PROFESSIONAL LETTING

Business Description

Hello and welcome to Professional Letting. We offer a comprehensive level of service to letting agents and landlords throughout the Yorkshire region. Our services have been designed and tailored over several years to offer expert, reliable and unique inventory reports, tenant check-in services, interim and periodic property inspections and check-out reports. We can be relied upon to offer competent expert advice and guidance we feel is difficult to match.

Our pricing, combined with our flexible approach and quality of service is second to none!

We have refrained from using apps and other 'time saving' products after trialling them extensively as we believe from our experience, there is nothing more professional, thorough or reliable as the tested dictation and transcribe method when preparing our reports. We realise this method takes longer but we take pride in a 'quality, not quantity' approach when putting our name to our reports.

Business Services
A professional inventory and building condition report carried out and produced on your property before a tenancy period commences protects your hard-earned investment. It is a complete and thorough record of the cosmetic decoration, fixtures, fittings and items (such as appliances) within your property on any given date. The report works through your property methodically from the front entrance hall, capturing each subsequent room. The report also captures any outdoor spaces to include gardens, driveways, garden sheds and garages.

Our experienced inventory clerks produce an A4 typed document, usually around 35 pages for a standard three bedroom semi-detached unfurnished property. They list decor, fixtures and fittings and include a description of condition.

High quality digital photographs of each room are taken to give the report reader an overview of the property, with additional close-up images included to show any existing damage or potential issues of concern, value or interest.

Clients can choose to have their report available online in PDF format for download, save and print using their own secure Client Log-in page from Express 48 hours, Standard 3 days or Non-urgent 5 day turn around. Landlords are able to choose from the same completion timescales; however reports will be emailed to their nominated email address on completion.

Full colour bounded copies can be sent in the post for an additional charge. If this is requested, 3 copies will be posted unless otherwise specified.

Our check-in service, combined with our inventory and building condition report creates a tenancy-specific document. This service can be used either at the time the initial inventory is carried-out; where your tenant would arrive at the property during our inspection and we can walk them through the property, show them what we are looking for and checking and confirming what is being recorded on the inventory report. This allows the tenant to raise any questions in person whilst inspecting the property with the clerk, the tenants comments will then be recorded as part of the inventory and building condition report. The clerk will then sign-over the keys provided by the agent/landlord to the tenant before leaving the property.

Alternatively, some of our clients prefer our clerks to attend the property several days prior to a tenancy commencing and complete the inspection. This means the agent and/or landlord will then have the report back to them before they handover the keys and finalise the tenancy agreement. With this option, the tenant is given the report to take with them to the property and allowed a set period (usually 7-14 days) to read through and check our report before signing it and returning a copy to the agent/landlord to be kept on file and retrieved at the end of the tenancy.

This optional but often valuable and insightful inspection gives the report reader a detailed overview of the condition of the property mid-way through any given tenancy period. The agent/landlord must give the tenant the required notice period to inform them of our visit. As the tenant does not have to be present for the inspection, a set of keys should be made available to our clerk on the day requested (these can be picked-up from an agent office etc nearby).

This type of report does not offer instructions or guidance to tenant or landlord as to form corrective action, it is merely a record of the treatment and cleanliness of the property and its contents on the inspection day.

Business Products
Inventory and Building Condition Report
Interim/Periodic Inspection Reports
Check-out/Exit Reports

Business Staff & Management
Nick Blakeley - Partner
Gary Playforth - Partner
Trevor Haley - Inventory Clerk
Tina Rose - Inventory Clerk
Tina Playforth - Inventory Clerk
Julia Blakeley - Administration

Business Clients
Dacre, Son and Hartley
William H Brown
Sheffield Residential
Access Properties York
Countrywide Managing Agents
Preston Baker
Concentric Lettings
Letwise Sheffield
Live Letting Exchange
A List Lettings
Tenantfinder Selby