Tenant Referencing – Letting Focus

Getting to Yes With Prospective Tenants

May 27, 2021 David Lawrenson Leave a comment

Getting to “Yes” with Prospective Tenants In previous blog posts, I explained how we do our marketing to find new tenants and how our screening process works. This is all about the process we use to get to find the best tenants who will say “Yes” to us (and to us minimising the time with the time-wasters so we can […]

How to Check and Carry Out Referencing on Potential Tenants

February 19, 2019 David Lawrenson Leave a comment

How to Check and Carry Out Referencing on Potential Tenants In this article I am going to explain the whole process of how I go about dealing with tenant enquiries for our properties. I’m going to cover the first part of the tenant check and referencing process. I use an online letting agent for getting our adverts onto the portals. It is […]

Checking Tenant Bank Statements

June 1, 2018 David Lawrenson 2 comments

Checking Tenant Bank Statements One of the interesting differences between landlords and letting agents is the extent to which they check up on a tenant’s bank statement to see their current credit and cash flow situation as part of their standard reference checks, says David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com. Some landlords and some letting agents simply rely on a credit report score […]

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Re-Engineering the Tenant Referencing and Sign Up Process

November 6, 2013 David Lawrenson

Ever wondered why letting agents take so long to complete reference and other checks on tenant applicants? Well, one of the reasons is that they will outsource the job of referencing to a third party who then spend ages waiting for a response. A standard letting agency will first typically ask a potential tenant to complete an application form, setting […]