- Always Follow The Golden Rules of Letting a Home
- Inventory
- EPC Required Before Marketing
- Gas Safety Record Required Before Occupation
- Electrical Checks
- Advertise your Property
- Suggested Forms Required
- Initial Viewing with the Prospective Tenant
- Tenant Wishes to Proceed
- Can the Tenancy be Assured Shorthold?
- Reference Checking
- Length of Fixed Term
- Providing A Rent Book
- Joint Tenancy Or Many Individual Tenancies?
- Completing the Tenancy Agreement
- Completing The Guarantee Agreement
- Granting the Tenancy
- Check Smoke And Carbon Monoxide Alarms – England Only
- Protect the Deposit and Notify Utilities
- What Happens at the End of a Fixed Term – To Renew or Not To Renew
- Checklist of what to do at the end of the tenancy
Landlord to do following:
Members of the Guild of Residential Landlords can credit check the prospective tenant and guarantor using the tenant referencing service. This will check CCJs, Electoral Roll, Bankruptcy etc.
The standard tenant assessment check does all of the following:
- Electoral roll check at the applicant’s current and previous addresses
- A risk score, predicting the applicant’s likelihood to pay
- A Public Information check to ascertain whether the applicant has CCJs, bankruptcy orders or voluntary arrangements
- A check to see if the applicant has any undisclosed addresses
- An alias check to see if the applicant uses other identities
You refer to a ‘comprehensive referencing service’ but clicking on the link only seems to bring up the standard referencing service. Am I missing something?! Also, for joint tenants, do we just double up? There seems to be an implication that there is a different process for this. Thanks!
Our apologies for the terminology, it’s not something we’d noticed that we had missed when editing the website.
We were providing an “extended reference” but it was a waste of time. This included landlord and employer reference checking but in reality neither landlords nor employers would reply in a timely manner if at all. This resulted (after a couple of weeks waiting and chasing) in the reports coming back as “inconclusive” and so not worth the extra expense.
Recently therefore, we now provide the standard check and templates for contacting landlords and employers directly yourself (which frankly is all the credit agency did).
We will look to amend the wording and thank you for drawing our attention to it.
Sorry forgot to add: joint tenants can be done at the same time in a single request but the cost is per person being checked (so two tenants would be £25)
Thanks very much..That’s very helpful.