I am launching a best kept tenants garden in Hoddesdon competition for the summer, unfortunately I don’t think that the garden pictured left will be winning - looks to me like one of the tenants has dug a grave and buried one of his housemates. Any landlord might be fed up with his garden being turned in to a cemetary and I would have to agree - but guess who is the landlord ?, yes yours truly. Mrs D gone chicken oriental !! But the tenants are paying the rent no probs and that is the no.1 priority for me !

The pain in the back of every landlord and letting agent - the rent dodger, not your normal tenant who might be struggling but who is working with you, but the nuisance who thinks that living for free is what he or she is entitled to do.

Now this may be controversial but I am thinking of naming and shaming Rent Dodgers or anyone who thinks we have come down off the last banana boat. I think I will set up a trial period for three months to see how things go……

It was off to Newmarket yesterday with the annual jolly boys trip organised by Ray Butler. We had a cracking day, got bit of a juinior hangover today and the wrath of Rita for coming home late but actually managed a winner for once -see evidence above. Anyway have a great bank holiday weekend, weather actually looks good for a change !

I hope you like the look and feel of the new website version 4.0 which is live and up and running. The main brief to my website designer Ben Keogh and his team at zonica.com was to reflect the simplicity of the specialist lettings service that we provide, and to make sure that anyone looking for a property to let is only a couple of clicks away from property details and photographs. And lastly to give the site a contemporary and modern look/ feel, the guys have delivered on all these points. We are also adding further details on the areas that we cover and staff, together with more comprehensive details of our services for both landlord and tenants.

The whole site is also geared up for additional offices we may open…. watch this space…