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"Written for the millions of landlords who own a single-family home, condo, or small (less than four unit) rental property, [this book] covers everyday skills a hands-on landlord needs, including how to: retain good, long-term tenants with regular communication; handle nitty-gritty maintenance-- from snow removal to toilet clogs to painting; avoid conflicts over late rent, unauthorized roommates, and clutter; limit costly tenant turnovers and vacancies; manage condos and deal with association re...

Demystify the process of evaluating, acquiring, and managing rental property and becoming a landlord with Landlord Academy founder Bryan Chavis's clear, step-by-step plan to make your dream of owning a multi-family property a reality. With interest rates at historic lows, there's never been a better time to buy rental property-and to hang on to it for long-term wealth building. Drawing on his ten years of experience managing and owning hundreds of rental properties, Bryan M. Chavis shows how yo...

The landlord's essential guide to residential rental law Landlord's Legal Kit For Dummies is a comprehensive guide to the laws and legalities of renting property. This one-stop legal reference provides both guidance and the correct forms that help landlords avoid tenant issues, which could lead to legal ramifications. From screening potential tenants to handling your own insurance and taxes, you'll find expert insight in this easy-to-read style that simplifies complex legal matters into underst...

Fire Safety Law provides building-owners, managers, individual leaseholders, mortgage-lenders, landlords, and anyone involved in the purchase or sale of a flat situated within a multi-occupied block, with practical, yet comprehensive and well-researched information regarding the subject of fire safety and the associated responsibilities, obligations and rights. V. Charles Ward addresses in practical legal terms the responsibilities on building-owners to ensure that buildings are fire-safe for p...

This is the only book to deal exclusively with the important topic of break clauses, which affect a significant proportion of all landlord and tenant relationships. The book provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the law relating to the drafting and operation of break clauses. It covers over 500 cases relevant to the topic. The book also considers the areas of the law that interrelate with break clauses, including contractual construction, assignment, estoppel, mistake and profess...

This study of land reform in the Highlands explores the issues of landlord-and-tenant conflict and land raiding, from the great sheep drives in Sutherland at the end of the 18th century to the resistance against eviction that characterized the worst years of the terrible Clearances. It covers the crofters' agitation of the 1880s, when crofters demanded their rights as political prisoners, the continuing inter-war raiding and the last great land grab at Knoydart in the late 1940s. The book reveal...

This book provides a comprehensive examination of land law for Arab Palestinians under Israeli law. Land is one of the core resources of human existence, development and activity. Therefore, it is also a key basis of political power and of social and economic status. Land regimes and planning regulations play a dynamic role in deciding how competing claims over resources will be resolved. According to legal geography, spatial ordering impacts legal regimes; whilst legal rules form social and hu...

Residential Property Appraisal is a handbook not only for students studying surverying but also for surveyors and others involved in the appraisal of residential property for lending purposes. It focuses on the distinct professional competencies required by Mortgage Valuations and Home Buyers Surveys and Valuations, identifying and advising the reader on the extent and limitations of their activities. Generously illustrated, supported by real-life case studies and drawing on the latest research,...

For over 20 years now, Pete May has lived in rented properties around London, all of which have left much to be desired. Rent Boy is the hilarious tale of his odyssey through a world of asbestos-ridden tower blocks, pink shopping centres, voluminous knickers being posted through letter boxes, flying vases, arrests in the council chamber, evictions, changed locks, cockroaches, mice, overflowing loos, withheld deposits, house rotas, designer broom cupboards, inept DIY, Sloane Rangers, ?trustafaria...