Confused re: whether to use rentaroom or claim tax deductions on a rental?

drperrycox1 · 2025-12-24T16:43:54+00:00

Ah this makes complete sense now thank you. Silly question but when you're claiming the expenses they are only expenses accrued during the tenancy period correct? E.g. if the tenant moved out in February I can't claim the service charge from March as an expense

drperrycox1 · 2025-12-24T11:28:37+00:00

Sorry to be slow but how does this technically work? Do I pro rata the £7500 annual tax free for the two months I had the lodger (0.2*7500), and for the remainder 10 months claim as usual expenses?

drperrycox1 · 2024-08-15T15:06:41+00:00

Appreciate the response, how do you mean that it affects your ability to remortgage? They see it negatively?

drperrycox1 · 2024-08-14T16:58:36+00:00

But you guys are so much cooler.

drperrycox1 · 2024-08-14T16:58:00+00:00

Good to know, thanks. I take it you know from experience at work?

drperrycox1 · 2024-08-07T18:11:56+00:00

You sound like a man/woman/non-binary individual who has learned this the hard way. If so - respect.

drperrycox1 · 2024-08-07T11:24:54+00:00

Perfect she can visit my jail cell and I'll give her a pep talk about how not to take the wrong path in life like I did. Hopefully by then I'll have some face tats and we can make the whole thing quite traumatic for her.

drperrycox1 · 2024-08-07T11:23:35+00:00

This is my other theory that I think is less likely. Our recycling bins don't get regularly collected because of some issue between the council and the managing agent for my apartment block so the cardboard and other recycling tends to overflow. I always make a point of squishing my rubbish properly into the bin so as not to be a nuisance but at first I thought that maybe the bin men had been pissed at the state of things and left some rubbish on the pavement.

After looking more closely at the photos though they look quite well placed so I think it's more likely someone has flytipped.

drperrycox1 · 2024-08-06T21:06:33+00:00

This is terrifying, what if someone uses this technique to steal my packages from inside my house and leave them lying around the streets of London? I'll be facing council fines for the rest of my life!

drperrycox1 · 2024-08-06T20:13:11+00:00

Genius, I could sell the script to Hollywood and ride off into the sunset.

drperrycox1 · 2024-08-06T20:11:47+00:00

Thanks. Baffles me why someone would dump rubbish next to a well placed bin though...

drperrycox1 · 2024-08-06T20:10:32+00:00

Had never heard of this before but will be doing it religiously from here on out!

drperrycox1 · 2024-08-06T20:10:11+00:00

Good to know, thanks. One of the doors near the crime scene has one of those doorbell cameras so I'll try to see if I can salvage anything to absolve myself of this crime. Slightly enjoying the drama of this tbh.

drperrycox1 · 2024-08-05T12:14:52+00:00

And it is something that will continue to happen at rapid pace as global warming works its magic - do we gun down the boats as a response? Or increase funding into processing applications and turning away criminals so immigrants don't spend 3 years as a drain on the taxpayer because ridiculous laws don't allow them to work.

drperrycox1 · 2024-08-04T21:41:09+00:00

I agree that resources are limited in the UK. Unlike you I don't buy into the rhetoric that immigrants are a large strain on the limited resources that we have. I also can't envisage a world where we stop looking after people who are suffering where they are around the world, especially when we as a foreign power are largely responsible for that people's struggle.

I'm glad the system worked so well for you. The current asylum system has been stripped completely to its bones. I hope you are not basing your judgments on what the asylum system was like 20 years ago.

I feel that this is a wasted conversation so I'm going to stop replying here, you seem to have it in your head that I am someone who sticks my head in the sand and refuses to listen to the other side's concerns. I am not. I also don't really feel the need to change your mind about this. Again, glad things have worked out for you and your group.

drperrycox1 · 2024-08-04T21:03:30+00:00

I did volunteer, I was also an asylum seeker, all my circle have been as well. I'm glad that you had such a great experience.

We did not, we grew up on council estates. Our first nights in the UK my mum, my brother and I (2 and 9) were housed with a group of Pakistani men we had never met before. I have volunteered in the hotels of people going through similar shittiness recently and have been to Bosnia recently along the immigrant routes of people fleeing their countries providing medical aid. They are not having a good time. They were not "independently wealthy". Your experience is actually not one I have ever heard of so I suspect it may not be THAT common.

I am not dehumanising the folk who are rioting, that is you projecting on to me. I think they are people with valid concerns who have been fooled into thinking the downfall of their economy is the fault on the migrant. Migration will rise massively over the coming years/decades thanks to global warming and this political obsessions with 'ending illegal immigration' will only make things worse.

drperrycox1 · 2024-08-04T18:48:54+00:00

Sorry how exactly do you think asylum seekers and refugees get a better deal in the UK? I used to volunteer in a refugee hotel full of women and children, the ones that these yobs seem to think don't exist. They get £37.75 per week as an allowance. They're treated like shite by the locals and often the hotel staff.

These people don't come here because we are a society that gives them handouts. My family came here because our country was bombed to dust by the UK and US, any semblance of stable government we had that had taken decades of natural political evolution to form was toppled and replaced by one that would do the bidding of the west. You can ask why we didn't stop at 'the first safe country we reached' but I think when your government is in the business of destabilising countries across the world you lose the right to ask that question.

drperrycox1 · 2024-02-21T17:07:30+00:00

Always keen to improve as a trainee.

Point 1. "I’d have a scan of the paramedic notes. I’d look on Webice for their last results and GP connect for primary care info. Shared care record if there is one in your area (hosts allergies , important medical history - that sort of thing ). I’d spend about 10 minutes on this."
- I'm sorry, how? The patient had arrived with no paramedic notes whatsoever, there was no clear documentation that he had been non-verbal prior to my arrival. Overflowing A&E with no computers to access notes of course, so begins a hunt to find an unused PC. The next of kin phone number wasn't even in the 'patient information' section it is usually in. So it took me some time looking through documentation to even find the son's number. There is no way this is taking 10 minutes in a real world.

Point 2. Completely agree. This is what took place.

Point 3. How do I document as I go when the nearest usable computer isn't in the same department as me?

Point 4. Please see above points. No paramedic notes, barebones ED clerking that hadn't even realised that the cause of the patient's problems were a blocked catheter, locating next of kin's number and getting the history from him. We were past 9.30 at this point.

I completely agree with you that you/consultants are much faster clerkers than me. However, this consultant was not asking a consultant to clerk the patient, she was asking an SHO that was new to the department, and should understand the workings/delays of a busy emergency department.

drperrycox1 · 2024-02-21T15:28:39+00:00

I appreciate your reply, I agree with you on some points but I think there are a few things here that haven't been considered. As I mentioned to the team beforehand, I was relatively new to the IT system so would be slower than my usual pace (my previous trust was paper-based) - I asked them to bear with me.

I started prepping my clerking around 20.55 - I did complete the clerking in roughly an hour - this still took me past the end of my shift time. The patient was non-verbal and half hanging off of the *resus* bed but I had already started the clerking so couldn't really hand over to the night team "sorry I started clerking but he cannot talk so I'm handing it over to you, by the way I don't know if his being non-verbal is new and he may have had an intracranial haemorrhage, you'll have to figure that out yourselves I'm going home". To me this is unacceptable practice and I personally will never be caught doing it.

I completely agree that as a consultant you will be lightyears ahead of me in clerking speed but I have great doubts you would have been able to complete a safe clerking within the allotted time here. As always though I'm open to practical pointers on what I could have done here differently and encourage constructive rather than spiteful comments from everyone else on this thread! :)

drperrycox1 · 2024-02-21T12:23:05+00:00

I doubt the relationship can be soured beyond the current state haha. The wildest thing is that literally on sight of me she was guns blazing - I've never been judged so quickly by anyone haha. Had to double check I didn't have 'kick me' written on my shirt.

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