UK Landlord Forum / Life

I was just reading some stuff on this, to help me with a clarification question on another thread, and I noted (which I didn't know before) that we, as Landlords, can charge other Landlords and Agents a fee for providing references for our ex-Tenants... how interesting is that?

The guidance I was reading is aimed at Landlords who want to charge fees to Tenants... no! Of course it's "no!" but I then read - "You can ask a tenant to supply a reference from a former landlord or agent, but the previous landlord or agent cannot charge the tenant for this. If you request a reference directly from a tenant's previous landlord or agent, and they want to charge for doing this, you will have to negotiate this with the previous landlord or agent directly and pay any associated costs if required." - I doubt many Landlords know about this, and I wonder what happens with Referencing Agencies who you've employed to do this task, for a fixed fee, if they run into that scenario, I bet they just say it was "unavailable".