Rethinking Your Business Strategy and the Great Reset
Goodness the first six months of 2020 have been “interesting” to say the least. The beginning of a new month and new quarter is a perfect time to reflect and think about what you want to achieve in the second half of this year . Remember the impact of the pandemic has been a shock to businesses and all your team.
We may think we are communicating enough – how many Zoom, Teams, GoToMeeting sessions have we attended over the last 3 months? Yet, in times of uncertainty, significant change, WFH - we can assume that not all the information being provided is being taken in.
Remember, employees are also dealing with the current crisis and life changes in their own way. People may hear what you are telling them, but do they really understand what you are saying. Along furlough, redistribution of work, changes being implemented at home - even those with a high level of intellectual ability may feel “swamped”.
Zoom Fatigue - A Post Lockdown Syndrome
100 plus days have lapsed and we have all probably lost count of the sheer number of Zoom, GoToWebinar, Teams webinars, meetings, conferences and training sessions we participated in.
Zoom Fatigue (no disrespect to Zoom), is a real thing. Psychologists observe that taking part in a virtual meeting, conference, training session, webinar, takes up far more energy and causes far more stress than the average face to face meeting. Granted the commute to work is far shorter, however, throw into the mix. a whole range of unexpected consequences, and the scenario is not quite what one would expect it to be.
100 Days on - What next in the Lettings Industry?
Letting Agents & Property Managers have navigated this pandemic sailing through unchartered territory. Planning, putting new procedures in place to enable WFH, redistributing workloads, and then moving back through a phased approach to the office environment has been challenging to say the least.
What happens next?
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Tenants are legally bound to pay rent, so at this three month point, it is important to review the status of those deferred payments/agreed rent reductions. Remember, post WWII Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd [1947] - the agreement to delay rent payments was NOT put in writing. Any amendment to the contract MUST be MUTUALLY agreed.
Trecarrell House Limited v Rouncefield Gas Safety Case - Court of Appeal rules in favour of Landlord
The Court of Appeal has yesterday handed down its judgment in the case of Trecarrell House Limited v Rouncefield. The Court of Appeal Judges ruled that late service of a gas safety certificate does not prevent a landlord from serving a section 21 notice on their tenant provided the certificate has been given to the tenant before service of the section 21 notice. This decision will be welcomed by landlords.
It was due to the Caridon Property v Monty Schooltz, in which HHJ Luba QC concluded that a failure to provide the gas safety certificate to the tenant before occupation was a breach that could not be remedied late. The effect of the judges’ interpretation of the law was that a landlord who had failed to provide the gas safety certificate before the tenant took occupation.