John Raftery, Author at Rent Collection

Would you let one of these in to your rented property?

by John Raftery | Mar 11, 2015 | Evictions, Landlords, Tenants

Most experienced landlords will have had bad experiences with tenants’ pets damaging their properties or causing a nuisance with neighbours at some point in the past. I had a tenant in my early landlord years that had another mouth to feed virtually every time I...

The Housing Crisis and the ‘Disappearing Property Ladder’.

by John Raftery | Mar 10, 2015 | Housing Market

I watched yesterday’s Panorama programme about the housing crisis in this country. The truth is that it is more of a crisis in some parts of the country than in others. Close to where I live now you can find a 3 bedroom terrace house in the centre of a village and...

There must be an election coming – parties are lining up to give landlords a good kicking.

by John Raftery | Feb 25, 2015 | Landlords, Tenants

Whether it’s the Labour Party with their ludicrous talk of rent controls and a National Landlord Register or the recent Green Party leader, Natalie Bennett, making a complete fool of herself on the radio when trying, and failing miserably, to explain how...

Do’s and don’ts for Tenants’ do’s and don’ts!

by John Raftery | Jan 29, 2015 | Tenants

It’s never a bad idea to give some guidance to tenants on what their responsibilities are. It’s all too easy for tenants to not read their tenancy agreement so give them a separate document outlining these responsibilities otherwise they might assume that...

Late rent payments – how to approach them (and how not to)

by John Raftery | Dec 4, 2014 | Rent Collection

I was recently introduced to a black-eyed landlord who proudly revealed that he had got in to a fight with one of his tenants. This came about as a result of him implementing his policy of asking for late rent just once and then ‘popping them one’...