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I carry out mid term tenancy inspections for letting agents. I don't really mind doing them as usually the tenants are polite, they expect me and the inspection only takes 10-15 minutes. It's just a case of going into a property and taking a few pics and taking note of housekeeping standards and anything that's broken or gone wrong. I usually say to the tenant, "this is a good chance for you to report anything that's gone wrong", leaving me to just take a few pics and type up a report on the things they tell me and the things I notice.
Yesterday I was sent to a property in Rednall, Birmingham. It was a block of flats. The agent told me a few things to look out for as they'd had complaints from the neighbour and wanted to evict them. He told me not to mention what I was looking for to the tenant, but they involved, smoking cannabis at the property, having a dog, having refurbished the kitchen, poor housekeeping, and an extra girl living at the property.
I rang the intercom and was let in, walked up the stairs and heard the tenant shoeing a dog into a room. When I went in he told me his mate was ill in one of the bedrooms and he didn't want me to go in. I rang the agent and let them know and was told I had to go in anyway. The tenant reluctantly agreed and inside was said dog (it was obvious he had one from the dog bowls and leads littered around everywhere), and also a pile of ripped off cigarette butts and rizla packets on the carpet, indicating cannabs use. The whole property was a state and he had refurbed the kitchen. In the bathroom was girls toiletries indicating there was a girl living there.
So as I'm taking photo's the tenant starts asking me if he's going to get evicted. I didn't want to tell him he was and told him it was just a check on keeping of the property and a chance for any issues to be resolved, but having spoke to the agent afterwards he's going to get evicted.
Now I have just been asked by another agent to do 11 mid term inspections in the Coventry area, they sent me a list of properties and asked me to call the tenants to book them in at my leisure. It's a bit far for me to go as it is, so I've emailed them back asking if they could book them in as I'm not used to doing it that way and don't want to have to spend a few hours calling the tenants to arrange in my calendar. Seems like if I accept to do them, which I have, I'm going to be back and forwards doing these mid term inspections for the next week or so.
The worst time I've had to do mid term inspections was for an agent in Leamington. Usually the tenant is in, and is expecting me as they have been called and confirmed the appointment. This agent just sent an email and gave me a big bunch of sets of management keys and told me to go in. So I was going into properties without knowing if the tenants was a) in or b) expecting me. It turned out, out of about 30 properties, only one tenant was in and she wasn't expecting me, was perturbed that I had keys. Other properties had the odd pet dog inside including a couple of staffies in one house that just lay in bed as I looked around.
I love my job and it gives me a few things to talk about, but booking in my own appointments is one thing I don't really want to do.
Yesterday I was sent to a property in Rednall, Birmingham. It was a block of flats. The agent told me a few things to look out for as they'd had complaints from the neighbour and wanted to evict them. He told me not to mention what I was looking for to the tenant, but they involved, smoking cannabis at the property, having a dog, having refurbished the kitchen, poor housekeeping, and an extra girl living at the property.
I rang the intercom and was let in, walked up the stairs and heard the tenant shoeing a dog into a room. When I went in he told me his mate was ill in one of the bedrooms and he didn't want me to go in. I rang the agent and let them know and was told I had to go in anyway. The tenant reluctantly agreed and inside was said dog (it was obvious he had one from the dog bowls and leads littered around everywhere), and also a pile of ripped off cigarette butts and rizla packets on the carpet, indicating cannabs use. The whole property was a state and he had refurbed the kitchen. In the bathroom was girls toiletries indicating there was a girl living there.
So as I'm taking photo's the tenant starts asking me if he's going to get evicted. I didn't want to tell him he was and told him it was just a check on keeping of the property and a chance for any issues to be resolved, but having spoke to the agent afterwards he's going to get evicted.
Now I have just been asked by another agent to do 11 mid term inspections in the Coventry area, they sent me a list of properties and asked me to call the tenants to book them in at my leisure. It's a bit far for me to go as it is, so I've emailed them back asking if they could book them in as I'm not used to doing it that way and don't want to have to spend a few hours calling the tenants to arrange in my calendar. Seems like if I accept to do them, which I have, I'm going to be back and forwards doing these mid term inspections for the next week or so.
The worst time I've had to do mid term inspections was for an agent in Leamington. Usually the tenant is in, and is expecting me as they have been called and confirmed the appointment. This agent just sent an email and gave me a big bunch of sets of management keys and told me to go in. So I was going into properties without knowing if the tenants was a) in or b) expecting me. It turned out, out of about 30 properties, only one tenant was in and she wasn't expecting me, was perturbed that I had keys. Other properties had the odd pet dog inside including a couple of staffies in one house that just lay in bed as I looked around.
I love my job and it gives me a few things to talk about, but booking in my own appointments is one thing I don't really want to do.