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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.
What to do when a tenant won't give access for a Gas Safety Check
A tenant who won't answer the door doesn't make the legal requirement go away. It just moves the risk from a scheduling problem to a documented right of entry.
Migrating a portfolio's compliance records into new software
The software itself is rarely the hard part of a switch. Getting years of scattered certificates, dates and tenancy files into it cleanly is where the real effort goes.
What a property inspection report actually needs to record
A good inspection report isn't the longest one. It's the one that's specific enough for someone who wasn't there to understand exactly what was found and act on it.
What a tenancy file audit should actually check
Most tenancy files look complete at a glance. A proper audit checks for the things that only turn out to matter once a tenancy is already in dispute.
EPC ratings and the minimum standard for a rented property
An Energy Performance Certificate is easy to treat as a box-ticking exercise until the rating itself becomes the compliance issue, not just the paperwork behind it.
What a property compliance platform should include out of the box
It's easy for a compliance platform to become a features list that reads well and covers half of what a letting agent actually does day to day. Here's what shouldn't be an add-on.
Managing repairs across a portfolio with different landlords
Every landlord has their own tolerance for spend, their own preferred contractors, and their own idea of what counts as urgent. A repair workflow has to hold all of that at once.
Prescribed information: the deposit protection paperwork that's easy to get wrong
Protecting a deposit is the part everyone remembers. The prescribed information that has to go with it is longer, more detailed, and where most gaps actually turn up.