Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
Should you use a letting agent to manage your let properties? Well, it depends. A lot of it comes down to having a network of contacts (tradespeople) who can come and do work for you reasonably quickly, at a fair price and who are competent – so in order of importance and frequency of use that means plumbers, then heating […]
Read moreUsing a Letting Agent to Find a Tenant Those of you who have been following me all these years will know that I like to find new tenants myself, not using a letting agent. I have explained in previous posts here, how you can, like me, find a tenant yourself using what’s often called an online letting agent – one […]
Read moreDavid Lawrenson of LettingFocus.com receives an email from a past client who is worried about a scary email he has just received from his letting agent. Lawrenson explains all and suggests this kind of thing is just another reason why you might be better off dispensing with your agent and becoming your own letting agent. Be Your Own Letting Agent Today, one […]
Read moreIncredible though it may seem, many landlords entrusted to middlemen companies who said they would find them tenants and pay a guaranteed rent for a period of 3 or more years. Now, it seems, a few of these companies appears to have gone bust taking all the housing benefit rent money that had been paid over by the councils with […]
Read moreI know of one good reason why some forays into large scale “build for private let” by institutional investors and housing associations are failing -and it has very much to do with letting agents. Lots of big scale investors in big build to let promised much about longer term tenancies. They would revolutionise the market for assured shorthold tenancies, they […]
Read moreIn this article, I explain why landlords should never use a letting agent that thinks it is good practice to run their property management from a town that is miles away. There are good and bad letting agents and I have experienced both. Most of the time I let and manage my own properties. I run the adverts using an […]
Read moreLetting agency regulation is looking more likely and why private landlords need to ensure they let properties fast by David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com In last weeks’ blog I talked about trust and how one mortgage lender’s recent move could destroy trust in all lenders – or at the very least ensure all people taking out a mortgage and their brokers […]
Read moreLettingFocus has found some letting agents to be very frit* about taking reservation fees from tenants – and posits some reasons why. Landlords who set out to minimise periods when a property is empty (or “void periods” in the landlord vernacular) always market the property as soon as the current tenants have given notice of their intention to leave. (Of […]
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