Reasons For letting your property?

It may become viable to let your property due many changes in circumstances. These typically maybe among the following:

1. You have inherited a property and may wish to produce a regular income from it, with the intention of later passing it on to another generation.
   
2. Moving away from the area to a new job either somewhere else in the UK or overseas.
   
3. In the case of a matrimonial separation the vacant home could provide a regular income until matters are resolved.
   
4. Simply investing surplus cash into property to provide a more lucrative regular income.

Whatever the reason your property does not have to remain EMPTY COSTING YOU MONEY when it could be GENERATING YOU AN INCOME instead.

FOR YOUR PEACE OF MIND

A. Chiltern Hills will help you finding tenants and making a selection

B. Chiltern Hills can provide information on the various insurance covers available.

C. Help and advice on taxation, especially for those landlords residing overseas.

D. Chiltern Hills will look to provide a high standard of professional service tailored for your needs. Chiltern Hills looks to offer a personal and friendly service to enable a fast and trouble free letting of your property.

E. We are a premier account holder with homelet and we also do a rent guarantee for your property.

Preparing your property for letting

It may be necessary to make improvements to your property to ensure that it meets the minimum standards required for a property to be rented. We will of course take into consideration budgetary and current legislation constraints.

Chiltern Hills will advise on the decorative standards, furnishings, appliances and exterior maintenance of your property to help ensure we can achieve the best rental.
Inventories will be needed to protect the landlord’s property and safeguard against any disputes over
Damage or dilapidation

Landlords Responsibilities

Landlords are under many legal responsibilities to ensure the safety of the tenants and the property in the letting of a property. These legal obligations must be fulfilled prior to letting any property. These are briefly as follows:

Electrical safety of the property. The law requires an NICEIC approved contractor to make an inspection of the property and upon satisfaction of the safety of that property issue a certificate /inspection report to state that

Smoke alarms are advisable in all properties and for those properties where they maybe occupied in multiple occupations the law may require smoke alarms and detectors system to be installed.

Gas Safety Certificate. A landlord’s gas safety certificate is required from a Corgi registered gas engineer certifying the safety of all gas appliance’s within the property annually.

What Chiltern Hills has to offer?

A range of services and options are made available to landlords to suit their own individual needs. The following options are available with help and advice to choose the one suited best to your needs.

Option 1: Introductory Offer 8%
Chiltern Hills will provide for the marketing, viewing of your property until a suitable tenant is found. The terms of the tenancy will be negotiated for the landlord and a tenancy agreement prepared accordingly. A security deposit will be collected from the tenants and one months advance rent which will become payable to the landlord upon initiation of the tenancy.

Option: Letting's and rent collection 10%
This will include all the services included in option one plus the additional service of rent collection on behalf of the landlords on a monthly basis. The management of the property still remains the responsibility of the landlord

Option 3: Full Management Service 12%
This includes all the services in option I and 2 but in addition Chiltern Hills will deal with the any ongoing repairs needed to the property. Inspections can be made to the property by the landlords or Chiltern Hills can be asked to make inspections on pre arranged times agreed with the tenants.

Marketing
We take pride in our marketing strategies and advertise in the local newspaper every week, we send out information on new properties to the prospective tenants held on our data base regularly.
The Internet now plays a major role in our marketing and all properties are posted on our website and added to other large websites such as rentamatic. If you want a free rental appraisal for your property please contact us and we will be happy to help.

Taxation:
Landlords can be put through to specialist independent taxation and accountancy professionals.

Insurance:
Specialist insurances are available for contents, legal protection and rental guarantee schemes. Tenant’s contents policies are also available too.

For further information contact our office.