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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.
What Records a Landlord Should Keep, and Why
The documents that decide a dispute are never the ones you thought to keep at the time. A practical list of what to hold, in what form, and for roughly how long.
Choosing Property Management Software: What to Actually Test
A demo shows you a system working on somebody else's tidy data. Here is how to test one against yours, and the questions that reveal more than any feature list.
Why Itemised Rent Receipts Prevent Disputes
A receipt that only says 'rent paid' invites an argument later. One that shows exactly what each shilling settled doesn't.
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.
What Belongs in a Monthly Landlord Statement
A landlord statement has one job: to answer 'what did I earn, what was spent, and what am I owed?' without a phone call. Most statements answer the first and leave the rest implied.
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.