✦Property · 17 recordsRent out your house

Renting out a home is a business with legal duties from the first day, and most new landlords find that out one letter at a time. This checks mortgage consent, insurance, tax and local rules before advertising, prepares the property and the safety checks, chooses a tenant carefully, and records the condition at move-in so the deposit is never an argument.

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Goal

The house let to a good tenant, legally and properly Month 3

Rules first, property ready, tenant screened, condition recorded.

Rules and permissions Week 3

Before advertising, because some of these take weeks.

  • Ask the mortgage lender for consent to letDo firstDay 3
  • Check the local rules: licences, safety checks, depositsDo firstDay 7
  • Get landlord insurance quotesDo firstWeek 2
  • Find out how my rental income will be taxedWeek 3

Get the property ready Week 6

Safe, clean and documented.

  • Book the required safety checksDo firstWeek 4
  • Fix anything a tenant would report in the first monthWeek 5
  • Set the rent against similar local listingsDo firstWeek 6

Find and move in a tenant Month 3

Screened carefully and recorded properly.

  • Advertise, or choose a letting agentDo firstWeek 6
  • Check references, income and identityDo firstWeek 8
  • Sign the tenancy agreement and take the deposit properlyDo firstMonth 2
  • Do the move-in inventory with dated photographsDo firstMonth 2

Routines

  • Rental admin: rent received, messages, repairsweekly
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Move-in inventory

Every room: walls, floors, windows, fittings, appliances Dated photographs of each, with close-ups of any existing marks Meter readings Keys handed over, and how many Smoke and carbon monoxide alarms tested

Both sides sign it. The same check at move-out, against this record, is what settles the deposit.

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Rent out your house, answered.

Permission from your mortgage lender if you have one, landlord insurance, an understanding of the tax on rental income, and whatever licences, safety certificates and deposit rules apply where you live. The rules vary a lot by country and city, which is why they are the first project.
An agent costs a share of the rent and handles advertising, checks, repairs and legal changes. Managing it yourself saves the fee and takes real time, and suits a landlord who lives nearby and is organised about paperwork.
A detailed inventory with dated photographs of every room at move-in, signed by the tenant, and the same check at move-out. Without that record, disagreements about damage come down to memory.
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