Energy Performance Certificates get a Negative Response from PropertyHawk Users

Energy Performance Certificates on rental properties will be required by landlords on all their rental properties by October as I hope all landlords are aware.

I'm not one for all this added paper work and costs that this government like to put upon us.

I wondered what other landlords thought about this added expense ( approx. £85 a pop ), times that by 10, 20 or 50 properties and that adds up to a lot of money.

So I set up a poll on the blogs to see if any landlords welcomed this new government initiative.

Well the results are in, the telephone lines are closed any further votes will not be entered.

And the result are in and are a 100% - NO!

That means that there were no landlords that's right 0% of landlords who voted thought Energy Performance Certificates were a good idea.

Well tough luck - all us landlords will have to get one.

Anyway moving on let's hope the Tories when they get in will at least get rid of these pointless HIP's folders, that we can all see were only kept going because the government couldn't face another embarrassing u-turn as regards housing policy. The only partly useful thing left in them is the Energy Performance Certificate.

Maybe by scrapping HIPS it might help to put a glimmer of life back into the housing market.