Second
- Advertise on LetaLife
The next thing to do is to put your
own Room/Property
To Let advert
on the page for the area in which
your property is situated. Tenants often look on our
pages before placing their 'Wanted' adverts so it
is a good way to get prospective teanants to contact
you. You can specify quite clearly exactly the sort
of property or room you have available and what sort
of tenant you are seeking, in your own words.
You
can either place a free advert or pay £10 for a standard one. Whe you
get to the advert
submission page it will explain the differences
so you can make the right choice for your
own circumstances.
LetaLife gets around
2 million people a year on the website so it
is a good way to make sure your advert gets
seen.
If you choose the £10 advert option the
payment process is dealt with entirely by WorldPay
which is a part of the Royal
Bank of Scotland Group It is securely handled
by the WorldPay system and we don't see any
of your payment details. Your security is important
to us.
Third
- Contact a local Letting Agent
Once
you have checked out our 'Wanted' adverts and placed
your own 'To Let' advert you may wish to contact local
letting agents as well.
LetaLife
has a List of letting
agents which also covers the same range of places
as the letting adverts pages.
If
you contact a letting agent through our pages,
please tell them you found them on LetaLife.
Letalife
Registered Letting Agent
A LetaLife
Registered letting agent is in no way regulated or
in affiliation with LetaLife. They have however paid
the current listing fee to appear in a specific position
on our pages.
Registered letting agents appear on our letting
agent directory town pages in a blue edged dark
yellow box and have some extra facilities for
our visitors' added convenience. For example
a registered LetaLife Letting Agent has a page,
where they can give you more information about
themselves - such as whether they are members
of professional associations and schemes (such
as ARLA,
NAEA, RICS,
NALS
etc) and a map to help you find the letting
agents offices. Here is some more information
about the
various professional bodies to which letting
agents can belong.
We are not dependent on fees from agency listings,
the agency directory is an extra resource for
our visitors - and one which we try to provide
at the highest possible quality. The fee being
the first and minimal level of filtering to
ensure this objective.
Putting
it bluntly, the charge for a letting agent registering
on LetaLife is simply a method by which we are
able to engage in a financial transaction with
our registered agents. This enables us to confirm
they are at least financially viable to a point
where they can cover what we feel is a minimal
cost. It also enables us to confirm identity
and location, and that provides us with the
minimum assurance we are prepared to give our
website visitor as to the bona fides of our
registered agents.
An agent who
has not paid to be registered appears in a pale
yellow box below the registered agents. We are
unable to give any assurances regarding these
agents.
The LAPS system explained
As part of our commitment to your security and
privacy, we provide each advertiser with a free
virtual telephone number which will be published
with your advert. This is called the LAPS number
- the LetaLife Advertisers Privacy Service number.
The provision of this service is entirely free
of cost to the advertiser.
When someone with a vacancy sees your Accommodation
'Wanted' advert, they call your LAPS number.
This then causes your phone to ring. The caller
does not see your 'real' phone number at any
time.
This
means that your privacy is protected and also
means that when the advert is no longer required
and is removed from our pages, the LAPS number
ceases to direct to your phone, and the calls
stop.
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So is
everyone else. Here's how to improve your chances
of finding and getting that great tenant for your
roomshare, flatshare, apartment or house or
other property. Read
on
Safety
tips for Landlords using online advertising.
You want to find someone great to rentout your property.
But are you safe on the internet and when people visit
to view vacancies? LetaLife helps you find your next
tenant but we want you to keep safe as well. Read
on
Homestaging
- the benefits.
When trying
to reduce void periods in your property sometimes
it pays to try some of the 'in' tricks of the trade.
A revamp need not be too expensive and if it means
that you can command a slightly higher income, or
attract a 'better' tenant or just keep the property
fully tenanted - then its well worth it. These days
you can even rent an entire house full of furniture
and furnishings right down to the cutlery. This can
be a good way to maintain continuity of furnishings
etc so it is being used increasingly by landlords
who want to stay one step ahead of the competition.
Safety
Tips when sharing(pdf) a flat from the Suzy
Lamplugh Trust - The Leading Authority on Personal
Safety
Fire
safety in rented accommodation
There's a higher chance
of having a fire in rented accommodation especially
in shared accommodation . If the property is both,
the chances are higher still. Read
on
Gas
Appliances - get them checked, keep them safe
Pdf leaflet from the Government Health and safety
executive. For leaflets in languages other than
English follow this
link
Guide
to Furniture and furnishings fire safety regulations
Pdf from Department of Trade and Industry
Become
a member of an accredited landlord scheme.
Becoming an accredited landlord, should mean
you can rely on having a higher quality of tenant
by being able to offer a property that will be expected
to be in good condition and the tenancy managed to
a high standard. These are usually run by local councils.
Find
your local council contact details here.
