As a buy to let furniture specialist, Buy to Let Furnishings are often asked by landlords, lettings agencies and property management companies to recommend other buy to let suppliers, websites and services.

So to save your precious time, we thought we’d gather the 5 best free landlord advice sites and resources that we’ve come across and provide them for you in a handy list…

1. Residential Landlord

Residential Landlord is the one stop source for information and advice for residential landlords. Their aim is to help their visitors become the best informed property investors in the market. FREE to access, content includes news and features; links to sources of information from Government and other agencies, and updates on latest buy to let mortgage offers; auction dates and new property developments.

Their Ask Sharon ‘agony column’ tackles some of the trickier questions, giving down to earth practical advice on a host of common and not-so-common questions. Plus the busy landlord forums buzz with daily exchanges on topics ranging from plumbing to taxation, worn carpets to possession.

http://www.residentiallandlord.co.uk

2. Landlord Expert

Landlord Expert is the only FREE to join national landlord association. One of only two national associations set-up to help landlords all over the UK. Landlord Expert is the only landlord association to offer free telephone support from exprienced and professional staff.

All other associations, including the only other national association, charge the landlord money for this service.

http://www.landlordexpert.co.uk

3. Landlord Zone

Landlord Zone is an online community, a portal for landlords involved in letting property – novice and experienced alike. It provides free access to information, resources and suppliers of value to residential and commercial landlords, tenants, letting agents, property managers and other property professionals.

http://www.landlordzone.co.uk

4. Property Investment Project

A popular and highly entertaining property investment blog, written by a guy whose original plan was to blog about his first steps into investing in buy to let property and becoming a landlord. Which having since completed that task on the 2nd of March 2007, now continues to indulge himself by writing (and ranting) about the ups and downs of being a landlord and his other property related projects, with the ultimate goal of increasing his portfolio and becoming a property millionaire.

http://www.propertyinvestmentproject.co.uk

5. Property Hawk

Property Hawk is a site developed by Landlords for Landlords. The primary aim is to make work life simpler and more flexible for their landlord users through the provision of FREE content and landlord software. Their software gives landlords the ability to log their financial and management data, as well as calculate their tax liabilities. The site incorporates a landlord magazine, news feed, links, online book, calculators, bookshop created specifically for UK Residential Landlords.

http://www.propertyhawk.co.uk

If you have found other free landlord advice websites, forums, resources and services available at zero cost to landlords, please feel free to add them to the comments below (please declare any interest and all comments will be moderated – thanks Buy to Let Furnishings).