UK Landlord Forum / Life

After receiving notice, fired up the open rent advert again.

Cost has risen substantially but it was on the portals in double quick time.

Auto reply with screening questions is turned on, 3 enquiries just hours after it went live. None of them can seemingly be bothered to answer the screening questions. Makes my screening way too easy.

I didn't use any auto-replies last time, I preferred to let interested folk go free-form... that's probably why I ended up with about eighty-six enquiries (I answered each and every one) and did ten viewings.

Time to see if people start horse-trading soon.

Free form so far is;

- Schedule me viewing
- Set me viewing

I just need someone who can make an actual enquiry or tell me about their situation.

I don't think you can call £49 expensive for OpenRent advertising on Rightmove - and they only just re-added them as they were in dispute and were forced to remove Rightmove for a few weeks.

I always set a form on OpenRent which directs people to my own Google Form (free) Tenancy Questionnaire.

It's easy to get 100 down to 5 and then personal preference gets me down to a maximum of 3 for viewings.

ALSO - its important to email OpenRent with what description I WANT to be sent to Rightmove rather than the OpenRent standard text.

Quote from: South-West on August 21, 2024, 08:41:57 AMI don't think you can call £49 expensive for OpenRent advertising on Rightmove - and they only just re-added them as they were in dispute and were forced to remove Rightmove for a few weeks.

I always set a form on OpenRent which directs people to my own Google Form (free) Tenancy Questionnaire.

It's easy to get 100 down to 5 and then personal preference gets me down to a maximum of 3 for viewings.

ALSO - its important to email OpenRent with what description I WANT to be sent to Rightmove rather than the OpenRent standard text.

I didn't say it was expensive, just that the cost had risen substantially, I'm sure it was £29 the last time I used it. Still happy with the opportunities it provides for £49.

Question folks – has anyone/yourselves ever tried/considered and had sucess with an open day?  The advantage being to save having to conduct multiple viewings.

Last re-marketing time, I was with an agent who had scheduled a viewing right after the first.  I hung around a bit on my bike well away, but just close enough to see what would happen...  I decided to ditch the first purely on the basis that a hairdresser likely couldn't afford a Merc like that (ok, it could have been a pressie).

This time around, I'm cutting out the agent middleman, and like the Landlord suggests, going on gut (and running the full length of the day on the basis of fairness).  I reckon anyone who bothers to turn up has passed test one.  Then I'll pick the most likely who answer my Qs, before conducting the referencing.  I [think], once I start mentioning referencing, guarantors etc etc, some of the 'interested' parties will lose interest.  What do you reckon?

Quote from: Chris S on September 15, 2024, 10:13:11 PMI hung around a bit on my bike well away, but just close enough to see what would happen...

PSA: You've become a weirdo.

Are you a MAMIL?

Hey chill, I'm just an ordinary landlord (about 6 in now), trying to keep the place in good shape.  I want to be a good landlord, and have good tenants.  I've priced below the market before for the luxury of good (or so I thought) tenants.

Plus I don't drive anymore for medical reasons, hence the bike.  I figured after previous lettings (I was an accidental landlord), I'd just like to see who turned up, so I hung around for a bit.  As the Landlord said, go with your gut, and there was loads of people who were interested (4 viewings booked in by the agent the day it went live!)

And I've no idea what MAMIL means?

Neither did I. I do now.

Mamil[1] (or MAMIL[2]) is an acronym and a pejorative term for a "middle-aged man in Lycra"[3][4] – that is, men who ride an expensive racing bicycle[1] for leisure, while wearing body-hugging jerseys and bicycle shorts.[2]

The reason I asked is that there is often antipathy between the snake- hipped lycra  (with leather crotch, though I can't vouch for that ) male cyclists and dogs, not to mention their owners. I live right next to a big woodland cycle track so it is a hot topic in my neck of the woods.

We like a bit of banter on here, nothing personal. 

I can only say that the worst most disgusting cleaning I have had to do was down to 2- legged occupants, no pets but young kids in one case.