Running your let · 22 guides
The day-to-day of running a rental, not just staying compliant: how to let a property step by step, reduce void periods, collect rent reliably, keep good tenants, handle maintenance, and manage the whole let from advert to renewal. Practical, operations-first guides for landlords who run their own properties.
Running Your Let6 October 2026
A rent statement is the record that settles arguments about money: for your tenant, your accountant, a deposit adjudicator and, if it comes to it, the court. What it must show, a template you can copy, and the rule a possession claim holds it to.
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Running Your Let27 July 2026
A large share of buy-to-let stock is leasehold flats, and a leaseholder landlord sits between two sets of rules that can contradict each other: your lease and the Renters’ Rights Act. Subletting consent, service charges, Section 20 major works, and the pet clause problem.
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Landlord Tips3 August 2026
The previous landlord will not reply, and the government has just confirmed it has no plans to make them. What the minister actually said, which alternative checks prove what, and where each one still leaves you exposed.
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Landlord Tips21 July 2026
How to spot tenant fraud before you hand over the keys: fake payslips, made-up employer and landlord references, borrowed ID and guarantor fraud, and the checks that catch them.
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Landlord Tips4 June 2026
Every empty week is rent you never get back. The 2026 system for landlords and agents to advertise, screen and let fast: where to list, the photos and copy that fill viewings, how to price within the rent bidding ban, and how to go from advert to signed tenancy in days.
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Landlord Tips14 February 2026
A spreadsheet stores your dates but never warns you. What slips through, what it costs, why Making Tax Digital changes the sums, and when a spreadsheet is still enough.
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Landlord Tips17 March 2026
UK full-management fees run 10–18% + VAT, roughly £2,160–£3,900 a year with VAT on a £1,500 a month let. Self-managing saves it but you absorb every compliance risk. Side-by-side cost, time and tribunal-evidence comparison so you can decide in 10 minutes.
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Running Your Let6 August 2026
Gumtree, Facebook Marketplace, local groups, SpareRoom and OpenRent all list a rental at no cost. Since 1 May 2026 every one of those adverts must state a specific rent, and inviting or accepting a higher offer is a civil penalty of up to £7,000. The free channels, and the rule that now applies to all of them.
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Landlord Tips18 July 2026
The whole job, start to finish: advertise, take applications, view, reference, sign the tenancy, hand over the right documents, protect the deposit, collect the rent, and stay compliant. The end-to-end 2026 letting process for a self-managing landlord, in the order it actually happens.
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Landlord Tips18 July 2026
An empty property is the most expensive thing a landlord owns: no rent, and often a council tax bill too. The practical 2026 playbook for cutting voids: advertise before the old tenant leaves, keep a waiting list, price to let, and turn a property around fast.
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Running Your Let18 July 2026
Standing order, Direct Debit, cash, an app? How you collect the rent decides how often it arrives late and how much chasing you do. The 2026 comparison for landlords, the new limit on rent in advance, and how to make paying the easy option.
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Landlord Tips18 July 2026
Everyone writes about getting rid of bad tenants. Keeping a good one is worth far more: every year they stay is a void you did not have and a re-let you did not pay for. The 2026 guide to tenant retention: what makes good tenants leave, and how to make them stay.
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Running Your Let18 July 2026
A repair reported and forgotten is how a £120 job becomes a disrepair claim. The 2026 system for handling maintenance: logging the report, your legal repair duties, triaging by urgency, briefing contractors, and keeping the paper trail that protects you.
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Running Your Let18 July 2026
Being a landlord is really a set of recurring deadlines (gas, EICR, EPC, deposit, Right to Rent, rent reviews and tax), each with its own clock. The 2026 calendar of what falls due and when, so nothing lapses into a fine because you did not know it was a deadline.
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Running Your Let18 July 2026
Re-typing the same data into three tools, referencing that happens somewhere else, compliance you track from memory, reports that take an evening. If any of these sound familiar, your setup is costing you more than the software would. The seven signs it is time to switch, for landlords and agents.
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Running Your Let21 September 2026
A tenanted sale does not end your obligations on completion. The buyer inherits a live tenancy with statutory deadlines already running, and you stay liable for breaches until one specific notice reaches the tenant.
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Running Your Let21 September 2026
One tenancy is easy. Eight tenancies are eight separate 52 week clocks, each anchored to a different date, each needing its own notice and its own earliest effective date. What Section 13 now says, and what it means when you are doing it in bulk.
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Running Your Let18 July 2026
Standing orders are set up by the tenant and free; Direct Debits are set up by the landlord/agent and let you change the amount after giving the tenant advance notice. Which one collects rent more reliably in 2026, what each costs, and which one wins for the post-Section 21 regime where every missed payment matters.
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Running Your Let18 July 2026
Under the new Assured Periodic Tenancy regime (from 1 May 2026) a tenant can leave on 2 months’ notice from day one, with no fixed term to break. That is a big change from the AST world. What still applies, what tenants owe if they leave short of notice, and how landlords should handle mid-tenancy departures.
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Running Your Let18 July 2026
Rent reporting services promise to build a tenant’s credit score by sending on-time rent payments to Experian, Equifax and TransUnion. In 2026 the main options are CreditLadder, Canopy, Experian Boost and (through banking) Rental Exchange. Do they work, and is there anything in it for landlords?
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Running Your Let18 July 2026
Tenants increasingly ask for EV charging. When you need planning permission (usually you don't), the landlord chargepoint grant (75% of the cost, up to a cap per socket), the infrastructure grant, freeholder and lease consent, who installs and owns it, and whether the numbers stack up.
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Running Your Let18 July 2026
You are not locked in forever. Check the notice period and the continuing-commission trap first, then the clean handover: deposit, certificates, keys, tenant data and rent records. What to get from your agent, and how to self-manage or move to a new one without dropping a compliance ball.
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Landlord software for the whole let
Advertise and reference tenants, sign the agreement, collect the rent, log repairs and keep the tax figures ready all year. Certificates, deposits and deadlines are tracked alongside, so nothing expires unnoticed.
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