Buy-to-let (BTL)

Investing

• >What is buy-to-let?
• Is it a good investment?
• Financing the investment
• Types of property
• Leasehold/freehold
• Student lets
• Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs)
• Furnished Holiday Lets (FHL)

Practical guide to renting

• Should I use a letting agent?
• Furnished or unfurnished
• Finding tenants
• Reference checking tenants
• Guarantors
• Housing benefit
• Deposits
• Moving in day checklist

Tax

• Income tax
• Furnished wear and tear allowance
• Capital Gains Tax (CGT)

Pre-rental checklist

• Permission from freeholder
• Permission from lender
• Gas safety
• Electrical safety
• Energy Performance
• Building insurance

Types of tenancy

• Assured Shorthold Tenancy (AST)
• Licenses
• Protected tenancies

Problem tenants

• Typesof problem tenants
• Abandoned property
• Ending an AST
• Section 21
• Section 8
• Serving notices
• Using a solicitor
• Possession claim/hearing
• Bailiffs