Dec 03 2024 24 mins
In this episode of Good Landlording, Suzanne Smith and Richard Jackson discuss how landlords can find tenants themselves by using online letting agents, instead of traditional high street agents.
They share insights on creating effective property listings, the importance of quality photography, compliance with legal requirements, and the process of screening and selecting tenants. They emphasise the need for landlords to adapt to changing market conditions and to be thorough in their approach to tenant selection.
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Suzanne and Richard cover the following in sharing tips on the steps that landlords need to go through to successfully list properties on the portals and find good tenants:
- How technology has transformed the way landlords find tenants
- The increasing market share of online letting agents
- The steps landlords need to go through to list properties on the portals
- What material information is needed for the listing?
- Gathering the various safety and regulatory certificates to serve on the tenants
- Creating a compelling property description
- The importance of high quality photos, a floor plan and a video
- Screening applicants
- The rules about holding deposits
- Referencing
- Tenancy deposits
- Signing the tenancy agreement
Credits
Music: “Paradise Found” by Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech. Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 License.