Landlord Guide: How to resolve problems with letting agents
One of the most important decisions landlords make is whether to use letting agents to…
How can landlords use technology to manage their portfolios?
Technology has developed at an incredible rate, especially over the last decade. There are now…
What should UK landlords provide in unfurnished rented properties?
When you’re setting out as a landlord, or even when you’ve been a landlord for…
Landlords: How to create an effective website for your business
Are you a self-managing landlord who’d like an easy and efficient way of providing information…
Renters Reform: Guide to Terminating Tenancies with the New Section 8
As the Renters Reform Bill proposes abolishing Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988, assuming…
Landlord Guide: How to Self-Manage your Buy to Let
Are you thinking of self-managing your own buy to let property? With increasing interest rates…
Landlord Guide: How to find tenants using OpenRent
Margins are tight for landlords. An obvious way to save money is for landlords to…
Landlord Guide: How to carry out your own Right to Rent checks
Landlords who use online platforms like OpenRent to find tenants need to carry out checks…
Renters Reform Bill: Tenants’ new implied right to keep pets
Britain has long prided itself as a nation of animal lovers and estimated 34% of…
How to Avoid the 5 Classic Landlord Refurb Mistakes
Refurbishment is an activity that pretty much all landlords will carry out on their rental…
Renters’ Guide: What tenants need to know about renting in 2023
Times are hard for renters in the UK in 2023. Rents have never been higher,…
Why ESG and Sustainability are Important to Private Landlords
Environmental concerns and sustainability are high up the political agenda, not least for private landlords….
About Suzanne, creator of The Independent Landlord
Suzanne Smith is a lawyer turned self-managing landlord with a portfolio of buy to let houses in Maidstone, Kent.
Before becoming a landlord in 2019, she worked as a lawyer in the life sciences industry for 25 years, reaching the position of General Counsel of a PLC.
Suzanne set up The Independent Landlord blog in August 2022 to provide free, independent tips and advice for landlords and property businesses. The sort of content she wished she’d been able to find when starting out as a landlord.
In writing content for The Independent Landlord, she draws on both her experience as a lawyer and as a landlord.
The Independent Landlord blog has quickly established itself as a leading place for landlords and property businesses to find reliable information about the topics that matter to them, at a time of unprecedented change and challenges for the private rented sector.