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5 | LANDLADY Key moments
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10 | HOMES ACROSS WORTHING A wide range of homes to rent or buy from page 10
16 | LANDLORD ADVICE New HMO (House of Multiple Occupancy) regulations for landlords in Brighton & Hove – from Khalil Properties
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LANDLADY Key moments
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ne of the bugbears of being a landlady is keeping control of those pesky little things called keys. As you can imagine, I have a collection of keys that would rival the head Warden at Parkhurst, although most of them are now obsolete. I have no way of knowing which ones work where, without trying them all out. As well as my own keys, I have, in mysteriously coded envelopes, the spare keys of many friends, who've since died, emigrated or at least changed their locks several times since they foolishly nominated me as their spare key lady. In the event of them ever needing their spare keys, I would probably be abroad, so unless they had a spare key to my house, they wouldn't be able to get them anyway. Mind you, the other day while I was at work, The Big Daughter returned home to find the rather crestfallen son of my downstairs tenant sitting on the doorstep. His mother was away, he was supposed to be flat sitting, and he'd locked his keys in her flat, thus dooming himself to live on the doorstep for the next five days. The Big Daughter suggested that surely I would have a spare key to the flat (she's inherited
my propensity for optimism) then ran upstairs, where she was confronted by my extensive key museum hanging on the wall outside the kitchen. She returned with two handfuls of keys, and invited my tenant's son to start trying them all out while she went to fetch further examples. As it goes, and amazing though it sounds, the first key they tried was the one to the tenant's front door. What are the chances of that? (Well, about 100 to one, being as you asked).
“ He'd locked his keys in her flat, thus dooming himself to live on the doorstep for the next five days ”
I'm not always so lucky though.... When I was in Turkey last September, I left my entire bunch of UK keys in my Turkish house. On it was my house key, bike lock key and the front door keys to every communal hallway I clean. I am therefore resigned to sitting on various East Sussex doorsteps with my Hoover until someone lets me in, which is not my ideal way of spending my afternoons. I'll get my my keys back from Turkey in April... as long as I can find the keys to my Turkish house, that is.
NOW & THEN Andy Garth: Bumper Auction
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t’s unbelievable that we are nearly at March, which means the first Auction of the year for the dynamic duo of Brighton and Hove Stuff and Step Back in Time (or as we know him, Robert the Postcard man in Queens Road). I say “dynamic” in a self deprecating way as when you get to our age, the lighter the auction item, the better!
“ It was a fine example of
how shopping was in the old days ”
Well it seems my constant barracking for the unusual asked for in this here column is starting to pay dividends, as we have over 300 lots for the sale on Tuesday 28th March at the Aldrington Church Hall Glebe Villas Hove (with viewing at 6.30pm with a start time of approx 8pm). So over the next few weeks I will hopefully be presenting a selection of the
gems that can be had. This week we have an immaculate original pamphlet for the opening of the brand new Co Op on London Road Brighton in 1931. It is a lovely piece of ephemera, with some colour and photos of the externals and internals of the new super store, which was closed in 2007 and sold everything imaginable. It is probably missed in the area as it was a fine example of how shopping was in the old days (sorry to sound like my Nan but sometimes the “Old Days” were better). The other item is a rare hand written conveyance deed for a strip of land next to Hanover Crescent from 1823, from before the Crescent was built but does show the Alms Houses (recently defaced). It also has the signature of one of Brighton’s major developers, and in my opinion a “founding father” of where we are today: Thomas Kemp, who was instrumental in so much of the buildings across Brighton and Hove in the early 19th Century. It’s a oneoff item and I expect lots of interest, but both lots shown today have a guide price of £20 each.
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A WELL PRESENTED FAMILY HOME in the HEART OF THE TOWN within easy reach of shops, facilities & the train station. The property has been refurbished by the current owners & benefits from four good size bedrooms, kitchen/breakfast room, lounge, south facing garden & off street parking.
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• Gas central heating, double glazing
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BRIGHTON AND HOVE LANDLORDS
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new licensing scheme will come into effect for landlords in Brighton and Hove this March. And it’s going to cost landlords £1,600 in its first year. It is estimated that the licensing scheme will affect more than 3,000 landlords. Anyone who rents out what is classed as a house in multiple occupation (HMO) within the city will fall under the scheme’s sway. The scheme will be used to extend and replace more piecemeal landlord strategies that are currently in place in areas such as Lewes Road. In order to continue renting their HMO properties landlords will need to join the licensing scheme. This will cost an initial £1,000, and then there will be a further £600 each year. What do Brighton landlords think of the scheme? Brighton and Hove landlords have come out strongly in opposition: only a third agree to the plan, according to results from the council’s own survey. The scale of opposition was revealed at a recent meeting of Brighton and Hove City Council’s housing and new homes committee. It disclosed that the results from a major consultation carried out between June and September in 2017 suggested that the vast majority of private landlords oppose the scheme. Indeed 48 per cent of landlords stated that they strongly opposed the proposed changes. Landlords were not without support in the council. Councillor Mary Mears argued that the scheme may “create more problems for tenants. Landlords will pass on the costs to their tenants, whatever anyone says. That’s business.” Is there such a thing as rent without stress? The Brighton and Hove licensing initiative is just one example of how landlords are having to jump through hoops to realise a return on their investment. There’s the changes to tax relief, the new EPCs, interest rate 16 | LATEST HOMES
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