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A foreign name I see.How do people sleep in his country? It may just be that this person had no idea they were out of the ordinary and breaking laws. I have been to many of these countries and well know that British luxury does not cut it. Now thousands of home British landlords are going to be hammered by Brent Council for no useful purpose. If the council ever wanted to catch this tenant then they should be hammering the tenants - not the primary landlord. Ity is tempting to ask some further pertinent questions but I had better not. Must be PC you know!
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23 July 2018 18:33 PM
Yet another example of a council dragging other people down to their standards. They can never do a job on time so of course no else can. I had a property report come in a few weeks ago. The shower was running hot and it needed fixing. Nobody rushed about that but I was suspicious so i went into the property myself. Nothing wrong with the shower at all, whatsoever. Scratches head. Light bulb lights up over head. I will check the boiler. The tank stat had failed so the boiler was regulating on its overheat stat. so tank was running at about 85 deg.No complaint form the tenant, only from the agent after a routine visit. Then a misdiagnosis and further seven days for me to get organised for a simple fault I was told.. Very quickly realised it was a serious fault but I don't have a P certification, issued by the blasted council, to do the work so another five days to get a registered plumber and so on. I am more than capable of doing that sort of work but the asinine legal system we have would have declared me guilty of putting peoples life at risk and hit me with a big fine. My point, four days is far too short a time for setting legal proceedings. Not even a decent landlord can work to that even if they are standing by the plumbing whatever when it goes wrong. The world of maintenance is a complete mystery to the minions of the UK. Mr Wilson has a very valid business point.
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20 July 2018 11:11 AM
I know my costs will not be covered and even if they were falling property prices also come into play. Yes I know the values will go up again with inflation but I have just reached my four score and ten years so I want my value now. First property already sold. As the flats become empty they are going on the market. Long term tenants need not worry, they are worth gold dust to a landlord.
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16 July 2018 09:29 AM
If you want to do something in this world you need a qualification. The qualification for living here, at its simplest, is a UK passport. Driving licences are now linked to the passport records so getting a passport should be easier. Get a passport and don't waste other peoples' time and sympathy by moaning about your misfortune. Life in our world always has been and always will be tainted by free loaders and unwanted enemies as well. In the past you just kicked out people who were not wanted and could not speak your language and did not know your religion. Those days are gone and the number of free loaders has exponentially increased. To my mind setting up your legal qualifications to live somewhere is one of the very important things that you have to do. Genuine passport /right of residence applicants should have little trouble if they have the money (which can often be scrounged from a charities). Refugees will have been given documentation when they arrived in the UK. I won't go on. There is no point. If you are a parent then one thing you must do is make sure your child is registered at birth and make sure your child knows the details of this or has their birth certificate. Within the last few months DNA sampling analysis has reached the point where it can be used as an ID document. This is the future for identification and the making of government records. It will also meant that your identity can not be lost. The days of Mr Khan saying he is not Mr Khan and the Mr Khan who is needed is his cousin who has left the country will soon be gone for ever. ( Use whatever name you like for your own nationality).
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05 June 2018 12:54 PM
Please, this is supposed to be a specialist site where the readers know a lot about the subject. I am sure Mark Burns knows his subject so can he have another try? This country is awash with articles of superficial content used as click bait. OK, so I clicked. Then what? I think I can say that I am way ahead of this article but I am interested to see some hard data or to be pointed some. The article is clear and I can agree with all of it but it has no interest.
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09 April 2018 14:45 PM
I think you are all wrong. I was a first time buyer when Harold Wilson's socialist circus closed down the private rented sector with the same crass collections of wonderful laws. There were tens of thousands of small properties vacant , unsold and unsellable. They were no use to landlords because there could be no profit in consequence of the laws. They were no use to first time buyers because they would never be able to sell them on when the wife announced some exciting family news. They were no use to mobile workers for the same reason again. Nobody would let them because of the risk of a bad tenant moving in ans sitting there rent free for as long as they wished and expecting free maintenance every time they trashed the houses. We had exactly the first time buyer cash problems which the current generation think are a brand new phenomenon. To stress the point: Me and the misses camped near an area where we wanted a house. It turned out to be a late snowfall weekend like the one we have just had. Our tent was very cold but we were able to carpet it with a thick layer of estate agents property flyers. They were so desperate to find buyers they just gave us every leaflet they had in the office. In fact it was worse than that. Some properties had been placed with four or five agents.
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13 March 2018 20:32 PM
My proven experience with single mothers or low income families with children is that renovation costs will most likely be high or very high. That is just a fact and I make no comment but I will in future need a lot of good evidence about someone like that before I give them a tenancy. Give me the evidence of good house care and have it confirmed and I will be quite happy to risk it.
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27 February 2018 19:10 PM
Dare I say this? I suspect some courts will be stupid enough to believe stupid claims. In fact they may well have to believe them due to legal guidance they are given by the government.
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18 January 2018 20:07 PM
And a lot of skilled people who bought 20-30 years ago will have achieved their objective of getting a decent pension to compensate endless rounds of redundancy due to asset stripping or increasing shareholder value and seen their pension funds blatently ripped off by professional fund companies. I am one of those people Age 40 twenty five years ago means age 75ish now so its time to sell up and dissipate the cash. Yes of course a lot are over leveraged and they have been very lucky to get away with it so far. The rest of us have done it sensibly and quite honestly I couldn't care less about the equity. It is no use put in my coffin. In any case the original equity is almost peanuts after inflation. I will do something for my children of course but that will be after any payments I need for the near future. If I was starting again I would do things differently. "Things have changed". I can see that and know how to handle it. Unfortunately there is little point. If you are a youngster then go for it. Looking at the current tax situation I think UK families will have to take a lot more care of their family structure and finances. Immigrants do this already.
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18 January 2018 11:51 AM
I wondered what the real reason for this tax is. It is just a back handed way of getting money from central government via creating a tax allowable charge. Landlords are just the piggy in the middle as they say.
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19 December 2017 10:14 AM
There are one or two lines of fact here and the rest is idealistic nonsense. You can reduce your two million considerations to a couple of dozen "actual" downsizers. I am an older person who would love to downsize and could afford to do it but I I'll b damned if I am going to move into some special development, pay rent, most likely pay fraudulent ground rent charges, certainly pay a huge some in taxation charges, only ever associate with other utterly boring old people, give up my garden and take to owning a tiny car because there is no where to park a normal sized one. Add to that the absence of bus services or where there is one service a day, one way and it comes back the other way the next day. Perhaps that is too severe but a lot of evening buses go into town early evening and then stop running. An utterly useless service. I agree there is a huge difference between old people and vulnerable old people but that goes for any age. This next point will almost certainly get my comment deleted. The only grim conditions that I ever see are made by the tenants themselves and it costs me a lot of money to clean up, refurbish and repair.
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18 December 2017 13:11 PM
The last time that tenants were given almost total power over landlords the letting market effectively became zero. The only options left were the councils and 'buy your own'. Council properties available for let were as rare as hens' teeth. The only reason that we have a significant lettings market at all is because Maggie T. gave landlords back their rights to manage their property. It was the only way to get thousands of desperate people into shelter. Wales is within an inch or so of re-creating that disaster again. The moment the point of negative returns hits landlords collectively they will stop letting. Be very careful of what your dreams are leading you to ask for!
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05 December 2017 11:54 AM
How true but I would add that a lot of tenants do know what they are looking at either. It is a sad fact that a lot of tenants are not qualified to look after a property. That starts with cleaning and goes on to dangerous things like getting electrical faults sorted or water leaks fixed (which even the worst agent should be able to fix pdq.)
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01 December 2017 10:54 AM
Does the prison sentence now clear his debts? Are his assets going to be sequestrated? If not then six months in jail is nothing to avoid paying the fine.
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29 November 2017 08:57 AM
I have been a scientist all my life and thought I could understand just about any sort of data. What on earth does the data here mean? I can read it and the figures are percents. It might be useful data but it would be common politeness and common sense to display it properly.
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28 November 2017 09:01 AM
Probably just best to keep all electronic utility activity off your property all together? Electronic operators of all sorts are getting to a position where they can collectively control everyone. It is very silly to give others rights to your property. Look at all the wars a bad feeling in the world where one country has gained rights to space in another's country. I consider myself cautious but I suppose that could be another word for paranoid.
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23 November 2017 10:20 AM
Silly, Silly. Sales people have pulled all these stunts for probably 3,000 years. Education in ways of the world as part of your life education is the way forward. Put a brick through the TV, bin the iPhone and get a real life.
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17 November 2017 12:25 PM
Colin, Yes, very much so. I have been watching this for my own needs. Luckily I am/was an instrument designer and can easily find my way through this but Jo Blogs is heading for a very rough ride. I am going to make a strong statement. Most people are clueless about heat transfer, insulation, boiler efficiency, U factors, and above all, thermostat controls. I have watched a 'professional' assessor stuffing information into a computer program without a clue as to what she was looking at in the building. It is difficult to explain but I can see scams and miss information becoming rife. One of the biggest wastes of heat, very common in schools/offices, is whack the thermostat up full at 9am. and then open the windows for fresh air at 11am but leaving the heat on full. There is no regulation to counter this sort of thing. I have a flat built forty years ago.It has glowing energy certificate with a gold star from some defunct government body. Now days the flat barely gets a "D" even after throwing away the useless cheap cheap wooden, rotting, windows with 3mm thick glazing and replacing them with high spec UPVC double glazed units. This flat is in a development of over a hundred units. What is the council going to do with some flats on E/F and some on C/D?. A/B is never going to happen there.
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17 November 2017 12:20 PM
Let's be real! We have regulations from councils and their various departments, fire people, government, freeholders, rubbish collectors, electricians, police, immigration, electric suppliers, landlord registration, estate agents and ID regulations, tax people, gas people, land registry, banks and mortgage lenders, buildings regulations and no doubt a few more. In academic circles you would expect a pHD for someone to thoroughly know all this stuff. Sorry, forgot taxes. How on earth can Jo Blogs who is a factory floor hand get to grips with all this? The real answer is fewer regulations and leave them alone for fifty years so that everyone gets to know them. I think I can say that after the last twenty years of changes.
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laurence meade
14 November 2017 14:25 PM
I think the new batch of tenants rights soon to be inflicted on property owners will just reinforce this trend. My impression is that tenants are/will become more trouble than they are worth. This was true in the period before section 21 was introduced. Sorry if you are too young to remember that. My impression is that very soon we will see a runaway self inflicted drop in the number of properties to let. This will force house prices to rocket as tenants are forced to buy on mass. Once the tenants become owners they will then be preyed upon by all manner of taxes and even when they sell up and prepare to live on the street they will still have to pay tax on the sale of their house. A really good plan for housing is to get rid of all the recent taxes and laws and just let it be as it was. Warts and all as they say. The only law I would keep is the yet to be introduced law about fleecing owners with retained freehold charges.
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