man 25 January 2023 09:09 AM

Lloyds are the worst, they have no clue, I have had this issue with them a number of times dealing with their Client Money Support Team is painful they are Clueless and Arrogant and clearly don't understand the purpose of a letting agents client account.

From: Hit Man 12 January 2023 10:11 AM

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