Landlord policy on putting nails in walls?

[marsellus7]

Generally speaking how leanient are landlords with you drilling into their walls and putting up plasma TVs and paintings etc. I'll probably be moving into rented accomodation soon and am wondering whether to get a plasma to wall mount...?

[fox20thc]

depends on the landlord, you should just ask them.

[fluffystuff]

Agreements I've had in the past have always allowed putting pictures or shelves up, as long as any "damage" is made good when you move out. It just depends on the landlord

[marsellus7]

Agreements I've had in the past have always allowed putting pictures or shelves up, as long as any "damage" is made good when you move out. It just depends on the landlord

 

 

Does 'making good' just mean filling with polly-filla do you think? That'd still look a bit messy but hell I'd hope for a bit of leaniency given that the landlord will be taking £thousands off you for renting one room!

[Strix]

Does 'making good' just mean filling with polly-filla do you think? That'd still look a bit messy but hell I'd hope for a bit of leaniency given that the landlord will be taking £thousands off you for renting one room!

usually polyfiller and repainting the whole wall so it matches

 

lenient landlords?

 

there's two words you don't often find together

[vision]

I am a private landlord and I would not be happy with tenants putting things on the wall without an agreement. I once had a tenant putting up 28 pictures and it took ages to make the walls good after they left. If a tenant wants something up we usually put it up for them.

 

Landlords may 'take thousands ' off a tenant but there is often very little profit in it after the mortgage is paid and if there is a lot of damage then the landlord will take costs out of the deposit. Obviously there has to be 'give and take ' on both sides and asking permission is part of it.

[JFKvsNixon]

Landlords may 'take thousands ' off a tenant but there is often very little profit in it after the mortgage is paid.

 

Apart from getting a house worth anything from £100,000 upwards without having to pay for a mortgage, not much profit.

[vision]

Apart from getting a house worth anything from £100,000 upwards without having to pay for a mortgage, not much profit.

 

Don't understand this! where did this figure come from? The house may be worth that but the profit certainly isn't. If you buy a house nowadays the rental income will not cover the mortgage payments. Even if you bought a few years ago you might be lucky to break even each month after taking off mortgage payments, insurance, maintenance, ground rent and repairs. Obviously one hopes there will be some capital gains otherwise who would bother? After all we run the risk of house prices dropping and then many landlords would have negative equity. Being a landlord is a business and if there was no profit then there would be no houses to rent.

[Rufus]

lol Vision still isn't getting this. S/he clealy thinks of tenants as people soley existing to provide her/him with lots of profit.

 

The point JFKvsNixon is making is that after 20 years, the mortgage for the house you bought and rented out, will be paid off. Sure you may have had to make some additional contributions to the mortgage payments, but for the most part it was the tenants who paid for the house for you. Your 'profit' was the long term investment in a house paid for by others. And when you sell up its gonna be profit.

 

Anybody thinking that buy to let should be a means to short term profits, my advice would be "don't give up your day job".

[basshedz2]

I am a private landlord and I would not be happy with tenants putting things on the wall without an agreement. I once had a tenant putting up 28 pictures and it took ages to make the walls good after they left. If a tenant wants something up we usually put it up for them.

 

I've never met a landlord that would be happy to come out and put up some pictures for you!

 

Generally speaking how lenient are landlords with you drilling into their walls and putting up plasma TVs and paintings etc. I'll probably be moving into rented accommodation soon and am wondering whether to get a plasma to wall mount...?

 

Ask your landlord, but tbh i've never had any problems hanging pictures or drilling into walls.