private renting with no agency

newcook

kerrypn wrote: »

Im by no means "in the know" but wanted to share my experience. I went BR in 2009(doesnt get worse than that credit wise I suppose) and we had to move out of our mortgaged home to rent privately. I really panicked and expected to have to pay 6 months up front, which to be honest I could not have done. We saw our house we rent on rightmove, and as luck would have it also saw the private ad on gumtree. I contacted the LL direct and was 100% honest with her, and she has been a fantastic LL-we paid standard deposit and month upfront. LL said she always goes on how she feels when she meets tenants. She has said we are fantastic tenants, we are never late with rent and we even bought her an Xmas present. When we phoned agents we got varying degrees of answers, but most seemed to be happy to go ahead if we had a guarantor. But our LL didnt ask for this either.

Just to let you know that even with REALLY bad credit, it can still work out.

many thanks for that kerrypn - I never even thought of gumtree!! sorry to hear about you going BR and hope things are getting better for you now.

well guys, you've all been great and certainly given me ideas and to know what forms there should be. as I mentioned before, its not going to be until next year but I like to plan ahead!!!

chucknorris

kerrypn wrote: »

We saw our house we rent on rightmove, and as luck would have it also saw the private ad on gumtree.

I'm marketing a flat right now on gumtree privately and meeting a LA later today who will also be marketing it for me. The only difference for a tenant approaching via the LA is that:

1. They will be paying approx 6% more
2. They will obviously end up paying all the LA fees

I'm not allowing the LA to show people around because I don't trust them not to disturb the current tenant, in the past they have gone into the property without giving 24 hours notice despite assurances that they would. So the agent in this case is merely allowing me to tap into a different market.

I've also been in the strange situation when I have been showing around prospective tenants and the agent also was at the same time, but at two different prices.

NEH

chucknorris wrote: »

I'm marketing a flat right now on gumtree privately and meeting a LA later today who will also be marketing it for me. The only difference for a tenant approaching via the LA is that:

1. They will be paying approx 6% more
2. They will obviously end up paying all the LA fees

I'm not allowing the LA to show people around because I don't trust them not to disturb the current tenant, in the past they have gone into the property without giving 24 hours notice despite assurances that they would. So the agent in this case is merely allowing me to tap into a different market.

I've also been in the strange situation when I have been showing around prospective tenants and the agent also was at the same time, but at two different prices.

I think most letting agents and Solictors are like. With our landlord selling this place we made it very clear that we didn't want the Solicitors showing people around, i even had to explain to them why i wanted them to use the old selling photos as it represented the house better than with all our stuff in it....

I wouldn't trust them to give us notice of a viewing if we weren't doing it.