If you own a flat in a tenement building and wish to improve or maintain the common areas of that building, you will understand the frustrations and complications of working with your neighbours to organise a repair or retrofit project. It is rarely a straightforward process to make decisions, arrange, and pay for works together. …
Read more >Renting has rarely felt harder. Rents keep climbing in most cities, and a decent flat can draw dozens of applicants before the first viewing. Little wonder, then, that a growing number of renters are stepping outside the conventional market and becoming property guardians instead. A property guardian lives in a building that would otherwise stand …
Read more >Halloween is one of the most notable seasonal events during the autumn. And whether you are hosting a fancy-dress party or simply throwing up some cobwebs and bunting, if you are renting your home it can be easy to forget that you still have a deposit to reclaim at the end of the tenancy, and …
Read more >Almost every building in Scotland has a crack in it somewhere. Plaster shrinks, timber dries out, stone expands in summer and contracts again over winter, and lorries rumbling past a Victorian terrace do their bit as well. The vast majority of what appears on a wall is cosmetic, and filling it before the next tenancy …
Read more >Regular property inspections are an important part of managing a rental property, allowing landlords and letting agents to check its condition and identify maintenance issues before they become more serious. So, how often should an inspection take place? There is no legal requirement for a property to be inspected at a specific interval. In practice, …
Read more >From Sharing a Fridge to Sharing a Friendship Live with someone for a full year and you can still barely know them. A kitchen shared, a bathroom shared, and beyond that, often not much at all. None of that has to be the case. A shared hobby is the easiest bridge going from polite strangers …
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