Collaborating with The Independent Landlord

I set up The Independent Landlord as a free resource for landlords and property businesses. All the content on this website is free. My content is also subject to copyright.

Here is my approach towards quoting The Independent Landlord and also the collaboration opportunities I offer businesses.

Can I quote The Independent Landlord?

I am happy for you or your business to quote my blog posts and pages, so long as you respect a few simple and reasonable rules.

However, as a result of some blatant and extensive plagiarism of my content, I have disabled the copy and print functions on my blog posts, and you cannot download images. You can find out more in the Copyright Notice in my Terms of Use.

If you would like to quote my blog posts and pages, please could you respect these rules:

• The quotes must not be “fair use”, and no more than a few lines. For more extensive quotations, please contact me by sending me a message here.
• You must acknowledge the source of the quotation. For web-based publications, please provide a backlink to the relevant page on my website with relevant, appropriate and descriptive anchor text. It should not have a no-follow tag. As a one-person blogger who doesn’t advertise or pay for backlinks, genuine high quality backlinks are really helpful.
• Please do run the quotation past me first as I regularly update pages and that page might about to be change. Also, it’s important for me to check the quotation in the context. I will do this for free.
• If you promote your article or blog post on social media, please do tag me as a contributor or source. Again, please let me know so we can chat about it. I may be able to promote it too.
• I take a very dim view of companies who plagiarise my content. I’m a solicitor and defend my rights as the owner of the copyright in the content in this blog post. I have extensive experience in the enforcement of intellectual property rights from my time as a General Counsel of several PLCs, so expect to hear from me if you do copy my work without my permission.

I’m a subscriber to your newsletter. Can I quote it?

It depends. Please send me a message using my contact form so we can chat about it.

Do you create new content for businesses for free?

No. The Independent Landlord is my freebie to the landlord community. It takes enough time of my time as it is, without me doing yet more pro bono work.

Although I’m happy to be quoted in magazines, if I have to write an article, I expect to be paid.

It’s one thing allowing businesses to quote something I’ve written on this website (provided they respect my rules above). It’s another thing entirely for me to spend time creating something new for a business to publish. I’m sure you understand.

Can I pay you to create content for my business?

Since launching my membership, The Independent Landlord Hub in the summer of 2025, I’ve stopped creating content for other businesses, unless it’s for an exceptional opportunity with my byline.

If you’d like to find out more about the content creation offered by The Independent Landlord, you can use my contact form to send me a message.

Are you available to work as a consultant?

I no longer provide consultancy services. If you’d like to pick my brain, you can do in The Independent Landlord Hub at the twice-monthly live Q&A sessions, or in the forum, which I call Hub Community.

Do you accept guest blog posts on The Independent Landlord?

No. I write everything on The Independent Landlord myself. I have a unique voice and turn of phrase, that have developed over a long career as a lawyer, and through my experiences as a self-managing landlord. If a topic is worthy of a place on this website, I’ll write it myself.

That said, I regularly collaborate with other people when I write my blog posts, and include direct quotes. However, I hold the pen, and make it clear when the other person is offering a perspective.

If you have some ideas that you think would be useful for me to include in blog post, please contact me here. I don’t pay for contributions. I usually include a backlink with a high quality anchor text for free, but for some businesses, I insist on affiliate links.

Are you able to provide quotations for newspapers, media outlets and magazines?

It depends.

A short quote on a straightforward topic is fine. For something more difficult or controversial, please contact me here to chat about it. I often turn down media requests and it has to be something that maintains my independence and is the right fit for The Independent Landlord.

For contributing more than a couple of lines, I would expect to be paid for my time, especially if it’s on a tricky or controversial subject.

I’d certainly be interested in writing a regular column with a byline for a suitable newspaper, magazine or website that’s a good fit with The Independent Landlord. That, of course, wouldn’t be a freebie.

Are you happy to be a guest on a podcast or webinar?

With limited time and a lot of requests to appear on podcasts, I am very selective about which podcasts I appear on. It has to be the right fit for me and have a large audience. Please get in touch via my contact form to discuss it.

Here are a few recent examples of podcasts:

• Rodcast podcast with Rod Turner, Renters Rights Bill Confusion & EPC Mayhem, – 27 February 2025.
• LandlordZONE, What does it take to be a successful landlord in the new regime? 14 November 2024.
• Property Investing 2.0, Is buy to let dead? Suzanne Smith talks Rental Reform, Removal of No Fault Evictions, Rent Caps and the Move towards Commonhold – 1 August 2024.

I sometimes do webinars, but I do charge, so please get in touch via my contact form to discuss my rates.

Do you speak at events?

I enjoy speaking at events and have a lot of experience at giving presentations at large conferences from my time as a C-level lawyer.

However, I have very little time, and only accept bookings for keynote speaker slots.

I expect to have my travel costs reimbursed and I charge an appropriate speaker fee.