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No matter what line of business you are in, if you want to be successful, you will need a team to support you. So if you are operating as a self-managing landlord with no staff, you will need to find your support team from external parties – typically other business owners or self-employed persons. Depending on the skills that you …
Have you been wondering what tasks you can delegate out to a Virtual Assistant? We’ve compiled a list of 50 ideas to get you started: Deal mining Building relations with agents Basic property due diligence Website updates Uploading blog posts Writing social media posts Creating text and image quotes for social media Creating and updating databases Tenant referencing Tenant applications …
Ok, so you consider yourself a good landlord, you cringe when you read yet another blog post which screams out to anyone who will listen how landlords are the devil just trying to get rich off the misery of generation rent. You wish they would actually stop and realise that actually, we in the HMO industry are actually doing many …
Do your tenants call you at 11pm at night to complain about a housemate stealing their milk? Are you often drawn into bickering amongst the tenants? Are you left to organise the rubbish each week, or end up popping into the houses to give them a quick clean between visits by the professionals? If you answered yes to any of …
Do you receive 100% of the rents charged to your tenants, or do you feel as though you are constantly chasing rent payments? Late and non-payers can seriously disrupt the financial health of any business operation. But more importantly, the stress it adds to your day, and the attention it demands of you away from your other important activities, feels …
In part one of this article (https://senecarooms.com/2018/04/15/gdpr-for-landlords/), I covered the main elements of the General Data Protection Regulations and gave some explanations of the terminology and how it all relates to landlords. If GDPR is new to you, I suggest you go back and read part one to help you understand what it’s all about first. In part two here, …
Throughout the course of running a landlord business, we collect, use, hold onto and share our tenant’s personal data. Because of this, we will need to comply with the new General Data Protection Regulations, coming into force on May 25th 2018. GDPR is about seeing our customer’s (tenant’s) data as a valuable asset and treating it with the due care …
The first business I ran (together with my brother in the 90’s) was in an industry that was exploding with popularity at the time. We were at the crest of a pretty powerful and exciting wave, I was working long hours, six or seven days a week, I barely ate (because I didn’t have time), and was mostly functioning on …
VOID. It’s a four letter word alright! And one that puts a shudder through many a landlord’s bones. I know it certainly puts some fire under my pants if I have a room coming empty soon and I haven’t yet found a replacement, let alone the stress I feel if a room or more are empty for any period of …
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