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Landlord shoots tenant over utility bill dispute

16 January, 20170 Comments
A landlord shot his tenant on Thursday night in a dispute over utility bills, El Cajon, California sheriff’s officials have said. The tenant confronted the landlord, who pulled a gun and fired two rounds, sheriff’s Detective Garth Schick said. One round missed, but the other hit the victim in his upper thigh. This all came about
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Almost 1m landlords plan to ditch agents to save money from April 2017

19 December, 20160 Comments
A new survey has suggested that nearly half of all UK landlords plan to ditch letting agents if their profits fall when tax relief is cut back next year. The poll conducted by the National Landlords Association (NLA) found that 47% of property investors are prepared to ditch their letting agents and go it alone
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RICS calls for national renter database – shame they’re 7 years behind the rest of us!

07 December, 20160 Comments
In the wake of the impending ban on letting agents’ fees, the RICS has called on the Government for the creation of an online database where all tenants’ references and payment histories could be viewed online. The database proposal is in a RICS policy paper ahead of the publication of the delayed Housing White Paper, now
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Landlords and tenants benefit from a new type of tenant reference: The ‘Referencing Passport’

30 November, 20160 Comments
Landlords and Agents: imagine not having to go through the hassle of referencing your tenants yourself; where all you’d do is hand them a leaflet and then the entire process was done for you, within a matter of hours/days… Tenants: wouldn’t it be fantastic if there was a way to save money on the lettings process, as
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Innovative lettings ‘Passport’ enables councils to house more and save more

18 November, 20160 Comments
Local Authorities and Housing Associations across the UK can now access a brand new solution to help many more low income renters find new homes and save public funds, through The Ark Passport. Did you know that UK councils have spent £3.5 billion on temporary housing over the last 5 years? With the introduction of Universal Credit
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Could a ‘referencing passport’ really work?

16 November, 20160 Comments
Calls have been made for a new way of producing references for tenants, using a so-called ‘referencing passport’ that would be transferable between letting agents in order to save tenants money. The boss of easyProperty is now calling on the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) to back this initiative for ‘referencing passports’, as in England
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