I am not sure if i am on the correct discussion category here, but I am in the process of renting my house and applicants are currently viewing. I am torn between two applicants - one on Dss failed referencing because of incomplete information, the other has higher declared income although hadn’t been referenced, he requested to build a shade in the garden for themselves since the renting does not include the garage. He promised to restore the garden to original state at the end of the tenancy. If i agree and include a clause in their tenancy to this effect, I don’t know what this might mean and where it might lead to. Any ideas and advice appreciated.
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Reference the 2nd… “shade” must be under a certain height, check with local authority
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Colin3 thanks, I’ll reference the 2nd. I suppose if i gree to the building of the shade it will have to be specified, and they sign that it will be in their own liability.
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they may mean to buy a portable one>? Cannot see a shade being put up with the weather at present?
Avoid both.
From past experience, I took on an academic, with glowing references and a pram full of cash, around the time of the 2012 London Olympics, for my Homerton house.
A little later, she asked to erect a large, £2K shed, in the end of my long garden, to “house books”.
Then I noticed different people living in the house, with her child and husband.
Fortunately she became pregnant, again and decided to move out, to Walthamstow, being cheaper, so never got around to building the shed.
A few years later, I Googled the address and she was still using it, for her and her academic husband’s business, with a unit in Bethnal Green, offering pole dancing classes and a breakfast respite for “working” girls, eg who had taken part in her EU funded survey, on what it was like being a prostitoot, during the London Olympics!! Lol
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Thank you Oriel for sharing. Wow, there’s always something and it’s like a maze trying to find a tenant, deciding what is tolerable and what is a no, no. It’s like finding a perfect tenant means not finding one at all.
Ann.
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