Chris A Watkins - Business

I believe that you have every right to disbelieve the corporate line, every right to kick back against authority.     I’ve walked my own path for years, disregarding the conventional, so how can I criticise a generation who’s members seek new paths ?     Okay, so I’m old, that doesn’t mean that you should disregard what I have to say. The fact is I agree with most of the stuff about Millennials that guys my age hate.     In the world of work, where you get paid for completing a task, you have only two things to sell . The first is your time and the second is your skills.      That’s it, nothing more.      For me the contract was always simple , I work, you pay me, let's negotiate the rate and get started.     For many years I’ ve steered clear of ‘employee benefits’, had no interest in maternity rights, paternity rights, holiday pay or even redundancy. I’ve contract...

Congratulation. You ’ r e now a landlord, you've managed to bring together sufficient resources to buy an investment property. If you're doing really well, you have more than one investment property.     Now you have to manage them and looking at the fees charged by the management companies you're not so keen on the overhead cost. Similarly, you may have looked at some software products for property management, but if you went down that road you still have to buy the software, learn to use it and that all seems to be quite a bit of trouble .     So, here’s a way to stay on top of thing s , make sure you never miss a deadline or forget an essential and, what’s more, do it on low cost.     Oh, sure. You’ve heard that before haven’t you?     Okay then, let's look at what you need to do. Property, like any asset, needs maintenance , and then there’s stuff like gas certificates, electrical certificates, PAT tests, insurance ,...