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06/07/2024

You can rate your rental experience online for free on Asktenants.co.uk, which has thousands of properties rated across the UK! Let’s evict rogue landlords! See some of the eye opening reviews posted on Asktenants.co.uk on the blog below!

Landlord ratings on Asktenants.co.uk suggest mould and damp are the biggest issues facing private tenants. Almost one in ten also having to deal with pests

19/11/2022

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/awaab-ishak-rochdale-alison-tumilty-b2228024.html - Awaab Ishak died ‘as a result of a severe respiratory condition caused due to prolonged exposure to mould’ - Asktenants.co.uk was founded after similar experience, a free to use website which helps private and housing association tenants to rate their landlords/properties online. We lived in a mould and bug infected property for a year and after us the property was rented to another tenant who also suffered. Asktenants.co.uk gives free online platform for tenants to share their experience so future tenants can avoid that problem.

Exclusive: Rochdale Boroughwide Housing chair Alison Tumilty previously held senior post at provider which has regulatory notice against it

17/10/2022

What are UK gilts, why did they crash and how to trade them - all explained in in 6 minutes - A must read blog for every UK citizen to understand what the hell is going on in UK financial system!

A lot of my readers have reached out to me asking what’s going on in the UK as there is so much news but nothing clearly explains what is…

24/04/2022

It been 7 years since we launched Asktenants.co.uk, a website where tenants can review landlords for free and landlords can respond to the review - the website now has thousands of reviews and is still free! We self fund it to keep it impartial - Rate your rental property to make your rental experience count!

NewsLondonNightmare flat led me to launch landlord rating website VIEW COMMENTSMould and moths: Payal Bhavnani, husband Vijay and daughter Freya, five, were tied into a one-year contract on an East Sheen flatBy Merissa RichardsA mother has set up a website for rating landlords after she and her fami...

24/04/2022

UK tenants forced from their homes by soaring rents
- there is no cap on rent rises to protect tenants - even if there was a cap tenants can still be evicted using section 21 notice

Private renters already struggling with food and fuel prices are being hit hard as landlords raise prices in London and nationwide

20/06/2021

On personal side, my 12 year daughter who loves singing mustered up enough courage to record her first song on Smule.

*taylor*folklore*swift*kirsses*folk* - Cardigan recorded by Vijaybhawnani77 on Smule. Sing with lyrics to your favorite karaoke songs. | Smule Social Singing Karaoke app

20/06/2021

Asktenants.co.uk now has thousands of landlord reviews posted by UK tenants. Every tenant completes a survey which helps us analyze the state of rental properties. Below is what we found:

1. Third of tenants in the UK faced boiler, leaks, mould or condensation issues with their rented property. These issues were not resolved by landlords to tenant’s satisfaction.

2. One in ten tenants faced severe rodent infestation in their rental property.

3. One in ten rented properties in the UK receive no sunlight at all during the day.

4. More than half of the tenants would not recommend the property to future tenants.

Rate your rental property now on Asktenants.co.uk.

https://asktenants.co.uk/blog-post/rate-my-landlord-uk/

27/09/2020

The biggest wealth transfer from lower income people to billionaires and higher income people is happening right now in the United States. Lower income people not having any assets will pay for this wealth transfer through ‘inflation tax’ and they won’t even know it. Inflation tax is a tax one in a million people understands. This blog demystifies inflation-tax and it’s catastrophic consequences we are about to witness in the coming decade.

Understand money & Inflation Tax

04/09/2020

From the 29th of August Landlords must provide at least 6 months’ notice period prior to seeking possession through the courts in most cases, except in the most serious of cases, such as incidents of anti-social behavior and domestic abuse perpetrators.

These changes mean that from 29 August, landlords must provide at least 6 months’ notice period prior to seeking possession through the courts in most cases, including section 21 evictions and rent arrears under 6 months.

Notices served on and before 28 August are not affected by these changes, and must be at least 3 months.

The stay on possession proceedings has been extended until 20 September, meaning that in total no tenant can have been legally evicted for 6 months at the height of the pandemic in March 2020.

Landlords must provide at least 6 months’ notice period prior to seeking possession through the courts in most cases.

04/09/2020

Ministers have extended the ban on landlords evicting tenants in England and Wales until 20 September, following fears thousands could lose their homes. In most cases, until the end of March, renters will also get six months' notice if their landlord plans to evict them. Before the pandemic, a notice of eviction was usually two months. Courts had been due to resume cases on Monday after a five-month pause.

The ban for England and Wales now runs until 20 September after fears thousands could lose their homes.

19/06/2020

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced a two-month extension to the government's ban on evicting renters amid the Covid-19 pandemic. New evictions in England and Wales of tenants in both social and privately-rented accommodation will be suspended until 23 August.

"No-one will be evicted from their home this summer due to coronavirus," Mr Jenrick tweeted.

But housing charity Shelter said the announcement was "only a stop-gap".

Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said: "The government has reset the clock on the evictions ban, buying the families who were only weeks away from losing their homes a vital stay of ex*****on.

But she said: "The ban hasn't stopped people who've lost their jobs during this pandemic from racking up rent arrears. Even if they have a plan to pay them back, these debts will throw struggling renters straight back into the firing line of an automatic eviction as soon as the ban does lift.

No-one will be evicted from their home this summer, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick says.