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Harley Welch
Harley Welch
Founder
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About Me

We always get asked not to write about what we can do as braggers rights are of putting people of ourselves to say the least. I slightly disagree people want to now who they are investing their portfolios with and what sort of person and drive they have.
So here is what I cant do, can't Fly, go invisible and cant spell. I'm sure there is much more. I do have some key attributes that help my clients and customers and as a ex army chap they mean everything to me. Loyalty, honesty and hard work. Some say I'm a workaholic they may be correct but only between 8-5 and never on a weekend. So all that hard work during those hours allows me to care and love my family. 100% when out of hours. I started with just one property and at the height has over 1200 units around Yorkshire. I focus on looking after my customers, tenants and landlords alike. All treated with the same no nonsense approach and customer care. I'm not into red tape or politics and say it how it is. I'm not afraid to give bad news and will always present problem issues with solutions. I believe in good people are in all walks of life regardless and treat those how you wish to be treated. Work together, care together and find solutions.

my expertise in the industry

18 Years personally, portfolio owner, Managed thousands of tenancies over the years.
No landlords ever leave our team through dissatisfaction.
No tenant is ever evicted unless they made the eviction happen.
Work with the worst and the best tenants and landlords.
Huge management portfolios
Sales investments, Lettings and Sourcing
over 50 combined years in property management
Over 1200 homes nationally
Nationwide Franchise
Mentoring Landlords and investors
Large personal portfolio.
Love property so much they will bury me in a brick coffin with full GCH and UPVC in a high-demand area near local amenities. :)
Multi award winning Agency

Harley's Recent Activity

Harley Welch
Fantastic, maybe it will start a movement and all the shop windows should do this. Great for local morale, amazing design. Well done everyone at Martin & Co.

From: Harley Welch 14 January 2021 09:05 AM

Harley Welch
Its numbers game. There are far more tenant voters than landlord voters thus the landlords yet again are treated unfairly. Why on earth would the government listen and do anything that is correct and fair when they would lose votes. Remember the fees ban ..all about keeping the votes. Most landlords are decent human beings and are working with their tenants to help any arrears and certainly have no interest in taking their property back. Possession is a last no option straw for any landlord. It costs even more rather than helping a tenant get back on track. It needs to be case by case basis including help to those that need it. Far to many landlords and tenant are being tarred with the same brush either good or bad. Bring in the Housing only courts with sensible evidence sensible timelines and sensible and fair resolution. The public have the answers if only they would just hear us.

From: Harley Welch 28 August 2020 08:20 AM

Harley Welch
Really! The world has gone bonkers. Basic Maths, Ill tell you what next. How about we ban fees and then landlords will up the rents and stop using the proffesionals and the tenants will lose out even more....wait a min!

From: Harley Welch 29 January 2019 08:36 AM

Harley Welch
You could argue its cosmetic and the government wants them to go to hide how bad things really are on the high street, it doesn't look attractive or enticing on most high streets. THEIR FAULT with the high rates they took the high streets from the locals due to corporates taking over, now the corporations are moving to retail estates but the rates are still there.hmm, I bet retail parks are cheaper in rates ???? don't know not an expert so I could be talking poo but it makes sense. . They look awful scattered over those such High streets (Give back to the local people based on % of profit not size of business) areas but not for the normal day to day sales a letting usage. Not everyone has the net and its the quickest way to grab attention with trawling RM or Zoopla. The laws are already there The use of illegal signs is contrary to planning regulations [Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulation 1992 but sadly some the local governments don't have the resources to act due to cuts. Sound like a further "use us against us" again. Punish all for the sake of a few seems like fees ban again really. :) Just saying.

From: Harley Welch 23 January 2019 08:44 AM

Harley Welch
Add this to the list aimed at pushing problems to the private sector in turn saving government money. If landlords cannot evict the it saves government money on housing.

From: Harley Welch 10 January 2019 08:11 AM

Harley Welch
Its all about votes in Westminster and tax, nothing to do with tenants money. Does the government bother to interfere when the tenants don't pay for no reason or keep the universal credit? Such a clever system. :( Private landlords pay for public sector errors.

From: Harley Welch 04 April 2018 12:28 PM

Harley Welch
What right does the government have to remove fees? Its the politics, (Ie Hundreds of tenant per one agent the numbers win voters game) So the landlord absorbs some of the cost and put the rents up, oh wait..look more tax for the government that the tenant pays. We are all so short-sighted. So the agreement between the agent/tenant surely is at their discretion. If the tenant does not want to pay the walk away and go somewhere else cheaper. The agreement is between two parties. Just like any other agreement. That why we have PRS/Trading standards for complaints and ability to shut down the bad ones. We all have signed up to it by law and paid fees while they, in fact, cut the public services in general. The government took the money and provides a service to help tenants with many things including customer complaints. Yes, there should be a fair across the board cap say £300 per home. A but that's not going to win as many votes of course. Anywhere else tried this it would be criminal to interfere in someone else's business. If we were all one big company trying to complete a buyout/takeover and forcing loss off jobs losses they would soon stick there nose in but as it affects many tiny companies its ok. It's not fair to tenants, landlords or genuine hard working agents. Just my humble thoughts on the subject.

From: Harley Welch 04 April 2018 12:20 PM

Harley Welch
Im sure in other countries our councils would be seen as unfit for purpose.

From: Harley Welch 05 January 2018 14:48 PM

Harley Welch
more tenants than Landlords, more Voters nothing more.

From: Harley Welch 05 January 2018 14:46 PM

Harley Welch
So when we look at this issue we fail to see the big picture. Yes, there are some who have abused the fees. Most being from London and surrounding areas. (wait before you scream) But define abuse when the cost is reflected by the wages and running costs request to provide the service in the areas. Shelter of course who are subsidized by the government and charities can tell us to lose the fees. Hmm, who helps us pay the wages? no government or charity pay my staff. The government questions that were put out there, it has asked tenants if they think its fair to have fees, let me ask the desert if it wants water. Everyone wants to save money because of our government cuts. If we look at votes, ahhh more tenants than landlords so of course politics want to appease the public ..more votes. The government has introduced, DPS types, PRS, Larger Court Fees, Bigger Bailiff costs, Licencing, Cut Housing Support and introduced UC annual reporting on payments at our cost. In fact, the government has helped crush the private sector but can't get its own house in order. How about working with landlords and agents. How about creating fair fees. We all have a job to do and we all have to work hard for each penny we earn and we all pay tax on the money we earn. How can the government who get it wrong tell us how to run our businesses? If a customer is not happy then they go somewhere else. If a company is bad then trading standards are there to sort and punish simply. Simply put the idiots never last long anyway and end up in jail. Did you know when the Government instructed councils tell our bad tenants not to leave until evicted... how much UC or Hb is saved and passed onto the private sector. Over the past 10 years the private sector has been hit massively as part of the cost-cutting and you the private landlord and estate agent have lost the most... Not to mention the licensing that never actually works. What the hell do we pay council tax for if we need pay double to the same areas we already paid for and nothing changes! Yet the government still charges us and we who can pay always pay. How about paying police more and clamping down. Give them less paperwork and more people and stomp out crime. How about giving more on Mental Health and help people understand money and reduce homelessness by paying direct. Help people rather than bill bill bill. When the government allocated a slice of the pie to a charity, how much actually makes it to the person its required for ???? There are do-gooders and good doers

From: Harley Welch 05 January 2018 14:34 PM

Harley Welch
Great Point, and while we are on this topic, . How many millions is the government saving on its debt by NOT re-housing and allowing, no forcing private landlords to hold onto the rental debt, forcing landlords to have the problem and using the system against the tenants. Remember local government offices are telling tenants to stay in their homes untill the bailiff arrives, Jesus think of the children awaking to that morning. And these same tenants are being told that if they leave earlier they are making themselves homeless and the local authority wont have to help them. What is this world coming to and why, lets be honest like most things, saves money for our government debt, increases revenue for our government (court costs gone up) all at the same time as more homeless and cut backs. Its not about people its all about money. Crazy crazy world.

From: Harley Welch 11 July 2016 10:17 AM

Harley Welch
This is nothing new, it’s more like it more brought to light yet again. The issue is landlords don't know their rights and don't operate correctly then becomes desperate as the system fails them. Some of those that are illegal evictions will be landlords in desperate need to pay their own mortgages, regardless of opinion or rights, they are desperate to pay their own mortgages and desperate landlords do desperate things. I 100% agree that to illegally evict is wrong and the law should be followed, but when a tenants acts wrong, doesn't pay, creates damage etc then why is that not made criminal too. Why can a tenant damage a property and not get arrested? why can a tenant live for free and make a landlord lose their home or damage their credit rating etc and still go unpunished. Why can we not look at every case simply and with common sense. Have an eviction judge who take the information and deals with it instantly. Make the judge visit the property, (why not we pay £300) see the issues from the tenants and landlords point of view and deal instantly, if it’s a damaging tenant then evict, if its landlord the give him correctional warning and 7 days to fix or pay. Have them judges present to see what is really going on. How many people are living in disrepair, living like animals, living rent free, illegally evicted, we can sort all these issues and may even save lives and prevent people from continuing to abuse the system for months even years. Remember this happens so often there is no reason why there cannot be a specific team that can deal with it, instantly, save agony, save money, save time and most of all save lives. Why don’t we do it ?? After all its common sense. Don’t fix the system, start again simplest.

From: Harley Welch 11 July 2016 09:46 AM

Harley Welch
At the end of the day of your company is fair the tenants will keep cumming and you can fill your managed homes with good people. If you rip them off your days will be numbered. We manage hundreds of homes in the UK and nobody ever complained about our fees, not landlords or tenants. Just be fair and you will still have a great property business. Only the greedy need to worry.

From: Harley Welch 01 July 2016 16:37 PM

Harley Welch
I'm sure ive wrote about this one, paste it again. It seems that everyone wants to make a claim for everything. Claims should be based on individual cases. Any actions from one agent should not effect others. If a tenants or landlords wish to make a claim or complaint, then go to trading standards, PRS or start a civil case. If the fees are displayed and the fees are agreed then where is the issue, if the tenant or landlord don’t like the cost then don’t accept the service. This will then drive down costs regardless. If you offer a services to both the tenants and landlords and they pay in relation to the services offered how on earth can their be a issue. 247 only charge a set 10%PCM fee to landlords and NO OTHER costs ever and the the admin fee for tenants is £300 and again no further costs to tenants ever and forever. For the tenants we provide a service, an ongoing 24/7 service, payments systems, maintenance systems, viewings, advice and much more and they love it. Why not that is what they all paid for. The issue with today’s society is “its all about money” . We on the other hand have a different view, its people, we at 247 believe we work for the TENANT just as much as we do for the Landlord, 247 ensure good communications, fair responses and standards are met by both parties and by treating our tenants like a customers we gain masses of happy tenants who receive a great service, by having masses of tenants 247 lets homes faster and better for landlords and investors. Its been known a couple of times were we have even fired the landlord for not acting in a Landlord like manor after guidance of-course. 247 are the middle men and smooth communications between both parties, sometimes the method of request needs tweaking to be heard in a better fashion and likewise the response from Landlords needs tweaking so the landlord is seen to be more caring than actual they responded. Again as the middle persons you work to retain tenancies and have longer term tenants. We mange hundreds and hundreds of homes in the UK and people have a choice, pay for a service that they want or walk into the next shop and pay for theirs. Its choice. Let the people decide if they like estate agents or not and vote with their feet. More and more are turning to review sites like ("allagents" dot com) before they take up a service. Let the people decide!

From: Harley Welch 28 June 2016 08:36 AM

Harley Welch
Sound like Ged is leading the way to a new and "correct" type of service in Manchester. Well done you. My team have had this approach since 2009, sadly we are not in Manchester....... as yet. we will be snapping at your heels soon.

From: Harley Welch 23 June 2016 08:09 AM

Harley Welch
Fantastic, Well done Judge, if that's what the judge wants surely the judge to take on responsibility of which agent. Might see its not as cut and dry as he thinks. This could help set and improve standards while using the CORRECT agents. There should be a court approved list of local agents with correct certification and legitimate experience and memberships with a proven track history.

From: Harley Welch 11 April 2016 10:29 AM

Harley Welch
Been doing cheap and fair since 2009. There is plenty of business for everyone. We charge £200 and refund £150 if the tenants fails credit check. We only take ONE fee per property unlike most. 247 manage branches to ensure a fair fees policy is checked and this can be overridden by head office if the tenant complains and the branch has been unfair giving the branch Zero option if its wrong then its wrong. So simple.

From: Harley Welch 21 September 2015 09:11 AM

Harley Welch
Remember the government likes to fine only those who CAN pay and WILL pay. If a person has the money to pay their rents then they have a income from employment of some sort. Surely its better for a tenant or prove legitimate income rather than immigration status, after all if the person is employed on a working wage and thus is paying taxes with NI number and no benefits then does not matter what country they come from if they are contributing to the UK. I think not. Race is not a factor its what you do when you get here is what the public worry about. If the government stopped handing out money hand over fist then there would be no immigration issues as there would be nothing to gain by coming here unless you worked thus see the rest of the Euro or World. UK Easy touch so help yourself! The government should stop trying to fine and run everybody's business when they need to get their own house in order. If we could selective licence the government and fine them every time they messed they wouldn't even be there. :)

From: Harley Welch 04 August 2015 12:31 PM

Harley Welch
So on one hand we want to encourage longer and more stable tenants, but then we much check tenants monthly. Not what I would call tenant friendly that’s for sure.

From: Harley Welch 04 August 2015 11:13 AM

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