Helpful Tips

Whether you're looking for useful tips to ensure your rental property is safe and secure if your tenants are heading away, or you just want to learn more about what you can do to improve its kerb-appeal, then you're in the right place. Our helpful tips section covers anything from practical step-by-step advice on completing maintenance jobs, to useful tips on completing self-assessment tax returns. 

Q&A: Get to know NRLA adviser Craig

In the latest of our meet the team blogs, get to know one of our advisers, Craig Purvis, one of several advisers on the landlord advice team who provides advice on tenancy regulations in Wales.

Helpful Tips Victoria Barker 20/05/2022
Q&A: Get to know NRLA adviser Craig

Dementia Action Week 2022: Housing and adaptations

This week is Dementia Action Week, an annual campaign run by the Alzheimer's Society. The NRLA continues to work with and support the Alzheimer’s Society as part of our accessibility and adaptations campaigning work.

Helpful Tips Victoria Barker 19/05/2022
Dementia Action Week 2022: Housing and adaptations

Q&A: Get to know NRLA Wales' Gill

We are delighted to launch a new blog series where you can get to know some of our NRLA Wales team a little better. In our second blog, we chat to NRLA Wales regional representative and landlord, Gill Owens.

Helpful Tips Victoria Barker 13/04/2022
Q&A: Get to know NRLA Wales' Gill

TDS poll highlights confusion surrounding responsibilities of garden maintenance within the PRS

Spring has sprung and it's time to turn your attention towards better weather, lighter evenings, and hope for a warmer season. This is the time of year when many landlords start to make their gardens more attractive in order to attract potential tenants, or spruce up the outdoors after the long winter months. Snady Bastin, Head of Adjudication at NRLA partners TDS explains what landlords need to know.

Helpful Tips Sandy Bastin 31/03/2022
TDS poll highlights confusion surrounding responsibilities of garden maintenance within the PRS

The Big Question: Do you carry out viewings at your rental in-person or online?

Do you carry out viewings for your rental property in-person or online? The topic is the latest to come under the microscope in our Big Question feature for NRLA members' magazine, Property.

Helpful Tips Victoria Barker 25/03/2022
The Big Question: Do you carry out viewings at your rental in-person or online?

Too many cooks -and the need for a voice of reason

Landlords will be well aware that having a guarantor is good practice to safeguard against rent arrears. But when they get involved in arguments about why rent arrears should not be owed, this can leave landlords having to fight their battle on more than one front.

Helpful Tips Mike Morgan 22/03/2022
Too many cooks -and the need for a voice of reason

Q&A: Get to know NRLA Wales' Steve

We are delighted to launch a new blog series where you can get to know our NRLA Wales team a little better. Here, meet Steve Bletsoe, operations manager.

Helpful Tips Victoria Barker 16/03/2022
Q&A: Get to know NRLA Wales' Steve

The complete guide to accidental damage insurance

NRLA partners Hamilton Fraser Total Landlord Insurance explain everything landlords need to know about accidental damage, from who is responsible for repairs, to how to reduce your risks and what you should do if your property is affected by accidental damage.

Helpful Tips Steve Barnes 11/03/2022
The complete guide to accidental damage insurance

Interactive starting a tenancy checklist launches

A new starting a tenancy checklist, aimed at helping landlords keep track of everything they need to do when creating a tenancy, has been launched exclusively for NRLA members.

Helpful Tips Victoria Barker 10/02/2022
Interactive starting a tenancy checklist launches

Buy to Let Market Update: February 2022

Welcome to 'Buy to Let Market', a column aimed at providing you with recent criteria and product updates within the Buy to Let lending markets written by Doug Hall of NRLA Mortgages.

Helpful Tips Doug Hall 03/02/2022
Buy to Let Market Update: February 2022