Landlord Insurance: Get prepared and RELAX!

TLDR – look after your property as much as you can and it will pay dividends over the long term. If you are an seasoned investor or tentatively navigating your way as a first-time landlord, you will surely heard the gammut of stories, maybe even the one where tenants stole all the copper pipes fromContinue reading “Landlord Insurance: Get prepared and RELAX!”

Mould!!! ….Ah crap.

Mould is a super contentious issue between tenants and landlords. I’m active in several tenant-based and several landlord-based forums on Facebook, and the standard response is always “the other guy did it”. It’s not a straightforward issue. Well it is, but it is very case dependent. The cause in one home is almost certainly notContinue reading “Mould!!! ….Ah crap.”

The US vs THEM mentality has to stop!

TL;DR – Make love not war! What other industry is so combative? Why is there so much distrust between landlords and tenants? Everyone has heard a horror story. Every tenant has heard of a landlord that charged full rent, left the house to get mouldy and kicked the tenant out with minimal notice and claimedContinue reading “The US vs THEM mentality has to stop!”