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How to be a great landlord

05 March, 20140 Comments
The Simply Business ‘Landlord Hangout’ will be an hour long and take place at 1pm on Tuesday 11th March – discussing all things associated with being a landlord. The ‘Hangout’ panel of experts will include Paul Routledge of LRS, Vanessa Warwick of Property Tribes and Lucy Morton; ex president of ARLA. They will be answering a
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Can you get an advantage when selling your house in a Buyers market?

03 February, 20140 Comments
Everyone knows that the housing market has been struggling over the last few years and that is putting it mildly. However over the summer and autumn of 2013, I noticed that the market was starting to pick up, there were quite a lot of houses going onto the market, which is promising, but are they
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666; the number of the beast! [LRS HALLOWEEN EXCLUSIVE] #TerrifyingTenantTales

31 October, 20130 Comments
“Once a conman, always a conman…” Tenant Alert Reference : NATIONAL/RS/241013 This is a tale about one of my tenants who has truly lived up to his DOB; 06/06/1966 !!! In the past he conned 4 women into giving him wads of cash with his sob stories and did 30 months of prison time when
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Landmark data protection case could have global implications…

26 February, 20130 Comments
Google will face Spain’s data protection authority in Europe’s high court, which could have significant implications for how personal information on the internet is managed. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is to rule on whether Google is invading personal privacy after a referral from Spain’s high court, based on a complaint made by a
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Potential fraudster in Huddersfield area

29 January, 20130 Comments
Landlord Referencing Services would like to warn all landlords and letting agents in the Huddersfield area (and surrounding areas) of a potential fraudster who is currently looking for rented property. One of our community have kindly alerted us to the fact that a Miss Gillian Bojang is currently ‘looking for a property to rent on
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MPs pass bill that criminalizes social subletting

13 November, 20120 Comments
MPs have passed a bill outlawing the illegal subletting of social housing properties. The Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Bill will mean tenants that illegally sublet their properties could face up to two years’ imprisonment, as well as a possibly unlimited fine. At present subletting is a civil offence, meaning it cannot attract a custodial
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Serial Sub-letting Saga

25 July, 20120 Comments
A true story from one of our Network Referencing community, regarding the escalating problem of tenants illegally sub-letting property in the Private Rented Sector.   Tenant Alert Reference NW-MST-197 The tenant in question applied for a property using a false employment reference, from a falsified company. The company that provided the false employment reference was
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