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  1. https://www.wokingnewsandmail.co.uk/news/woking-borough-council-goes-bust-with-ps2bn-debts-619076 How many more will follow? How many were waiting for the first to fall before the floodgates opened? Will anyone be held responsible? hahaha i know the answer to this.
  2. I think it depends on what the Tories want from the next election. The language of the winner of the No10 vote will be telling. If they want another term, i think they will try and dampen inflation, raise rates a little and try to not let it crash too much or rise too much. They wont over spend. They will say we are in tough times and we need to all hunker down. If they feel the UK is a dead duck and dont want another term because of the $!4T storm coming when it all unravels, they will pump billion into the economy, pay for everything, let IRs rise as fast as inflation, whilst giving everyone and their dog handouts for XYZ.... then hand the poisoned challace over to someone else, and the "There is no money" note will be for real.
  3. As Scottbeard said, many resturants, pub, cafes would have had some form of a low footfall time promotion. Its nothing new. Like may retailers would do with Just after Xmas sales (partly to get rid of xmas stock that didnt sell, partly to entice people through the door.
  4. This might be hard to beleive, but my LA is one of the good ones, and has not charged me a single renewal fee in the 8 years i've rented from them. They said that they always charged the Landlord all fees. Honestly they are fantastic, always done house repairs quickly and to a good standard. They have paid me back for repairs/things i have done without prompt from myself, they noticed on an annual inspection that the shower and shower screen was new, as the shower had broke (not a power shower), and the screen was leaking, which i replaced it at my cost, they asked for receipts and paid me back. They say that they want to keep the good tenants, as it makes their job easier, and do things like this to stand out from the rest.
  5. Who knows what goes through a person's head or reasons to do so. I have paid full rent, even through this time, without asking for a reduction. But i would imagine the LA pushing for vacant selling as it would be easier sell in normal times. Not sure about know. LA is THE local estate agent for the village i am in. It was just a Energy Performance Survey. Total time was less than 10 mins. Tenancy renews every year, the LA wouldn't even entertain an AST. End of this month middle of July is historically when they start asking if i want to renew for another year. That gives me a little relief that i might not have to move this year
  6. My Landlord/Letting agent have just performed a Energy Performance Survey. The Landlord has had this house 10 years, and i've been renting it for 8. I asked as to why it was needed, and was given that it just was. This was the first one thats been done under our tenure. Would this mean they might be selling? Our contract ends in September, so a S21 at the end of June would coincide with that. Or is this something that a mortgage company would ask for on renewing a mortgage?
  7. The thing that will annoy me is the reason blamed as to why the crash happened.. it will be 100% blamed in the media etc on COVID-19, and not the choices made by governments and banks over the last 20 years to allow HPI to out perform wage inflation by alot.
  8. This is something i've not thought about, if we need to back into a lockdown type scenario... I think most of the public would ignore it, but if businesses had to close again, that would kill alot more businesses than this initial period of lockdown.
  9. Just been announced in the House of Commons... This will be interesting to see how the industry will react to this
  10. When my LL was selling, the EA described the 3 bed town house as a 4/5 bed town house.... I wanted to be in the house when the viewing took place (i had major issue with the EA before this) The first person to view said "so where is the 4th and 5th bedrooms? And without hesitation she replied "the dining room and garage both can be converted to give the extra beedrooms" I laughed so hard hearing that, the viewer wasnt impressed either...
  11. My favorite is when people say that the property they are living in is both their forever home and their pension... not sure how that works.. one has been adding its also their kids inheritance as well..
  12. They can't do that...its none of their business what or how their employees choose to do on their holidays...
  13. https://www.propertywire.com/news/buy-to-let-landlords-face-seismic-cgt-tax-change "From April 6, anyone who sells a residential property giving rise to a capital gain on which CGT is payable, will be required to make a digital return to HMRC and to pay an estimate of the CGT due within 30 days from the sale completing. People can no longer keep the money in their hands for up to 22 months after selling the property."
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