STANDARD TENANT FIND SERVICE

1. Professional photographs: Yours to keep; we’ll arrange a local professional photographer to visit your property and take a range of shots. We’ll choose the best 8 and send them to you in addition to adding them to your listing.
2. A Detailed Floor-Plan: We’ll produce a floor-plan for you to keep floor-plans are increasingly common among professional rental properties. According to Rightmove, a floor-plan will increase tenant interest by an average of 52%.
3. A property valuation report: When you let through Upad, you choose your own rental asking price. We’ll help you arrive at your valuation with a valuation report containing local market trends and statistics.
4. A property description consultation: Do you know what room tenants want to see first? Bullet points of long description? How do you talk about WiFi? We have extensive experience on what piques tenant interest, and we’ll help you craft the perfect listing.
5. A Upad 'To Let' Board: We’ll put a board up outside the property, and take it down again once it’s let, maximising your exposure to local tenant traffic.
6. Property Listing: We’ll advertise your property on the UK's largest lettings network including Rightmove, FindaProperty, Zoopla, Gumtree and many more including a huge range of local sites.
7. Enquiry management: We’ll handle all tenant enquiries, utilising our unique enquiry management system, which helps us deal with majority of enquiries instantly! We’ll introduce you to tenants so you can show them around the property.
8. Comprehensive tenant referencing: We’ll create a comprehensive tenant reference report for every adult on the tenancy agreement. Referencing includes a credit check, affordability check, written previous landlord and employers’ references. Tenants are charged a £50+VAT holding fee which secures their commitment to the tenancy.
9. Tenancy Agreement: We’ll create a Tenancy Agreement prepared to your specification. We’ll work in consultation with you to create the right agreement for your needs.
10. Initial rent collection: We’ll arrange for the first money transfer from your tenant, passing it into your bank account.
11. Standing order mandate arrangement: We’ll arrange for all future rental payments to be transferred automatically from tenant account, to your account.
12. Deposit collection and registration The deposit will be registered with My Deposits.

If you’d like us to manage the property ongoing, we’d be very happy to help you. You can take a look at the Upad Property management service here.

Remember. Our lettings team is available 7 days a week to help you through the process and answer any questions. Please call us on 0333 240 1220 (Local rate call, even from mobile).

Staff Top Tip — Simon says:

"Know your property: When you are showing your property around, having an in depth knowledge of your property is vital to gaining tenants’ trust. The more they know, the more likely they are to sign that tenancy agreement."

Click on 'GET THE STANDARD TENANT FIND SERVICE' to get started. You’ll need to add some details of your property including your initial property description. You’ll need to add a rental asking price which can be altered at any time after you have seen your valuation report. Once you’re happy with the detail, you’ll need to checkout, paying the £299+VAT fee. Don’t worry, your money is protected by our no-quibble money back guarantee.

If your property requires a Gas Safety or Energy Performance Certificate you can add these to your shopping basket and we can take care of them for you. Please remember they are legal requirements.

We’re happy to help you through the process, so please don’t hesitate to call us 7 days a week on 0333 240 1220. (local rate call, even from mobile).

Here’s what Upad will do next

1. We'll send you a receipt for your payment. A member of the Upad team will call you to finalise some details and provide you with tips and feedback to enhance your listing. We’ll create your local valuation report and walk you through it helping you to get the price right.
2. We'll get the ball rolling on the professional floor-plan and photographs for your property. We'll also order a 'To Let' Board for you. The board will be put up outside your property within 5-7 days.
3. Our photographer will be in touch to arrange access. They’ll also create the floor-plan in the same visit. Generally your photographs and floor-plan will be completed within 48 hours of your request.
4. Once your photos and floor-plan are done, we’ll add them to your listing and make it live, visible to tenants. We'll make sure you receive your own set of photographs too. Once your property is live on Rightmove and some of the other major sites, we’ll send you an email with links to each site so you can see it yourself.
5. Your listing is now being seen by millions of interested tenants. We field all tenant enquiries and with their permission, pass them onto you by email and SMS, so you can contact them to organise viewings. Our team will actively keep in touch with you to ensure your letting is achieving enquiries.
6. Once you’ve found tenants and agreed terms, we’ll start the tenant referencing process. You only need to let us know which tenants you’ve chosen.
7. On successful completion of the referencing, we’ll finalise all of your tenancy administration. We'll draw up your Assured Shorthold Tenancy agreement, collect and register the deposit, collect the first month's rent and set up a standing order to pay you the subsequent months' rent.
8. We'll keep you in the loop for the entire process and remove the 'To Let' board for you when your property is rented.

Remember, our lettings team is available 7 days a week to help you through the process and answer any questions. Please call us on 0333 240 1220 (Local rate call, even from mobile).

Staff Top Tip — Becks says:

"A well structured description can really enhance your advert, and increase the level of tenant interest in your property."