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Guidance for people running property portfolios
Practical writing on gas safety, electrical testing and tenancy compliance, from the team building PropertyOptix.
A seasonal maintenance checklist for managed properties
Some maintenance problems are entirely predictable by season. The properties that avoid them tend to be the ones that checked before the weather made the decision for them.
Read the article →What to check before instructing a gas or electrical contractor
A Gas Safe card or an electrician's business card both look reassuring. Neither tells you everything worth checking before they're let loose on a tenanted property.
What to actually test in a property compliance software demo
A guided demo is designed to show a system at its best. Here's how to steer it toward showing you what a genuinely busy Tuesday would actually look like.
Reporting portfolio compliance to landlords without a spreadsheet marathon
Landlords reasonably want to know their properties are compliant. Producing that answer shouldn't mean rebuilding a report from scratch every time someone asks.
Right to Rent follow-up checks: who needs one and when
Not every Right to Rent check is a one-off. Time-limited statuses need a second look later in the tenancy, on a date that has nothing to do with the tenancy agreement itself.
Tracking Gas Safety, EICR and EPC expiry across a multi-property portfolio
Three certificates, three independent clocks, on every property. Here's why the spreadsheet that worked at ten properties usually stops working well before a hundred.
Compliance software vs all-in-one property management platforms
An all-in-one platform promises to cover everything from marketing to accounting to compliance. Whether that's an advantage or a compromise depends on what actually matters most to you.
Building an out-of-hours emergency repair process that actually works
A boiler failing on a Friday evening doesn't wait for Monday morning. An out-of-hours process only works if it's been tested before the emergency, not during it.
Renewing a tenancy: the compliance checklist behind the paperwork
A renewal can feel like the easy part of a tenancy — the tenant's known, the property's known. It's also an easy point to let compliance quietly roll over unchecked.