Information for Landlords

As a landlord your aims will be amongst the following (you should expect all of these from a good agent)

• A correct valuation of your property
• Your property to receive marketing exposure
• Fully credited and referenced tenants
• To be fully informed from start to end from your agent

Valuation

It is a fundamental mistake that we have all made, choosing the agent with the highest valuation and lowest fee! This can be a fatal error, ask yourself is this due to a current lack of property they have available? Where is their comparable evidence to back up their valuation? What level of service will they see fair to reflect their low fee? Will your property be given the attention it deserves? And will they even be around to see everything through and help progress your portfolio?

These are all very important factors to consider when choosing your agent, if there is no comparable evidence, where have they picked that price from!? And how can they afford to market your property effectively if the rate is so low? Will they be motivated to let your property?

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Market Exposure

It is no secret now that the large majority of people looking to rent their property or rent a property for themselves will use the internet, with the ever extending working hours and busy social life’s the best way is to simply look on-line you can do this at work on the train pretty much anyway, its far simpler and more time effective. With all of these FACTS taken into consideration we believe the internet is the single most powerful tool to let your property, the times have changed and we are happy to change with them. The core rental market is made up of young professionals ranging between 18-34 the so called IT era, where do you think they will be searching for property?

See the numbers for yourself

36.7 million people in the UK use the web every month, 20.4 million visit MSN, 8 million visit over 4,000 property related websites, 37% visit findaproperty.com (including their other sites), 36% visit Rightmove, 23% visit propertyfinder.com (including their other sites, before there takeover of zoopla.co.uk)
Source: comScore – Independent Internet Auditor FEB 09.

Your property will be advertised on all of these websites and more with us, we will also be on the google.com property portal if or when this prevails.

So along with our interactive floor plans, powerful and instantly recognisable branded boards, our easy to use multi functional website, our key relationships with relocation companies, blue-chip companies (corporate lets), our close relationships with the local student unions and our extensive online advertising , which ever end of the market and whichever tenant your property suits we can make all the difference.

Tenant Referencing

Finding suitable tenants is one part of the job, the next and undoubtedly more important is reference checking each individual applicant to show why they are suitable as tenants. Some agencies do references in house, sure its more cost effective for them, however this can sometimes take longer to obtain the references, the agent maybe distracted by the other properties they still need to let, loosing you valuable time. It is our aim to only recommend tenants we ourselves would rent to, with these points taken into consideration we have built a great relationship with a highly regarded and well known company RENTSHIELD DIRECT, rentshield is completely independent to ourselves there for there is no foregone conclusion on our part, the tenants submit their application on-line, a credit check is carried out instantly, rentshield will then obtain the references, more often than not the within 48hrs, will then receive breakdown of the results, complete with the outcome, ACCEPT, REFER OR DECLINE. This is all based on information received from the tenant and then confirmed by their bank, their employer and any previous landlord. A very thorough result.

Keeping You Informed

This is key to any relationship, it is our aim from the get go to provide you with all the information you should have, from the valuation we will set out the process in full, so you understand fully what is being done on your behalf, we will set a timescale and a market relevant valuation. This way there should be no surprises, once your property is marketed we will; call you before and after each viewing with feedback, call you at least once a week with a full marketing update and all feedback, to many times we are told by landlords they never heard from their agent after the valuation, this is not acceptable in our opinion. It is simple logic, we need to make sure we are on the same wave length from the start and you are aware what we have been doing to let your property. Once the property is let we will make sure you are aware of the progression and are informed immediately of what we require from you.

So if you have a property available now, coming up for availability now, or are considering letting your current home, call us now and one of our consultants will be happy to help you.