Tag Archives: Property Maintenance

Preparing your Holiday Home for Summer

Posted on 4th April 2014

Preparing your Holiday Home for Summer – Winter is officially well and truly behind us, which means that people across the UK are now starting to think about their next holidays. Landlords who own holiday homes should therefore start preparing their properties as soon as possible in order to ensure that they are filled before the holiday season begins; however this can often be a bigger job than first expected. Here, PropertyQuoteDirect looks at how you can prepare your holiday home as quickly as possible:

Time for Change in January

Posted on 8th January 2014

 
Time for Change in January – The New Year tends to bring change for many people, including where they live. Whether they are buying a property or looking for a new property to rent, there are many reasons for ensuring that if you are looking to sell a property, or you need to find a new tenant, that it will attract as much interest as possible. After all, the more people that want your property the more money you will be able to make!
The best […]

Electrical safety for landlords

Posted on 12th June 2013

Electrical safety for landlords – Landlords are being urged to pay more attention to electrical safety. A new report by the Electrical Safety Council shows that a fifth of tenants have been put at risk by faulty or damaged electrics.
Landlords are legally required to carry out gas safety checks, and get a gas safety certificate, every year. The rules on electrics are much woollier. Landlords are required to make sure that the electrics are safe, but there is no requirement for an annual check and […]

Being a landlord: the legal essentials

Posted on 20th May 2013

There is much more to being a landlord than just buying and letting a property. Landlords have legal obligations to their tenants, just as their tenants do to them. Most of the rules that landlords need to work to are about protecting tenants’ health and safety, or about protecting both landlord and tenant from disputes.
These are the rules that every landlord needs to remember:

Creating a Checklist for your Properties

Posted on 10th May 2013

As a landlord you need to be organised so that you can keep on top of maintaining your properties and make sure that your business is running as smoothly as possible. The problem is that if you have a large property portfolio you will find that something is constantly going wrong in at least one of your properties, and if you don’t make a note of it you could soon become confused as to what property needs what maintenance! So here is a way to […]

A guide to summer for Student Landlords

Posted on 3rd May 2013

Summer is usually the slow season for student landlords, as of the end of May most students will have finished their academic year and will be heading home. However, just because there are fewer students about in the summer doesn’t mean you should just leave your properties to sit there! So here is our guide to summer for student landlords:

Pests and your Properties

Posted on 12th April 2013

Property Pests – There is nothing worse than finding out that one of your properties has become subject to a pest infestation, especially as it means that not only will you have to organise removing them but potentially also move your tenants out of the property until the pests are gone. Often pests can be dealt with easily, but there are ways to prevent them in the first place. Here we look at what you need to know about pests in your properties:

Arranging Inspections with your Tenants

Posted on 15th March 2013

Inspecting properties is part of a landlord’s job that most dread, and if it isn’t arranged properly the relationship between you and your tenants could deteriorate remarkably quickly. Unfortunately, the only way you can be sure your properties are being properly taken care of is to inspect them yourself every now and again, so what’s the best way of going about it?

Minimize your Repair Bills

Posted on 6th March 2013

Some landlords go into the business believing that the only cost they really need to worry about is their mortgage. They soon learn the truth: that the mortgage is just one of many costs they will have to meet as a landlord.

Could you let an eco home?

Posted on 27th February 2013

Every time we turn on the TV, or open a newspaper, there seems to be a fresh warning about the damage we are doing to our environment. Our fossil fuels are running out, and those we still burn are causing climate chaos, we are told.