Renting

stardelight123

I am looking to move to another area and to rent a house from a private landlord like ive done for the past 3 years. Im not sure where to start because houses come up but there with a letting agent and when they want to check your credit history etc they charge a large fee and i dont want to be paying out all the time for this. Does anyone know where i should looking for private lanlords. Im looking to move to Torquay Devon

ap1985

Try Gumtree or sometimes you may find whole properties for rent on spareroom.co.uk but that's very rarely...I would recommend starting off with Gumtree

freeisgood

I second gumtree...also local newspapers.

...Even local facebook groups to that area, sometimes you can request if anyone has anything to rent out.

SuzieSue

Keep looking on Rightmove, Zoopla etc. There are on-line agencies like Upad and Openrent which private landlord use to advertise on RM etc.

The advert should say that it is a private landlord.

Also, try Streelife. You can start a thread saying what you are looking for.

elverson

https://www.streetlife.com/area/torquay/

Sootoo

You only have to pay the agent's admin fee when you find a property you want to move into so you should only have to pay the fee once, not as you say "paying out all the time". The only reason you're likely to lose that admin fee would be if you've got a bad credit rating and don't pass their checks e.g if you have CCJs or haven't paid rent on previous properties. However, you'll know if you're likely to pass any checks which private landlords should carry out in any case.