Where to advertise rental property in London?

[FrankAbagnale]

philv said:

EPC - i will use the EPC that i received from the seller when purchasing the property .
That should be fine ?
It was only put on the market in Aigust so should be valid still.

EPC valid for 10 years (assuming no major changes to property). It's fine.

[philv]

Hi again,

one further question.

There are lots of documents to give, ranging from instruction manuals for fridge freezer, cooker, etc to the contract and how to rent booklet and deposit protection info booklet to various other like the EPC etc.

How do you prove that you have given them to the tenant?

1) For manual and right to rent booklet and deposit protection booklet and other general documents -

Should i print everything out in duplicate and get the tenant to sign and date my copy of each?

Or is a checklist signed by the tenant and myself listing all these documents sufficient?

2) For the contract and inventory and documents where informaation about the tenancy or people or property are filled in.

Should i print them out in duplicate and we both sign and date both copies, and keep one each?

Just want to make sure i do it the right way.

Thank you.

[superlightr]

yes it does get complicated..... with severe penalties and consequences if you get it wrong.

duplicate and sign everything.

Make sure you give the up-to-date right to rent booklet, the EPC, gas safety cert, make sure you give the up-to-date prescribed info from the deposit scheme, TA, Inventory.


Does the inventory list smoke/co alarms as working? if not it should.


Part of the reason to use an agent is if they get the paperwork wrong you have some comeback bearing in mind the cost of getting it wrong is very expensive.

Edited by superlightr on Friday 8th January 11:44

Edited by superlightr on Friday 8th January 11:51

[Moominho]

It's worth joining a landlord association too, just for advice and documentation. I'm a member of the NLA (not NWA).

I don't necessarily think you have to use a letting agent, a lot of letting agents try to scare you into using one, but make sure you do your research so you know what you need, and make sure everything is done properly (Gas cert, Electrical certs, fire regs etc) then just find a tenant. Depending on where in London the property is, it shouldn't be too hard to find a tenant, I would initially advertise in Spareroom and Gumtree and then go from there.

Best of luck.