The Dorset Lettings Group Email: dlgroup@dorsetlettings.co.uk
Established 1984
What can Dorset Lettings do for you?
Realising that some landlords wish to be more involved in the details of a letting than others, we are flexible in the services we offer and broadly these are as follows:
Tenant Finding Only
We advertise and promote the property to find a suitable prospective tenant and, having done so, we embark on our referencing procedures. Once satisfactory reference replies are received, we can then draw up the legal agreement and inventory or schedule of condition. Prior to the start of the tenancy, we collect one month’s rent in advance and the deposit and we make arrangements for the method of payment of future rents direct to the landlord. We do not show the tenant into the property or deal with details of the tenancy such as the transfer of services etc. and we are in no part responsible for the proper performance of the tenancy agreement.
Our commission for this service is taken at the start of the tenancy from the first month’s rent and is payable for tenancies up to one year, after which, if the tenant remains in occupation, no commission is payable.
Tenant Finding and Rent Collection
We find a tenant and complete the tenant finding only services as described above and, in addition, deal with all aspects of collection of rent during the tenancy.
Rents are normally payable in advance on the first of each month. We carefully monitor these payments and once rent is received and our commission deducted, we account to the landlord with a statement during the second week of each month.
Full Management
This service relieves the landlord of all personal involvement in the letting if he so wishes. Having found the tenant (often for an owner who is abroad or living at a distance) we deal with all details both prior to and during the tenancy. These would include:
Careful tenant selection
Meticulous referencing procedure
Extensive local advertising
Assistance with insurance
All necessary legal documentation
Preparation of inventories and schedules of condition
Transfer of utility accounts to new tenant’s name
Regular three-monthly visits to the property (to check on the condition of the house and garden) and reports to landlord
Making arrangements for contractors to carry out any repairs
Arranging mandatory annual gas safety checks
Serving notices
Final check-out and negotiations over matters arising
We account to the landlord for rent during the third week of each month, thereby holding a ‘float’ of rent for the first part of the month, out of which we pay for any necessary repairs.
Realising that some landlords wish to be more involved in the details of a letting than others, we are flexible in the services we offer and broadly these are as follows:
Tenant Finding Only
We advertise and promote the property to find a suitable prospective tenant and, having done so, we embark on our referencing procedures. Once satisfactory reference replies are received, we can then draw up the legal agreement and inventory or schedule of condition. Prior to the start of the tenancy, we collect one month’s rent in advance and the deposit and we make arrangements for the method of payment of future rents direct to the landlord. We do not show the tenant into the property or deal with details of the tenancy such as the transfer of services etc. and we are in no part responsible for the proper performance of the tenancy agreement.
Our commission for this service is taken at the start of the tenancy from the first month’s rent and is payable for tenancies up to one year, after which, if the tenant remains in occupation, no commission is payable.
Tenant Finding and Rent Collection
We find a tenant and complete the tenant finding only services as described above and, in addition, deal with all aspects of collection of rent during the tenancy.
Rents are normally payable in advance on the first of each month. We carefully monitor these payments and once rent is received and our commission deducted, we account to the landlord with a statement during the second week of each month.
Full Management
This service relieves the landlord of all personal involvement in the letting if he so wishes. Having found the tenant (often for an owner who is abroad or living at a distance) we deal with all details both prior to and during the tenancy. These would include:
Careful tenant selection
Meticulous referencing procedure
Extensive local advertising
Assistance with insurance
All necessary legal documentation
Preparation of inventories and schedules of condition
Transfer of utility accounts to new tenant’s name
Regular three-monthly visits to the property (to check on the condition of the house and garden) and reports to landlord
Making arrangements for contractors to carry out any repairs
Arranging mandatory annual gas safety checks
Serving notices
Final check-out and negotiations over matters arising
We account to the landlord for rent during the third week of each month, thereby holding a ‘float’ of rent for the first part of the month, out of which we pay for any necessary repairs.