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Landlords, how often do you raise your rent? And by how much?

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TheSamling · 21/01/2013 19:30

just that really. Our landlord does it biannually, but this time is trying to hit us with a 10.5% hike. What is the norm?

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Haylebop12 · 21/01/2013 19:37

Bumping and watching as we are about to enter our First long term (good few years) rental property.

Mum2Fergus · 21/01/2013 19:37

Ive been renting this house for 3 years and am paying same since start. Previous house was in 10 years and over that time it went from £320 to £425.

UnexpectedItemInShaggingArea · 21/01/2013 19:40

Rent review every year.

Only increase it if underlying costs have gone up - e.g. Rent includes council tax and water rates so if they increase, rent goes up.

10.5% sounds a lot. Is it a competitive? Have you looked around to compare?

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TheSamling · 21/01/2013 19:47

the house we rented before this one we were in for 6 years and the rent went up twice, by £60 in total!! So this is a bit of a shock for us. We know other tenants in a house the same size owned by the same ll who are paying £100 less a month than us. So I'm a bit Hmm about it tbh.
he made a big thing about other landlords raising the rent every year, but this has never been our experience, and i just wondered if we had been lucky thus far.
He has told us that it is in line with inflation over the last two years. By my calculation he has it wrong, by about 4%. I'm not sure whether to go back and tell him this, my instinct says no, as he'll think I'm being a smartarse, but to just go back and explain that Dh has had no Patrice for the last two years, and all our other costs have increased in line with inflation, and that we can only manage a 5% rise. Which is in fact the case. Is that reasonable do you think?

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TheSamling · 21/01/2013 19:51

Patrice = pay rise!
Unexpected, the rent we pay now IS quite competitive, but this is an estate owned property which has been in his family for generations (so no mprtgage for his to pay) and we are going to be long term tenants, so I assumed this was why.

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RugbyWidow7 · 21/01/2013 20:02

Our rent has always gone up annually. 5 % is fair and the increase we usually expect

Toughasoldboots · 21/01/2013 20:09

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Timetoask · 21/01/2013 20:17

I prefer not to raise the rent because I like my tenants, we don't have a mortgage but we use the income in our home budgets. The problem is that insurance goes up every year, also we have let a flat rather than a house and the management company raise their fees every year at an extortionate rate, just because of this we are forced to raise the rent every couple of years but only by about 4% (which doesn't cover the raises aforementioned)

sydlexic · 21/01/2013 20:20

I haven't raised the rent for four years, long term good tenants.

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TheSamling · 21/01/2013 21:08

Time to ask, when you raise it by 4% is that per year of tenancy since last raise or just from the current rate?

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specialsubject · 21/01/2013 21:27

a decent tenancy agreement will specify the max rental increase - but that is a lot.

However you have a choice....

fatnfrumpy · 21/01/2013 22:53

We raise ours early but only if the mortgage rate goes up, which hasn't!

fatnfrumpy · 21/01/2013 22:53

yearly

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TheSamling · 21/01/2013 23:59

We do special subject but it took us a long time to find this place, and we love it and have made long term plans around being here. I'm going to explain our circumstances to the landlord and see if he'll compromise. It's worth a try!

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Booyhoo · 22/01/2013 00:05

i was in my first home 6 years and no increase in rent during that time.

last house i was only in a year anyway and this one i've only been in 7 months. i really hope landlord doesn't intend to increase it every year although i would be prepeared to pay more if he did all the work that he has prmised and hasn't done.

nocake · 22/01/2013 08:09

We haven't raised it in 5 years. TBH the market where our flat is won't stand a price increase. It's been completely flat for those 5 years.

MrsBucketxx · 22/01/2013 08:11

We never have, if it covers itself surely that all that matters.

FruitSaladIsNotPudding · 22/01/2013 08:18

Our last two LL's haven't raised the rent at all. I presume their costs haven't changed and they want to keep good tenants.

pluCaChange · 22/01/2013 12:01

I think offering 5% is more than enough. Point out that if your LL finds tenants through an agency, that's 1 month's rent gone, out of 12. Add a potential void snd that's 10%+ of what they hoped to make for the year, gone.

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TheSamling · 22/01/2013 13:46

Hmm, he manages the estate himself Plus, but I know he's had bad tenants previously. Am drafting 5% proposal today so I'll see what he says.

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pluCaChange · 22/01/2013 15:13

Even if he manages himself, the "finder's fee" eats up rent.

Good luck.

MirandaWest · 22/01/2013 15:15

I've been here nearly three years and rent hasn't gone up (yet).

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TheSamling · 22/01/2013 18:55

Hurrah, he agreed! Phew! Thanks for everyone's input!

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INeedThatForkOff · 22/01/2013 19:20

We haven't either. I can only see increasing it by, say, £25 if at all in the next few years.

crazyhead · 22/01/2013 19:45

I raise by inflation (about 1-2%). My tenants have been for three years and the place is definitely well below market rate but frankly it does OK and they are nice so I wouldn't raise it more.

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