Everything potential landlords need to know about the UK rental market Renting Out Your Property For Dummies is the essential roadmap to successful property letting. This easy-to-read guide walks readers through every step of renting out their property
- showing how to avoid legal problems find & keep the best tenants maintain the property & maximise their rental income. As well as lots of helpful advice it contains a wealth of sample forms & standard letters that can be used when dealing with their own tenants. Crucially it is fully up to date on all the latest legislation including the Tenancy Deposit Scheme & Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs). Renting Out Your Property For Dummies covers: How to prepare a rental property for prospective tenants Tackling rent deposits & tenancy agreements Deciding whether to manage the property yourself or to hire an agent Essential information on financial management & record-keeping
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This book covers the principles & techniques that will help you develop the skills needed to carry out effective vehicle body repair & re-finishing. This edition has been updated to deal with changes in technology & best practice & meets the current Automotive Skills standards. It also covers the topics studied at NVQ levels 2 & 3 & contains handy revision notes making it an ideal text for students on the following courses: Automotive Skills Council Vehicle Body & Paint Operations requirements IMI Body Repair & Refinishing Technical Certificates (VRQs) National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) City & Guilds Vehicle Body Repair Competence courses NVQ & Progression Awards of both City & Guilds & the Institute of the Motor Industry at levels 2 & 3. Professionals & hobbyists will continue to find this an essential manual for the workshop when repairing the latest models or classic cars. Other books by Andrew Livesey: Basic Motorsport Engineering 9780750689090 Advanced Motorsport Engineering 9780750689083 ...

This title offers a transgressive love story by a singular new voice. A secretive child by nature Susanna makes a covert list of everything she knows about her absent father determined that one day she will find him. Unable & unwilling to adapt to life in her mothers unsympathetic household she distances herself as much as possible. When she finally discovers her fathers whereabouts & seeks him out in the free & unconventional atmosphere of 1970s Chelsea she conceals her identity beginning an illicit affair that can only end in disaster. Repeat it Today with Tears" is in many ways a traditional love story as well as a skilful evocation of radical times & desires. It is a fever dream that examines our need to be loved & accepted & a piercing portrait of madness. Anne Peile is a striking new voice in fiction." ...

Dr Sparrow is back coping with more bizarre macabre & hilarious situations. Following his successful debut with Country Doctor: Hilarious True Stories from a Country Practice" Dr Sparrow once more guides us through the daily rounds of the weird & wonderful in his practice on the Devon/ Cornwall border. What would you do if faced with the unsuccessful resuscitation of the wrong patient being held at gunpoint as a suspected terrorist or confronting a blind man who refuses to stop driving? & what about the little old lady who presents you with a supermarket bag stuffed with GBP20 notes? Add to this jets crashing on the runway fleeting glimpses of the Royal Genitalia & the haunting tale of the suicidal stranger & an abducted child
- & you will start to have some idea of the unpredictable life of Dr Sparrow."
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Is constant reinvention the key to winning in todays fast-paced world? Not judging by the results of some of the worlds best performing companies. In Repeatability" the leaders of Bain & Companys influential strategy practice reveal a powerful truth: successful companies that endure maintain a form of simplicity at their core. More than anything else a "great repeatable business model" equips companies to deal successfully with complexity the silent killer of profitable growth. Chris Zook & Jimmy Allen co-authors of the bestselling " Profit from the Core" detail the value of repeatability in business showing how the "big idea" today is really made up of a series of successful smaller ideas driven by a simple & repeatable business model. Based on a multi-year study of hundreds of companies Zook & Allen show how well-known global firms
- including IKEA Vanguard Starbucks LEGO Da Vita Nike & Flora Holland
- combine a core differentiation model with speed adaptability & simplicity to land them at the top of the competitor chain for longer periods of time. CEOs senior executives managers & investors all need to read this blueprint for reaching the top
- & staying there."


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Reporting America" is a magnificent collection of Alistair Cookes key dispatches on the key moments movements men & women of post-war America. Alistair Cooke was the greatest & most humane of all modern reporters & interpreters of America his adopted country to his native Britain & to the world. Starting with his first broadcast Letter from America on embarking in 1946 for America on a ship filled with tearful GI brides here are the stories of a nation: Korea the Mc Carthy witch hunts Civil Rights JFK the moon landings the moving eye-witness account of Robert Kennedys assassination Nixons resignation & Clintons scandals right up to the attacks of September 11th & the war in Iraq. Also containing Cooks observations on the great good & downright bad & on the views of the ordinary people he met as well as his daughter Susans memories of her father " Reporting America" is a tribute to an extraordinary man & the country he loved. " The voice of America... Here was a man who made intelligent honest sense of decades of assassinations scandals elections boom times & broken dreams.. .an indispensable record of twentieth-century American culture". (Peter Kimpton " Observer"). " Vintage Cooke". (David Dimbleby). "A rich picture of America so vivid.. .the fresh first pressing of history". (James Naughtie " Sunday Telegraph"). Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) enjoyed an extraordinary life in print radio & television. The Guardians Senior Correspondent in New York for twenty-five years & the host of groundbreaking cultural programmes on American television & of the BBC series America Cooke was however best known both at home & abroad for his weekly BBC broadcast Letter from America which reported on fifty-eight years of US life was heard over five continents & totalled 2 869 broadcasts before his retirement in February 2004 far & away the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history." ...

Romance & suspense combine in a tense teen thriller that will leave you gasping for more.. .34 kids missing. Vanished without a trace. Believing she is possessed Genie Magee's mother has imprisoned her all summer encouraged by the sinister Reverend Schneider. Beautiful Rian love of her life sets her free & their escape washes them up at Marshall's remote farmhouse downriver. But why are there newspaper clippings of the missing kids pinned to Marshall's bathroom wall? & should they believe his stories about the experiments at the Fortress an underground research station nearby? Genie meets Denis. Missing two years now but hasn't grown an inch. Rian is haunted by Ren?e who insists she's not actually dead. Soon they discover the terrible truth about Reverend Schneider & worse Genie is next.. .and Rian can't do a thing to prevent it. The Repossession is just the beginning. Shortlisted for the Leeds Book Award & longlisted for the Amazing Book Awards in Sussex. ' Forget Bella & Edward. Genie & Rian are the new IT couple in the teen fiction world!' Kooky Toon Book Corner blog Check out Sam's website: http://www.samhawksmoor.com ...

There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on... The siblings endure a car accident a terrible smell a deadly serpent a long knife a brass reading lamp & the re-appearance of a person they hoped to never see again. Then again why trouble yourself with the unfortunate resolutions? Avoid these books in Lemony Snicket's international bestselling series & you'll never have to know what happens! ...

There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on... The siblings endure a car accident a terrible smell a deadly serpent a long knife a brass reading lamp & the re-appearance of a person they hoped to never see again. Then again why trouble yourself with the unfortunate resolutions? Avoid these books in Lemony Snickets international bestselling series & youll never have to know what happens! ...

This is a fantastic brand new addition to the Beginners" series designed to provide an informative introduction to trees & plant-life for young readers. Children can learn about some of the most fascinating cold-blooded creatures in the world from reptiles that can fly walk on water & climb on ceilings. This book offers terrific reading practice for children who prefer fact to fiction. It is developed with a reading expert from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence. It is great value for your money." ...