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If you are selling a buy-to-let this autumn, the most likely buyer knocking on the door is another landlord, and they are arriving with a calculator, a list of everything wrong with the property, and an offer 10% under what you asked for. That is not cynicism. It is what the numbers say.
September is the month when latent faults become real ones. A boiler that was technically functional in March - but only just - has had six months of inactivity to deteriorate. Seals dry out. Pumps that haven’t circulated water in months can struggle to restart. Airlocks form in systems that haven’t been bled. For landlords, this creates a predictable spike in emergency call-outs every autumn. The good news is that most of these failures are foreseeable - and largely preventable.
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