It is a golden rule that before a house is offered for letting, everything in and about it must be in good decorative and working order. It is the landlord's responsibility to maintain the property, its contents and equipment in good order. Even relatively 'young' properties will require minor repairs and those let on a longer term basis will periodically need redecoration and replacement or repair of their fixtures and fittings. Central heating systems and appliances will need annual servicing and inspection, irrespective of age. We offer a full professional cleaning service to our landlords and recommend that you have the property fully cleaned when the property is first let. This allows us to attract the best tenants, achieve the best rent and to require the tenants to have the property professionally cleaned at the end of tenancy. Although it is an additional expense it pays for itself many times over.
In the past landlords could sometimes be tardy with repairs. Today your tenants will be paying a high rent and they expect the property to be in good working order. Timely preventative maintenance is essential and we deal with this as required and will make recommendations when it is required following our inspections. When breakdowns occur however the tenants expect prompt remedial action and this is not unreasonable.
easylet.com provides a full maintenance and repair service via Oculus facilities maintenance, twenty-four hours a day, 365 days each year. We deal with the complete spectrum of repairs and maintenance at unsocial hours if required.
The use of our maintenance service is not however mandatory. Owned by us and under our control, it does away with the problems of using a multiplicity of local contractors, where experience has shown that quality, price and priority varied widely. Where a landlord prefers to specify the use of his own proven contractors we are quite happy to work with them to carry out necessary maintenance. easylet.com provide a twenty four hour emergency service that has proved its worth on several occasions where expensive damage would have been caused had a maintenance and repair facility not been immediately available outside normal working hours.
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