The tenant’s name comes up on your phone and your heart sinks. The property’s a drive away. The rent barely covers the costs. And Holyrood is about to add rent caps, pet requests and tougher energy rules on top. The Tired Landlord’s Guide shows you exactly how to take each job off your plate, and how to tell when it’s no longer worth keeping.
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Certificates, alarms, legionella, deposits and registration renewals. The ones landlords forget, what getting them wrong costs, and who’ll track them so you never have to.
Every check and how often it’s due, plus the simple monthly habit that stops one emergency repair wrecking your year.
The threshold drops to £30,000 in April 2027 and £20,000 in April 2028. How to be ready without drowning in spreadsheets.
What to do the moment rent is late, so a forgotten payment never turns into months of arrears.
The real monthly sums on a typical one-bed flat in Aberdeen, line by line. Most landlords have never written theirs down.
Why your neighbours can outvote you on a new roof or stonework, leave you with a bill in the thousands, and how to protect yourself before it lands.
Rent caps, tenants challenging rises, pet requests and the proposed EPC C rule, with the date each one is expected.
Letting agent or landlord software? Sell one and keep the rest? How selling with your tenant in place works, and the self-check that tells you which suits you.
We recently helped a landlord called Ben sell 20 tenanted properties without an estate agent, with his tenants still in place.