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After your initial viewing of the property, should you decide you wish to rent the property, we will then ask you to pay a holding deposit (normally two week’s rental deposit), in order to reserve the property and we will take the property off the open market. That is, we will immediately stop marketing the property as this has been secured for you pending receipt of your satisfactory references.

The next step will be for you to provide us with references which normally include, bank, previous landlord and employers. It will be your responsibility to provide these references promptly and should these not be satisfactory, we will reserve the right to either demand an additional deposit and rent in advance or decline the tenancy application, with a loss to yourself of the holding deposit.

In addition to the above, we will require a copy of your passport and National Insurance Number. In some instances, if you are students then it may not be possible to obtain work references etc and therefore, we will either require a larger deposit to be held by us or a suitable guarantor to be included on the contract. The requirement for the guarantor will be that they are UK resident and have proof of their home ownership.

We are happy to rent properties for either 6 or 12 months terms on Assured Short hold Tenancy Agreements. The 12 month agreements usually have a one month written notice option, applicable after 6 months has elapsed, for both the landlord and tenants. Prior to moving into the property, we will require one month’s rent in advance together with between one month to up to 6 weeks rental deposit which will be held in accordance with the tenancy deposit protection scheme legislation (see next section 2), being applicable to all such tenancies from 6 April 2007. The deposit will be returned in full at the end of the tenancy, providing the property is left in a clean and tidy state in accordance with the signed inventory or state of the property at the original time of the letting.

Once we are in receipt of and satisfied that the references are satisfactory, we will ask you to attend the office to sign the pay the remaining funds required at move in time, the tenancy agreement and collect the keys.

Depending on the type of property you have selected to rent, you will be liable for all utility bills and council tax, unless you have been advised to the contrary. That is some of our properties are inclusive of for example of water or council tax and even also gas or electricity on some occasions. If you have a particular preference, please check for such properties availability at the outset of your search.

Anthoy’s Property, at all times pride themselves on providing the best service, through well trained staff, who will have been chosen for their excellent interpersonal skills and the proof of this is with the many recommendations and other feedback that we have from many hundreds of satisfied tenants. Should you wish to renew your tenancy agreement after 6 or 12 months, then providing the terms of the tenancy have been complied with in full, we will be only too delighted to renew your tenancy or alternatively, to offer you a larger property should this be your requirement.

2. Tenancy Deposit Protection Tenancy Deposit Protection (TDP) adds to measures, set out in the Housing Act 2004, to raise standards in the private rented sector. Those measures include licensing multiple occupancy homes and new safety rules. TDP applies to all assured shorthold tenancies (ASTs) in England and Wales, where a deposit is taken. Virtually all new contracts to let a property are ASTs. TDP started on 6 April 2007 and applies to all new ASTs from that date.

There are two main aims:
1. To ensure good practice in deposit handling, so that when a tenant pays a deposit, and is entitled to get it back, he or she can be assured that this will happen.
2. To assist with the resolution of disputes by having an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) service. It will also encourage tenants and landlords to agree - at the start of the tenancy - the condition and contents of the property.

Tenancy Deposit Protection in summary
Landlords and agents are required to protect their tenants' deposits under a statutory tenancy deposit scheme.

This means that deposits are safeguarded.

If tenants have kept the property in good condition and paid the rent, and made sure that any other charges due under the tenancy are up to date, they will be able to get their deposit back.

The schemes offer a free service to assist in resolving disputes.