Episode 98: What we're saving is the planet, not our pocket

Simon is joined by Pam and Tania to talk property energy improvements, coping with rising energy costs and how landlords should approach saving the planet. The chat this week includes: Pam and Tania previously joined us to chat about choosing locations and property funding. Stuart and Simon spoke about increasing energy costs last week. Solar panels. Feed-in-tariff pay back period. Considering approaches for eco projects. Is the technology ready to replace gas boilers? EPC C for rental property by 2025. Crawley Property Meet. An average of £10,000 per property. Difficulty insulating a block of flats when you need agreement of everyone. Increased HMO energy costs from more time at home - not just more expensive energy. Increasing rents. Everyone's going to be struggling for a little while. Energy supplier changes due to companies going bust. Convincing HMO tenants to be energy efficient. Structuring property energy improvements to "pay back" is wrong! What we're saving is the planet, not our pocket. Please leave us a rating and review if you're enjoying the show.Special Guests: Pam Mackenzie and Tania Carson.

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The Business of Property follows the journey of two entrepreneurs working in the property world. Stuart is a property investor with a focus on HMOs, mostly for the student market. He prefers a hands-off approach with most of his investment properties being remote. Simon has a small portfolio of vanilla buy-to-let properties that he mostly self-manages. To make his property management easier he created Property and Tenant Manager (https://www.patma.co.uk/). Simon and Stuart, along with guests, discuss the ups and downs they're experiencing in their property businesses. Along the way they share property news, business tips and anything else that happens to crop up their weekly chats. Popular episodes include: Getting started in property (https://www.thebusinessofproperty.com/59) - the first in a mini series discussing topics to consider when starting in property investment. Property investment terms (https://www.thebusinessofproperty.com/12) - great if you're just getting started in property and need some help understanding the common jargon. Property strategy terms (https://www.thebusinessofproperty.com/13) - another jargon busting episode that's great if you're early in your property journey or considering changing your property strategy. Less property but relevant to everyone is a discussion on time management (https://www.thebusinessofproperty.com/10). Last but not least are a couple of episodes that talk about angel investing (https://www.thebusinessofproperty.com/14) and property finance (https://www.thebusinessofproperty.com/15) more widely.