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Guide to Renting in Cheltenham

Isherwoods is one of Cheltenham’s leading letting agents with quality houses and flats to rent in central Cheltenham and surrounding Cotswold villages. We are members of the Association of Residential Lettings Agents (ARLA) which is your guarantee that you will be treated professionally and fairly!

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How do I rent in Cheltenham?

If you would like information on suitable properties or would like to discuss your requirements please contact us.

Register with isherwoods

You can register in two ways either by giving us your requirements and letting us match you to our properties or by searching and viewing our apartments and houses for rent in Cheltenham online and registering interest in particular properties.

Don’t forget that you can view flats and houses to let in Cheltenham in detail with multiple photographs and maps showing locations. You can also get details of neighbourhood facilities including local schools. It is important that you tell us as much as possible about your budget and the type of property required - this avoids wasting time viewing unsuitable properties.

New properties – the market for houses and apartments to rent in Cheltenham is fast moving and email/text alerts can be useful to pick up details of new properties.

Viewings

The next stage is to arrange viewings. Viewings of our houses and flats to rent in Cheltenham are always accompanied and we prefer to meet you at the property if possible.

Viewings can be arranged for any weekday (subject to any restrictions from landlords or sitting tenants) and outside of normal office hours (9 am – 5.30 pm Mon-Fri) if a daytime viewing is not possible. Viewings can also be arranged on Saturdays. Please bear in mind that properties can be viewed much more successfully in daylight.

Securing a property/administration fee

Quality flats, apartments and houses to rent in Cheltenham do not stay on the market for long before they are snapped up. If you identify a suitable property then we advise that you move quickly to secure the let. To secure a property we will require some detail from you relating to your financial circumstances and the payment of an administration fee to cover our tenant referencing, administration and documentation costs – this is returnable if the landlord pulls out of the let. If the terms are agreed and the fee paid, the property will then be off the market.

References

All prospective joint tenants will complete a reference form. We require information related to your employment/income and you will authorise us to carry out a credit check. Information about previous tenancies will also be required.

Signing the Tenancy Agreement (Sign-Up)

When the references are complete, we will draft the Tenancy Agreement and both parties will sign.

Rent and Deposit

Both the first month’s rent and security deposit will be payable at the same time that the Tenancy Agreement is signed. The amount of deposit will have been notified to you when the let is negotiated. Ongoing rent payments should be made by standing order.

Inventory/Schedule of Condition

This important document provides a snapshot of the condition, contents and cleanliness of the property at the commencement of the tenancy. We expect the property to be returned in the same condition at the end of the tenancy with the exception that ‘fair wear and tear’ will have occurred. You will have the opportunity to make comment on the Inventory/Schedule of Condition at the commencement of the tenancy and when the document is agreed both parties will sign.

During the Tenancy

We will inform you at sign-up as to who you should contact if you have a property maintenance or other problem during the tenancy. If we are providing a property management service to the landlord then you will contact our office during working hours and we will provide an ‘out of hours’ number for genuine emergencies. If we are managing the property we will carry out periodic property inspection visits and these will be arranged with prior notice at a time which is convenient for you.

Ending the Tenancy

If you have signed up for a fixed-term tenancy, you cannot end the tenancy until the end of the tenancy period unless there is a break clause. If you wish to stay beyond the end of the fixed-term and the landlord has not served notice to end the tenancy, the tenancy will ‘roll’ as a monthly tenancy. To end this tenancy you will need to serve one month’s notice expiring at the end of a tenancy period. The landlord can end the tenancy but (in the case of Assured Shorthold Tenancies) needs to give you two months’ notice. Please contact us if you would like more detail.

Check-Out

When you have vacated the property we will complete a check-out inspection against the Inventory/Schedule of Condition to assess whether the property has been returned in a satisfactory condition. Deductions can be made from deposit monies at the end of the tenancy for damage to the property which does not constitute ‘fair wear and tear’ or for general cleaning and/or carpet/upholstery cleaning if the property is not returned in good clean condition. We will make every effort to act fairly in respect of deposit monies and to return the deposit as quickly as possible.

Deposit Protection

Isherwoods holds deposit monies under the government’s Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) which provides protection for tenants against unjustified deposit deductions.