Pest Control for Landlords

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Editorial:

As the government publish yet another report into the Private Rented Sector (PRS), this time by the

Treasury (Investment in the UK private rented sector Feb 2010), it would seem obvious from reading it that they are looking to the sector to give much needed relief to our housing problems.

Given the present and projected economic situation is seems the options for housing solutions will be severely limited in future and hence their apparent aim to encourage corporate investment in the sector, as well as their professed aim to encourage private landlords.

All the more surprising then that they constantly bring up new and ever more onerous regulation for private landlords.

Despite repeated promises to reduce the amount of “red tape” in business and public services, this just never seems to happen—we just get more so every parliament!

It seems that before one lot of rules and regulations have been tried, tested and proven workable, yet another lot comes along.

The next phase includes a suggestion that tenants have access to a website where they could post views about you and your rental accommodation?

As a LandlordZONE user, we invite you to join us for seminars and our expert panel at the Landlord &

Buy-to-Let Show, London Olympia, 5-6th March, as they assess the validity of a website that would put information about you in the spotlight, and would require intensive management. Come along and join us.

Tom Entwistle

Pest Control, or as it is perhaps better called – Pest Management—is a subject that can strike fear into landlords and tenants alike.

Who is responsible for eradication? How did the pests get in? How do I control them? How do I prevent them getting in again?

At the Landlord and Buy to Let Event held Olympia last September, these questions and many more were answered during the seminar programme by the specialist team from PestFreeHome and Bed-Bugs UK, both acknowledged international experts from the pest management industry.

Rob Fryatt operates PestFreeHome.co.uk www.pestfreehome.co.uk a specialist pest management webshop which has a wide range of easy solutions available to landlords for the management of pests.

This includes an advice line, and a simple “click through” post code driven service to find a pest controller near you.

PestFreeHome were recent winners of the Innovation Category at the Landlord & Buy to Let Awards and finalists in the Business Matters “Start Up Stars” competition in 2009.

David Cain who is a research scientist in genetics and molecular biology, has become a passionate champion of the need for public communication of the ways to detect and avoid bed bugs and is increasingly seen on TV, heard on the radio and read in the national press expressing his views.

David is increasingly acknowledged throughout the world as a unique bed bug expert.

His company Bed Bugs UK www.bed-bugs.co.uk is the only dedicated bed bug control company in the UK offering the widest range of solutions available.

What used to be a rare pest problem at the start of the new millennium is now so vast that he has personally dealt with over 11,000 cases since 2003.

Both Rob and David have provided content for this LandlordZONE newsletter.

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