Bespoke Property Rescue Mission Service with Abandoned Properties
This week’s topic for work with landlords/ladies and home owners is abandoned properties.
My tenant abandoned my property, what should I do?
Abandonment happens when a tenant moves out of a property before the tenancy has expired, without informing their landlord/lady. There are many causes of abandonment which could include the following:
• Outstanding rent
• Unpaid bills
• Loss of job
• Change of legal status
• Change of tenant’s personal circumstances
• Economic hardships caused by the coronavirus and so on.
Whatever the reason or cause (justified or unjustified), there could be a cost to be beard, especially for the landlord/lady.
What could be the costs?
There could be loss of rent for landlord/lady, legal costs, maintenance costs, the costs of pressure, etc. The situation can even be worse when tenants leave behind their belongings and or pass the keys to someone else or simply squatters get in. What to do?
What is the legal position on the abandonment matter?
The legal position on this matter is that the tenant still has a legal right to return and take up residence at any time and it is a criminal offence for landlords/ladies to do anything to prevent the continuation of the tenancy. It is as well a criminal offence to end a tenancy without going through the proper legal motions.
What are the options available?
The only option for a landlord/lady is to go through the legal process for regaining possession of an abandoned property which can take months.
This is why Home Relief provides Bespoke Property Rescue Mission as a rescue service for any property which is subject to disputes between the two parties, particularly where the landlord/lady lost control and would like to regain control.
No tenancy can be perfect. No matter the kinds of precautions you may take before it begins. For as long as you are dealing with human beings, there is always a possibility of human error and something can happen in the future. Abandonment is one of the problems which can happen. Home Relief’s Bespoke Rescue Mission Service covers this problem. If abandonment happens, then it needs to be dealt with.
Abandonment case studies
• First case: Single Renter
Few years ago, we come across a case whereby a landlady came to see us in tears. She informed us that her tenant left her flat in pieces in Streatham without notice.
This landlady let her flat by herself. Before letting the property to the tenant, she collected one months’ deposit and one months’ rent in advance. The tenant provided some forms of references (.i.e. employment, previous landlord, bank statements, etc.).
After one week of letting, the landlady went to flat to check if everything was alright and if the new tenant needed anything. She found the door was damaged and open. She entered the flat she discovered everything was in pieces and the tenant disappeared. It was like a movie story not a reality. She screamed and came out. She started to look for a letting agent and came to us to explain what happened.
Without getting into details about this terrible case, this just highlights the need to carry out a proper vetting system before renting your property to anybody. Perhaps, by involving those who take letting as their professional occupation could help.
• Second case: Group of Single Renters
Three professionals rented a 3 bedroomed flat in Streatham some years ago. They signed a one year assured short hold tenancy agreement. They agreed as well to an additional document that stated they were jointly and severally liable to the rent, which was paid on a calendar monthly basis.
After six months of occupation, the landlord realised that one third of rent was not paid. When he called to the property to check with them, two tenants told the landlord the other one has left without informing them and they thought he informed the landlord. The landlord told them he was not aware of his vacation from the premises. He also reminded them their obligation towards the rent was joint and several. They then claimed that they were not related to the tenant who left without notice and did not have any obligations whatsoever to pay rent on his behalf.
This second case reminds us that what seems to be a straightforward situation could be indeed a very complex one as we are dealing with human beings.
Anyone who has a property which has been abandoned and is wondering what to do, they can work with Home Relief to sort out the matter.
Need to rent or buy affordable home, work with Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
As part of our Autumn Letting and Rental Campaign, we are offering this week support to landlords/ladies and tenants in their tenancy relationships.
Landlord/Lady –Tenant Relationship Support: Who is for?
This support aims at those contractual parties who have problems, those who feel they may likely experience disagreement sooner or later, and those who want to learn to avoid or solve problems between them, especially at this turbulent time of the coronavirus bubbles.
What we will provide this week
To stay on track of hassle-free letting and rental and to consolidate our support to landlords/ladies and tenants, we are providing a week of Healthy, Worthy and Wealthy Relationship Support starting from 19 October and ending 24 October 2020.
A healthy tenancy relationship means that landlords/ladies and tenants are connected through tenancy based on mutual respect, trust and honesty. it also signifies that both parties equally comply with health and safety regulations in their relationship, including aspects of health and safety related to the protection against the coronavirus pandemic.
A wealthy tenancy relationship means that the contractual rent is paid in the manner, at the amount and at the time as specified by the terms and conditions of agreement so that the landlord/lady does not lose on their wealth. Because the rent is paid as agreed, the landlord/lady keeps their part of the bargain; that is to manage and maintain their property accordingly so that tenants do not lose their income in paying for a property which does not provide value for their money.
A worthy tenancy relationship means that the process of dealing with tenancy matters between the two contractual parties in context of tenancy agreement suits both of them, and has merit or value as well.
So, a trouble-free letting and rental relationship is expressed by good relationships between the two contractual parties (Landlord/lady and Tenant). This week’s support aims at alleviating some of the problems which may occur and or occurring with existing tenancies as well as finding way forward or solutions.
For instance, at this bubbling time of the coronavirus, the health, wealth and worth of the relationship between landlord/lady and tenant could be under stressed or disturbed.
Free Bespoke Rescue or Relief Packages this week!
In addition to the above support service, Landlords/ladies can access our Bespoke Rescue Package for FREE and/ or at minimal third party costs, just as Tenants can have our Bespoke Relief Package arranged for them for FREE and/or at very competitive third party costs.
To get the makes of your Bespoke Rescue or Relief Packages, contact Home Relief this week!
What’s more for this week!
To build on this Autumn season’s fresh offer to build back better healthy, wealthy and worthy relationships; we are as well given away a 5 minutes EXTRA FREE of advice to let for Landlords/ladies and Help to Rent for Tenants; making altogether with our usual 15 minutes FREE 20 minutes of FREE advice and or help.
To get 20 minutes of FREE advice and or help, work with Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
This Autumn, we are offering Promoted Lets to the market for landlords/ladies who will decide to instruct us for letting and managing their properties.
Whether you find tenants by yourselves or through us, if you decide to involve us you can have your let promoted by HomeRelief.
What is a promoted let?
Promoted Lets scheme by Home Relief is an account managed service offered to landlords/ladies that boosts the letting of their property (ies) through a multi-channel presentation. It has some advantages which include the three main following ones:
(1) Helping to raise the profile of your residential property letting and management business
(2) Encouraging prospective renters and home-renting seekers to place an offer on your property
(3) Boosting the earning potentials of your property portfolio
To take into account the current health context of the coronavirus pandemic, we have included in the scheme/service coronavirus measures and restrictions while retaining its basic management principles.
Who is eligible for a promoted let?
Any landlord/lady and home owner can be eligible for promoted lets, including beginner and seasoned prof landlords/ladies.
Even if you are only a part time landlord/lady or only have one or two properties to let, Promoted Lets can help to expand your property investment potentials if you decide to become a full time landlord/lady or a regular property-to-let investor.
If you decide to become a regular property-to-let investor, Home Relief can create an account managed service for you to help you achieve your property and investment goals and returns.
What’s more!
A Promoted Let can offer you leads or help you to tap into various segments of the letting and management property market.
It provides you with qualitative and quantitative data about the local area in which your property to let or manage is located while reporting the state of rent and letting in the area.
Through this scheme, there will be effective use of data in order to improve landlord’s/lady’s outcomes for letting and management purpose.
Finally, Promoted Lets is a Home Relief product designed to optimise your earning capacity so that you can steadily and surely grow your property investment portfolio over the long term.
Briefly, with Promoted Lets, you get the following benefits:
your Let Property Online Advertised
plusa Letting Story
pluslocal data
plusrent report
plus Savings on Future Lettings and Management Costs
plus Assistance to Build Property Portfolio
equal Tenants and Return on your Investment Guaranteed
To the above benefits, one can add on advice against the coronavirus, so making the gains from PromotedLets become like this:
Tenants and Return on your Investment Guaranteed
PlusAdvice to protect your property and its occupiers against the coronavirus
EqualTenants and Sustainable Return on your Investment Protected
To instruct Home Relief and or find more about Promoted Lets Scheme, please contact Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
Settling in a new home, new area and new academic year –
Property Management and Maintenance from Renters’ Perspective
Adapting to a new living environment (like a new home, new area and new academic year) can be easier for some new home renters. For others, it may not be easier or it may even be frustrating or simply take longer than one would have thought.
This week, we are working together with new renters to support them in managing the settling-in process as a new home renter in a new area in a new academic year.
We will be particularly looking at the all set-up that those who are newly moving in a new home as renters can match in order to make the process easier while they will be living there and managing their tenancy as agreed with their landlords and or managing agents.
This is about looking at property management and maintenance from the tenants’ point of view rather than from the landlords’/ladies’ perspective.
• Property management and maintenance from tenants’ perspective
To successfully manage and maintain your new home as a new renter, it is advisable to follow the terms and conditions of the tenancy agreement and any additional agreements you have made with your managing agents and or landlords/ladies.
There are as well areas of law that new renters need be aware as the tenancy law sometimes does change. If the change occurs and is going to affect their rental situation, then they need to know it. For instance, with the coronavirus outbreak there could be areas of health and safety that renters need to know about for their own health and safety and in the interest of public health as well.
Alternatively, their managing agents and or landlords/ladies would inform them of any changes in the interest of the two contractual parties and their witnesses. To be on a safe side, it is better to ask them if there is any change that you need to be aware of.
• Benefits in better managing a property as a tenant
There are benefits in better managing and maintaining a property as a tenant. Just to mention the few of them, it is useful to argue that better management and maintenance by the tenants can help…
√ To stop the spread of Covid-19 and protect tenants’ health
√ To protect tenants’ deposit and any other money paid as security
√ To stop tenants from any breach of the tenancy agreement
√ To secure their reference for future tenancies
√ To prevent conflicting situations with their managing agents and landlords/ladies
√ To safeguard their credit records history
√ To protect the indoor and outdoor environments, etc.
This is so vital in the world where there is online database of bad tenants in the market.
• Knowing your new home and new area
This week’s process of working together with new renters in this new academic year goes further as we are going as well to touch upon the things to be aware around your new home and new area.
Moving in a new area means that your need to know your neighbourhood and the basics about the local area. Already when putting an offer on your property or before you move in, the letting negotiators/agents or new landlord/lady would have provided you with a profile of vital statistics and key information about the area. If not, you would have yourself done some searches online and print or store resources about the area.
It is vital to learn to know the area where you will be living, shopping on daily basis, commuting, using open space and amenities, perhaps doing your education and working there.
Again, this knowledge of your local area can help to protect you, save money, keep you safe and secure, make you be part of the locals and keep you informed and make informed decisions.
At this difficult time of the coronavirus pandemic, it is vital to know the evolution of Covid-19 infection in your local area and any additional measures or restrictions locally taken to protect yourself and others. And if you have a smart phone and able to download Covid-19 tracing app, it is wise to do it to stay informed and updated about the spread of the virus.
• Settling in a new academic year
If you are a student or academic staff, it is also worthwhile to do some searches about what it looks like privately renting a property in a new academic year. The home where you will be living for the entire life of your academic year can impact your goals and outcomes if you are not properly settled. A good settlement can positively impact your performance and state of mind and body to successfully study and or work.
Generally, many educational establishments provide information about student and staff accommodation and advisory service related to this area of educational provisioning. In our process this week, we are only dealing with the case of those who would like to privately rent and want to understand the ins and outs so that they can make informed decisions.
Need to know more about settling-in process as a new renter in a new area in this new academic year, work with Home Relief.
Need to rent a home and or help to rent, work with Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
Our campaign for home rentals and lets in the New Academic Year continues this week with Help to Rent as the main feature and part of our rental brand. It continues because there is still some unmet demand of accommodation for certain types of home seekers.
Who make this unmet demand?
The types of renters making it include the following:
• Home seekers (such as students, academics, families relocating to start a new school term etc.) who are still looking for accommodation
• Those who are resuming their economic activity after the lockdown or self-isolation because of the coronavirus
• Ordinary people and families who are struggling to find affordable locations and constantly looking for cheap places to rent
• Those who do not earn enough to buy their own homes
• Those who are looking for budget areas and properties to rent
For most of them, they may face a long rental journey and need some help to rent before they can effectively rent a property.
We are offering to all these prospective tenants and home seekers Help-to-Rent service to shorten and smooth their rental journey.
What is Help to Rent from Home Relief’s perspective?
Help to Rent is an extra service designed by Home Relief as part of its rental brand to help reduce home deprivation by working with those who are looking for affordable homes and finding it difficult because of their conditions of life, circumstances of work, employment and income status or budget limitations.
What is included in Help to Rent by Home Relief?
As part of this week’s Help-to-Rent, our home-renting campaign will include two areas of focus: raising awareness about Help to Rent support and products from Home Relief, and home-finding solutions for those who are finding it hard to rent.
(1) Raising awareness about Home Relief’s Help-to-Rent support service and products
Home Relief Tenant’s Help-To-Rent support includes the following:
Rental file and profiling, Review of tenants’ social media accounts, Property searches, Applications advice, Forms filling surgeries, Reference package and profiling, Digital forms filling, Video previews of properties to let before visits, Deposit and rent in advance schemes, Building credit records history, Mediation and advocacy and Rental legislation clinics, Protection advice against the coronavirus.
For further details about the contents of each these areas of support or products, contact Home Relief.
(2) Providing home-renting solutions to ordinary home seekers
Raising awareness about Home Relief’s Help-to-Rent products and knowing them is not enough unless one applies or uses this Help-to-Rent.
Their use is what would make a helpful difference in the lives of those ordinary people and families in need of accommodation. Help to Rent can make rental life easier, less stressful and cost effective.
So, our feature for this week is the types of Help-to-Rent one can get when renting through Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
Affordable New Rentals and Lets for the New Academic Year!
The new school or academic year has started for many pupils and students. One of September needs to be met is accommodation. There could be people and families who are still looking for home rental or letting services either as home seekers or landlords/ladies. If you are one of them, Home Relief would like to inform you that we are the specialised people for affordable home rental and letting services.
Home Relief can find either affordable accommodation for you if you are home seekers or suitable tenants for you if you are landlords/ladies. Home Relief can as well advise on home rental and letting matters to enable you to achieve your home goals and plans for this new academic year.
A relief property service helping ordinary people and families with ordinary means of living to help themselves
We particularly, but not exclusively, work with ordinary people and families earning ordinary incomes. We also work with parts of the community that is virtually excluded from the mainstream property rental market.
We seriously take social goals and deprivation issues in the area of housing. Our property service is designed to satisfy our customers’ and clients’ demands; to meet landlords’ requirements and to relieve home seekers’ needs.
A home service for a safe and healthy life at this difficult time of the coronavirus pandemic
At this exceptional time of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, every landlord/lady or renter is looking for a safe and healthy service to protect themselves, their families and other members of the public. To match their request our rental and letting service has been Covid-19 tested and secure against the pandemic.
We follow and apply to letter the social distancing rules and restrictions while using appropriate personal protective equipment to keep life safe and healthy. We prefer to e-work with landlords/ladies and renters, or run physical contact-free service (via online and virtual technologies) to protect everybody.
A home service for peace of mind and secure financial return
Our home service benefits home owners and landlords/ladies who are looking for peace of mind and security in letting their properties. We provide them with suitable renters and ensure that they receive a good and reliable return on their investment over the long term period. We provide all-round residential property services (from letting to maintenance) and take on our books any size of properties (ranging from a single room to large houses), tenures and leases.
A home service that suits home seekers’ needs and budgets
We provide to home seekers and renters with the types of accommodation service that suit their needs and budgets. Our relief service will not only provide them with a home to live, but will also help them to help themselves in effectively running the other aspects of their life such as…
finding occupational opportunities, meeting educational needs for families with children, actively integrating into local life, finding local childcare services, improving their access to local healthcare and other amenities, re-engaging with economic activity after the lockdown due to the coronavirus, etc.
Need a home (as a prospective tenant) or a tenant (as a landlord/lady) this September or at the start of the new academic year, why not e-work with Home Relief?
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
How to manage your letting (as a landlord/lady) or rental (as a home seeker) goals in uncertain times of the coronavirus pandemic and the delay in economic exit negotiations
As the adverse effects of the coronavirus continue together with the uncertainty linked the UK’s economic exit agreement from the EU’s single market, many landlords/ladies and home seekers/tenants are still asking questions about the effects of these two issues (Covid-19 and economic exit) on their letting activities for landlords/ladies or rental applications/tenancies for home seekers/renters.
These questions are asked as new health restrictions will be in force from this Monday the 14th of September 2020 with regard to the protection against the new spikes of the coronavirus pandemic. They are as well raised by non-UK citizen landlords/ladies and tenants/home seekers with ordinary income earning capacities. They are asking how the delay in the next stage of economic exit negotiations between the UK and EU would respectively affect their letting and rental situations.
In order to deal with their concern, we are holding customised sessions with them to provide information and guidance to their specific questions to help where we can to reduce worries and anxieties they may have in relation to the consequences from the new health restrictions, economic exit negotiations delay from the EU’s single market and any potential unknown factors linked to the property market.
The purpose of this week’s session
We are working with both landlords/ladies and tenants/home seekers of ordinary income earning capacity to try to reduce level of anxiety amongst them regarding their property needs. It is hoped that this week’s session will help them to manage uncertainty and risk associated to the above mentioned restrictions and delay.
Who will run this week’s sessions
This week’s session will be run by landlords/ladies and tenants/home seekers. It is them to raise the questions or issues they have in relation to the uncertain and delaying times. We will then try to find together possible leads to questions to be raised.
Add-ons
Besides the Key theme of the week on how to manage your property goals in uncertain and delaying times, there will be some add-ons.
The following will be added to the landlords’/ladies’ session:
√ Protection of property letting and management projects in times of the coronavirus pandemic and economic negotiations
√ Minimisation of letting risks and threats in uncertain and delaying times
√ Property letting growth alternative plans in uncertain and delaying times
The following will be included in the renters’ session:
√ Finding finance to rent a property in difficult times of the coronavirus and economic exit negotiations
√ Rental payment options or plans
√ Digital and online rental property searches
The customised session will only last for up to 10 minutes. The session can be booked online and/or offline. To access it, you need to contact Home Relief in advance.
If you are looking for support regarding any of the above mentioned matters, Home Relief’s Customised Sessions for landlords/ladies and tenants/home seekers could be an opportunity you can’t afford to miss.
Need a session to discuss how the new health measures and or the delay in the economic exit negotiations will affect your letting or rental situation or plan, please e-work with Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
What to do for your property to command a decent rent regardless of seasons
This week we are working with landlords/ladies and home owners to determine ways of setting up decent rent levels regardless of seasons (including in difficult times like of the coronavirus pandemic).
Getting expert advice about your asking rent
Before issuing a tenancy (for example an assured short hold tenancy agreement), it is advisable to seek expert advice about the levels of rent that your property can generate. It is important to seek this kind of advice so that you do not charge more or less than what your property really deserves.
There are benefits in seeking expert advice on the rent level. One of these benefits is that it helps to avoid any potential conflicts (such as unpaid rents or rent arrears) with tenants over the level of rent you are charging in the course of the tenancy period.
Where to get rent advice
Rent advice can be obtained from various sources or experts on the rental market. It can be given by a local rent officer, a letting agency, a rent valuation office, etc.
You can even get it online through various websites having properties rent valuation features or online rent calculator. Some of these rent services are free of charge without obligations.
Working with Home Relief to set up a rent policy
This week, what we are undertaking with landlords/ladies is not only fixing a rent for a particular property. It is also trying to develop a rent policy and structure for our clients so that their properties could command a rent level that is fairly good or decent irrespective of seasons (i.e. Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn, busy, not busy, EU exit, Covid-19 time, etc.). Why?
There are various reasons that contribute to a good rent policy or structure. There could be changes in the rental market and the economy with ups and downs. Likewise, your property may not be the same when you last refurbished it.
In the above circumstances, what can you do for your property to command decent rents regardless of seasons, regardless of lows and highs in the rental sector? Landlords/ladies need to bear in mind that each property is a particular case that needs to be treated on its own. There should not be a one-size-fits-all rent policy.
What is a decent recent in times of the coronavirus pandemic and potential lockdowns
In times of the coronavirus pandemic and potential lockdowns, it is recommendable to get all the facts and data right and clear before making any decision over the rent. There are already conflicting stories and messages about the performance of the property market and the way the rental market is reacting over this time.
Any decision made over rent has to be based on verifiable statistics rather than commentaries and speculations made by the mass and social media. To make the right decision, each property case has to be treated individually with all the determinant market factors and conditions. This should be done while considering the short, medium and long term changes.
If you are a landlord/lady and or home owner and would like your property generates a level of rental income that is respectable or decent but you do not know where to start and how to go about it, Home Relief can work with you to determine the decent rental value for your property.
To get advice about the decent rent level for your property to let, contact Home Relief.
To know whether this week’s session on Decent Rents can or cannot work for you as a landlord/lady, contact Home Relief as well.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
How to convert your initial enquiries into a successful rental later
This week, we are dealing with property enquiries made by home seekers to rent a property; enquiries made whether via emails or social media networks or phone calls or physical visits.
This week’s activity concerns mostly those home seekers with very limited incomes, low income earners, ordinary people and families, those who are making enquiries for properties where prospective tenants can part pay the rent and part claim housing benefit, etc.
Understanding rental enquiries
Rental enquiries here should not be confused with a Property Enquiry Certificate (PEC) which is a standard report on information (often required when buying or selling a property) regarding Statutory Notices and other legal orders and regulations that affect a property.
A rental enquiry is one of the initial steps in trying to find a property to rent. If this initial step is badly handled, this could sometimes jeopardize the rest; meaning that everything could stop without one or both parties (those making rental enquiries and those responding to those enquiries) to proceed further.
This is why it is vital to get this right from the beginning. Particularly, when you are on limited earning income it is in your interest to well handle the property enquiries process in order to maximise your rental chance and get your target property.
What to consider in order to maximise your rental probability
To proceed with rental enquiries, we are going to look at the following:
√ What preparations home seekers need to make before they start enquiring about a property to rent
√ Enquiries content (what you should or should not include in your enquiry and why)
√ How to follow your enquiry in order they can be converted into an effective buy
From the above general enquiries, we will then deal with specific enquiries related to home seekers’ target properties to rent.
How to enquire for and identify your target rental property
We all want to rent or live in ideal or target property. Target property is a property that a particular home seeker is aiming at renting at a particular location, at a given market price and at a determined time.
But, can we afford it? Especially, when one is on low income brackets, it could be unrealistic to get their target property outside their budget constraints.
This is why this week we are trying to e-work with home seekers, under the topic of conversion of rental enquiries, in helping them to bridge the gap between the requirements of their target property and affordability. This e-work with them is also part of Home Relief’s Help to Rent.
Items for discussion with home seekers
To support home seekers in achieving or reaching their goal/target property, the following items will be discussed together with them:
√ Target property rent versus affordable rent
√ Preferred location versus circumstantial location
√ Prospective landlords/ladies or letting agents
√ Types and sizes of properties
√ Tenancy terms and conditions
Our support to home seekers via Help to Rent is accessible to all types of home seekers: students, young working professionals, professional couples, families, universal credit and housing benefit claimants, retirees etc. We will be supporting them to convert their initial enquiries into palpable rental outcomes.
How to convert your rental enquiries into an effective let or rental
Most importantly for this week is to explore with home seekers technics and strategies to convert their initial enquiries to a successful let or rental. It is important since we keep noticing that so many renters do enquiries and sometimes these enquiries end without any tangible outcomes or results.
Converting rental enquiries into a let is the means or process by which one can achieve their goal of getting their target property. However, to achieve this goal conversion must happen. There could be various reasons that make this conversion happen or does not happen.
This week, we are going to e-work with them to get the enquiry process right from the beginning so that they can mitigate the reasons that militate against enquiries conversion. By doing so, one can hope that when looking for accommodation to rent they can save the following:
√ Time
√ Money
√ Energy
√ Pressure
Particularly at this difficult time of the coronavirus pandemic and economic recession, it does not make sense wasting time through enquiries without reaching any rental goal or deal.
If you have a problem in making rental enquiries and or to find your target property, Home Relief can help you to improve the way you are making your enquiries and, most significantly to convert your enquiries into a let/rental by getting your target property at an affordable rent.
You can e-work with Home Relief for the conversion of your rental enquiries as Help to Rent is available to all home seekers.
To make rental enquiries, convert them into a let and get your target rental property, please e-work with Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
How to address wrong or the lack of rental information in the Age of Coronavirus
This week, we are dealing with information that home seekers may need to know before they agree to sign up a tenancy agreement. This week’s activity is the continuation of appended and punitive terms from our last week.
The main goal of this week’s activity
The overall goal of this week’s activity is to protect home seekers from unfair terms and rental misinformation. It is also to avoid the coronavirus rental misinformation.
For example, at this difficult time of the coronavirus there could be misinformation and the traffic of wrong terms. One may need to understand these terms and their implications for tenancy (such as a rent concession letter related to the coronavirus from a landlord/lady to a tenant). In the case of the letter, to avoid misunderstanding tenants need to know that this letter is a temporary waiver not a permanent situation to the lease.
The objectives of this week’s session
To achieve the above central goal, the week’s session has the following objectives:
√ Ensure clarity and fairness for both contractual parties, especially but not exclusively for the vulnerable and misinformed home seekers
√ Avoid rental poverty trap in a tenancy that one party has never understood its implications from the beginning, yet they signed it
√ Source out ways of getting out from unknowingly agreed unfair terms
√ Ways of dealing with the issue of financial payments related to unfair terms
√ Briefly, addressing the wrong rental information or lack of fair rental information
Doing your own research before renting a property
It is necessary that home seekers do their own research before renting a property. It is equally fair that the other party (or their representative) in the agreement provides prescribed required information (e.g. information related to the Section 21 form if an assured shorthold tenancy agreement will be used) before home applicants sign up an agreement. There are statutory and non-statutory information that both parties should be aware of, including any change in the law or rental practice as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
For example, the law requires to the landlord/lady to provide to their incoming tenants an up to date version of the ‘How to rent’ booklet. Landlords/ladies are also required to provide a new copy at the outset of any subsequent tenancy, including statutory periodic tenancies, but only if there has been an update to the booklet. If they do not then no valid Section 21 can be served. However, with the coronavirus the landlord/lady needs to verify if these legal requirements have changed, especially as documents or print mail transmitted may be quarantined as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus.
How this week’s activity will be helpful for home seekers
This week’s activity, which is for the home seekers, will help them in the following ways:
√ Understand what they are agreeing on
√ Avoid rental misinformation and misinformation
√ Understand the terms and conditions of their current and future tenancy agreements
√ Beware of fair and unfair terms and take action on unfair terms
√ Know their consumer protection rights
√ Uncover mis-renting terms and expressions
√ Be informed about any new rental terms related to the coronavirus situation
Etc.
You can e-work with Home Relief on fair rental information as Help to Rent is available to all home seekers.
Need help to address rental misinformation, why not e-work with Home Relief?
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
