Tenancy process and documents in England
If you are wishing to rent a residential property in England, most probably you are going to do this through a professional letting (rental) agency.You need to first decide the area that you would like to live in and how much money you can afford to spend on a rental property.The next natural step is to register with the letting agencies. Especially the ones, such as Appleton Estates, with a website that allows you register online will save you a lot of time and effort. Following this, you will be viewing alternative properties.Once you have finally decided to go ahead and rent the one of the properties, most residential letting agents will then require the applicants wishing to take up a Tenancy to complete a confidential application form to provide personal and financial details. It is essential that you have all the information and supporting documents with you when completing the form. In most cases you will need: * The full address of your current property including the postcode. * A contact name, address and telephone number of your current letting agent or Landlord (if applicable). * If you have lived at your current address for less than three years, a list of all addresses for the last three years with postcodes and dates of occupation are likely to be asked for as well. * Added to these, he full company name, the address and the postcode of your employer (or accountant if you are self employed) along with a contact name, telephone/fax number as well as an email address. * Your bank details including the account number and sort code.After you have completed application form, it will be forwarded to an independent credit rating agency for grading by the letting agency. The credit rating agencies tend to provide a response within 3 to 4 working days.It must be noted that it is a usual practice for the letting agent to charge you for credit referencing and sometimes this amount will also include the VAT amount as well. I should stress that the charge will be per applicant. In other words, if there are multiple people sharing the property, they will all be subject to the credit referencing. Should the Tenancy not proceed after references have been checked, the charge tends to be NON-REFUNDABLE.Note that if your credit rating does not satisfy the required criteria your might be asked for a guarantor, who does meet the criteria.Your options are very limited for renting a property directly from the landlord without the letting agents but you might still be able to this. Even when there are no letting agencies involved, the landlords might go through a similar type of vetting process as well.
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