The National Landlords Association (NLA) has revealed it received a record number of calls from landlords seeking advice during 2007.

The NLA Advice Line, offering free advice to member landlords, received an average of 2,600 calls per month last year on a wide variety of topics. Throughout the year, this amounted to over 31,000 individual enquiries. The top five landlords enquiries included how to remove a troublesome tenant, queries about the tenancy deposit scheme, queries about housing benefit payments not matching the rent, student tenants and questions about licenses for Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO).

David Salusbury, Chairman of NLA, said: “As there are more and more issues that landlords have to consider, it is unsurprising that record numbers are calling the NLA Advice Line for help. For some they are seeking confirmation of a certain course of action but for others they require more detailed advice. Most staff answering calls are also landlords and have years of experience to offer our member landlords who need some support.”