The housing regulator is not happy; the service being provided by local authorities and social landlords is not good! For example in 2009 the Scottish Housing Regulator said that just under half of the landlords they had inspected were poor or only just adequate. I’m also fairly certain these problems are not unique to the Scottish property sector.

In my experience it’s not unusual for a repair to take up to 200 days, voids to lie empty for months, hundreds of names to be on the allocations lists, and rent arrears to be in the millions.

What’s being done to tackle these issues and solve the problems? A number of things actually, but they’re the same things that were done last year and the year before that; you know the old cliché we keep on doing the same things but expect a different result.

What about you, are you ready for a change?

If you are then over the next few weeks I’m going to let you have a series of reports on the problems in housing and how to fix it.

The first in the series has been written by Caroline Rodgers. Caroline has worked with me for the past nine years and knows housing as well as any hotshot guru. You can download the PDF from here.

We don’t want to spam you, so you’ll only get the reports if you ask for them, they won’t replace the usual blog. To get the rest of the free reports as they are issued sign up here.

The first report hits back at those suggesting that I.T. and outsourcing will solve the problem.

So if you’re ready to buck the trend, think differently and blaze a trail, I look forward to helping you get on the right track.

Many Thanks

Stuart Corrigan

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