The Secret Landlord
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Landlord. Columnist @Telegraph https://t.co/TSq7TL64Oz All views my own.
Landlord Towers
Joined March 2020
Can I just say: I do enjoy being a landlord. I love providing people with homes. Watching them grow (they stay for years) is a real thrill. What I have beef with is the constantly changing difficult & toxic environment in which I operate. That is what makes me mad & sad.
@landlord_secret @Savills You're right, it does surprise me. Your stream of postings make such depressing reading, your comments in the press would depress a Samaritan! I'm delighted to hear you're actually happy being a landlord & will look out for the upbeat, enthusiastic comments I've previously missed
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@Bitcoin_Cookie @financial_shaw It's not easy to get lending when you're a portfolio landlord (unincorporated) & sizeable portfolio as I'm more of a risk - despite low LTVs, fantastic rental coverage & 20 years experience!
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@marissa_lpx I went to Qatar last year and agree with your sentiments. Although I have to admit I wasn't a fan of the top to toe clothing in 46 degrees, nor that I couldn't hold my partner's hand...
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So govt are saying there's an extra £350m for an additional 2,800 council homes. Have I missed something, but has any start been made on the 1.5m homes they're still promising will be built?
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@ashridgepf Bit confused why this is getting so much airtime - TMW offered me 3.99% for a remortgage of a property last month (which I accepted)
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@ZahrahAullyboc2 @the_conveyancer wasn't that quick, but I was happy with the 3 months (xmas inbetween)
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@The_Landlord I'm with you. My renewal wasn't too much more than competitor but now they've done it £2 cheaper than them so I'll just go with that
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@proptechpioneer It's unbelievable how dirty our streets are. I have yet to understand what my council tax is paying for when it comes to street cleaning
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@The_Landlord But why would you support a system when they have yet to decide metrics of said system??
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@The_Landlord I can understand people's frustration and why they are taking this action. For me, I just pay up as don't want bad credit. It'll take years for courts to sort if lots of people do cancel...
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@TriciaHPH PPS also changing rads is not cheap - was quoted c £140 per rad just for labour, but that was a straight changeover and didn't allow for pipework messing (i.e. if changing single to double panel) It was a lot more cost & effort than originally thought hence the flush
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@TriciaHPH No new boiler hence why did it. The rads I wanted were not cheap when plumber looked at size of some of them (i wanted fancier ones!) hence I've plumped for this solution for now
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@downdutch @The_Landlord Yes, forgot to say - the plumber went round and did that as well. They also had to bang a few of the rads. Two of them were here for c7 hours. I felt it was v good value.
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