The Bank of England raised the base rate to 5% on 22 June, a rate not seen since April 2008. This leaves many landlords in an extremely difficult situation. Landlords are trying to manage their cash flow to make ends meet, with the sword of Damocles of the next refinancing hanging over them. This is …
Technology has developed at an incredible rate, especially over the last decade. There are now so many tech tools that landlords can use to manage their buy to let portfolios themselves, or in conjunction with property Virtual Assistants (VAs), from a mobile phone. In this blog post, I go through 4 different ways that landlords …
How can landlords use technology to manage their portfolios? View Post »
Margins are tight for landlords. An obvious way to save money is for landlords to let their own Buy to Lets themselves using online services such as OpenRent, for a fraction of the cost of bricks and mortar letting agents. However, many landlords are often unsure how to go about finding tenants themselves, and don’t …
Landlord Guide: How to find tenants using OpenRent View Post »
Landlords who use online platforms like OpenRent to find tenants need to carry out checks to make sure the tenants have the right to rent property in the UK. Although online referencing providers will check identities by asking applicants to upload ID documents, this isn’t enough to confirm the applicants have the right to rent …
Landlord Guide: How to carry out your own Right to Rent checks View Post »
Are you wondering how easy it is to find renters yourself online, without using traditional letting agents? Are you unsure to go about it? After all, with rental demand so high, surely it can’t be too difficult? I was wondering the same question myself when I decided to let the house you can see above …
How to let a property yourself without using letting agents View Post »
