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The Property Podcast

ASK407: My tenant has upgraded my property! PLUS: Do I really have to pay Stamp Duty again?

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

News, Education, Business, Investing, Business News

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for another round of listener questions!  (0:47) Mo’s tenant has paid 5 months' rent up front for a 1-year lease. He recently had the first inspection, and the tenant has upgraded the house, and Mo’s wondering if he should see this as a good thing?  (3:48) James is looking to sell his residential home as his family is growing, and he’s got some burning questions about the SDLT he needs to pay.  Enjoy the show?  Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts - it really helps others find us!  Sign up for our free weekly newsletter, Property Pulse  Send us your question by calling us on 013 808 00035 and leaving a message with your name and question (normal UK call rates apply) or click here to leave a recording via your computer instead.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Rob. And I'm Rob. And this is Ask Rob and Rob.

0:07.0

Welcome to Ask Rob and Rob.

0:08.0

Thank you for joining us for two more listener questions and two more answer.

0:13.0

Those questions coming up in just a sec.

0:15.0

But it's so easy, Rob, to send your question our way.

0:18.0

The easiest way to do it is go to property hub.net.

0:21.0

naught. naught forward slash ask, where you will find our telephone number that you can leave a message on, or you can leave a message

0:26.4

directly on that page, and you can get a link to where you could submit your question for

0:32.0

the Sunday Times, because Rob and I answer your questions each

0:35.1

and every week in the home section of the Sunday Times. So make sure you check us out there.

0:40.3

Okay first up we don't have a name. So when we don't have a name we make it up so our first caller today will be called Mo.

0:47.7

Hi there Rob and Rob. I'm to say first thank you for of the content but amazing and it's actually giving me the

0:55.5

kind of inspiration to first property so yeah thanks for that. My question is basically around that first probably actually.

1:04.4

I've got a bit of a good slash bad situation which I need your advice on how to navigate.

1:09.6

And basically what it is, I've rented out the property,

1:12.8

seems to have a nice enough tenant in there,

1:14.6

paid five-month-to-one-year contract

1:17.7

that we got with them on the standard lease.

1:20.6

We've got in there after our first inspection after about three or four months and the

1:24.6

Teddon has kind of upgraded the house by new jackin, painted the walls, new wallpaper,

1:29.9

TV walls, all that kind of stuff.

1:32.9

So the question is, is, should I be happy,

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