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Wednesday, July 3

Property Links - Tips on how to buy, sell, rent, maintain, mortgage and then some

Property Links - resource to start in this promising branch of business

https://www.bedandbreakfast.eu/

http://www.aroomtolet.co.uk Looking for a room to let, click here. The Home Share Service covering London and the South East. Here at A Room to Let our aim is to make it as easy as possible for you to find the right person to share your home.

https://www.placebuzz.com

https://www.realpage.com/p2/property-management

https://www.spareroom.co.uk/

Hotels and Restaurants - Derelict London - Photography, Social History and Guided Walking Tours

https://www.todaytourism.com/add-my-property-tour.html

https://www.escapethecity.org

Investment Oracle info@investment-oracle.co.uk

https://www.neighbor.com

https://www.thelandsite.co.uk/properties

http://www.4salebyowner.co.uk Matching buyers and sellers without estate agent fees! Find out how to save £4,500!

http://www.buy-to-let.com Buy-to-Let Limited is an advisory service for new investors and existing landlords.

We run a web site, publish a book, produce software, and have an acquisition & consultancy service.

You'll also find a wealth of information about recommended suppliers, including: mortgages, conveyancing, insurance, refurbishment, furniture, maintenance, etc.

http://www.mybuilder.com/

http://www.myhammer.co.uk/

http://www.buy-to-let-secrets.co.uk Buy to Let Secrets - how to make money from long term property investment.

http://www.email4property.co.uk Links to estate agents in all UK towns; a separate website for each town, email all agents in one town with one button to request property details. Voted best property website 2001.

Nationwide property site for those wishing to sell (or buy) direct and save the estate agents commission

http://www.easylet.org.uk For low cost insurance with immediate cover.

http://www.flats-r-us.co.uk A unique and comprehensive service for buying, selling, renting or letting Flats throughout London and M25 area which removes the need to use Estate Agents or Letting Agents.

http://www.froglet.com An online letting service designed to provide support, expert advice and professional legal documentation to private landlords who wish to let and manage their properties themselves. Services include advertising, credit referencing a property management diary, and a library of around 100 downloadable documents written by lawyers specialising in the Housing Act.

http://www.greatwesternhomes.co.uk Lease with Peace of Mind. An independent residential letting and property management agency covering Somerset and Devon. With many years experience, we have a successful history of removing the complications involved in managing property investment. Great Western Homes specialises in letting all types of properties, from a flat or townhouse to a country residence with land.

http://www.homesalez.com This new site will let you advertise your property until sold, you can upload a photo, get worldwide exposure and best of all - they only charge a small one-time fee!

http://www.homesonsale.co.uk The UK's e-state agent.

http://www.homestagers.co.uk Home Stagers provides a wealth of tips, articles and free online advice for home owners. Features include: DIY, money saving ideas, space planning, Interior Design, and staging your property for speedy sales. They also provide hands-on services if you need professional help in preparing your home for sale, new home designer move-in services, personal shopping and home designing.

http://www.houseweb.com Sell your home on one of the UK's largest property marketplaces and save thousands. Houseweb is the ultimate property resource with over 2,500 pages of guides, information and advice. You can also get a range of competitive quotes for all the service you need when moving house.

http://www.housingprofessionals.co.uk Specialists in shared houses, flats and studios in the Chorley, Preston and Bamer Bridge areas of Lancashire.

http://www.jojaffa.com 101 Tips and Tricks for Selling or Letting your Property.

http://www.LandlordZONE.co.uk The LandlordZONE site is a resource centre and portal for landlords, tenants and letting agents. It provides comprehensive information and contacts for those involved in letting and renting residential and commercial properties.

http://www.leaders.co.uk The largest and most successful independent residential property letting specialist in the UK, with 18 offices across Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire and the West Midlands. After 20 years in the business, we've seen all the pitfalls and we'll show you how to avoid them.

http://www.lettingandestateagents.com Lettingandestateagents.com is the biggest directory of UK letting and estate agents. We have listings of letting and estate agents in every major town and city in the UK. Lettingandestateagents.com is the way many UK letting and estate agents choose to promote their services and we never underestimate the enormous responsibility we have to our customers.

http://www.lettings-landlords.co.uk - A uniquely free resource for landlords providing information, forms and advice all free of charge.

http://www.mortgage-online-mortgage.co.uk Is able to offer many unique mortgage products not available on the high street.

http://www.mortgages.uk.com The originial online directory for lenders and brokers.

http://www.mortgages-uk-online.co.uk Search and apply for mortgages at the best rate available in the United Kingdom.

http://www.moneybackmaintenance.com LANDLORDS! - PEACE OF MIND! Save valuable time & money on your property maintenance today! Planned maintenance & repair insurance costing from as little as 40p a day FREE REPAIR CALL-OUTS! Apply now!

http://www.propertydevelopersecrets.co.uk For property development and home improvers ... and anyone looking to move up the property ladder...

http://www.propertyportal.biz/default.asp We are chartered surveyors, property developers and property consultants. We provide a 'one stop' service from plot finding and acquisition to construction, sale, interior design and management. We also provide the most useful property development and professional services database in the UK - FREE!

http:www.propertyrentals.co.uk With over twenty years of experience Property Rentals is the largest and longest established independent letting and management agency in the Worcester area gaining an unrivalled reputation for dealing with executive properties. Whether it's a country residence, luxury apartment or townhouse, large or small, Property Rentals specialise in the marketing and letting of all types of quality properties. Experience in any field is paramount. Property Rentals has let thousands of homes since they started and therefore can avoid any pitfalls and problems because they have seen them before.

http://www.propertysecrets.net Independent UK property advice for creating property assets.

http://www.propertyuc.com The hottest site on the block for buying, selling, letting properties on the net. Don't waste time walking around umpteen estate agents or buying property pages every week when we have what you're looking for up our street. Sell or let your property for only £85 incl. Just move mouse to move house.

http://www.rentamatic.co.uk - Probably the UK's largest dedicated property rental site. Searchable listings of thousands of properties to rent from letting agents and private landlords throughout the UK. Completely FREE to advertise all your properties. Legal help, buy2let, tenants forums, books section, and more...

http://www.residentialinvestoralert.co.uk News and analysis of critical trends and issues for landlords. Residential Investor Alert is about hard facts, unsentimental information and unbiased analysis to help you make more money out of your property investments. Covering the whole range of issues from finance to furniture (and beyond), RIA is for your benefit and offers a number of features to keep you abreast of what is happening in the UK rental sector. Access is free and to view all articles you simply have to register which takes less than a minute.

http://www.residentialrentals.co.uk- Free advertising for landlords and rental agents. Fully searchable rental property database. Instant access.

http://www.thelittlehousecompany.co.uk Sell your home privately anywhere in the UK from £89 - The Little House Company reaches over 2 million UK buyers EVERY month as a result of their unique advertising on the leading UK property portals (Assertahome, Rightmove, Fish4...). Massive exposure and no agents commission to pay!

http://www.themovechannel.com/ UK property resource with free guides to buying, selling, renting, letting and moving, as well as personal finance products. Unique directory of more than 5000 UK property and related service web sites. Also has daily news, weekly features, calculators and other handy tools.

http://www.ukpip.co.uk £500m + of commercial investment property online from the leading provider of web-based property investment opportunities.

http://www.ukpropertyweb.co.uk Dedicated to helping you buy or sell property privately throughout the UK.

Listed in UK Mortgages Guide

www.letz.biz

www.mondialmarketing.co.uk

www.mortgages2homes.co.uk?

www.thishouseisforsale.co.uk

https://www.om-acquisitions.com

The Money Centre TMC2@lb.bcentral.com

Mondus News <newsletter_response@decisionfinance.co.uk Decision Finance newsletter

www.plaxo.com

https://www.hotfrog.com

Warnings:
NEVER transfer money to anyone who claims to be a bank, solicitor, agent etc., before arranging with your bank that the money is secure and there is no scam involved!

NEVER allow anyone to buy a property on your name!

Friday, July 7

Hotel Information for Israel

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Eight things you never knew Israeli hotels do to be certified kosher.

Israeli rabbinate's 168 guidelines of kashrut, from how to observe Shabbat to the 30 rules for inspecting liver, cost a pretty shekel. By Alona Ferber, 22:37 06.11.2014

One reason is that the cost of living in Israel is sky-high, and the hotels pay about the same for cottage cheese and electricity as everyone else. Israeli hotel rooms are among the more expensive in the world, according to various economic indexes. One reason is that the cost of living in Israel is sky-high, and the hotels pay about the same for cottage cheese and electricity as everyone else. Another reason is that unlike hotels anywhere else, the overwhelming majority of Israeli hotels are kosher. And being certified kosher is expensive. Jews famously don’t eat pork or seafood, and don’t mix milk and meat. But kashrut is much more than that. Here is a small taste of what hotels have to do to keep that certificate.

1. Stick to the rules – all 168 of them

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, which sets the standards on kashrut, has an 11-page document with 168 guidelines outlining what hotels need to do to keep hold of their kosher certification. For hotels with a stricter “Mehadrin” kashrut certification, there are, of course, further requirements. There are an additional seven pages regarding pastry chefs and baking, and extra stipulations for the Jewish holiday of Passover - but we’ll get to that later.

2. Hire a mashgiach

Hotels must have a full-time mashgiach, or inspector, on staff. In Eilat, for example, they make 9 to 10,000 shekels on average a month (around $2,500), according to the Eilat Hotels Association. Large hotels may need more than one inspector, and costs will multiply accordingly. Over the Sabbath and Jewish holidays, supervisors bring their families – who get free room and board - to ensure round-the-clock supervision.

3. Inspect, inspect, inspect

Green and leafy vegetables are the bane of a hotel’s existence. In order to comply with the kashrut prohibition on eating insects, only cauliflower, broccoli, brussel sprouts, artichoke, asparagus and leafy vegetables grown under rabbinic supervision can be chopped up and served to guests. Cabbages are subject to a four-rule procedure that includes “good lighting conditions” for inspection, and fennel must be taken apart, each layer soaped and studied individually. The humble bug-prone fig is banned, in dry or fresh form, and hotels are required to purchase a machine for inspecting legumes. There are, of course, many more elements to Jewish dietary law; the rules also cover wine, onion, garlic, dried and fresh fruits, fish, meat, eggs, rice and flour. Liver, for example, has 30 stipulations, all to itself. At the 375-room Dan hotel in Eilat, the inspector helps out in the kitchen, checking legumes and dealing with the liver before the cooks do, says General Manager Lior Mucznik. Take eggs: inspectors must crack open each on and check it for blood spots, which are forbidden under halakha, or Jewish law. Hotels can get around this buy purchasing pre-checked and opened eggs, Mucznik says.

4. No non-Jews near the oven

Jewish dietary law prohibits bishul akum, or food prepared by a non-Jew. But customs differ on what this means. Ashkenazis accept food prepared by a non-Jew so long as a Jew was involved in the cooking process, while for Sephardis, food cooked by a non-Jew can be eaten only if a Jew placed the dish to be cooked in the oven or on the stove. What does this mean for hotels? There are eight rules on the issue, which the Rabbinate says is as key to kashrut as not eating pork. One says that only the inspector or a Jewish worker who has written permission from the inspector or local rabbi can light a fire in the kitchen, that is, turn on the oven or stove. Hotels employing non-Jews must install systems that enable equipment to reach a certain temperature and stay there, so that non-Jews don’t affect the heat. Only Jews can turn on a steamer. Meanwhile, non-Jews can open and close regular oven doors, but when it comes to ovens that are turned on and off when the door opens or closes, that is out of the question.

5. Observe the Sabbath

Observing the Jewish Day of rest is a must for any kosher hotel. How strictly the 13 rules on Sabbath observance are enforced in practice depends on where you are in the country, however. In the resort city Eilat you can swim in a hotel pool or hear music in the lobby on the day of rest, but good luck trying to take a dip in your hotel in Bnei Brak or Jerusalem. If a hotel were to follow the Rabbinate’s rules to the letter of the law, it couldn’t accept any payments on Shabbat unless handled “discreetly” by a “gentile” at the cash register. Also, from the beginning of the Sabbath on Friday evening until the end on Saturday night, the guidelines stipulate that guests can only be checked in an out discreetly, and by a non-Jew.

6. No idol worship (yes, that means Christmas tree)

The Rabbinate’s Sabbath rules also prohibit “marking a non-Jewish holiday toward the end of the civilian calendar year.” This means that, in theory, you shouldn’t even think about decking the halls with boughs of holly if you want to keep your certificate. In the past, the Rabbinate has explained that this is because, “According to Jewish law, Jews may not be in a place where idol worship is taking place.” However, a spokesman assured Haaretz that, despite appearing in the guidelines, this rule is generally no longer enforced in practice.

7. Be extra (extra) careful around Passover

Passover is, far and away, the toughest time for hotels when it comes to keeping kosher. This is a time when Jews remember the exodus from Egypt, and as it says in Exodus 12:14, “ For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.” For hotels, this means bringing on extra staff and inspectors to make sure not one crumb of chametz, or leaven, is hiding anywhere on the premises. They also have to pay the Rabbinate an extra fee of 236 shekels ($63) over the period for the kashrut certificate. One significant expense is crockery. Kosher hotels have two sets of crockery to keep up with requirements for separating milk and meat on normal days. In addition, for the seven days of Passover, many hotels purchase two more sets to make sure dishes are untainted by chametz.

8. And don’t forget the annual fee

Aside from the inspector, hotels pay an annual fee for their kashrut stamp of approval. This costs 7,250 shekels (just under $2,000) a year for hotels with more than 250 rooms. Lior Avi, CEO of the Isrotel chain, says the company spends around $3 million shekels a year (some $800,000) on inspectors alone for their 17 hotels, not including the fee.

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