Can I achieve £1000 pm cash flow after management+ bills from a £130k inheritance with NO leveraging of funds due to low income.
Low income doesn't prevent leveraging. The Mortgage Works (which is the buy-to-let arm of the Nationwide building society) have no minimum income criteria as long as your income isn't zero. (If you have zero income, then buy one property for cash, establish a tenancy income, then borrow.)See an independent financial adviser. A proper one, not an estate agency mortgage broker.
...and electrical safety certificates etc.
In law, there's no strict need for an electrical safety certificate but it's neither right nor ethical to let a property unless you're confident the electrics are safe. And if you're not an electrician yourself, the only way to have that confidence is to get an electrician to check it.Advising people to skip the electrical safety certificate is a bit irresponsible, Hippogriff.
I suspect the point that Hippogriff was intending to make was that some people (agents, electricians and sundry altruists...) would have you believe that there's a requirement to get the electrics professionally checked on an annual basis, in the same way that you need an annual gas check, when in fact, if nothing major has changed, a competent layman's eyeball will suffice.