Isla McCrae
letting agent
Commercial; sees tenants as customers
Accidental Landlord
Callum thought renting would be passive income. Registration, safety rules, a tenant in difficulty and a tax bill teach him otherwise, and he must choose between his finances and his conscience when the tenant falls into arrears.
Planned · not started yet
Home & housing Money under pressure Ethics & integrity Hard choices City life Bracing Lightly witty
The premise
Callum thought renting would be passive income. Registration, safety rules, a tenant in difficulty and a tax bill teach him otherwise, and he must choose between his finances and his conscience when the tenant falls into arrears.
The protagonist
Callum Reid-Haversham — Glasgow engineer who inherits his aunt’s flat and rents it out
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Alasdair Rennison
landlord-and-tenant solicitor
Cautious; compliance first
Mhairi Dunlop
tax adviser
Precise; finds the cost he forgot
How the story moves
A year as a landlord; the tenant’s crisis forces a moral choice that shapes whether he keeps the flat.
What readers take away
- Landlord registration
- Private residential tenancies
- Deposit-protection schemes
- The repairing standard and safety certificates
- Ending a tenancy lawfully
- Rent increases and rent controls
- Tax on rental income
- Using letting agents and understanding fees
- Complete the landlord-registration application
- Handle repairs through the repairing standard
- Respond to a rent-increase challenge
- Keep records for tax and compliance
The books
- 1The inheritance Planned
- 2Registration Planned
- 3The tenant Planned
- 4The sale Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.