Guides
Straight answers for landlords choosing a tenant.
Section 21 is gone, so who you let to is the decision that protects you. These are the checks that matter, written out in full and free to read.
Choosing tenants after the Renters’ Rights Act
Section 21 is gone and tenancies run periodic, so the tenant you choose is the decision that protects you. What actually changed, and what vetting looks like now.
Read the guideHow to choose a good tenant
What a reliable tenant looks like on paper, the red flags that show in documents rather than at viewings, and how to choose fairly between several good applicants.
Read the guideHow to vet tenants without a letting agent
The whole process for a self-managing landlord: what to collect, how to check the income really lands, and the forgeries no human eye catches.
Read the guideHow to verify a tenant’s payslip and income
A payslip is a claim. Recompute the tax, trace the salary into the bank, read the file itself. Fakes are built to fool the eye, and the eye is not what catches them.
Read the guideHow to check a tenant’s bank statement
A bank statement is a ledger, and a ledger has to add up. Re-adding the balance, joining the months, tracing the salary, spotting an edited PDF.
Read the guideHow to reference a self-employed tenant
No payslip, no problem. What to ask for instead, how to verify bank-first income and HMRC records, and why that evidence is often stronger.
Read the guideWhat to ask tenants for: the pre-tenancy checklist
The five things to collect from every applicant, what to verify once the pack arrives, and the setup jobs that run alongside.
Read the guideStop wasting viewings: pre-screen enquirers first
Six questions before anyone books, viewing requests you approve rather than slots you lose, and answers that carry through into screening.
Read the guideYour first tenant, checked properly
How to check a tenant when you have never done it: what to ask for, how to tell a payslip is real, whether they can afford the rent, and the whole first let in order.
Read the guideLetting agent, or manage it yourself?
Full management is usually a tenth to a seventh of your rent, every month. What that buys, what self-managing takes on, and the honest arithmetic on both.
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