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Short, practical pieces for everyone this sector touches: tenants, house-hunters, agencies, landlords and builders. No sales pitch, and nothing you need our software to act on.
Planning a Day of Viewings Without Wasting It
Most house-hunting is lost to transport and dead addresses, not to a shortage of houses. A morning's planning turns six wasted trips into one productive one.
Matching Payments to What They Settled
Money arrives with a name and an amount, and almost never with a reason. Reconciliation is the work of restoring the reason, and doing it weekly instead of yearly.
Seven Checks Before You Travel to a Viewing
A listing that will waste your Saturday usually says so before you spend a shilling on transport. Here is what to look at, in the order it takes you five minutes to check.
Catching Arrears Early Beats Chasing Them Late
A tenant one month behind usually pays. A tenant five months behind usually leaves. The difference between the two is almost never the tenant. It's how long it took anyone to notice.
How to View a Property Safely
Viewing a house means meeting a stranger at an empty address, often alone. A few habits make that ordinary rather than risky, and none of them cost anything.
Before You Pay a Deposit on a New Place
The riskiest ten minutes in house-hunting are the ones between deciding and paying. Five checks, none of which take long, and all of which are awkward to do afterwards.