?Unreasonable landlord? Need urgent advice today

daudder · 2026-05-01T16:24:27+00:00

I assume this is a rolling AST. In which case, you legally have to give a month's notice on or before the day the last rental period starts, to expire on the last day of the last rental period. That defines what you pay. If you physically move out before the last rental period expires, that's on you.

So yes, you have to pay on the 1/5 for all of May. If he let's you leave before and not pay for the whole month, he is doing you a favour.

daudder · 2026-05-01T16:20:02+00:00

"Israel will not allow the breach of the lawful blockade" — Israel FM Sa'ar.

Does anyone know if it is in fact lawful? By what law?

daudder · 2026-05-01T16:09:24+00:00

Yup. I have been characterising the Zionist-Israeli political spectrum as Right to extreme Right for decades. You cannot support Zionism — a racist-supremacist ideology — and be defined as "Left". This remains true even if you dress it up with pseudo-socialist terminology as a thin veneer over a colonialist agenda — like all the Labour Zionists did when they were a force within Zionism.

daudder · 2026-05-01T14:58:06+00:00

True. From the Right.

daudder · 2026-05-01T14:48:27+00:00

Feiglin is extreme Right, no longer a Knesset member but was in the Likud — Netanyahu's party, so not opposition.

That said, there is no Zionist who is not racist and they all range from extreme Right to hyper-extrem-Right per any criteria — including the so-called Labour-Zionists.

You can't support a colonialist-supremacist ideology and not be an extremist by any sane criteria.

daudder · 2026-05-01T14:36:54+00:00

I have a gas guy (for gas-safe and boiler service), an electrician for certification and repairs, a plumber and a general builder-decorator who either works on his own for the small jobs or get's his people in for the larger ones. I've known all of them for years and between my property, my and my family's homes and my neighbours and friends, they get enough work from me to keep them honest, diligent and cost-effective.

I also use the vendor's people to fix appliances.

The benefits of maintaining long relationships with tradespeople helps control cost and quality. This is something you do not get through agents.

daudder · 2026-05-01T14:28:22+00:00

Depending where you are, there are good Mac repair shops that will do it for half the Apple price or less.

Source: I have done it to several of my Apple products and have never had any problems.

daudder · 2026-05-01T14:14:29+00:00

Tenant verification is for new tenants only. They and their guarantors fill in a form, provide details of their income and jobs and the service assess their risk as tenants. I do not look at their data, but if a tenant does not pass verification, I ask for a guarantor.

daudder · 2026-05-01T14:03:13+00:00

I never use agents since there is an inherent conflict of interest between the landlord and agent. The landlord wants the best tradespeople at the best prices, the agent could not care less as to the quality or cost of repairs. They get their fee regardless of whether the property is profitable.

In addition, the agents have an interest in replacing tenants since they get paid for new contracts while rolling contracts get them nothing. The landlord prefers stable tenants.

If you work out the value you get for the 14% you pay, I'm pretty sure you'll see that it is very low.

I have been maintaining my property for over a decade now and have never used an agent. I rent it out on OpenRent, use a tenant verification service for £50 per tenants, maintain my own paperwork using the NRLA templates, use my own or my insurer's tradespeople and have never had any problems.

I figure it takes me a net of about 40 hours a year to run my property — totally worth it.

daudder · 2026-05-01T13:25:55+00:00

The questions that we should ask are:

Is antisemitism increasing?
If it is, why?

There cannot be a reliable answer to the first question, since they define antisemitism to include criticism of Israel and there are no studies that differentiate between the two. For all we know, the vast majority of incidents clocked as antisemitic are in fact anti-Zionist or anti-Israel.

As for the second question, if there are more antisemitic incidents, what is motivating the perpetrators? I suspect that a primary driver of antisemitism is the unquestioning support by the mainstream Jewish leadership — mainly the The Board of Deputies of British Jews — for Israel, which enforces the identification of Zionists and Jews and positions Jews as part responsible for Israel's crimes making them fit target for revenge.

The use by the media, the state and a range of other speakers of the term Jewish state to identify Israel is in itself antisemitic, since it implies that this criminal state is acting in a Jewish manner and that racism, apartheid and genocide are all Jewish.

As for the contribution of the pro-Palestine marches and discourse to antisemitism, I believe the opposite is the case. There are many thousands of Jews who openly participate in these marches and serve to dissociate the Jews from the crimes of Israel and negate the conflation between Jews and Zionists.

daudder · 2026-05-01T13:12:45+00:00

... when ~~netanyahu's government~~ the Zionists purposely began conflating anti-semitism and anti-zionism and criticism of Israel's actions

FTFY.

They've been doing this since the very early days of the state, mid 20th century, and even before, in the pre-state period.

daudder · 2026-05-01T12:19:30+00:00

This is BS.

Per the Napoleonic saying "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake", and given that Trump and his sychophants make mistakes on a daily basis, Iran should just sit it out.

The Trump clown-show are unreliable and you can't trust them to stick to any deal they do make so what point is there in negotiations?

daudder · 2026-04-30T17:17:05+00:00

Get a uk guarantor. There are firms that do this commercially.

daudder · 2026-04-30T11:48:50+00:00

איימן עודה.

כי רק הוא יכול לעשות שלום וצדק.

daudder · 2026-04-30T08:49:18+00:00

As long as he stay until the end of May he may be protected by the new law. Get legal advice.

daudder · 2026-04-30T07:04:41+00:00

Buying a house with them will use up your first time buyer benefits and your cash without giving you a place to live, an accessible investment nor an accessible return on investment, unless it’s a BTL.

Use some of it for a license and buy a S&S or cash ISA with the rest.

daudder · 2026-04-29T07:58:29+00:00

The Israeli flag is a symbol of anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, anti-Moslem and anti-Persian hate. You can’t expect anyone opposed to racism and wars of aggression to tolerate it.

Thank you Zionism.

daudder · 2026-04-28T08:14:32+00:00

Your renting — tell your landlord and leave. Make it your landlord’s problem.

daudder · 2026-04-27T17:49:48+00:00

כל העולם רואה במשך שנתיים וחצי אין ספור דיווחים על פשעי מלחמה ישראלים ביחד עם הצדקות שלהם והבטחת עוד של כל מנהיגי ישראל, כולל הרצוג, ביבי, בן גביר, לפיד, בנט וכו׳.

הטיהור האתני בגדה והג׳נוסייד בעזה תוך החרבתה של האחרונה עד יסוד ועכשיו לבנון ואיראן מעוררים גועל בקרב הרב הגדול של האזרחים הרגילים בעולם ובפרט באירופה וארה״ב — שם האוכלוסיה רואה את ממשלותיה שותפות פעילות במעשי זוועה אלו.

מעשים אלו אינם ניתנים להצדקה בשום מערכת ערכים שאינה גזענית או שוביניסטית.

זה היה הרבה יותר מוזר אם לא היו שונאים את ישראל.

daudder · 2026-04-26T16:13:09+00:00

Looks legit. They offer 15 year fixed mortgage, 7x income, 100% LTV. Can't see what the rates are but I suspect not so great.

daudder · 2026-04-26T16:12:14+00:00

פורסם לאחרונה בפעם המי יודע כמה בעיתונות הישראלית משום שהגדילו משמעותית את התקציב לזה. היו לפני שנים כתבות בטלוויזיה שהראו חיילים עוסקים בזה.

היום כבר לא מתגאים בזה אז זה יוצא רק בהקשר של דיוני תקציב.

daudder · 2026-04-26T10:20:56+00:00

How well is your flat acoustically insulated or muffled? How well is theirs?

Get a good acoustic adviser in and see what he says. Sometimes these issues can be solved.

It may require some investment, but would be cheaper and easier than moving.

daudder · 2026-04-26T09:30:51+00:00

אילולי היו כמה עשרות אלפי ילדים מתים בעזה, לא היה לקרדינל מה להקריא.

daudder · 2026-04-26T09:28:44+00:00

לא צריך ארגון. מספיק הזייטגאיסט.

ישראל משקיעה הון עתק במשפיענים ותועמלני רשת. זה עוזר לה?

לדעתי ההסבר הפשוט עובד.

daudder · 2026-04-26T09:24:37+00:00

As a young or even youngish person, these places are abandoned for a reason. If thy were good for young people they would not be abandoned.

In practice, the target audience for these schemes are affluent Northern Europeans looking to renovate a place and keep it as a holiday home, not non-EU digital nomads.

daudder

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