When a property is empty, as a landlord, you become directly responsible to continue paying the bills, including Council Tax and rates. Therefore, it is obviously important to keep the amount of time your property sits empty, known as voids, to an absolute minimum. My rental property is empty, how do I fill it? Whether […]
Letting property on a temporary basis
Of course, it’s always better to have someone in a house than to leave it empty if you are going to be away for a while, so the short-let option certainly has some advantages. And you can make some money from the property in your absence. If you need to let your property on a […]
What To Do If A Tenant Abandons Your Property?
One of the most common problems that many landlords face is abandonment, or when the tenant leaves the property they are renting before the tenancy has ended and without notifying the landlord or his agent. This usually happens when the tenant is behind with the rent, they don’t want to pay or cannot afford to […]
We’re getting empty homes into use for those in need. Can you help?
According to the charity Empty Homes, the latest Government data suggests that there are over 200,000 empty homes that have been for over six months. When we consider that the number of homeless people is rising each year, and in 2016 reached over 4,000, work must be done to bring empty affordable homes back into […]
