Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

gf
Those repairs are just the normal repairs that private Tennant's have. Long term private Tennant's also have building repairs, roof, repainting the structure with scaffolding. These are often via a sure of costs or service charge and usually both. Council Tennant's should be the same as long term leaseholders.

Britain cannot offer flood protection to both town and countryside from the kind of "extraordinary" weather it has endured in the past two months and so would have to choose between the two, the head of the Environment Agency has warned.


Lord Smith said some properties and land in low-lying rural areas would always be vulnerable to flooding, even if all the measures for which flood victims have been campaigning were implemented, including dredging rivers in the stricken Somerset Levels.


Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Smith defended the agency's "proud" record in defending more than 1m homes from flooding this winter. And he suggested it was right to prioritise "front rooms" over farmland after budget cuts to the agency.


Lord Smith, a former Labour cabinet minister, wrote: "Yes, agricultural land matters and we do whatever we can with what we have to make sure it is protected. Rules from successive governments give the highest priority to lives and homes; and I think most people would agree that this is the right approach.


"But this involves tricky issues of policy and priority: town or country, front rooms or farmland?"


He warned that resources for flood protection were limited. His agency is facing 1,400 job cuts after a 10% reduction to the budget of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in the last spending round.


"Flood defences cost money," Lord Smith wrote, "and how much should the taxpayer be prepared to spend on different places, communities and livelihoods – in Somerset, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, or East Anglia?


"There's no bottomless purse, and we need to make difficult but sensible choices about where and what we try to protect. We need to make difficult but sensible choices about where and what we try to protect."


Smith also repeated the agency's wary approach to dredging rivers in the Somerset Levels in the face of continued calls from marooned communities for better river maintenance. He said dredging would provide only "some benefit", adding that there were "no quick fixes in the face of this kind of extreme rainfall".

Two-thirds of Britons think benefits system is 'unfit for purpose' and should be scrapped, new poll reveals

YouGov research suggests majority want tough new rules on benefits
More than half of Britons think £208million-a-year welfare state is broken
Three quarters also want tougher rules on immigrants claiming benefits

Two out of three people think the current benefits system in Britain is 'unfit for purpose' and should be replaced by tougher regulations, a new poll has revealed.

The survey of more than 1,800 people suggested the majority of Britons think the £208million-a-year welfare state is broken and should be scrapped in favour of new rules about who can claim benefits.

The YouGov poll, commissioned by Channel 5, also revealed that 76 per cent oppose immigrants being allowed benefits in their first year of residency.

sticky - 36191 is a nonsense ...... there is the world of difference between acceptable and sensible tax avoidance which even HMRC would not dream of challenging, and "aggressive" schemes which are almost asking for trouble ..... so you don't answer that secondary issue that i raised

more to the point, you have still not come near to addressing the initial question asked

Something in yesterdays papers about HMRC clamping down on tax avoidance cyners.

Haystack - 03 Feb 2014 11:04 - 36195 of 36198

gf
Those repairs are just the normal repairs that private Tennant's have. Long term private Tennant's also have building repairs, roof, repainting the structure with scaffolding.........ends

Well thats strange mine dont and I have over 30 in terrace type houses. As far as I know Im responsible for the SHELL Of the house but Ill look it up as it may have changed but Im sure Id have picked up on it.

Ive got the WHICH book for landlords and tenants.

Ill get back to you.

that has always been the case, but for sure it will primarily refer to the aggressive schemes, and just possibly to people who set themselves up as a company but who really only have one employer/client or similar and are thus not truly trading or even investment companies

Cyners do you do the roof and building repairs or do you leave it to your tennant to pay for it?

Just phoned a pal and hes like me he pays for all outer building repairs, landlord insurance like me aswel.

i would have thought that structural repairs - eg the roof - would probably fall into my domain, though i'm not entirely certain - and both my props have new roofs anyway

however, window frames and the like tend to be for the tenant .... all these things are usually comprehensively covered in the lease whether FRI or AST

even if any repairs are for the tenants' account, simple internal cosmetic stuff aside, i would want to control who was carrying out those repairs to minimise the chance of cowboys

They are probably short term tennbancies. Council tennant's have security of tenure and tend to be long term tennant's. I would prefer them to be treated as leaseholders. In fact I would bring back security of tenure to most tennants

All mine are Ordinary Assured Tenancies, Part Furnished and long term tenants in the main.

But Hays as got me thinking Im missing a trick here.

Going to have to look further into this.

none of mine are furnished ..... at least my posh site has a very long term AAA client in the commercial section, and an overseas banker in the residential

T Yeo,

Deselected.

Interesting, can I suggest a few more.

Mind with Pickle's physique we can afford to wait.

yahoo tell us "Beginning 21 March 2014, we will be providing our services from a single European entity based in Ireland."

now why would that be?

Tax, non payment of same, what else?

"really?" he said in total astonishment

I know, shocked and stunned here!

Update - Labour lead at 5
by YouGov in Politics
Tue February 4, 2014 6 a.m. GMT

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 3rd February - Con 33%, Lab 38%, LD 11%, UKIP 11%; APP -25