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We have a social lettings agency in Northampton that's been going for 5 years. It has managed to list 3 properties in that time and has cost the taxpayer roughly £1.5m so far. What particularly amuses me is a local councillor saying "it must not be allowed to fail" - she clearly deems what's gone on already as worth continuing with! Google West Northamptonshire Social Lettings Agency for the BBC article on it - I can't paste a link here.
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03 March 2022 11:30 AM
Another area where new laws haven't worked. Lot of tenants would like to rent with a pet and are happy to pay a sizeable deposit to do so. But the law won't let the landlord take that deposit, so the landlord is left with the choice of accepting pets with a standard deposit (high risk) or saying no to pets (much lower risk). Unsurprisingly he chooses the latter which makes it really hard for any tenant with a pet to get accepted for a property. It's a classic example of a situation where the state did not need to intervene.
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12 February 2022 09:38 AM
If I understand it correctly, this is a company that offers onboarding services telling us that tenants aren't happy with our onboarding processes and therefore presumably we need to use the company's onboarding services? Hope LAT have been sensible enough to send them an invoice for advertising.
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26 January 2022 14:33 PM
Given that most of us adhere to this rule, it’s a shame action isn’t taken more often against those that don’t.
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08 February 2019 07:38 AM
What are "annual servicing rules" for boilers? I must be one of the 87% of agents who's clearly not familiar with them.
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03 July 2018 16:22 PM
Will their landlords get a say in this? Or isn't that something that bothers them?
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30 January 2018 09:17 AM
If you're a lettings agent that doesn't know how they will be impacted by the fees ban, and needs FixFlo's free calculator to assist you, I'd say you're in a fair bit of trouble already!
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