A landlord’s nightmare — one of my properties had been empty for months. The previous tenant had done a bunk, and although I’d done all the right things, refurbished, and redecorated inside and out in neutral colours, put it with different agents, placed ads myself, nothing was happening. A few viewings but no takers. I really couldn’t understand this, and with £300 going out each month on the mortgage, this was just not OK.
Finally, I was prompted into taking inner action by a close friend, who said ‘You have to love that house Jane! At the moment, you’re hating it, resenting it, and wishing you hadn’t bought it. That won’t work.’
She was right, and I just hadn’t realised it. That day I created a picture of the (more...)
How to get tenants into your rental property fast
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Landlords know that the worst thing that can happen with their rental is that it’s void for any length of time. But what do you do when you’ve repaired, redecorated, refurbished, done all the right things, and it STILL isn’t letting? You have one final trick up your sleeve.
This happened to me just recently with one of my properties. I was living many miles away, and couldn’t just pop over to see for myself why it might not be renting.
The previous tenant had done a bunk, and although I’d done all the right things, and put it with different agents, placed ads myself, nothing was happening. A few viewings but no takers. I really couldn’t understand this, and with a lot of money going out each (more...)