Yes. Your mortgage lender needs to give you permission before you can let your property, and they may impose special conditions. If you are buying a property with the intention of letting it out, you may be able to obtain a buy to let mortgage.
We advertise on Rightmove, Zoopla , On The Market and our own website www.rents.co.uk. We also have window displays and leaflets in our office.
We register the deposit with The Tenancy Deposit Scheme. The Tenancy Deposit Scheme is there to protect the tenant’s money and help to resolve any disputes at the end of the tenancy.
An Energy Performance Certificate, or EPC for short, is a report detailing the energy efficiency of a property. It gives a property an energy efficiency rating from A (most efficient) to G (least efficient) and is valid for 10 years. All landlords are required to purchase an EPC for a property before they let it. The property must have a minimum rating of 39 to be rented. If your rating is under this you will be required to make some improvements to increase this rating.
Yes absolutely, we can do everything that is needed at the property on your behalf.
We check the rental value of the property annually and in line with the current Retail Pricing Index, we then advise you if an increase is due.
This depends on the level of Service that you have asked us to provide. On Full Management we do all this for you so you don't need to worry about a thing.
Yes you are able to use your own contractors but due Insurance Liability we are not able to arrange appointments for them, we would in turn pass the tenants details onto your contractor for them to arrange direct.
What if I have a breakdown cover for boilers etc?
No problem, we can keep these details on file and pass on contact numbers to tenants to contact them direct with any breakdowns and problems.
Again this depends on the level of Service but on Full Management we visit the property to 6 weeks after a new tenant has moved in and then every 6 months thereafter. We take photos with permission from the tenants and you receive a copy of the report shortly afterwards highlighting any maintenance concerns that will need to be addressed.
with permission from the tenants and you receive a copy of the report shortly afterwards. With the arrival of Covid we have been unable to carry these out but have been using a Self Service App that the tenants have been able to complete so that we can still give you the landlord peace of mind.