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Adhiero-
My costs are about £200-250/month for council tax, body corp, insurance, etc. Possibly less if they still do a discount for single occupant houses and our body corp should come down once we've done the cladding work that we've been paying extra for for the last 5 years.
This is only when it's empty though, so if this only happens between tenants and before selling, who cares? Couple of grand is fuck all when you're talking about buying a house.
hippy
There's no "risk" with it being empty though is there? Unless you consider 'potential' lost earnings as a risk. It's paid off and I'm not going to put myself in a situation where I "need" that rental income. So with that in mind I could also get tenants out and do a proper clean up before selling, if I'd planned to sell it.