Tenants Guide

Tenants Guide

Why Let your Property with Sillars?

Why Let your Property with Sillars?

Why Let your Property with Sillars?

Sillars Properties are dedicated to providing an outstanding property lettings service to all of our clients. Our letting services are renowned for producing quality tenancies in the minimal time.

Based in Darlington, we understand the local property lettings market. We know that letting a property can be a battle with time and a legal minefield. Our Tenant Find packages are designed to get you set up with the right tenant whilst still giving you the freedom and control to manage the property yourself if you wish. After all, do you really have time to be doing viewing after viewing?

Stress Free, Proactive Tenant Find Service

Professional Property Details & Photographs

Professional Property Details & Photographs

The key to letting a property is to capture interest from the offset, our professional property marketing is designed to maximise your property’s potential and show it in the best possible light.

Average letting time of just 14 days!

Average letting time of just 14 days!

We understand that time is critical when letting a property and we help you to minimise your void period. On average, we secure tenants within just 14 days of instruction to let!

Millions of online hits from Zoopla and other portals

Millions of online hits from Zoopla and other portals

Ensuring maximum online exposure is also a critical part of the property lettings process. It helps to get your property in front of the widest possible audience. We ensure this by placing your property on both Zoopla along with other portals as well as our own site.

Personal letting agent & distinctive to let board

Personal letting agent & distinctive to let board

Here at Sillars, we like to keep things personal. Upon instruction, you will be assigned a personal letting agent, based on your postcode, who will look after you from start to finish. We also erect a distinctive ‘To Let’ board outside the property.

100% rent protection and legal costs cover

100% rent protection and legal costs cover

Security is paramount, with our legal costs and rent protection cover you can rest easy that you’re covered in the unlikely event things don’t go as planned. *Subject to T&Cs. Additional costs may apply.

 

Extensive tenant referencing via our partners, Goodlord

Extensive tenant referencing via our partners, Goodlord

Rest assured that our tenants are of the best quality and have been vetted fully. We conduct extensive referencing with all tenants, including credit check, landlord reference and income/affordability assessments.

 

Maximum online exposure

Maximum online exposure

Maximising your properties exposure online is crucial to the letting process.

We offer advertising on the property portals, alongside our own website. Between the Rightmove and our website, millions of hits per month are achieved.

Full, comprehensive tenant referencing

Full, comprehensive tenant referencing

Landlords often tell us that the most difficult part of letting residential properties is being able to tell the good tenants from the bad.

That’s why we have teamed up with Goodlord to bring the most comprehensive referencing service available on the market, covering everything from credit checks and income references to landlord references and right to rent checks.

This means you can rest easy, knowing your tenant has been fully vetted.

We've got you covered

We've got you covered

The modern age has made property lettings a legal minefield with extensive legislations in place to comply with.

Our lettings services are designed to ensure you’re fully compliant and protected, whether it be deposit protection, gas safety or tenancy agreements! We’ve got it covered!

Stress Free, Proactive Tenant Find Service

Free Property Consultation

Free Property Consultation

If you have a property to let in Darlington, or another area in County Durham, our Lettings Manager will visit you and give the best advice regarding the marketing of your property.

Property Marketing

Property Marketing

Your property will be advertised on the key portals and our website within 24 hours! The To Let board will also go up!

Viewings

Viewings

We begin matching out to our database and booking as many viewings as possible, before carrying them out .

Over to you or our Managed Lettings Service

Over to you or our Managed Lettings Service

Now your tenants all settled in, its over to you! All documents and monies are sent over!

Tenancy Sign Up

Tenancy Sign Up

We arrange the tenant’s signup and collect deposits etc. The deposit is then either sent to you for protection or protected by our scheme (subject to service type).

 

Prepare Documents

Prepare Documents

Now references are accepted, we begin drawing up your tenancy documents, ready for your tenant to sign.

 

Tenant Find Only

Tenant Find Only

One calendar months rent + VAT subject to min £395 + VAT

Our property management service

Our property management service

As one of Darlington’s leading property management specialists, we specialise solely in residential property and we are fully focused on the priorities and needs of those looking to let. We make letting simple by combining friendly, professional service with competitive fees.