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Want to rent out house with large garden. Specialist agent?
loveka
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We will be renting out our house out soon, as we are moving for work.
The house comes with an optional half acre of garden, which is rented.
I think so many people would love this, but I don't know how to tap into the market.
We would not charge any more in rent for the house, I would just like someone to be able to enjoy it as much as I have
When we were selling last year most saw the garden as a disadvantage and said they wouldn't want it. The person who bought it wanted it because of the garden though.(chain collapsed, sale fell through)
By the way, we do know our responsibilities as landlords... I only say this as I see a lot of comments on here about that. We have been landlords for 25 years, I just would like to know if there are any specialist letting agents, or if anyone has any experience of this. Thanks!
The house comes with an optional half acre of garden, which is rented.
I think so many people would love this, but I don't know how to tap into the market.
We would not charge any more in rent for the house, I would just like someone to be able to enjoy it as much as I have
When we were selling last year most saw the garden as a disadvantage and said they wouldn't want it. The person who bought it wanted it because of the garden though.(chain collapsed, sale fell through)
By the way, we do know our responsibilities as landlords... I only say this as I see a lot of comments on here about that. We have been landlords for 25 years, I just would like to know if there are any specialist letting agents, or if anyone has any experience of this. Thanks!
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I haven't heard of a specialist LA, dealing with properties with large gardens. I assume it should be enough to ask the LA to highlight the fact of the large garden in the ad and make sure that prospective tenants know that maintaining it is a condition of the tenancy.0
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You pay for a gardener to do the garden and then let the house in the normal way but without the tenant being responsible for keeping the garden up. So the tenancy includes a gardener to do the garden. Do not try to charge extra for this. Most tenants are not interested in spending all their spare time doing someone else's choice of a garden0
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The house comes with an optional half acre of garden, which is rented.
To clarify, do you mean you own the house but rent the bulk of the garden from a third party? If so is cancelling this arrangement a viable option?Most tenants are not interested in spending all their spare time doing someone else's choice of a garden
I agree with this, as a homeowner I'm quite happy to maintain my own garden but when I rented I regarded any sort of gardening as nothing more than a chore. There's no way I would have ever considered renting a property with a large garden for which I was responsible.0 -
On the other hand, I rent a house which is surrounded by about half an acre, lawns, shrubbery, trees, flower beds, veg patch. I love it. I pay a local chap to cut the lawn twice a month in summer, as well as other maintenance stuff as required. This is my home - I've lived here for 18 years - so I really enjoy the garden and pottering in it - and next move I will look for the same.
As long as you're clear about who is responsible for what I'm sure you'll find the right tenant. I found this house through an ad in the local paper - no agency involved. The landlord rarely visits but when he does, he's quite happy with how it is. I've had chickens and a dog in the past, this garden is ideal for that.
Horses for courses as they say.
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Personally I would pounce on a tenancy that included a gardener, as Cakeguts suggests! I'd love a garden but having only ever rented houses with a patch of grass at best I'd have no idea how to maintain it and I'd be afraid of the unknown cost (in both time and money) of upkeep. But if it was maintained as part of the tenancy I'd be all over it!0
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Id jump at the chance to rent a house where the garden was taken care of by a gardener.0
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Me too. Currently renting a house with a big garden and that's one of the reasons we went for it. I'm retired so I have plenty of time to put in the effort. The landlord helps out with some of the heavier work, so who could ask for more?!
Mind you, I'd like to know that it was fairly long term, as I wouldn't like to put in all that effort and end have to move a couple of years later.
As someone has already said - horses for courses.I can't imagine a life without cheese. (Nigel Slater)0 -
Yes, we own the house and small garden. We optionally rent the half acre.
And yes, I could get rid of it no problem.
I just feel I would like someone to have it and enjoy it. I would have killed for it when I was young and renting!0 -
I would rent if it came with a gardener, not if it didn't0
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