News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members other artilces from the December 2001 / January 2002 issue RPI news archive

In brief - December 2001 / January 2002

Birmingham University student is to pay off her student loan and head for Tenerife after winning a Win Your Rent Competition. Deborah Voyce said the £3,000 would help whilst on the Spanish island writing her novel. The competition was devised by publishing firm Trotman and administered by mortgage bank Abbey National.

A London landlord has been fined £400 and ordered to pay £125 in costs after a City Magistrates' Court found him guilty of failing to carry out essential repair work. Victor Madden ignored a Housing Act notice requiring him to repair windows, electrical works and paintwork at one of his North London properties. Madden was visited at the property in April 1999 when the order was made, but when environmental health offices returned in September 2000 the work had not been carried out.

Accelerated capital allowances landlords can now claim against the cost of converting space over shops to residential accommodation for renting have been outlined in a new Inland Revenue leaflet, IR2007, Capital allowances for flats over shops.
 

other artilces from the December 2001 / January 2002 issue

• 'Joined up' thinking overdue
• RLA launches assurance schemes
• Jail term for landlord who raped tenant
• Electronic gas certificates
• Byers promotes limited licensing
• 'Cancer risk' with roofing felt
• Government changes law to reverse court benefits loss
• Deprived areas have stamp duty 'abolished'
• Reader win rates refund
• In brief
• Evicting the 'Rigsby' image