Responsibilities of a tenant in cold weather

Norman_Castle

diystarter7 said:

Its rented out. I guess there is no easy option other than to inc something in their agreement, update of agreement etc. I will ask our kid to let off an email to our/same LAS with the same questions we are raising.

LAS?     

lika_86

jonnydeppiwish! said:

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head - it’s normally a requirement of building insurance to leave it in at 10 degrees. 

Not ever in any of my policies. If there were such a condition then I'd expect it to be explicitly cascaded down to the tenant in the tenancy agreement.

chrisw

diystarter7 

We rented a house to a family about 2 years ago. I think they are going away over Christmas back to their homeland in the EU for 2 weeks.

Yet in May you were asking whether you should do BTL?

diystarter7

chrisw said:

diystarter7 

We rented a house to a family about 2 years ago. I think they are going away over Christmas back to their homeland in the EU for 2 weeks.

Yet in May you were asking whether you should do BTL?

@chrisw

Care to post the full context of that post that will not support what you said with the unedited version and link, please?

Thanks

PS - Other than adding to our portfolio which we did not do because of rate rises.

SergeantBaker

diystarter7 said:

chrisw said:

diystarter7 

We rented a house to a family about 2 years ago. I think they are going away over Christmas back to their homeland in the EU for 2 weeks.

Yet in May you were asking whether you should do BTL?

@chrisw

Care to post the full context of that post that will not support what you said with the unedited version and link, please?

Thanks

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6356661/we-are-considering-btl-but-is-it-worth-the-trouble-with-new-laws-around-the-corner/p1

Sounds like you were a first timer rather than someone experienced.

Boat_to_Bolivia

chrisw said:

diystarter7 

We rented a house to a family about 2 years ago. I think they are going away over Christmas back to their homeland in the EU for 2 weeks.

Yet in May you were asking whether you should do BTL?

I think the OP confuses themselves at times and forgets about prior threads/posts?

elsien

From the linked thread. 

It’s not the usual type of post from someone with an existing portfolio so there do seem to be some (accidental I’m sure) discrepancies. 

“Thanks. It is more than a business to us if/when we go down that route as we intended to. It will be our income to build for early retirement.  We would worry about the property and the people living there about them turning out to being nice people and if they were we would want them to be happy as possible and let them live in there as it was their own property.

We have thought long and hard about it, read about it, spoken to people we know about it and picked up on a helpful bit here.
It is a risk and the worst-case scenario is that the first lot of T's turn out to be rubbish. To mitigate this, we will be certainly using a fully managed service via a LA used by people we know the LA has been around for over 40 years. However, we are hoping that with the help of all we get the right couple, family that are looking to rent for at least 12 months and more if possible and should things go wrong, then we know we did everything we could to get nice people in

Income is important but we are prepared to drop the rent for the right people and will not raise their rent after the first year even if rents have gone up if they turn out to be 100%, genuine people.

A couple of builders have said it to me that I ask a lot of questions but then agree it is good practice to ask all the questions before shaking hands rather than moan afterwards

I will use the LA to ask all of the questions and then have a quick chat with the prospective T's. However, as one poster said her, "people can be good actors." Hence, the background and visual checks and considering the reasons they give about moving from their previous place.

I thank everyone here and a few really good points that has either confirmed I am doing the right thing and/or to consider/etc.”

diystarter7

Hi

Please start another thread as this appears to be  IMO an attack on me as the topic is about something else, and  NOT my thread from May 2022 about the possibility of adding property via bTL and at the time possible increases in rates
I may have not made it clear, but we have never gone down the mortgage rates/BTL as we were thinking in our current place.

So, please remain on topic, your choice as I can only request and am clear on where I stand, and feel free to discuss BTL on another thread.


Thanks

SergeantBaker

diystarter7 said:

Hi

Please start another thread as this appears to be  IMO an attack on me as the topic is about something else not my thread from May 2022 about the possibility of adding property via bTL and at the time possible increases in rates
I may have not made it clear, but we have never gone down the mortgage rates/BTL as we were thinking in our current place.

So, please remain on topic, your choice as I can only request and am clear on where I stand and feel free to discuss BTL on another thread.
Thanks

So to be clear, you have a number of rental properties without mortgages?

Section62

diystarter7 said:

Please start another thread as this appears to be  IMO an attack on me as the topic is about something else, and  NOT my thread from May 2022 about the possibility of adding property via bTL and at the time possible increases in rates
I may have not made it clear, but we have never gone down the mortgage rates/BTL as we were thinking in our current place.

So, please remain on topic, your choice as I can only request and am clear on where I stand, and feel free to discuss BTL on another thread.

To be fair, I can fully understand why you would prefer that to happen.

But also to be fair to all users of this part of the forum it would be helpful if you could clarify whether you are a novice landlord, or a landlord of extensive experience.

I have to say when I first read this thread I was wondering why a hugely experienced landlord would be asking such an elementary question, or alternatively why they weren't putting the question to their excellent 'LAS'. But nevertheless I replied in good faith, as I suspect many other forum members have done through the day.