Renting: Landlord or Agent? Who do you prefer to rent with?

In my experience so far in London, LL's only use agencies to find tenants, they take care of advertising / referencing etc also. However you still have to deal with the crap from agents, and there fee's.

LL's then either deal with the contracts etc personally or hire a solicitor to cover the legal side for them.
 
hood1971 said:
Best service I have had is from the Richard Worth Agency. All issues resolved quickly and efficiently including them forcing the owner to redo the garden as it wasn't low maintenance as described. Their inspection when I moved in was extremely thorough, noticing things I missed and when I left common sense was used in the exit inspection. Would not hesitate to use them again.

Romans on the other hand were horrible - they even entered my property without asking and left the door unlocked after a viewing.

As per earlier post you get good agencies and bad landlords and vice versa
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well, agencys can come in un-announced if it says in the contract somewhere, i know my landord can
 
I'm a landlord, and used to have an agency sort it out, nothing but a nightmare for both the tenant and myself! Got rid of the agency, kept the tenant, told her "Treat it like it's your own home, paint & decorate but just bring everything back to normal" 6 yrs later still have the same tenant :)
So landlord :D
 
being both landlord and agent here for oodles of houses, landlord everytime. Agencys should be licensed.
Best place to find LL owned houses of decent standard is on your loacl councils website under Houses, really , there is a page for the registered privateers, but you have to be reg and Decent Homes. Otherwise, thursday first thing local paper comes out, small LL's advertise in local property paper.
good luck
mrs herbs
 
BENJAMIN HERBLE said:
being both landlord and agent here for oodles of houses, landlord everytime. Agencys should be licensed.
Best place to find LL owned houses of decent standard is on your loacl councils website under Houses, really , there is a page for the registered privateers, but you have to be reg and Decent Homes. Otherwise, thursday first thing local paper comes out, small LL's advertise in local property paper.
good luck
mrs herbs
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Thank you :)

I looked on our local advertise paper site, but it just seemed to just list all the Agencys propertys sadly
 
$loth said:
Aside from student halls i've dealt with one agency and one landlord (where I currently live).
The agency were completely incompetant, take ages to sort out maintenance and charge you for agency fees. So upfront I had to pay £300 first months rent, £300 deposit, and £75 fees for a house which didn't feel like a home, you could describe it as a box with furniture in.
The place where I currently live is through a landlord, the only problem I've had is that there's been quite a few visits in the last couple of weeks by architects as the loft is being converted. Aside from that the house is maintained very well and the house itself is really nice, you wouldn't look at it and label it a 'student house'. It's a bit more per month (£320 each) but we didn't have to pay fees.
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I'm in Bournemouth and I'm paying £325 a month. Definitely worth the little extra IMO. My mates are on Hankinson road and paying a fair bit less and they've had a bit of trouble. One of them knows the landlord so it all got fixed pretty quickly.
 
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