 Re: Property inspections
Property inspections are one of the most costly elements of property management, so to make them a bit more efficient, it is normal that agencies will block book inspections in the same locality to reduce travel time.
You are legally entitled not to allow access if that is your wish - however in this case, the agent will have to deal with your inspection specially and will want to pass on the additional staffing cost of doing this. You may well find that if the agent has already covered themselves and you will have signed somewhere to accept a charge when doing a special inspection at your convenience. For example, in our town it will quite often take a 20 minute journey each way from the agents office to quite a number of properties. Thus if you add in the actual time for the inspection it will have cost the office an hour just for the one if specially arranged.
When doing block-booked inspections, our agency will arrange between 5 and 10 inspections at a time and will give around a weeks notice of this. For the odd tenant that wished a special visit there is a set charge listed in the inspection letter that refers back to the terms of business signed before taking the tenancy. The set charges are £23.50 for a weekday inspection, and £35.25 for a Saturday.
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