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Gas Safety
A landlord has been fined £2000 for failing to obtain a Gas Safety Certificate.
In January 2011 the gas boiler…
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What duty does a Landlord have if the tenant leaves their belongings in the property once they have vacated?
The above question is one which we get frequently asked by agents on the PainSmith helpline. It is often the case that tenants will vacate a property and leave their personal possessions behind which can pose a real problem for landlords.
The Torts (In…
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Two landlords prosecuted on gas safety
Its good to see that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is bringing a few cases against landlords who flout…
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All very frustrating, but what are the options?!
Painsmith has recently encountered the Kafkaesque world of the tenancy deposit protection schemes, specifically the DPS and its new rules relating to the release of the deposit following a court hearing.
DPS is currently refusing to release deposits wh…
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Appointment of a Manager instead of RTM
The Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 introduced the new none fault Right to Manage legislation.
The idea was that if you had not less than 50% of the Qualifying Tenants interested they could form an RTM company and then take over the day to da…
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Housing benefit and available accommodation
The Chartered Institute of Housing and the Guardian have put together the results of a survey into the effect of…
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Let’s all move to … Wales
We have previously commented on various housing and homelessness developments in Wales. These have been individual interventions into homelessness and…
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You better watch out, You better not cry
Just when I thought we weren’t going to have a seasonal story this year. Westminster Council have ridden to the…
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Setting the record straight….
It has come to our attention that some companies claiming to be experts in the field of Landlord and Tenant…
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Laying the foundations (2): RTB
Push the bad news out just before Christmas seems to be a pretty good rule of thumb. Our previous post…
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