Date: 23 Dec 2009 Comments: 0

The housing market is a troubling place at the moment. With house prices being incredibly high before the recession, many people found it tough to buy a new home. Now as we are in the recession, the house prices have been falling, however, because of the recession, it’s getting hard to get a mortgage.

This combination has resulted in many people deciding to rent property. It’s not just home owners looking to rent property. Many property investors are buying property with the idea of getting a buy to let mortgage as these tend to be easier to get.

Although you may not think so, there are a number of advantages to renting property. The main one is that it’s alot easier to find a property to rent simply because there are more in the market. The monthly payments for rental property tend to be less than that of a mortgage. Tenants also have the benefit of not having to worry about paying costly maintenance bills. This responsibility normally lies with the landlord.

One problem that often occurs in older property is mold. Even if you don’t have a mold problem in your home, if you are part of a block, it could be a neighbours that’s causing problems. Because mold can cause such problems, you are allowed to request a mold inspection, even if there are no visible signs of mold in your property. If no work is being done to resolve the mold problem, you have the right to stop paying your rent and pay for the work yourself.

Of coures there are appliances such as dehumidifiers that would solve the problem of ever getting mold in your home. A dehumidifier is able to reduce the levels of humidity in your home back to the normal level, around 40%-60%. Having a simple piece of equipment like this is will reduce humidity therefore reduce the chance of mold and mildew growing in your home.

A simple weather station won’t be able to tell you the levels of humidity in your home, you’ll need a special tool called athermohygrometer to accurately measure the levels of humidity in your property.