If you use a letting agent, then you’re probably charged a ridiculous fee every time your tenant renews. This can range from 6% – 12% of the annual rental income. Winkworth currently advertises a 9.6% fee for the 1st renewal …
There are many advantages of buying used gear, the obvious being that’s it’s cheaper and better for the environment, the other is the slower rate of depreciation because most of the depreciation happens at the beginning of a product’s lifespan. …
Experiences shape a generation. Just as the Great Depression and war shaped the Silent Generation, Millennials will be shaped by the Great Recession, student debt and another serve recession/depression. Millennials and the Silent Generation have shared similar economic challenges so …
Jan Vlieghe, a member of the Bank of England’s (BoE) interest-rate setting committee recently made a comparison with the UK’s monetary policy and The Weimar Republic. According to his convoluted logic, we …
Amazon Prime in the UK is £7.99 per month (£95.88 for the year) or £79 for a one-off payment. There’s a whole bunch of internet posts (all paid for affiliates) describing how Amazon Prime is …
I remember when you switched on the news they’d nearly always be a story of a post office or bank that had been robbed at gunpoint. Since moving to a cashless society, those days have gone but it means crime …
There’s a lot of talk on mainstream TV about a V-shaped financial recovery (when things bounce right back). This feels fanciful IMO. The other options are “U” (like in 2008), “W” and the dreaded “L”. Obviously, no one knows the …
The coronavirus pandemic is a world-shattering event, the biggest of our generation, dwarfing 9/11 or the collapse of Lehman Brothers. With so much uncertainty, one thing is for sure: there will be lasting political, economic, social and technological change. As I …
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This post will look at 10 steps in how to be a landlord. Using a letting agent will seriously erode your profits especially in a climate with increasing regulation and cost. Moreover, letting agents do such
Paying for property inventory reports as a landlord can become expensive. I could pay up to £415 over 12 months for my 3 bed flat with property check-in and check-out reports. This is a good incentive to do it yourself. …