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Landlords

If you’re either looking to get out of the business altogether or want to continue owning the property but not be responsible for the day to day management, read on. If you want to sell, please just contact us using the link below.

What we can offer you

Anderson Swift will, subject to negotiation, offer you a fixed monthly payment to lease your HMO for up to 60 months – guaranteed rent.

You would need to maintain the structure of the building, roof, walls, windows, external doors and ground work including utilities, pipes and cabling into the property, alongside the boiler and central heating and the fire alarm/smoke detection system. You would need to ensure the property is compliant at the end of the current HMO licence.

We also need you to comply with any EPC legislation/Codes, and provide us with the certificates (this currently needs to be a "E" rating or above). We’ll take care of everything else.

Your property would need to have grand-father rights or planning permission/LDC, and at least 5 good size bedrooms, or the option to create such.

You’ll need a “consent to let” if the property is mortgaged (which we'll need to see), or we can create a management agreement. We would also seek to register an RX1 with the Land Registry for the duration of the agreement. Get in touch to start a conversation.

Why trust us

Our reputation is key and we need you to recommend us to your peers. Our success depends on delivering a quality service to both you and to our tenants.

We’re NRLA accredited, meaning we’ve undertaken and passed a specific HMO management exam with the National Residential Landlords Association and we complete ongoing continuing professional development (CPD), assessed annually. Put your bad experiences behind you.

You have no risk as we would provide you with a guaranteed income. We even reimburse your HMO buildings insurance cover (we're unable to insure a property we don't own).

We obtain and forward to you the mandatory gas safety and electrical safety certificates.

We obtain deposits from tenants and retain them in the government backed deposit protection service.

Our tenants are strongly advised to obtain contents insurance.

We require a break clause including in case the government change the required standards for HMO'S.

What we take care of

Selecting/referencing prospective tenants, including right to rent/How to Rent booklet/deposit protection scheme & docs etc;

Assured Shorthold Tenancy and Statutory Periodic Tenancy agreements;

Photographic inventories & Voids;

Quality decoration and internal maintenance between and during tenancies;

Internal and garden furniture;

Gardening & Cleaning;

Utilities, including Council Tax, TV licence and Netflix, Wifi/broadband speeds tenants will want, Insurance re-imbursement;

Rent collections;

EPC/Gas Safety/EICR Electrical Safety/Fire Safety checks/HMO licence provision and documentation provision;

Monthly communal area checks/bi-annual room checks;

We are the Point of contact for tenant issues so you are not disturbed.

We'll manage your property

Are you reading this because it's time to slow down and enjoy the benefits of your hard work?

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Notice period

We aim to keep you 100% happy and welcome conversation to discuss issues and, on rare occasions, complaints. Should plans change and you wish to end the agreement, 6 months’ notice is required in order to serve the necessary notices on tenants and comply with legislation; thus, allowing you vacant possession.

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Tenancy Enforcement

We carefully select and reference all our tenants. In the rare event that tenancy enforcement is needed through the courts, we would complete this without your involvement, provided we have a lease; and also provided our agreement with you has not resulted in breach of contract.

If you're ready to commit

If it's time for you to re-focus on yourself or your loved ones, or you're ready for that well deserved long break, get in touch today. We have draft agreements ready to send for your review. In just a few months you could have relieved a lot of the stress in your life, confident that you've made the right decision with a guaranteed income.