Blog entries

The Government u-turns on plans to slash Housing Benefit

Paula Miller — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:30:38 +0100

Housing Benefit Tenants and Landlords can breath a sigh of relief as David Cameron and the Government has finally realised it would be unfair and unworkable to cut Housing Benefit for the long-term unemployed.

Cutting benefits without first solving the UK’s huge gap between unemployment figures and the number of available jobs would have been simply ridiculous.

This could have cause financial hardship for Tenants and may have also forced homeless numbers up if Landlords h...

Landlords and tenants… business as usual

Paula Miller — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:03:26 +0100

Being a letting agent is both a fascinating and challenging business, having to walk a high wire between two camps, the landlords on one side and the tenants on the other, certainly requiring a very long balancing pole.

Landlords provide a valuable resource, in some cases a lifeline to tenants in desperate need of a safe warm home for their family, however I sometimes get the impression that landlords and tenants perceive each other wrongly and this needs to change.

Tenants tha...

Benefit cut by £15 Billion, says the Government?

Reg Miller — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:01:37 +0100

According to George Osborne, "There are 5 Million people living on permanent out-of-work benefits. That is a tragedy for them and fiscally unsustainable for us as a country - we can't afford it any more."

Our society currently appears intolerant and resentful that the Government is spending money in the form of Social Security Benefits, from the taxes we pay, to some able-bodied people who appear to be less than motivated to work.

However we all understand that people fin...

Prepayment Electricity scam

Reg Miller — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:01:18 +0100

The Electricity industry body Energy UK estimates that of the three million or more people in the UK who use prepayment electricity meters, 85,000 have been sold cut price electricity credits from criminal gangs that have managed to clone prepayment meter keys.

Apparently customers were unwittingly persuaded to purchase discounted credits by door to door salesmen since the start of summer.

Whilst customers may receive cut price electricity, they are doing so through illegal cre...

The LHA trap ends!

Reg Miller — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:28:01 +0100

LHA incentive payment to end!

Currently some Local Housing Allowance (Housing Benefit) Tenants in Peterborough are able through an incentive payment to keep up to £15 per week of the surplus if the LHA Housing Benefit they receive is higher than their actual rent payment to a landlord.

The government states “The government is reforming the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) so that it is fairer and supports work incentives. From April 2010, households will no lo...

Save on water rates

Reg Miller — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Whilst searching for Anglian Water's service charges I stumbled across two social tariffs I had never heard of
for vulnerable customers who have a high water usage.

The WaterSure tariff is for metered domestic customers who may experience particular hardship because they use large amounts of water for essential purposes. WaterSure has an annual standing charge hi...

It’s time for change!

Reg Miller — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Today Letsrush has decided to refocus its attention on the people who matter, our Landlords and Tenants. Therefore we have amended the price comparison tables by removing the other agents names.

This was in part due to an email I received from someone that said: “if you put as much effort into dealing with Landlords/tenants as you do marketing and spying on other companies then you will be appreciated by the people who matter, which is of course the Landlords and tenants.”.

Th...

Peterborough Town Hall

Reg Miller — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Letsrush participated in an interview with Heart FM Radio to help highlight Peterborough Accredited Landlords Scheme, the housing issues in Peterborough and invited Landlords to our open evening at Peterborough Town Hall.

Letsrush Ltd hosted the open evening for private landlords at Peterborough Town Hall Chambers on Monday 9th March 2009 and presented our approach and rental strategies that help Landlords increase their rental yield.

Councillor John Peach Leader of Peterborou...