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IMHO the way to do it is to have some trades that you can trust- a good plumber, electrician and a general handyman.
if you can get on the phone ot them to fix any issues then just pay the bare minimum to the agent - don't go fully managed.
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You are effectively telling the agent that you can't be bothered to take a few phone calls and they should charge you accordingly.
We had not problems managing quite significant renovation works from a different country too- it is about having some people you can trust.
This was back in 05, before smart phones were a thing- now there is no real reason to do it, I think.
YMMV of course.
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IMO an agent totally rips the tenant and the LL, we do all our own checks and have refunded virtually every tenant in full since we started.
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From hmrc website
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Expenses you can claim if your property is fully furnished - to 5 April 2016
If the property you let out is fully furnished, you can elect to claim a wear and tear allowance. A fully furnished property is one let with enough furniture, furnishings and equipment for normal residential use.
Wear and tear allowance isn’t available for Income Tax purposes from 6 April 2016. You may be able to claim Replacement Domestic Item relief instead.
The wear and tear allowance is 10% of the net rent.
The net rent is rental income less any costs you pay that a tenant would usually pay, such as council tax or utility bills like gas, water, and electricity.
The 10% wear and tear allowance covers things like:
If you do claim the 10% wear and tear allowance, then you can’t claim the cost of repairing furniture and equipment covered by the allowance or for renewing small items such as broken crockery or missing cutlery.
And you're right - even until April 2016 that would make for all the costs here with ease.
Looks like I am in for another "unfriendly" chat.
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No gas in the place makes it a bit simpler.
My brother lives round the corner and can do PAT testing if required (proper paperwork and everything), although I don't think we will be providing portable appliances.
What I am sure of is the agents were parasites: they charged me £150 to renew my rental agreement after a year, which consisted solely of me going into their office and signing a photocopy of the previous one (complete with the same unrectified mistakes which I then had to change by hand). Presumably they charged the landlord the same or even more.
I will check that though to be sure.
Then the landlord came round and basically said the entire house needed redecorating and that we'd stolen her alarm system(?!). The quote went from £220 to £995 which funnily enough was the full deposit.
The best bit was when she said the garden needed completely stripping and tidying.
My father in law is a landscape gardener and so predicting this would happen he had carried out the work a week previous. I showed her dated photographs of him doing it in his full branded uniform, and a receipt.
Instead of saying sorry my mistake her reaction was to say that it wasn't good enough and that he was shit.
Ended up having to take it to the deposit scheme because she wouldn't entertain the idea of being reasonable.
Their final response was that just because she wanted her house to look nice doesn't mean we should pay for it.
I think I ended up paying £300 and got the other £700 back. The only reason I paid £300 was because I was honest and said that the point she'd raised about the carpet being dirty was fair enough (kids and a dog).