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There was good news for lodger landlords in the July 2015 budget as the Chancellor announced a ‘rent a room’ tax allowance increase from £4,250 to £7,500. This was long overdue and indeed Spareroom.co.uk had been campaigning for this for years. This came into force from April 2016. The increased tax allowance will make it […]
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Are you about to look for a new lodger? If so, you may be interested in our New Lodger pack. The forms pack includes : a telephone enquiry form a lodger information / application form a set of letters you can use when requesting references (including employer, bank etc) our housing benefit letter of authority […]
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In my 21 days of tips, I discussed whether taking in lodgers could create an HMO on day 7. However, since then the planning law has changed. If you take in more than two lodgers your property may need planning permission. The background to this change in the law, is the numerous complaints to MPs […]
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The nice people at Spareroom have kindly allowed me to post an update here from their excellent ‘raise the roof’ campaign to increase the rent a room tax exemption. Tessa. ********** Back in November 2009 we launched a campaign called Raise the Roof with the intention of asking the government to increase the tax free […]
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This book is written by the owners of the popular SpareRoom.co.uk flatsharing web-site. It is addressed to ‘sharers,lodgers, and everyone renting out a room’, and is very much a companion book to their web site service. As the authors have been working in the field for such a long time (their London flatsharing site, intolondon.com […]
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As well as writing this web-site, I have also written a book on lodgers, published by Lawpack. Previously it was only available as a download from the Lawpack web-site, but excitingly, it has now been printed, so you can buy it in the shops or download it from Amazon. It is called The Quick Guide […]
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