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If you
are a prospective tenant looking for a rental
home in Gisborne we invite you to register your
name and particulars with us by completing the
on-line registration form on this site.
We
wish to make it clear however that by accepting
your registration Home Rental Services is not
entering into any sort of contractual
relationship with you to find you a rental home.
Our obligations as a provider of Property
Management services are to our homeowner clients
(our Principals) with whom we enter into a
written agency contract to perform certain tasks
on their behalf, one of which is to find
suitable tenants for their properties (a ‘tenant
finding’ service).
In
order to fulfill these ‘tenant finding’
obligations we have established a ‘Prospective
Tenants List’ and all the tenancies that we
arrange are selected from this list.
LETTING FEE
As of
November 2009 we no longer charge tenants a
letting fee. This is now payable to us by the
property owners.
REGISTRATION AND INTERVIEW
In
order to join our ‘Prospective Tenants List’
simply complete the relevant form either at our
office or by using the
‘on-line’ registration
form on this website. Once we have received the
registration we will then make arrangements with
you for an interview. This may be done at our
office or if you live out of town via the
telephone. At this interview you will be asked
to supply or forward a valid (preferably
photographic) ID and any written rental or
workplace references that you may possess. We
will enquire about your circumstances, your
reason for leaving your current address, where
you have been living for the last two years, who
will be living with you and we’ll also cover
such topics as ownership of pets and smoking
habits.
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REFERENCE CHECKS
Following the interview we will make further
enquiries about you by contacting your previous
landlord(s); conducting credit (Veda) and/or
employer checks and any other reference checks
that we deem necessary. You need to be aware
that the more information that you can supply us
in respect of past tenancies and landlord
contacts the more likely you are to be
considered for one of our properties. Our
assessment of merit is to a large degree based
on this information.
QUOTING THE PROPERTY
When a
property becomes available for letting we will
search the Prospective Tenant List and contact
those tenants whom we consider may be suitable
as tenants (on merit) and ask them in the first
instance to do a drive by. If they then express
an interest in the property we will make
arrangements to show them through.
SELECTION
The
final selection of tenant is very often done in
consultation with the property owner and is
based entirely upon merit. In order to make this
merit judgement we review the information gained
from the registration form, the interview, the
tenancy and workplace references and the credit
checks and apply it to various criterion of
which the ability to pay rent regularly and on
time and the ability to look after and care for
the rental property are paramount.
We
should make it clear that we will not accept any
instruction from homeowners that may contravene
the Human Rights Act or any other enactment that
could compromise the health, safety or wellbeing
of future tenants.
UPDATING THE LIST
Updating our list is a daily activity with new
registrations being added and older
registrations being deleted. Prospects are
normally kept on our list for a period of
between four and six weeks.
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