With our Guaranteed Rent for Landlords scheme, you’ve nothing to worry about!
We’ve all seen the television news reports and articles in the press about what you might call the social housing carpets controversy… It’s arisen as anti-poverty campaigners call for a change in the social housing practice of tearing up and disposing of carpets and floor coverings each time a new tenant is due to move in. The usual justification for the practice is hygiene – stripping away all floor coverings ensures no infection or infestation can linger to cause problems for the new occupants. Of course, that’s all very well – and given that we’ve recently emerged from a global pandemic that focused everyone’s minds on hygiene, it’s perfectly understandable. On the other hand, though, now that we’re in the grip of an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis, the practice does seem very wasteful. After all, why throw away carpets or other flooring if they’re in a decent condition and can be sanitised with a good old-fashioned deep industrial clean? It’s all very worrying for the individual landlord – but it need not be with our Guaranteed Rent for Landlords scheme.
You might be concerned by the revelation that the practice is leaving huge numbers of tenants without carpet or floor covering in any room except the kitchen and bathroom… But how can a Guaranteed Rent for Landlords scheme make a difference to an issue affecting the entire sector? Landlords are unlikely to be comfortable with the knowledge that because carpets can reduce air leakage by up to a third, stripping them out makes a property more expensive to heat. Even more worrying is the survey quoted on the BBC website, which reports that as many as 1.2 million people in the UK have no carpet or flooring in their kitchen and living areas…
A worry for landlords? Not with our Guaranteed Rent for Landlords scheme!
Of course, most responsible landlords do their best to ensure their tenants live in good conditions – and as an individual landlord with a single property, or perhaps a small portfolio, the legal situation is bound to be a worry. As it stands, UK law says that landlords are only obliged to put flooring in kitchens and bathrooms. And while every conscientious landlord will go further than the bare minimum, it can be hard to know what is and isn’t reasonable. Even more so since groups such as the Campaign to End Furniture Poverty are calling for that law to cover all parts of every property.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have the peace of mind of knowing exactly where you stand? Well, that’s exactly what you get when you sign up for our Guaranteed Rent for Landlords scheme. Just add your property or properties to our pool of well-maintained social housing for rent and we’ll take away all those worries as we take the keys. It really is a win-win situation, whereby you’re helping provide families with much-needed accommodation and easing the national housing shortage AND offloading all the worries and stress that come with being a landlord. You have the peace of mind of knowing every detail of the rental arrangements is fully compliant with the law – even if the law’s demands on the landlord become more rigorous. Better still, you get a fixed-rate rent guaranteed for the full period of your contract, usually up to five years, paid monthly without fail – even when the property’s vacant or when tenants are in arrears! You don’t even have to seek out, select and interview prospective tenants – just leave all that to us, along with repairs, maintenance and inspections. So, all you have to do is sit back and enjoy the security of steady rental income.