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A bit of a sloppy report really. These are not BTL hotspots they are second home hot spots some of which might be for BTL but knowing what we do about what happened in 20/21 a lot of these will be holiday homes or holiday let’s. I’m sure there was a small uplift in BTL too because of the stamp duty holiday but that spike won’t have lasted.

From: Dominic Tighe 23 June 2022 09:08 AM

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There are several reasons I’ve switched a number of mine 1. Section 24 2. Section 24 3.Section 24 And whilst more work I can tell you it’s a hell of a lot more than 24% net. However as there is a lot more work involved if they removed section 24 I’d go back to BTL in a flash!!

From: Dominic Tighe 23 June 2022 08:56 AM

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Could you explain that a bit more Rob? I thought they were supposed to improve them and that was the point?

From: Dominic Tighe 20 June 2022 10:20 AM

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And the impact of Section 24 will thus be felt even more acutely

From: Dominic Tighe 14 June 2022 07:37 AM

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It depends what your objective is. If your objective is to get rid of every private landlord in the country then they work very well!!

From: Dominic Tighe 27 May 2022 09:47 AM

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Yep … it was referenced to Whilkie Whielaw I believe and was in fact a “DEAD” sheep!!

From: Dominic Tighe 26 May 2022 08:36 AM

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Daggers drawn??? I don’t think the NRLA know what a dagger is!! I guess they might have damp sponge handy somewhere??

From: Dominic Tighe 26 May 2022 08:26 AM

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The real time bomb here is section 24. The higher the interest rate the greater the pain! There will be a lot of landlords out there who have enjoyed good times with low interest rates who have a very rude awakening coming there way.

From: Dominic Tighe 11 May 2022 10:37 AM

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On the face of it there isn’t much to worry about here if you are a decent professional landlord which most of us on here are and we should welcome anything that helps us to get rid of the rogue landlords in our industry giving us all a bad name. However the devil as always will be in the detail and so I’ll be interested to see how they are going to beef up legislation to take action with bad tenants and I’m sceptical this will reflect our needs because no-one bothers to engage with us. Also as has been mentioned above by a few already where is the register for Rogue Tenants?

From: Dominic Tighe 11 May 2022 10:30 AM

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He’s that made me laugh too. There is so much research out there to show that social housing standards are way below PRS standards.

From: Dominic Tighe 11 May 2022 10:21 AM

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With rates going up the real affect of S24 will be felt that’s for sure. If you haven’t locked in your rates already you are in for a bumpy ride!!

From: Dominic Tighe 06 May 2022 10:29 AM

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Oh and that’s assuming all these evictions were “no fault” which I seriously doubt!

From: Dominic Tighe 27 April 2022 10:57 AM

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Headline grabbing once again with no context. Every seven minutes equates to 75,000 a year out of 11m private renters. Ie .67% of tenancy’s. Put another way 99.32% of private renters didn’t receive a no fault eviction in the last 12 months!!

From: Dominic Tighe 27 April 2022 10:54 AM

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Seriously??? Honestly my jaw has dropped. Where’s their award for “Association least affective at influencing government policy and public opinion?”

From: Dominic Tighe 21 April 2022 10:09 AM

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My thoughts exactly. In one of my areas the housing benefit rate is now 30% below market!!

From: Dominic Tighe 13 April 2022 09:06 AM

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Another survey doing the job of the NRLA. It will fall on deaf ears though because no-one is taking this message to Government.

From: Dominic Tighe 11 April 2022 11:37 AM

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I’ve got a selection of properties in the Norrh East and have been enjoying high yields for a long time. But there’s been no capital growth for over a decade until now as it finally creeps up.

From: Dominic Tighe 11 April 2022 11:23 AM

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At last someone standing up for us …. And where are the NRLA in this once again??? …. Nowhere!! We need a new body that understands the basic concept of PR.

From: Dominic Tighe 10 April 2022 09:47 AM

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The freezing of housing benefit is a big mistake too. The 3 bed rate in South Manchester for example is now 30% below market and that’s in areas dominated by local authority housing. I haven’t and don’t plan to raise any of my rents but how long is that sustainable? After all I will also be facing inflation and higher interest rates even if the government thinks we are some how so rich it doesn’t affect us. One things for certain if rent controls look more likely I’ll have no choice other than to up the rents to market rate because there’s no way I’m getting locked in to under market rent for the foreseeable future and that will doubtless lead to defaults and evictions.

From: Dominic Tighe 24 March 2022 08:47 AM

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I guess if it’s the only way of achieving an EPC level of C I might consider it as long as I felt it was also enhancing the value of the property and gets me more rent , which it might do as the focus on good EPC’s increases. Otherwise absolutely not

From: Dominic Tighe 24 March 2022 08:32 AM

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We definitely need a new body to represent us. The NRLA has been affective as a chocolate fire guard in representing us.

From: Dominic Tighe 23 March 2022 09:10 AM

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So there is an acute lack of supply and the answer is to do everything they can to reduce supply further??? How about removing section 24 and then landlords would have a chance of making a profit. But no let’s get a bigger stick and see if that works!

From: Dominic Tighe 19 March 2022 11:14 AM

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That’s what I do Andrew and I think it’s perfectly fair. Especially as we aren’t allowed to increase the deposit either. But I imagine someone will try and stop this too soon.

From: Dominic Tighe 16 March 2022 14:20 PM

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I have just had to agree this morning to replacing all the carpets in one of my properties as they have been trashed by the previous tenants dog and still smell even after cleaning. I’m fine to take pets but always charge more to cover the extra damage which there nearly always is.

From: Dominic Tighe 16 March 2022 10:53 AM

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Wait so you mean we aren’t the Devil reincarnated?? I’m so confused! Unfortunately nothing will change as this information will stay between us because the NRLA will do nothing with it to change publics perception and sadly for us that’s all that counts when it comes to Policy.

From: Dominic Tighe 15 March 2022 10:18 AM

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I agree with the three comments above. But there are two different types of second home owner here. The first is the one who can afford a second home without needing much or any income from it and I doubt very much can be done about these because if they can afford to leave it empty they can afford to pay extra taxes. The other though are the landlords like us who have switched our model to Air B&B because BTL is no longer profitable or worth the hassle. They can get a bigger stick if they like but the only way to attract me back to BTL would be to remove section 24 and start to see us as part of the solution not the problem.

From: Dominic Tighe 14 March 2022 09:44 AM

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Kilo I’m afraid it’s comments like that that give us all a bad name. Please think carefully before you post as it doesn’t help our cause.

From: Dominic Tighe 11 March 2022 12:04 PM

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Are they asking Mortgage companies to accept benefit applicants too? Or any other financial application for that matter? It’s a simple case of testing affordability. I have lots of benefit tenants that I’m very happy with but if someone came to me with benefits as proof of income I would want to know how much they are getting and how long that has to run? For example they may be on a three bedroom rate but their circumstances show that rate only has a very short time left to run.

From: Dominic Tighe 11 March 2022 11:49 AM

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A symptom of a total lack of joined up thinking. The Government should be listening to Councils and Landlords rather than Shelter and Generation rent!

From: Dominic Tighe 10 March 2022 10:57 AM

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Unfortunately the Genie is already out of the bottle on this one. I’ve done my numbers and even if they were to remove tax relief for Air B&B I will still still make far more money than as BTL. However if you gave me back my tax relief on my BTL’s that would be a different matter as I would make a reasonable amount of money for a lot less work than short let’s instead of making no money with the current position. And I would do it like a shot! I never wanted to do Air B&B these stupid policies made me. It’s just so odd that these people think that just using a bigger and bigger stick on more and more people all the time is going to help.

From: Dominic Tighe 09 March 2022 11:02 AM

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S.K is just another in a long line of Politicians who fundamentally miss-understand the simple concept of Supply and Demand. Pathetic.

From: Dominic Tighe 07 March 2022 11:10 AM

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Couldn’t agree more. As I put it it’s like being asked for a favour off your mugger. If only they could see we aren’t the enemy and so many of us just want to do a good job and be fairly rewarded.

From: Dominic Tighe 07 March 2022 10:11 AM

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There is already a system in place to grant planning for affordable local housing it’s called local councils and social housing. Unfortunately it fails spectacularly on its two key mandates ie it doesn’t build the houses and it delivers a terrible service to its tenants for the properties it does have. So what a great idea to once again deflect the blame away for their total incompetence by pushing it on to us landlords again, whose only crime is to fill the gap left. Build an excess of houses and rent them to local people and you’ll soon see us disappear.

From: Dominic Tighe 23 February 2022 10:38 AM

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And what kind of landlords will stay? The exact ones the Govt want to get rid of. The ones who break all the rules and screw every tenant as much as they can and are happy to ignore the law!

From: Dominic Tighe 22 February 2022 09:46 AM

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As professional landlords like most of us on here leave the market because of all the barriers in our way to doing a good job for a fair return, these are the kind of conmen who will be left behind clearing up on the supply shortage. For every conviction there will be 10 making a fortune whilst flouting the laws and taking advantage of desperate tenants too scared to take action for fear of becoming homeless. But this is what the government wants right??

From: Dominic Tighe 21 February 2022 12:34 PM

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When they decide to engage with us … in other words never!

From: Dominic Tighe 21 February 2022 12:01 PM

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I’ve already sold 25% of my portfolio and converted a third to Air B&B. I make more money overall for sure and pay less tax than I did before all the crap that’s been thrown at us but it’s hard work!! Give me back my tax relief and I’ll put my properties back to AST’s and expand my portfolio again. Bring in rent controls and I’ll just sell what I can’t turn in to an Air B&B. Bring in controls on Air B&B and I’ll just sell everything . I know where I’m not wanted.

From: Dominic Tighe 21 February 2022 12:00 PM

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What happened to common sense in our world?? Buried in the article is a recognition that demand is massively outstripping supply but some how this guy thinks that implementing initiatives that will undoubtedly reduce supply will help improve the situation?? As has been said by many above you just couldn’t make it up! And once more we are the bad guys!

From: Dominic Tighe 16 February 2022 08:56 AM

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Todays articles Article 1. Asks for rent controls Article 2. Asks for more action on bad landlords so more legislation for all of us I expect Article 3. Says please help us house refugees but only at housing benefit rate which these days is usually well below market. Am I missing something?? Once more it’s like your mugger asking for a favour!!

From: Dominic Tighe 16 February 2022 08:44 AM

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Sad but very possibly true!

From: Dominic Tighe 15 February 2022 12:21 PM

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Great report but only of any use if the NRLA can get the message through to the general public which so far they have shown themselves to be utterly useless at doing. Both the government and opposition aren’t interested in the current crisis or the even greater crisis looming just that they can carry on blaming private Landlords for the mess they created! As long as the Public continue to believe we are the devil nothing will change. So once again I say “where are you NRLA?!!”

From: Dominic Tighe 15 February 2022 11:08 AM

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Well done for taking the initiative. Each attempt helps to get the message across. Someone’s got to try because our associations are failing miserably. Her responses to you just sum up why we are where we are. Literally no idea!! Just playing politics and is completely ill informed.

From: Dominic Tighe 10 February 2022 11:36 AM

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That’s interesting Jahan. In what capacity did you make these contacts? We need people to engage with them. I imagine your response to the “I’m sure they will find somewhere else to live” must have been incredulity and “is t that attitude what’s got us in this mess in the first place”?

From: Dominic Tighe 09 February 2022 10:48 AM

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It’s like being asked for a favour from your Mugger!!

From: Dominic Tighe 04 February 2022 11:01 AM

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You would have to be very brave to invest in London today. Far too many barriers to entry. Low yields, massive stamp duty, much higher deposits due to gearing and stagnant house price growth. Are any of us surprised? Of course not we’ve been warning the government for years. I guess this is what they would call their “levelling down agenda”.

From: Dominic Tighe 02 February 2022 11:39 AM

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We should all be supporting this register as it’s aims are good. Sadly we are right to doubt it will work because history shows us previous measures have been useless, but that’s not the point in terms of us supporting it. We do need to resist the Layering up of initiatives as it’s too sporadic and costs us more overall. I doubt very much that any of us commenting on this post have much to worry about though as it’s clear we are all engaged in doing the right thing. We’ve all seen what real rogue landlords look like and it would benefit us all to get them out. Sure rents will go up as a result but again that will shine a light on the source of the real problem ie lack of housing. If we push back on everything we just make ourselves look unreasonable and make it easier for anyone who decides to criticise us. We should choose our battles and this isn’t one to fight in my opinion. One final note though …. Once again where is the NRLA???? No comments …. No engagement…. No involvement….. no point!!

From: Dominic Tighe 01 February 2022 09:54 AM

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I feel anything to drive out bad landlords giving our industry a terrible name is a good thing. Having a national register could help patterns to be spotted and best practice to be shared and implemented. A properly thought through policy is required through engagement with our community via NRLA and to work with us in being part of the solution. . However joined up thinking is something our Government has proved itself to be utterly incompetent at and the NRLA has proved itself to be as useful as a chocolate fire guard!! So instead we need to get ready for further hurdles in our way to deliver quality affordable housing to our customers and continue be the whipping boys to divert peoples attention away from the true cause of the housing crisis!

From: Dominic Tighe 31 January 2022 13:13 PM

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I tried to offer a property to the local council for one of mine after the appeal a few months ago … no response!!

From: Dominic Tighe 28 January 2022 10:49 AM

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Still good advice to check whether it’s just a proposal or not. I’m doing this as a standard check already. Agents still appear surprised when I ask to see the whole report rather than just the summary. I often see a summary saying it’s currently rated as E but has potential for C but when you look at the detail the cost to raise it to C would be huge. Also with the current energy crisis a good EPC can become a great asset. I’m just in the process of buying a property that has solar panels already installed which I will be heavily promoting when I advertise it for rent.

From: Dominic Tighe 28 January 2022 10:41 AM

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Agree with everything said by all above and yet still no-one writing these reports talks to us to ask us why we are doing what we are doing!

From: Dominic Tighe 17 January 2022 09:38 AM

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The Buikd to rent blocks in Central Manchester are excellent and high quality. They offer great accommodation to the young more transient professional. Build to rent don’t do family homes though…. Yet! I left the central market a couple of years ago in favour of the suburbs and I’m very glad I did. The yields are better and the capital growth outstrips the centre by miles!

From: Dominic Tighe 10 January 2022 10:15 AM

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Bad policy is always followed by more bad policy to try and correct the consequences. We pray that one day the penny will drop that if Government engage with us we can be part of the solution not just scapegoats… but we aren’t holding our breath. No most of us who have been in the game long enough are already thinking about our next move!

From: Dominic Tighe 10 January 2022 10:00 AM

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A very well written article which comes as no surprise whatsoever to the cohort of Landlords reading it.

From: Dominic Tighe 08 January 2022 11:26 AM

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Changing the name is just painting over the problem and will only be short lived. The real issue is very poor PR on our part. Our associations are badly letting us down with getting our message out there. Until we come out fighting and start exposing where the real blame for the housing crisis lies and highlighting the great work the mass majority of landlords do we will have to keep finding new places to hide!

From: Dominic Tighe 06 January 2022 11:17 AM

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The great irony once again! The article two above talks about attempts to encourage landlords to help resolve the homeless crisis. This is a daily event!

From: Dominic Tighe 23 December 2021 09:22 AM

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12000 people on the housing waiting list and they want to implement rent controls? to improve the situation how exactly? Is there not even just one brain cell functioning correctly in these peoples heads???

From: Dominic Tighe 16 November 2021 13:03 PM

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Does anyone understand Savills definitions of the London Market. They have Prime, Outer Prine, inner commute, outer commute and suburbs plus maybe others? . Does anyone have a map showing what these are? All the above are suggesting double digit growth so what’s left must be going backwards to get an average 5.6% but where are those areas?

From: Dominic Tighe 10 November 2021 12:32 PM

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They are coming too. And it’s a good thing. By raising our game we will survive and perhaps get a bit less criticism!! Market dynamics will always win over any Government initiatives.

From: Dominic Tighe 03 November 2021 09:14 AM

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I sold my two Penthouses in M1 central Manchester just before the Pandemic to buy more family homes in the suburbs. Whilst they were beautiful apartments and gained great rents for many years I could see the writing on the wall and I’ve been proven right. There are thousands coming on to the market at the moment. The real story here though is that Governments should stop fiddling with tax rates and licensing and facilitate improvement in the market through legislation and then stand back and let market dynamics do the rest. I’ve always said I’ll happily be made redundant as a result of the market moving past me, it’s up to me to protect my business model by staying competitive.

From: Dominic Tighe 03 November 2021 09:11 AM

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Jim / Michael I understand where you are coming from. My opening statement was that a “well run” scheme is where we should start. I do have a couple of properties that qualify and sadly of course I might as well give my money to Shelter for all the good it will do us. But I stand by my points. We need to find a way of getting rid of those landlords giving us all such a bad name. And last year removal of tax relief cost me circa 1.5 to 2k net in my pocket per property so I would gladly pay a lot more than £120 a year on a licensing scheme instead particularly if it actually worked and I stopped worrying I might get stoned walking down the street if it got out I was a landlord.

From: Dominic Tighe 17 September 2021 19:04 PM

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I actually have mixed feelings over this. A well run licensing scheme helping to eliminate poor landlords is where we should have started in my opinion together with some kind of measuring process on standards and excellence to recognise good landlords as well. The bad landlords are the fuel for political parties and the press to keep blaming us for the housing crisis. Anyone who thinks there aren’t a good level of unprofessional con artists in our community is delusional. We should do everything we can to chase these people out of the sector. What I object to is the continual layering up of initiatives. £120 a year is nothing compared to the extra stamp duty we pay and the affect of the removal of interest relief. I’d support a proper national program and pay more if I was respected as a proper business that’s regulated professionally and taxed appropriately like any other business not singled out for punishment as a diversionary tactic away from chronic housing policy failures over decades.

From: Dominic Tighe 15 September 2021 11:04 AM

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Wow. I see pre-judgement and bigotry is alive and well on here!!

From: Dominic Tighe 01 September 2021 12:24 PM

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I’ll be interested in this Webinar. I have a property that’s just become available. These people need our help.

From: Dominic Tighe 01 September 2021 11:37 AM

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The main one for me is the removal of interest relief. I don’t mind managing all the other aspects but if my reward at the end is zero I’m not interested.

From: Dominic Tighe 31 August 2021 10:39 AM

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From the article they appear to be focussing more on penalties than incentives. What a surprise. I have Air B&B’s and I’ve said it before, give me back my mortgage interest relief and I’ll turn than back to BTL’s … simples!!

From: Dominic Tighe 31 August 2021 10:08 AM

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On a more serious note… give me back my mortgage interest relief and I’ll happily convert my Air B&B”s back to BTL. In ain’t rocket science. Take it away from my Air B&B’s and I’ll convert them all to Ltd Company. Whilst expensive there will at least be no capital gains to pay as I can prove it’s a legitimate business transfer to incorpoaration.

From: Dominic Tighe 25 August 2021 11:04 AM

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Thanks for the Data Generation Rent. Sounds like we should all be buying in those areas double quick!! What with booming economies due to more tourists and fewer homes to rent I could actually finally make a few quid back on BTL there!! I best call my mortgage Broker!!

From: Dominic Tighe 25 August 2021 11:00 AM

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Very likely Andrew. Steel is another example. £500 a ton in January £1500 a ton today and suppliers will only hold a quote for 48 hours. A school in Oswestry near me put a 1.2m project out to tender and all 5 invited to quote have withdrawn!

From: Dominic Tighe 11 August 2021 10:37 AM

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Good luck to them getting them built!! The materials shortage and massive price inflation will put paid to that plan. Or they will have to increase prices well beyond the market expectations and that will be good news for us!

From: Dominic Tighe 10 August 2021 11:24 AM

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The trouble with bad legislation is it needs more bad legislation to correct its implications. I have converted 6 of my rentals so far to short lets and I’m doing well out of them. But I’m only doing them because of the ridiculous removal of tax relief. If they backtracked on that I would gladly put them back in to the rental market like a shot as whilst they would still make more money as short Lettings than my BTL’s used to before the removal of tax relief they are a lot more work. And if they remove the tax relief on holiday lets too I will just adjust my model again. For some reason the government seems to think us Landlords are all stupid but in reality we are a very innovative and entrepreneurial group of investors and we will just reinvent again! Make me redundant by all means by building more homes!! It really is that simple.

From: Dominic Tighe 10 August 2021 11:18 AM

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Stephen it’s clear you view your tenants as customers like most of us do. We are grateful and respectful when we have a good tenant and find ways to keep them forever. Sadly it’s not seen that way in social housing. Even sadder 99.9% of the population think it’s the other way around.

From: Dominic Tighe 12 July 2021 11:14 AM

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The big question is whether the NRLA can get this information out to the general public and key influencers and decision makers. Sadly I imagine probably not!

From: Dominic Tighe 12 July 2021 11:10 AM

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Very well put. Out of interest where have you got those stats from?

From: Dominic Tighe 11 June 2021 11:00 AM

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Give us our tax relief back and I’ll be happy to reduce rents. Simples!

From: Dominic Tighe 08 February 2021 11:58 AM

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I have always accepted pets where they are suitable to the property but have asked for slightly more rent to cover the risk. Two years ago I had a tenant with a dog that had puppies. She wouldn’t allow us access for property checks or even to do gas safety etc. In the end after she also got behind on her rent we evicted her. When we got inside the damage caused by the dogs was insane and I was left with a 7k bill!!

From: Dominic Tighe 01 February 2021 09:10 AM

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From what I can see so far it’s just not worth it to a landlord to install an air source heat pump. I’ve had a quote of 9k for a three bed house so I’d still have to find 4K. It might be worth encouraging our tenants if they are on benefits in applying as they can get 10k apparently. But frankly the whole thing is so confusing!!

From: Dominic Tighe 27 January 2021 10:06 AM

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Air B&B don’t own the properties so it’s pointless asking them. I have some myself and helped out in the last lock down for NHS staff. However I still get some bookings even in Lockdown because there are contractors classed as essential workers etc so it’s Tricky and when the properties are empty at least the utilities are low. Plus there are other issues relating to tax in that you mustn’t accommodate anyone for more than 30 days or you get classed as BTL again with the consequence of higher taxation. Sadly these days you can’t even do something good without getting hammered!

From: Dominic Tighe 05 January 2021 11:41 AM

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Agreed as per my points above. Arguing with people who write articles missing the point is in itself pointless! It all just distracts from the real housing policy issues.

From: Dominic Tighe 05 January 2021 11:18 AM

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Once again we are all getting drawn in to an argument with someone who doesn’t understand the whole picture and who is missing the point by piling in with the mob to once again blame us! The reason BTL is attractive as an investment is because there is a market opportunity to be filled as a consequence of simple supply and demand dynamics. And that market only exists because of failing housing policy that goes back decades and continues today. I have long said the government is welcome to effectively make me redundant by getting the National housing stock back up. His comments are accurate to an extent but should be treated simply as passing observations and tackled as such So thank you Landlord today for sharing this article but has their been an official response to this guy? I still still see a woeful lack of defence of our industry.

From: Dominic Tighe 04 January 2021 12:14 PM

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It’s hard to understand why double glazing is not considered a primary qualification. Thus to get the full 5k you are going to have to buy an expensive air source heat pump leaving very little for anything else! Does anyone have any ideas on this? Or where the Air Source heat pumps can be bought cost effectively?

From: Dominic Tighe 01 October 2020 09:45 AM

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Andrew Townshend I think most of us would agree. The point of the thread has been lost. What was been called out was the advocating of illegal evictions and the blanket naming of all tenants who cannot pay their rent as pieces of shit! Comments like that just play into the hands of the likes of Shelter and other campaigning bodies that are creating so much trouble for us all as well as being utterly irresponsible. Now if that makes me a “leftie” I guess I better get a Labour Party membership! We will reap what we sow Andrew.

From: Dominic Tighe 29 July 2020 09:20 AM

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@Paul Barrett Thank you for kind words regarding my nativity and idiocy, I shall of course take great heed of your advice as you are so clearly such a seasoned sage of the BTL world and great business guru. Just a couple of observations to make. Firstly I read with great interest that you have had enough and decided to leave the sector. I am sure the whole housing industry will be devastated to hear this news and miss your well balanced commentary. It of course makes me wonder if perhaps encouraging people like you to get out of the game was the governments intention all along? If it was, and I think we all know what kind of person you really are Paul, then strike one to the government I guess. Shame that it took a massive sledge hammer that affects us all to get the odd rotten nut out of the industry but then I guess Machiavelli would have something to say about that. My second point is that over the years I have worked hard to build a solid business through good working practices and developing professional and mutual respect with my tenants. During that time I have still had my fair share of people who have not paid rents for various reasons and even had the odd property trashed at great expense to myself. And yet throughout that time, even with everything the government has thrown at us, through careful business management and adaptation I have made a very respectable living. Reading your advice it seems even stranger that I continue to make a good profit now. Even through this current crisis, through engagement with my tenants we have been able to find a way through and I continue to make a fair and reasonable living. And if tomorrow a few of my tenants suddenly found it impossible to pay the rent and one decided to take the whole thing out on one of my properties my business model would still survive and I would still be able to put some food on the table. And yet you Paul Barrett, this great sage and commentator of the BTL world, this self confessed Warren Buffet of the housing sector could not survive even one defaulter? To quote you from above “Just one wrongun tenant could bankrupt me” It leaves me questioning your advise and wondering who the Naive Idiot really is …

From: Dominic Tighe 28 July 2020 15:38 PM

Dominic Tighe
Thanks Mark. Im glad we are on the same page.

From: Dominic Tighe 28 July 2020 14:19 PM

Dominic Tighe
@Mark Wilson. I apologise if the my comments appeared in the thread as if they were aimed at you as they most absolutely were not. They were aimed at David Crisp. I think you and I hold the same views and if you read my comments further down I hope you will agree. Sadly reading the comments that then followed leaves me with my head in my hands! I would also implore more of the responsible balanced landlords on here to speak up. Otherwise this site will end up getting used against us.

From: Dominic Tighe 28 July 2020 14:06 PM

Dominic Tighe
Paul Barnett I’m not a troll. I am an experienced LL with 20 properties and 30 years in the game. I have had my share of bad tenants and I have experienced the same level of frustration doing something about them as many others in our community. I have also been very frustrated with the victimisation of landlords by the the press and the government over a number of years. What we need is a serious positive PR campaign showing the good work the mass majority of decent landlords do and the positive contribution we make to the housing sector. Without this the pressure will continue to mount on us and there will be more and more damaging ill thought through legislation that will make life harder and harder for the LL community in general and our tenants. Thus I would appeal to you and all our community to think very carefully before supporting comments such as made by David Crisp above where he has advocated breaking the law to evict tenants and referred to All defaulters whatever their circumstances as pieces of shit.

From: Dominic Tighe 28 July 2020 12:31 PM

Dominic Tighe
100%

From: Dominic Tighe 28 July 2020 11:54 AM

Dominic Tighe
You are clearly either someone who isn’t a landlord and has created an account to make a comment like that to make the rest of us look bad or you are the sort of Lowlife landlord giving the rest of us a bad name. Either way I hope you get what you deserve in life and also get thrown off this sight as we don’t need people like you!! .

From: Dominic Tighe 28 July 2020 10:50 AM

Dominic Tighe
A great and needed bit of PR for our industry. Well done those involved. I’ve been making some of mine available to Friebds and family on the front line and also allowed one of my tenants living in a tiny attic apartment to use my Empty larger Air B&B’s for a bit of a change of scenery and she’s been able to keep going with online personal training sessions too!

From: Dominic Tighe 07 May 2020 13:09 PM

Dominic Tighe
Hey Daniela we are not. It’s just the bulk of the messages posted appear to be the type that then lead to the government and press to tar us landlords with the same brush. I and Karen clearly have more positive views than many and hopefully you are the same. It’s just we tend to be quieter, the angry ones are more vocal so I thought it was time we spoke up!

From: Dominic Tighe 21 March 2020 12:27 PM

Dominic Tighe
I’m glad I’m not alone in thinking this Karen! Some of the comments just leave me with my head in my hands!

From: Dominic Tighe 20 March 2020 15:48 PM

Dominic Tighe
Oh and also a message to the NLRA this is your opportunity too to find the good news stories out there and get your positive PR engine going showing how we , the mass majority of good responsible and diligent landlords, can be part of the housing solution. Your strategy of doom and gloom, threats and scare mongering has been completely hopeless and a total failure not least because most of the predictions have proved wrong. You’ve been preaching to the wrong people, the government don’t care they just do what the press and public opinion says they should do. The Press and general public sadly hate us and see us as the cause of all our housing woes ... FACT!! So this is your opportunity to support us by sending out some positive messages for a change ... come on NLRA prove your worth!

From: Dominic Tighe 18 March 2020 11:49 AM

Dominic Tighe
This is our opportunity to show we are not the hard nosed heartless selfish b******* the press and everyone else portrays us as. Working with tenants to find a way through this is just good business sense! On the other hand we could decide to play hard ball, lose our tenants, not manage to find new ones, give the press even more ammunition to fire at us and leave the door wide open for the government to keep piling more pain on us. We will reap what we sow everyone, maybe, just maybe this is where we get the chance to get the government to ease the relentless attack on us... Opportunity knocks!!

From: Dominic Tighe 18 March 2020 11:18 AM

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