A new information hub aims to take on the NRLA by becoming the default, first-stop online resource for UK landlords.

Landlord Resource offers services, guides and tools including legal templates for landlords to use so they can run their properties profitably and compliantly, without paying a membership fee. It can also match users up with a vetted professional including solicitors, letting agents, property sourcing and property tax specialists.

Most competitors monetise the audience through membership fees, adverts, paid consultancy, and paid courses, explains co-founder Jack Malnick (pictured) who is also the MD of Sell House Fast. “We monetise the listings funnel and service-partner referrals.”

Vetted providers are businesses and people he has worked with over many years in the property industry and trusts to be efficient, cost-effective and reliable, Malnick tells LandlordZONE. “It doesn’t change who we recommend – we’ve walked away from generous deals when the provider didn’t cut it.”

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He believes self-managing landlords need help more than ever following the introduction of the Renters’ Rights Act. “If you aren’t on top of the regulations you can get hit badly. Even if you have an agent managing and someone slips up somewhere, you end up in trouble one way or another.

“Not only that, you could also pay a letting agent their one-year fee for finding a tenant, only for the tenant to serve notice the minute they move in and leave after two months, leaving the landlord with an empty flat, out of pocket on the fee and also out of season.”

Expert guides on the site are written by working operators in the property investor and tax sectors and currently include subjects such as how to let and EPCs, while templates cover a wide range of topics including a mid-tenancy property inspection report and Section 8 notice.

"We see ourselves as competing with the NRLA - but without the membership fee," he adds. "It is a genuinely free, genuinely independent middle."

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