Hi, I listed my room to rent on OpenRent and SpareRoom at the end of April but I have had very few enquires.- just two viewings so far. I think the room is suitably priced and I’ve tried my best to take nice pictures, am not sure really what more I could do. Would really appreciate any help or advice!
Here are the links to my listings:
Get some local agents round to value?
Add to rightmove?
Drop to 500 so in next search band down?
check if there are any online student fora you can try or try local student union to post for you?
@David122 may be able to advise but I dont.think advertising saying ‘females only’ is necessarily legal unless you or a relative living there too with shared areas
See eg
Shelter page
Good luck
exterior: front: paint the fence, weed the gravel, trim the hedge/bush, move the bins when you take the photo,
exterior: rear: your description says “beautiful garden” but fence panels missing, a goal and patchy lawn don’t appeal to me, pressure wash the masonry, weed around it, get fencing sorted
interior: clean the grout in the bathroom and replace sealant, make up the bed before photo in bedroom, I would have painted the bedroom a neutral colour - it’s a very specific colour which will put some people off
Don’t take this the wrong way but I think the place looks tired and shabby for £550 pcm.
Thank you very much! I will drop to £500 and try to advertise more widely. I am living in the house, just trying to rent out a spare room 
Thank you for the advice! Yeah, the fence panels were missing when I bought the place, I do want to do the house / garden up but I’m 26 and had to scrape together every penny I had for the deposit as I bought on my own. I will try to sort the changes you mentioned over the new few months - fingers crossed once they are sorted and I update photos I might get some more interest.
every LL on here has been there… good for you… one step at a time and you’ll be fine
Edited to add: if this is your first let, I would highly recommend you join a LL association (search online for one) and do some training. Lots of things can go wrong…
If I were you I suggest you select: prefer a non-smoker unless you really do like to smoke in your own home. Finding that someone likes to smoke weed in their bedroom or your kitchen and lounge is not nice unless you like weed too? They can smoke outside or down the road if they wish just not under your roof.
Suggest you reference the potential tenant through Open rent or similar, you can take a view on the results and ask questions, it does not preclude accepting them if you get on otherwise. Worst case you dont want an embeziler, fraudster or fekkless with other peoples money type person do you ? you also need to know that they work, can pay the rent and their details check out truthfully.
You want many interesting enquirers to view your place and to give you a choice of candidate so find the sweet spot on price with local comparables and pitch just under it.
You have worked hard with grit and determination to get yourself on the property ladder, dont spoil it by being casual with who moves in.
Good Luck.
Depends on the locality and comparables.
Agree get agents in to value for rental level.
When reading this I became confused. Is the ‘new girl’ getting her own room or is she sharing with another? It says Student friendly but are you all employed or Students. Kind of matters if you are looking. Do any of you smoke? How often do you pet sit? Show a pic of the room first not the house first. How far to walk to bus stop and is it no transport changes into town? Then …Is it a transport route that goes to any hospital or large employer.