The Landlord will not agree to this as they have no way to enforce it: Once you’ve both signed the (legal) rental contract they have to give you the keys whether you pay the year in advance or not. (View Post)

I think the government is hoping that the new rules around identifying the people running ltd companies at Companies House will put the brakes on this kind of thing. (View Post)

IIRC Hunt played fast and loose with the OBR five year rule by cutting NI but promising that the government would raise taxes in the future to compensate for the lost income. Unsurprisingly it turned… (View Post)

NB. I guess in the future what people in ISAM’s position are going to have to do is get a third party to act as rent guarantor & give them a large pile of cash to cover the risk, repayable at the… (View Post)

Given current practice I expect Labour to decide to ban guarantors in the next Renter’s Rights Bill. Why should people with rich parents have an advantage over those that don’t? (Although perhaps tha… (View Post)