I did a quick search with the title in the search field, but nothing came up.

Basically wondering where the best place is to advertise for single let tennants ?

Thanks

Al

What I meant was. do I have to do this through say the local paper, or can sites such as gumtreee or others be used ?

thanks
Al

Gumtree.com can be used to advertise whole dwellings or individual rooms.

You could also use a lettings agent for tenant find only and they would advertise your properties on all the major portals.

Alternatively, OpenRent and Upad also advertise a property for let on most of the major portals.

If you are looking for DSS/LHA tenants, then you could use DSSMove, the portal that "says YES! to DSS!".

Thanks for bringing Ali's question to our attention Vanessa!

At OpenRent we find you high quality tenants by advertising your property on all the major portals (Rightmove, Zoopla, FindaProperty, etc) for free on your first listing! Thereafter we charge just £20 per property.

Beyond that we have an incredibly efficient and secure process to take care of referencing, contracts, deposit registration and more - which is entirely optional and available for no charge should you need it.

You can find out more about what we offer via our info page for landlords - and feel free to drop me an email if you have any questions - adam@openrent.co.uk

Adam

Thanks very much........... will contact you Adam

Al

If you get your property on Zoopla via OpenRent you should have a few en-queries within a few days. The best way to market a property is and will remain a "To Let" sign outside the property, have to vet the tenants a bit more (in my opinion) but... worth it.

(20-10-2012 06:45 PM)Adam Hosker Wrote:  If you get your property on Zoopla via OpenRent you should have a few en-queries within a few days. The best way to market a property is and will remain a "To Let" sign outside the property, have to vet the tenants a bit more (in my opinion) but... worth it.

I feel the opposite. Whenever I see a To Let sign these days I feel the agent is struggling to let a property by paper ads or via right move etc . Of course some just use it more as a free marketing tool for their business rather than a means to market the actual property. Very quick to put it up and very slow to take it down. Cant blame them I guess as it gives them good exposure on a busy road. I would do the same maybe in their position.

(20-10-2012 03:32 PM)adam_hyslop Wrote:  Thanks for bringing Ali's question to our attention Vanessa!

At OpenRent we find you high quality tenants by advertising your property on all the major portals (Rightmove, Zoopla, FindaProperty, etc) for free on your first listing! Thereafter we charge just £20 per property.

Beyond that we have an incredibly efficient and secure process to take care of referencing, contracts, deposit registration and more - which is entirely optional and available for no charge should you need it.

You can find out more about what we offer via our info page for landlords - and feel free to drop me an email if you have any questions - adam@openrent.co.uk

Adam

I take it the landlord carrys out the viewings yes?

Hi Wayne,

That's right - we handle all enquiries then send you a text and an email every time a tenant is interested in viewing your property. You'll then have their details and availability so are free to contact and meet the ones you like and show them around.

Adam

Hi Ali,

And hi anyone else on here - not been on for ages!!

I would imagine the best place to advertise for tenants varies greatly per area.

I have 2 properties and I just helped my parents do up and rent out another one. All of these are in London.

One is rented as individual rooms and I have ALWAYS rented them on gumtree.

In about 4 years I have NEVER had an empty room even for a day and I have never had an English tenant either, haha, which really doesn't matter to me at all, I love having tenants from awesome places like Brazil, Mexico, China, etc - just as a point of interest.

I did try Loot with a crap response, and spare rooms, that also wasn't worth it for me - gumtree for individual rooms in London, totally rocks for me - not sure about other areas though... would imagine it would be fine too...

Interestingly the one for my parents, it was a 2 bed so we never intended renting it as rooms as better returns to do it on an AST, I did put it on Gumtree and because we did it up really nice I got about 5% of real tenants and 95% agencies calling me telling us they could get us great rents and had bundles of tenants.

I would never have used a letting agency but honestly, I was SO impressed with what all these guys did - I pity being a letting agent in London, really - soooo competitive - (or a tenant, SO many more tenants than there are nice flats!)

Before the property was even finished being done up, we had AT LEAST 50 tenants round to view the property, AT LEAST 5 offers - even 6 months rent upfront - and the rent we ended up getting was a lot higher than we had thought, (and we didn't just take the highest offer we picked people my folks liked!) -

Amazing, which more than covers the agency fee... the ones round from gumtree in this occasion to rent the whole flat were flaky and looking for a deal - the ones from the agency were working professionals looking for a nice place and prepared to pay for it - we just renewed our tenancy agreement with them for another year.

Sorry my experience doesn't cover anything more than London - hope this helps :-)