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I am evicting my HB tenant from a property in Oxford as it won't meet the space requirments on one of the bedrooms (6.4 rather than 6.52). I'll then probably sell it back to the council who can then put another tenant in with the same (or bigger) family with no room size requirement.

From: Adam Willett 05 August 2022 20:52 PM

An experienced pet owner like Jen Berezai who has admitted on Property Tribes that her cats got fleas?

From: Adam Willett 23 July 2022 20:19 PM

An HMO is any property where there are 2 or more households (a household is a group of related people (a chain of relationships is OK, rather than direct so 2 brothers and their wives are one household even though there is no direct relationship between the wives)) consisting of 3 or more people. A mandatory licensable HMO is an HMO with 5 or more people. An additional licesable HMO is an HMO which meets the conditions the council set out in their notice. I'm ignoring section 257 HMOs in this. For example, Oxford's criteria are: With effect from the 25th January 2016 Phase 1 of the Scheme applies to: a) Any HMO which is comprised of three storeys and contains three or four occupiers and any HMO which is comprised of two storeys that contain five or more occupiers With effect from the 31st January 2017 Phase 2 of the Scheme also applies to: b) Any HMO which is comprised of two storeys or a single storey that contain three or four occupiers and all self-contained flats that are Houses in Multiple Occupation, irrespective of the number of storeys, but, so far as concerns section 257 Houses in Multiple Occupation, limit the designation to those that are mainly or wholly tenanted, Including those with resident landlords. So, if an HMO had 3 or 4 people in it, then it only requires a licence if it's 1-3 storeys. At the time this notice was issued a mandatory licence only required 5+ people and 3+ storeys. This meant a bunglaow HMO with 5 people in it didn't require a licence either.

From: Adam Willett 30 October 2020 19:12 PM

What is wrong with the current section 13 process?

From: Adam Willett 09 July 2019 01:43 AM

It's not a new scheme and has been around for over 3 years (that was when I joined it). I think it has been around for over 10 years but there were very few members. I believe the granting of 5 year licences for members was to increase membership. When my membership ended in June 2018, I was told there was no need for me to attend a new training session to rejoin as there was nothing new. As some people may be aware, there was new regulations about room sizes for HMOs among other things. The Council may have still been operating under the assumption that the Housing Act 2017 (you have probably never heard of it - it is a non-existent Act of Parliament that the Council try to use to create conditions on HMO licences) introduced this requirement. On the 2 training sessions I went on, I educated the Council staff on several laws they knew nothing about. The scheme is aimed at landlords & agents of all property types. The section on HMOs lasts about 60-90 minutes.

From: Adam Willett 14 June 2019 04:36 AM

So you are up to advising people to commit fraud? Mr Robinson I am not suggesting anything of the sort! So perhaps you can explain what you meant by No more than £7500 will be received in lodger rent as far as anyone is concerned. If more lodger income is received how would anyone know!? So a 3 bed house with 3 lodgers at say £600 each after about £800 monthly expenses leaves a tidy annual lodger income. No CGT; no income tax, no S24. My interpretation of 'as far as anyone is concerned' and 'If more lodger income is received how would anyone know' is you are telling people to not declare their full lodger income on their tax return. Why do you mention the £800 in expenses. These are not relevant if you are claiming the rent-a-room allowance. How is there no income tax with an annual lodger income of £21600? My interpretation of what you are saying (particularly when your post is combined with posts on other websites by someone with the user name Paul Barrett) is that you encourage landlords to defraud the tax man.

From: Adam Willett 03 May 2019 21:35 PM

When the Tenant Fee Ban Bill comes into force, I won't be taking pets anymore. Pet owners need to start a campaign to increase the limit on deposit size. If a tenant keeps a pet without permission, they can expect to get a section 8 or 21 notice pretty quickly.

From: Adam Willett 28 November 2018 14:59 PM

If you don't follow the procedures set out in the Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977, then the tenant can sue you for up to 6 years if you are unable to return their possessions to them. You need to take good care of their possessions whilst you have them. Keeping them under a tarpaulin in your garden is unlikely to be considered taking good care of them by a court (unless the tenant left them in the garden originally).

From: Adam Willett 11 August 2018 19:05 PM

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