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Why use us?
- We have an extensive portfolio in our management and offer an excellent service
- Optimum rental income from your property
- We offer a personal and attentive service at all times.
- Periodic property visits with written feedback to you, the client.
- We fully reference potential tenants
- In house maintenance manager
- We are readily contactable. Evenings and week-ends too in emergencies.
- We have expertise in all aspects of property and lettings management, and the buy-to let market
Without you, we don't have a business!
What's involved in letting your property?
Essentially, responsible private landlords fulfil a proven housing need. They enable fluidity of employment and impact positively on the economy.
Notwithstanding that, the private rented sector is become increasingly regulated by government. Private landlords need to be registered with the local authority, and the Housing Acts impose certain obligations in relation to the condition of the property, gas and electrical safety, and the provision of information to tenants.
Here at Claremont Properties we can help guide you and where necessary take care of issues on your behalf.
How do we work?
We offer Short Assured Tenancies, usually for an initial 6-month term. If landlords want to commit initially to a longer term then this can be done. At the end of the initial term, the tenancy will simply roll on from month to month subject to two months notice to terminate by either side.
We aim to provide fully satisfactory accommodation to responsible tenants. We require all properties to be immaculately clean and in good order at the start of the tenancy. We will hold outgoing tenants to an obligation to return them to us in a similar condition. We expect our clients to be responsible landlords who will honour their repairing obligations, and our contract for our full management service is framed to enable us to manage repairs on clients' behalf while keeping them fully informed. Landlords thus have no need to concern themselves with responsibility for arranging repairs or their day to day management, while being assured that their statutory obligations are being responsibly fulfilled. We have contacts with an extensive range of reputable tradesmen and we aim to effect repairs in a prompt and cost-effective manner.
We believe we are open and responsive to both clients and tenants and, if there is a real life-threatening or property-threatening need, are content to be contacted outwith office hours.
We offer three levels of service:
- Documentation Only
For landlords who have identified a tenant and want to do their own management. We will attend to all the necessary documentation.
Landlords must have a good understanding of their statutory responsibilities.
- Tenant Find
For landlords who prefer to do their own management, but who would like us to find a suitable tenant and deal with the documentation.
Landlords must have a good understanding of their statutory responsibilities.
- Full Management
This is our most popular option - A comprehensive management service. We do it all
See full details below;
Full Management - Our Most Popular Option
We do everything:
- We inspect the property to establish the rent the property is likely to let for;
- We offer advice on any matters requiring attention in order to enhance the letting appeal of the property or secure compliance with statutory requirements;
- Guidance re Statutory Requirements and Compliance
- We advertise the property on rental websites and in newspapers
(Free posting on our website is included);
- We arrange accompanied viewings of the property at no extra cost;
- We carry out tenant credit referencing at the tenant's expense;
- We prepare a Tenancy Agreement and associated documentation ;
- We serve Statutory Notices on the tenant;
- We hold a tenant's deposit as stakeholder.
- We arrange an accompanied check in;
- We agree gas/electricity meter readings and inform the utility companies of the date of occupation by the tenant;
- We advise the Local Authority of change of occupier for Council Tax purposes;
- We respond promptly to all tenant enquiries;
- We collect the rent and transfer sums due to the client's nominated bank account;
- We chase up any overdue rents promptly;
- We issue monthly financial statements detailing all income and expenditure;
- We attend to any necessary repairs or maintenance, referring any likely to cost more that £250 to the landlord ;
- We arrange for Landlord's Gas Safety inspections;
- We aim to visit the property every three months and provide feedback to the Landlord on any matters arising and repairs attended to;
- We serve Notice to Quit at the end of the tenancy (if appropriate);
- On expiry of the tenancy, we undertake a final inspection against the inventory and Record of Condition, if necessary arrange for an appropriate sum to be retained from the tenant's deposit, and replace any items which are broken or missing;
Documentation Only
For landlords who have identified a tenant and want to do their own management
- Preparation of a Tenancy Agreement
- Witnessing the signing of documentation
- Serving all Statutory Notices on tenant
- Taking the first month's rent and deposit and transferring to the landlord
- Serving Notice to Quit at the end of the tenancy, if instructed to do so
With this service the landlord will undertake his/her own management of the property, hold the tenant's deposit, and deal with the return of such at the end of the tenancy.
Tenant Find & Documentation
- Rental appraisal and advice
- Guidance re Statutory Requirements and Compliance
- Posting the property on websites and in the press
(Free posting on our own website is included;
- Accompanied viewings of the property at no extra cost;
- Tenant credit referencing at the tenant's expense;
- Prepare of a comprehensive Tenancy Agreement and associated documents;
- Serving all Statutory Notices on the tenant;
- Taking the first month's rent and deposit and transferring to the landlord
- We serve Notice to Quit at the end of the tenancy, if instructed to do so
With this service the landlord will be responsible for collecting the rent and attending to the day to day management of the tenancy.
The landlord will require checking in the tenant at the start and t the end of the tenancy.
The landlord will also require to hold the tenant's deposit, and to deal with the return of this at the end of the tenancy.
PLEASE NOTE
To adequately protect their interests, landlords wishing to undertake their own management should be in no doubt that they fully understand all relevant statutory requirements and procedures as well as the penalties for non-compliance.
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