Letting agents are discriminating against tenants on housing benefit, an undercover investigation has found. Shelter and the National Housing Federation found one in 10 agents in England refused to let to those on the benefit. The undercover investigation found the policy was enforced even if tenants...

Hi All,
I have been renting a property for 2.5 years and never missed any payments never had any major
work done and in fact been a great tenant(says me).

Yesterday I get a solicitors letter saying the owners of my property are using a section 21 form (was enclosed)...

Hi Plan B,
Some advice please if possible,
My son and his partner have just rented a flat, having moved in 3 days ago, the heating does not work properly, the sink is not working as it has tissue paper...

Hi All,

I think this will be a PlanB thread (being the head honcho in this area) But I was wondering what peoples experiences are with Estate Agents when planning to rent a property in regards to fees and also other requests (like Reference Requests etc)

I have recently been...

Ok first thing, is this the right section. I seem to be losing the plot

Right
Someone I know is having a serious problem with a past tenant, he left the house with damage and also 4 or 5 months rent outstanding. The bills to make good the damage are 50% more than the deposit give...

Letting agents 'will have to publish their fees in full'

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 13th May 2014 16:43.

The government has said letting agents will face a new obligation to display full details of their fees both on their websites and in their...
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Starting this month, HMRC are writing to all letting agents and demanding that they hand over details of all landlords and their rental income information.

Agents have 60 days to respond with information, or face an intial £300 fine, and £60 per day until the information has been given....

Tenants 'ripped off' by letting agents keeping deposits

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 28th February 2014 10:26.

Some letting agents are fraudulently taking thousands of pounds from tenants as a holding deposit, not letting them move in and keeping the money,...

I'm hoping for Planb's help on this!

My baby is looking for his house rental for next year at uni. He has found a great place that seems too good to be true. It's an independent landlord with several properties, on Facebook and Twitter. He wants £100 deposit, reduced rent for 8 weeks of...

Equifax in new tenant verification partnership

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 14th January 2014 18:38.

Landlords and letting agents network landlordreferencing.co.uk has chosen credit reference agency Equifax to enhance its tenant vetting services as......

Experian to include rental payments in credit files

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 15th March 2012 19:27.

Landlords and letting agents will have access to information about potential tenants, while Experian says it will strengthen people's credit...
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Letting agents 'rip off tenants'

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 23rd November 2011 18:50.

*Private tenants are being ripped off by some letting agents making "extortionate" and potentially illegal upfront charges, according to a housing...
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Hi

I've offered F&F settlements of 50% ish of remaining balance to CL Finance (originally a HSBC loan debt) and also to Co-op. I've not heard from the Co-op yet but CL Finance said no and want an extra £2825 which I don't have. I received a phonecall on Friday saying they wanted £6400...