Facilitating a Landlords Forum is an excellent way of engaging with landlords and other professionals in the private-rented sector. If you are considering establishing a Forum or developing an existing Forum, try to make the event convenient for landlords and letting agents to attend and ensure that it is as interactive as possible. It is important to have fresh topics to discuss at each event in order to maintain the interest of all parties: as far as possible, these topics should be suggested by the landlords themselves. It can initially be difficult to overcome the barriers that seem to exist between local authorities with their regulatory and enforcement obligations and the private rented sector which is feeling increasingly targeted by all sorts of regulatory legislation. It may take some time to build trust but it is well worth the effort.

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