Trust us to make the process a ‘walk in the park’

• One point of contact
• Maximum Exposure
• Professional Tenants
• Full Lettings Service
• Guaranteed Rent Scheme
• Qualified Staff
• Commission
  

One point of contact
When you instruct us to let your property you will have one point of contact throughout the process which helps everything run efficiently without re-relaying information. You will receive the mobile number and direct line to reach that person at all times. You will in addition receive feedback from every member of staff who carries out the viewings.

Maximum Exposure
Not only do we have high-quality details, we also advertise these as widely as possible to achieve maximum exposure of your property. That’s why we advertise on 27+ websites including Primelocation, Findaproperty, Globrix, Propertyfinder, Hotproperty, Surf4aproperty and many more. In addition we regularly run press campaigns in amongst others SW magazine and the Wandsworth Guardian.

Professional Tenants
All our potential tenants are fully vetted prior to viewing your property and should agreement be made with you regarding price they are fully referenced - this costs you nothing but offers you peace of mind. Our referencing includes employment references, previous landlord references, personal references, earnings to rent cost and credit score and surpasses other agents offerings.

Full Lettings Service
From October 2008 all lettings properties will require ‘Energy performance certificates’ which we can offer for free. We have well established and reliable contacts for gas safety certificates and electrical certificates as well as a full time handyman in employment for emergency issues. We prepare the latest ‘Assured Shorthold Tenancy’ on your behalf and can carry out inventory check in/ outs and arrange for industrial cleaning prior to the new tenancy. We also offer full management including rent collection, maintenance and anything else that may be required during the tenancy.

Qualified Staff
Most letting agents receive almost no training at all – everyone we employ has been involved in the industry for a minimum of two years. Good local knowledge of the area and experience in the lettings process are equally important to us as repeat business is our number one priority. Knowledge is power and we have benefited from training courses earlier in our careers and offer the same to new staff.

Commission
The commission levels we award are the highest in the area (to our knowledge) and this ensures we attract the very best staff. Beyond this there are also team targets and this ensures we are all working together for one common goal – the growth of the company by offering a superior service to you.

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Landlord Rental Packages

• Let Only
• Rent Collection
• Full Management 
• Guaranteed Rent Scheme 

Let Only
* We will carry out an initial inspection of the property and provide our opinion of the expected rental value, furnishings and other pertinent matters.

* Advertise the property as necessary or appropriate.

* Arrange appointments for prospective tenants to view the property and accompany them where necessary or advisable.

* Introduce prospective tenants.

* Take up references on prospective tenants for your approval or rent guarantee.

* Instruct properly qualified engineers to carry out gas and electrical safety checks when requested by you or where you have failed to do so, the cost to be debited to your account.

* Prepare, execute (if necessary) and complete the tenancy agreement together with appropriate legal notices.

* Collect the first month’s rent and a six week security deposit from the Tenant. The landlord should notify Absolute Living if the request is for greater/ less of a security deposit.

* Before the commencement of the tenancy Absolute Living will collect a security deposit as agent for the landlord, and will register the deposit with the Tenancy Deposit Solutions Ltd (TDSL) scheme on behalf of the landlord within 14 days of receipt of the deposit unless the landlord has indicated that he/ she wishes to administer the registration independently of Absolute Living.

* Extend or renew tenancies and execute any Extension of Tenancy Agreement on your behalf.

* We can instruct at cost an inventory & check in agent or use in-house inventory service.

Rent Collection
In addition to the 'let only' service described in we will:

* Hold the Deposit as stakeholder during the tenancy.

* Demand and make reasonable efforts to collect the rent from the Tenant, short of issuing court proceedings.

* Transfer the rent, net of disbursements, directly to a nominated bank account. Payments are made every Friday/Monday for the rent collected previous week, except the last week of the month we pay on the first working day of the month. When payments are made we send an email with statement attached.

* Prepare and email monthly remittance statements to you and/or your accountant.

Full Management
In addition to the 'let only' and 'rent collection service' we will:

* Inventories; Arrange for the preparation of an inventory and schedule of conditions by a professional inventory clerk or our own property manager.

* Outgoing; Pay your regular outgoing for the property out of available funds held by us including bills for ground rent, service charge, water charges and maintenance charges but to exclude mortgage payments, buildings insurance and contents insurance (Except if building insurance and contents insurance is done through us). You must instruct the relevant authorities to forward the bills to us for payment and although we will do our best to query any obvious discrepancies it must be understood that we are entitled to accept and pay without question demands and accounts that appear to be in order.

* Repairs; Deal with day to day repair/maintenance matters. We will always endeavour to inform you of the repair/maintenance issues by email or post and get your approval before we do any work, except in an emergency we may go ahead and do the work if we can not contact you. We employ full time handymen and therefore reduce the costs experienced with other agencies - we also have a preffered panel of gas and electrical engineers.

* Property Visits; Carry out visits to the property every 3 months. These visits will include non-expert investigation of apparent damage or defects that are noticed or brought to our attention by the Tenants. It should be appreciated that these visits can only extend to apparent and obvious defects and would not in any way amount to a structural survey of the property.

* Check Out; Arrange for a professional inventory clerk or Property manager to check the inventory and prepare a schedule of dilapidation (if required) at the end of the Tenancy. We will negotiate and agree dilapidation with yourself and the tenant as Stakeholder and make appropriate deductions from the Tenants Deposit once it is agreed.

Guaranteed Rent Scheme
The scheme works in conjunction with the other services and is an additional scheme that is worth considering:

We will take your property on at an agreed rent and guarantee to pay you the full rent monthly into your bank account. If the property is vacant you will still receive the full rent for the agreed rent guarantee period. This is a great scheme for overseas landlords or where you as the landlord want to minimise void periods. The tenants we introduce to the property may be on 'short term lets' or 'corporate tenants' but will be professional working people and they will all undergo full referencing through Homelet. Six week deposits will also be collected and both inventories and check in/out reports compiled. You will need to give two months notice if you wish to cease the agreement after the fixed period and there is an administration charge the equivalent of one weeks rent which would be taken out of the final guaranteed rent payment to you. 12 / 24 / 36 months.

PROFESSIONAL TENANTS
FULLY REFERENCED
NO LOSS OF INCOME FROM THE PROPERTY
YOUR MONEY WITHIN 10 DAYS

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