Daniel's apprenticeship journey

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Finised

Finally finished my project, me and Stuart had a quick run through of my draft and we are now ready to go through the gateway!!!

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How COVID-19 affects private renting

Although not block management, I read a very interesting article detailing what the government are doing to protect renters. It seems that during this lockdown period being in arrears on your rent  is no longer grounds for eviction. 

This is great for people who may have lost their jobs or have reduced working hours and don’t make enough money to cover their rent. Hoever, private landlords are now in a sticky situation as now their income is affected and with no end date in site and no relief plans to help landlords, many of them are left  frustrated and scared. 

Should this last for the rest of the year (hopefullly not) landlords who’s primary source of income is rent or who also may have been made redundant or have had working hours reduced may default on their mortgages. I think it’s safe to assume many of private landlords are in the situation, which could mean horrible things for the enconmy as a whole. Hopefully we should see some relief plans put in place for landlords as well. 

It’s truly unforutante the ties we are in.

Article: https://propertyindustryeye.com/mayor-calls-for-triple-lock-protection-for-londons-private-renters/

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Presentention done

Finally sent my frist draft of my presentention off to Stuart, good to see that all the pieces are finally coming together!!!

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Regulations and Legislations

After speaking to my tutor Stuart, he helped me realise how important legislations are in my rpoject. Prior to the below I didn’t really mention any legislations at all. But after our phone I did some research into legislations and expanded on the ones thhat were the most applicable to my project. 

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Important to see how the situation of COIVD-19 is affecting property management.

Interesting article I read this morning on IRPM's website.

https://irpm.org.uk/public/page/news/128

News Articles

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My little home office, whilst I work from home. This is an unique situation that a lot of us are in but we have to adapt and make due.

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On to new heights, had a really great time on site today, looking at the major work we have going on at one of out sites.

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Having fun getting my demographics done. Interesting finding out that stats for certain areas!

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Finally finished my off the job, all 500+ hours accounted for

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Visited new site, but it comes with problems, below is a picture of a leak in the car park that has gotten extremely bad.

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Results from the questionnaire

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Questionnaire

Currently trying to brainstorm how to write a proper questionnaire so that I’m able to gather relevant data to will help. A very important part of my project as this would give answers from stakeholders that can be used to evaluate the current processes in place. I can use this feedback to then base my suggestions on what to improve for the new system.

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Site visit

Had a nice site visit today, I needed to take some facade images to update our portfolio and I also took this opportunity to do a health and safety inspection of the site.

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My project

My project proposal has been recently been sent, I’m hoping this is approved. In the meantime, I have started drafting my presentation nothing serious so far. I do have a couple of slides done already but most slides are just templates for when things will go on later, for example, questionnaire results analysis.

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First blog post

Welcome to my blog just moved my blog over from WordPress because I like the format more. Below is an example of my SWOT analysis