An anti-squatting service is trying to match up owners’ long-term empty properties, including those of private landlords and house sellers, and people looking for affordable accommodation in the London area.
Guardians of London offers an anti-squatting ‘guardian’ scheme for empty residential and commercial buildings throughout London.
Guardians are carefully vetted and come from key-worker sectors and the professions. They live in the buildings in shifts 24 hours a day, thus preventing vandalism and invasion by squatters, and are responsible for keeping the building tidy, clean and safe.
For some property owners, the use of guardians avoids the need for hiring expensive security companies who are not always able to patrol all parts of a building.
Also, as the guardians are paying an amount of money per week to live there, the owner is earning revenue from the empty building rather than leaving it empty, and having to board it up.
Guardians themselves benefit by securing affordable housing, often in areas in which they would never normally be able to afford to live.
https://www.guardiansoflondon.com
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We came accross Guardians a few weeks ago after spending a considerable ammount of money securing our property.
The team at Gurdians were very helpful and after a short time we had 3 live-in Guardians at very little expense to us.
And now we are actually receiving an income from the very people that are there to protect our empty property.
An absolute no-brainer in terms of security.
I would recommend this to eveyone
As a registered HA we used a security company for many years,the average costs for security was £200-£300 per month.Having spoken to GOL today with costs rising they have offered us a scheme with a 75% saving well done landlord today