Product Description

The perfect introductory guide that tells you everything you need to know about property investment and letting, including how to: Buy the right property in the right location for high rents and capital growth. Get good property deals from developers and private sellers. Decide whether to use a letting agent or find and manage tenants yourself. Comply with all the tax laws and avoid the tenants from hell. Minimise your property tax bill. Buy to let abroad with confidence. This new edition covers all the latest developments in the property market, including the impact of the new HIPs legislation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6695 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
'A valuable contribution to the savvy landlord's bookshelf' - Landlordzone.co.uk; 'Among the many books published on how to succeed in buy-to-let, this one stands out as a practical and extremely detailed guide...so crammed full of tips that even experienced property managers are likely to pick up some fresh ideas' - National Landlords Association; 'Interesting and useful... particularly [for] those new to the business' - Landlord Law; 'The best book on the subject... if you are involved in buy to let you should consider buying a copy' - SIPPs 2006. --SIPPs 2006

Mandatory reading… invaluable information for all… leaves no stone unturned. --Daily Telegraph

National Landlord's Association, October 2005
A practical and extremely detailed guide for landlords...crammed full of tips.

Landlord Law, November 2005
interesting and useful... particularly [for] those new to the business

Customer Reviews

The best there is.
I'm just dipping my toes into the buy-to-let waters, and have been soaking up information like a sponge from any and everywhere. Without a doubt, this is the best source I've come across, providing clear, sound and realistic advice. Written in a gently humerous and unpatronising style, if offers both breadth and plenty detail, including very useful chapters on how to manage without letting agents, and getting to grips with tax.
It's much more current than certain other publications, for example it doesn't trip itself up citing no-longer-attainable rental yields, or recommend specific (long out-of-date) investment areas.
In other words, its author is realistic about the fluctuating housing and rental market, with evident ample experience from which to offer clear, sensible guidance and advice about how to stay afloat in unpredictable and choppy seas.
Worth every penny.

Essntial reading for all Landlords
Having recently become a "buy-to-let" landlord myself, I was looking for a book which would tell me everything I needed to know about the property letting game. A number of publications I came across seemed to be extremely detailed and difficult to get to grips with. A friend of mine then recommended David Lawrenson's book on the subject and I promptly followed his advice and bought it. I wasn't disappointed.
This book covers all areas of property letting but better still, it covers it in a simple and easy to understand format. The author shares his own experiences of being a landlord and informs the reader of potential danger areas to watch out for. The advice offered is straight forward, practical and informative but most of all, accessible to the reader. Areas I found particularly helpful were those on property tax (a minefield explained easily) and advice on how to keep your property let at all times (essential for any landlord). Overall, I would recommend this book for any type of landlord. Whether new to the game or experienced, there is excellent information and advice contained within it's pages. It has become an essential reference guide for me in all matters relating to buy-to-let. Highly recommended.

Very thorough, full of facts and highly recommended
As an experienced property investor I found this book still taught me lots that I didn't know already.
The chapters on how to find the right property in the right location and the one on how to reference tenants (so as not to end up with the tenant from hell!) were particularly good.
There's also a good tenancy agreement in the index and a useful list of addresses for other organisations too.
It's also written in an easy to read style and made me laugh a few times too, which for a hard bitten landlady isn't easy!
Highly recommended.