letting agency

Did you know that anyone can set up a letting agency?

A letting agency will normally charge a commission for their services, usually a percentage of the annual rent.

Over 43% of the accommodation was rented from private landlords or letting agencies.

Letting agencies should never charge tenants a finder's fee, although according to Galsworthy, many agencies do.

Under insurance backed schemes the landlord or letting agency pays a premium to the scheme but retains the deposit.

In 2011 the council contracted out responsibility for market stall rentals to private letting agency Quarterbridge.

The idea of a social letting agency was, of course, discussed in Rugg, though not in huge detail.

Too many schemes trying to run (with Local Letting Agencies or a revamped private sector access scheme) before they can walk.

Tenants in rental apartments have also earned extra income illegally while on vacation by letting agencies put up tourists in their homes.

(There is a full scale Social Letting Agency in South Wales, for example.

They lost over £4,000 dealing with two letting agencies which closed down without paying them the rent and tenants' deposit owed on their Wembley flat.

He is also the director of "Euro Agency UK ltd", a property letting agency.

The DSU also operates a letting agency which can help students to source accommodation from within the private sector.

Terry recovers, and starts a letting agency with Janine Butcher (Charlie Brooks).

In response to MRKfM, Ken's idea for a local social letting agency is a good one.

There were 37 owner-occupied houses, with 16 houses rented from the local council and 17 rented from a private landlord or letting agency.

You find supposedly reputable letting agencies letting houses without even satisfying themselves that they are safe or that things like the electric supply/cooker/heating actually work.

As for EPC's again, who is policing this, letting agencies don't profer these when you visit.

"I visited London twice a month for several months looking for a place to rent, and I also sent my requirements to several letting agencies.

She went to a local letting agency, Landlords of 41 Roman Road, Bethnal Green, London E2, who found a tenant that day.

'Anyone can set up a letting agency,' says David Galsworthy, Vice President of the National Association of Estate Agents.

For example, claims are fast-tracked and landlords are paid direct (often the council's USP when competing against private letting agencies for landlords' business).

"The tenant is all-powerful, simply because there aren't any," says Dairin Garnier of Henry & James letting agency in central London.

Students worried about the health implications of their accommodation are being urged to contact their local environmental health officer if they feel let down by their landlord or letting agency.

Pearl & Coutts In 1965, at the age 19, he set up Pearl and Coutts, a property management and letting agency.