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From Tessa Shepperson. Tessa, editor of www.landlordlaw.co.uk, ponders on life, the universe, and residential landlord and tenant law

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Last Entry: November 25, 2009 at 08:47:00

Burning wood

Posted on November 09, 2008
A couple of years ago we had an energy audit of our house. One of the suggestions made was that we had a wood burning stove in the living room. So when a small savings policy matured recently we decided to have one installed.Our energy audit man had recommended a local firm so we duly went to see them in July...

God Bless America!

Posted on November 05, 2008
I am not often excited about politics. Certainly not foreign politics. But like many, I have been swept up and away by the Ombama campaign.In common I suspect with many British, I had never heard of Barack Obama until recently, and I suppose vaguely wanted Hilary Clinton to win because I had heard of her, sort of agreed with her, and she was a woman...

Another tenancy deposit decision

Posted on October 29, 2008
This is a report of a case kindly provided to me by Simon Parrott of Palmers Solicitors. I am writing following a recent hearing at Bedford County Court on 28th October, to let you know the result of my case. I act for the landlords. The circumstances of the case were that the tenancy deposit had not been protected at the time that it was taken (1st June 2007)...

Two B&Bs and one Hotel ? three book reviews in one

Posted on October 26, 2008
From time to time I do book reviews on the Landlord-Law site, and several of these have been for a publisher called How to Books. They specialise in publishing really nice self help books on a wide range of topics. Books reviewed for them in the past include Tony Booths excellent Buy to let Handbook and How to Invest in the UK Property Market by Gerry Fitzgerald...

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The Deposit Protection Service ? problems answered

Posted on October 20, 2008
Since the tenancy deposit protection regulations came into force in April 2007 I have done quite a few blog entries on this subject, and there have been many comments from landlords and tenants. Some of these have been highly critical of the company running the custodial scheme, The Deposit Protection Service (DPS)...

Tenancy Deposit Protection ? test case?

Posted on October 20, 2008
I have been contacted by a London tenant who is bringing a claim against his former landlords and their agents under the tenancy deposit protection legislation. He is looking for a local firm of solicitors to assist him with his claim (preferably on a pro bono or ?no win no fee? basis), which he hopes will be a ?test case?...

Twitter update

Posted on October 19, 2008
I wrote a blog entry about twitter when I first signed up. However on reflection perhaps this was a bit negative. Having used twitter for a couple of weeks I feel it is time to give a more positive update.I have found it really good. I am now putting notifications of all new developments on Landlord-Law onto twitter so anyone who want to know what I am doing can follow me and find out...

Poverty is a state of mind. Discuss.

Posted on October 16, 2008
I read on the internet that yesterday was blog action day on poverty. I have rather missed the boat on that, but perhaps I can put in my tuppence ha?penny worth now. And be a bit controversial!So. Poverty is a state of mind. Is it? If you live in somewhere like Africa during a time of famine, then no, it is real and there is not a lot you can do about it...

Go to work on a poem

Posted on October 14, 2008
When my son Patrick was younger (he is now 12) we often read poetry together, but we hadn?t done any for quite a while. Quite by chance I was looking through a poetry anthology (looking for a reference) recently during that part of the morning before he goes to school, and suggested that we read a bit...

Amazon inflation

Posted on October 09, 2008
Having written a book review of Make Cash in a Property Market Crash by Mark Homer and Rob Moore, I went as I usually do, to put a link from my review page to the book on Amazon. I was amazed to see however that the book had a sale price of �105.75. However the book itself, on the desk before me, had a price on the back cover of �16...

Strutting my Stuff

Posted on October 09, 2008
I have had a few gratifying initiations to speak recently. Last month I spoke at London Landlords Day and also to the Lambeth Landlords forum, which were both very enjoyable. This month I am due to speak to the CLT 11th Residential Landlord & Tenant Update Conference 2008 on 23 October, where I will be giving a possession proceedings update...

Energy Performance Certificates ? have you got yours?

Posted on October 01, 2008
Today is the day that the regulations regarding Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) come into force. If you are a landlord you now need to provide an EPC (or a copy of one) to everyone who asks for particulars of your properties, and/or all who view your properties, or at the very latest, by the time the tenancy agreement is signed...

Tenancy Deposit Protection Schemes - news and views

Posted on September 30, 2008
I have seen several news items on the internet recently (eg here) quoting a report from the My Deposits tenancy deposit scheme, which apparently says (I have not been able to find the original report) that tenants are losing out, as 12% of claims are lost by tenants not properly following the terms of their tenancy agreement...

Saving pdf tenancy agreements and forms

Posted on September 24, 2008
The Landlord-Law tenancy agreements are all in pdf format. This has always been the case, for a number of reasons. Most people can access and use pdfs whatever sort of computer they have via the free Adobe Reader (which you can download from www.adobe...

Tenancy deposits ? another happy customer

Posted on September 24, 2008
One of the tenants who posted comments to my item on tenancy deposit protection - 62% failure, subsequently bought my kit 2 and was on the point of issuing proceedings. She has now contacted me to say that her landlord has finally caved in and paid back the whole of her deposit...

Twitter twitter, tweet tweet ?

Posted on September 21, 2008
I have decided to go on to twitter. For those who don?t know what this is, it is one of those social networking sites from America. You sign up and then every now and then you do a tweet. This is a short statement of what you are doing. Like 'I am having a cup of coffee' or 'I have just put the washing into the machine'...

Guest article ? a view from the United States, from Kelly Kilpatrick

Posted on September 19, 2008
The Landlord-Law blog being a British blog, generally only looks at housing in England and Wales. However, this article, kindly provided by Kelly Kilpatrick, gives a transatlantic viewpoint. Note that the opinions expressed in this article are those of Kelly and do not necessarily reflect mine...

Credit Unions and Local Housing Allowance

Posted on September 17, 2008
As I have written about before, Credit Unions can provide a useful service to tenants who want their Local Housing Allowance payments to go direct to their landlords. Many tenants prefer this, as it prevents them spending the money by mistake and thereby making themselves vulnerable to being evicted...

Affordable housing is not affordable

Posted on September 10, 2008
It seems that 'affordable housing', a term much bandied about nowadays, is actually not really affordable at all. Generally the phrase is taken to mean that the property is available at below full market cost or rent. Much is often made of the 'affordable' element of housing in new developments...

Another mortgagee / tenant eviction case

Posted on September 09, 2008
I have another mortgagee evicting innocent tenant case for you. Here I was consulted by the letting agent who had been contacted by the distressed tenant. She had just found out she was being evicted, after having received the normal notice which is served on the occupier of the property in these cases...

The Sheffield Case

Posted on September 08, 2008
The Residential Landlords Association is pretty pleased with itself, as it has successfully challenged a claim by a tenant, supported by the CAB, against a landlord who was in breach of the tenancy deposit regulations.As regular readers of this and other housing blogs will know, the regulations appear to say that if a landlord fails to protect a deposit under one of the government authorised schemes, and serve a notice containing prescribed information on their tenant, within 14 days of receiving the deposit, they will be ordered by the court to repay the deposit (or protect it with the custodial scheme) and pay the tenant a fine of three time the amount of the deposit money...

London Landlords Day 2008

Posted on September 05, 2008
Thursday was London Landlords day ? this is an annual event put on by all the local authorities in London for their landlords. It is currently run on their behalf by a company called Accession. I was doing a talk called 'Dealing with Tenants Rent Arrears'...

Responsible Renting - the final report

Posted on August 24, 2008
After having got back from holiday, settled back in, and dealt with the back log, etc, I have finally got around to reading what is the final report from the Law Commission on their housing projects.The new legal team on Nearly Legal got in ahead of me with a rather depressing report, taking the view that the proposals are basically ineffectual, and the government probably won?t take any notice of the report anyway...

EPCs - a step in the right direction

Posted on August 03, 2008
Reading my Observer today, I came across an article on Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), which as many of you will be aware, will need to be provided by landlords to prospective new tenants after 1 October.The article however is more than a bit on the negative side, pointing out that landlords have no compulsion to carry out any of the recommendations set out in the EPCs, and that older properties will appear in a bad light not withstanding the fact that landlords may have done all they can...

Tenancy Deposit Protection - 62% failure

Posted on July 31, 2008
I read a news items on the Deposit Protection Service website today which reported a survey showing that 62% of private landlords are flouting the tenancy deposit rules, and not protecting their tenants deposits. If this report is true, and I suspect it probably is, or at least very near the truth, then this means that only letting agents and the better landlords are complying ? meaning that those the scheme is really aimed at are ignoring it...

Solicitor sues the court!

Posted on July 24, 2008
There is an interesting news article in the Law Society Gazette today about a solicitor who is so fed up by the appalling service provided by the Central London County court (CLCC) that he is bringing a claim in the High Court! The claim is for a judicial review to force the CLCC to list a landlord and tenant claim for hearing...

Thank goodness for Geograph

Posted on July 20, 2008
When I upgraded up web-site recently I left reviewing the Local Authority Directory for a later date. This is a very large section of the site, which covers all local authorities giving the LA web-site and contact details for housing related information...

Tesco Law in action

Posted on July 17, 2008
A few weeks ago, I was (initially) somewhat flattered to receive an invitation from a financial organisation (who will remain unnamed) regarding the delivery of a new possession proceedings service. "I am aware of your expertise in the field of residential landlord and tenant law" ran the letter, "and am writing to you to explore whether we can work in partnership together"...

NLA / NFRL merger challenge

Posted on July 13, 2008
The big news in landlord world at the moment is the recent announcement of the merger of the two big landlords associations, the National Landlords Association (NLA) and the National Federation of Residential Landlords (NFRL).However I am sure many landlords will be frustrated to read that there appears to be a question mark over this happening, due to wrangling at director level...

The future is orange

Posted on July 11, 2008
If you visit Landlord-Law today, particularly if you have not been there for a while, you will find that it has become rather, well, bright! We have had a bit of an upgrade. After a rather depressing start to the year (for various reasons) I decided that things needed a bit of a shake up and commissioned my web-designer, Gill, to do me a radical new web-site design...

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