Landlord guides
Letting & tenants guides
Finding, referencing and keeping good tenants, and handling deposits, inventories and arrears properly when a tenancy gets bumpy.
A tenancy is won or lost in the first few weeks. Thorough referencing, a properly protected deposit and a detailed check-in inventory prevent most of the disputes we see, and they are the evidence that matters if something does go wrong later on.
These guides cover the practical side of letting a property: finding and referencing tenants, protecting and returning deposits, recording the condition of the property, and acting early when rent is late. They are written by the team that does this work every week for landlords in Doncaster. If you want a tenant found and referenced for you, see our let only service; if you want the whole tenancy handled, see full property management.
How to reference a tenant properly
What a full tenant reference should cover, the checks most landlords skip, and how selection criteria have to work now that benefit and child discrimination is prohibited.
The accidental landlord's guide to letting a property
Inherited or holding a property you did not plan to let? Here is how to do it right.