Tag Archive: record keeping

Remembering your lodgers with a guest book

Get your lodgers to sign your visitors book before they go

Lodgers are generally nice .. I have written quite a bit here about problem lodgers, eviction and the like, as these are things which worry people, and which have therefore been popular topics on the blog. However it is important to remember that most lodgers are lovely. I had six years of taking in lodgers, [...]

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Portable Appliance Testing : PAT for short

An incorrectly repaired plug

PAT stands for Portable Appliance Testing. A portable appliance is basically any appliance with a plug attached to it. For example personal computers, and their equipment (monitor, speakers etc), kettles, irons, leads, cables, toasters, printers, etc There is a very good and informative web-site here from which you can see that PAT testing is mainly [...]

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Lodger Landlord Documents Shop opens

Buy your legal paperwork at the Lodger Landlord Documents shop

I am pleased to announce the opening of the Lodger Landlord Shop!  This is a separate part of the site where you can purchase documents, forms and letters. At present the only items there are a lodger agreement and a letter of authority.  Although these are arguably two of the most important documents you will need. [...]

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Day 17 – How much paperwork and record keeping is involved?

Day 17 - Keep careful records of everything

Documents and record keeping Although not yet as bad as tenancies, there can still be quite a lot of paperwork involved in renting out a room. It is possible to do things just on a handshake, but this is not really recommended. This is probably a good place to list all the paperwork which could [...]

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