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Things worth knowing.
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.
Tenant Handovers, Done Properly
Move-in and move-out are the same twenty minutes of work, done twice. Skipping it at the start is what makes the end expensive.
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.
What a Deposit Is Actually For, and How to Get It Back
A deposit is not an advance on rent and not a fee. Knowing the difference, and writing three things down on the day you move in, is most of what decides whether you see it again.
Moving Out Without Losing Money
Most of what decides your final bill happens in the last two weeks: notice given properly, meters read, and a handover somebody witnessed.