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Post No. 253

by Your Freelance e-Property Letting Agency

What you need to know before you start your holiday lettings

This week, our Summer campaign on short-term lets will focus on Holiday Lettings. We will be dealing with what landlords/ladies need to know before embarking on any holiday lettings.

~ The purpose of this week’s e-work

The purpose of this week’s activity is to e-work with landlords/ladies who are planning to let their properties as a holiday let so that they can do it knowing the pros and cons, while minimising any risks and safeguarding their property interest and investment with peace of mind at this challenging time of the cost-of-living squeeze.

This week’s e-work will help them to find out that there is always a secure way of letting their properties as a holiday let during this stormy economic weather; way that is safe, healthy and hassle-free. To do that they need to be fully aware about the elements guaranteeing any secure holiday lets.

~ Areas of awareness about secure holiday lettings

Areas of interest and awareness for this week’s campaign about post-pandemic Holiday Lets will cover the following:

• Permission to proceed to a holiday letting including legal restriction and prevention from holiday lets for landlords/ladies

• Holiday letting as a one-off (or occasional) income generation or a business venture

• Lender’s consent on a residential mortgaged property for holiday letting

• General safety regulations related to buildings and contents for letting purposes

• Specific health and safety measures relating to holiday lets

• Tax matters for holiday lettings

• Buildings, contents and public liability insurances for holiday letting

• How and where to find holiday renters

• Holiday letting process (from finding holiday renters to letting completion)

• Maintenance and management of properties let to holiday makers and or renters.

The above matters to be covered will be indicative only as landlords/ladies will be directed or signposted to relevant resources, people or organisations dealing with some of these issues.

~ Extra Help and Support

This week’s activity will provide an occasion for landlords/ladies to have some resources (both print and online) on holiday lettings, as well as some leads to legal expertise on the matter. 

Additionally, there will be specific advice on areas of protection relating to the holiday letting market. 

~ Sharing practice and policy

For those landlords/ladies who are familiar with the holiday letting, they can still have the opportunity to showcase, enhance or share their practice. 

~ Registering your holiday properties

Landlords/ladies can take the opportunity of this week’s activity to add their spare holiday or short-term properties (that is; rooms, studios, flats and houses) to rent to Home Relief’s list of properties available during Summertime 2022.

~ Need help and support about your holiday letting

Need help about your holiday letting, please e-work Home Relief this week.