July 2011

*** A more up-to-date version of this article is available here *** Letting agents commonly advocate frequent portable appliance testing (PAT) as another way of creaming off a secret profit from landlords (in whose best interests they are acting!). Annual PAT testing and PAT testing at change of tenancy are all opportunities for the agents…

A tenant contacted me to say their managing agent had contacted them to tell them about the ‘new law’ that means they must inspect her property every 2 months? Is this correct? There are no laws that govern the periodicity of property inspections. In the case of this tenant, it was probably the agent’s cunning…