Letting Agent Talk
Those two magic words which will get you more landlords.
The two magic words that worked a treat ten years ago but don’t work now….;LANDLORDS WANTED’ WHY? Ten years ago, they used to light up the brain of landlords, they grabbed their attention, it initiated action with them .. it made them feel loved. But now, that phrase has been corrupted by the ease of…
Christopher Watkin
Tips For Easier Repairs This Christmas.
Santa might not be the only one calling this season – don’t forget your tenants this year. IT may be time to deck the halls with boughs of holly, but while it’s tempting to abandon yourselves to festive frolics come tinsel time, your responsibilities to tenants don’t stop up just because it’s the silly season….
Alex Evans
The silent killer of your lettings agency? Neg’s Commissions.
Letting and Estate Agents don’t often command much respect, do they? Modern Letting and Estate Agents have created a business model so opaque that landlords, vendors, tenants and buyers don’t really understand all the work done by Letting and Estate Agency staff. The result is that they often don’t value us the way they should….
Christopher Watkin
Protect Your Rental Income In Minutes!
Whether you have one investment property or have built a substantial portfolio, the last thing you want to do is put your investments at the mercy of a tenant who fails to make the rent. By having a rent guarantee insurance policy in place this can protect you from being out of pocket as a…
The Boom of Buy-to-Let.
Much has been commented on with regards the changing face of the UK housing market and the vast increase in buy-to-let properties. How, therefore, shall the British property ownership landscape look in years to come and are we too, turning into a nation of landlords and tenants? The dramatic transformation within UK home ownership has…
You aren’t an estate/letting agent … you are a Free Val generating machine.
In the estate agency and lettings game nothing is more important to your business as free valuations (…. and when I say free valuations, I also mean market appraisals). To have a viable estate agency and lettings business, you must have those free valuations. Without free valuations you will have no business and therefore you…
Christopher Watkin
Is subletting the biggest issue in lettings today?
Time to think again if you assumed subletting was a social housing problem. The private rental sector is far from immune to unscrupulous or misguided tenants, with subletting fast turning into a silent industry epidemic. There is a shortage of affordable rental property, especially in cities where recent graduates, young professionals and migrant workers are…
ARPM
Protect your tenants from that winter snap.
As the nights draw in and the temperature drops protecting your tenants from the winter snap has become even more important. Colder weather means your properties are more at risk of damage, so protecting your tenants from compliance problems such as a lack of heating, carbon monoxide poisoning or an electrical fault becomes ever so…
Alex Evans
Charge 0%+VAT as a letting agent FOR LIFE and still earn ‘loadamoney’!
‘Chris, I have a great idea… instead of posting the newsletter online about the local property market, I will ask for landlords email address to subscribe to it, and then I will send loads of email addresses and I can sell things too.’ ‘OK Michael, that’s a good idea, but if you have been reading…
Christopher Watkin
Martin & Co get more Xperience in London.
Martin & Co, the AIM-listed estate agency franchisor, announced the purchase of all four of the Xperience franchise estate agency brands, comprising CJ Hole, Parkers, Whitegates and in London and the South-East, Ellis & Co. They paid £6m to acquire Whitegates Estate Agency Ltd and Legal & General Franchising Ltd from Legal & General. The…
Why landlords don’t swap letting agents.
When you try and persuade landlords to swap agents, the first thing a landlord will think is this … Firstly, Is there a problem with my current letting agent? Secondly, if there is, do I like the solution this new letting agent is offering me … can he or she (the letting agent) guarantee it,…
Christopher Watkin
25 years of assisting our clients with managing their conveyancing, compliance and administration
We are celebrating 25 years of assisting our clients with managing their conveyancing, compliance and administration. At VTUK, we’re proud to work day in, day out, giving our clients the tools to help them conduct their lettings and sales process, whether it comes to legionella, the immigration process or fee transparency. As well as helping…
Alex Evans
A landlords options with their rental property might be reducing…
Labour, if they come to power, have confirmed once again they intend to suggest reforms to the lettings industry. This is despite massive disapproval from the lettings industry – the experts you would have thought. Although far from perfect, it isn’t as bad as people seem to think. But in an environment where 40% of…
Retaliatory Evictions: YOUR point to prove?
On 11 September 2014 a comprehensive code of practice (“Code”) for the private rented sector was published. The Code has been issued amidst much fanfare and with the support and endorsement of the great and good it’s as closest thing the industry has to a “how to” guide. The industry commentary to date has focused…
Tenants and their awful comments on #Facebook and #AllAgents.
A few months ago a lovely chap called David rang me, out of the blue. ‘Chris, I follow your blog and I like what you say’, so there is me about to go into evangelise mode about landlord farming, when he said, ‘ Chris, someone has put some nasty stuff on Google + about me…
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Christopher Watkin