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 To celebrate the 101st International Women's Day this year, Caroline Kempster, a director of The Letting People, and a member of a local business women's network (NOAW), took part in an activity to create the vision of the boardroom of the future. When we came across the old visions of the boardroom (see our next news article)  it made us all chuckle – that's why Caroline took part in a photo that switches the balance and shows that the all-female boardroom  is not as scary as we might imagine!  By creating this picture it has been possible to make a statement to the world that role models are an important aspect in encouraging more women into positions of influence.

The Letting People are delighted to be sponsoring the Dazzling Diamond Anniversary Summer Ball for Cancer Research UK to be held at the prestigious Gaydon Heritage Motor Centre on 15th June 2012. The Leamington and Warwick Committee for Cancer Research UK is celebrating 60 years of fundraising this year – so it’s not just the Queen who gets to celebrate 60 fruitful years this month!

All the profits from the ball will go to Cancer Research UK – the world’s leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through cancer research.  The ground breaking work into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer has seen survival rates double in the last 40 years – BUT – more than one in three of us will still get cancer at some point in our lives.
 

Our January and February monthly prize draw winners – both Warwick landlords – have now received their prizes, and The Letting People were delighted to present Mrs V with her prize in person . Each month a current or new landlord can be entered into our draw to win 52 entries in the Myton Hospices weekly lottery – with lots of weekly prizes up to £1500 and the chance of winning £5000 in the quarterly jackpot too. We wish both landlords the very best of luck and hope that their weekly entries will bring them one of the larger prizes also!

If you are a landlord in Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth or the surrounds and would like to enter the next monthly prize draw, just contact The Letting People for a marketing appraisal of your property. 
 

This year The Letting People have been delighted to celebrate over 10 successful years in business, thanks to the continued support of both their new and long-term property investors and landlords.

What a year 2012 has been!  Everyone will probably always look back in wonder at the incredible feats of the Olympics, and be motivated by the return of pride in British achievements.  The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations were also a huge success.  And, 2012 also saw the phenomenal growth in the demand for rented property which has meant that The Letting People have celebrated their busiest year to date!

Congratulations to all winning landlords!  Each month The Letting People have been delighted to help Myton Hospice and to thank a lucky landlord in the free prize draw to win 52 entries in the Myton Hospices weekly lottery.  As long as you are a landlord with The Letting People you could be in with a chance to win up to £5000 with the monthly draw!

The new franchise investment opportunity!   The Letting People are looking to share their winning formula with like-minded people with an interest in the property business who want to open the next The Letting People branch. The fully developed business model ensures that each new franchise branch will be profitable quickly.  Benefits include a memorable brand name, tried and tested new technologically, specialised training, an advanced website, and low start-up costs for quicker profitability.  Is this for you?…or for someone you know?  Just contact The Letting People for further details.

Did you know that you can always ask The Letting People for property business advice such as:

*Residential buy-to-let property investment advice
*Property refurbishment, upgrades and makeovers with project management
*How to increase rental income potential
*Property marketing
*New tenancy negotiation

The Letting People would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
 

The Letting People are delighted to announce their £100 discount  leap year offer!. This discount offer is per property application and available for applications fees taken up to and including 29/2/2012. Terms and conditions apply specific to individual properties and are available on request from our letting and management offices

The Letting People are proud to be supporters of the Dogs Trust’s ‘Lets with Pets’ scheme.

As the Lets with Pets website says:

“Finding privately rented accommodation that allows pets can be very difficult. Many pet owners are forced to live in unsuitable properties or keep their pets without consent from their landlord. In some extreme cases, we know that owners are even having to give up their pets or else face becoming homeless.”

In order to join Lets with Pets The Letting People needed to agree to the following three principles:

• To ASK all landlords if they will consider pets
• To ADVERTISE which properties consider pets on the website and property details
• To ADD a pet clause to the tenancy agreement when a pet has been agreed

Fortunately there has been many success stories of landlords who have seen the benefit of allowing cats and dogs (and even a snake!!) to reside with their owners on the basis of additional pet clauses in the tenancy agreement that safeguard both parties.  Obviously some additional ‘wear and tear’ (over what is contractually called ‘reasonable’) might be expected and this can often be offset with the payment of additional rent. 

The Letting People usually recommend that the tenant pays a modest £20-40 per pet, per calendar month additional rent so that the landlord has an additional ‘cleaning fund’, should it be necessary, at the end of the tenancy.  (This is considered to be a reasonable cost as it is now also usual for holiday lets to charge a £20-£30 per week additional cleaning charge for each pet.)

As 48% of the UK population now own a pet it, and more people are unable to obtain a mortgage to buy their own property, there is a huge growth in tenants looking for properties that will take pets.  The Letting People are pleased to encourage landlords to consider the importance of Lets with Pets and to highlight the benefits to them. 

More information at www.letswithpets.org.uk

The Letting People have just witnessed the busiest month on record, welcoming employees relocating to wonderful Warwickshire.  With the arrival of new employees taking up jobs at Jaguar Land Rover headquarters in Gaydon, Tata Motors Ltd at the Warwick University site, and a relocation of employees to Volvo Group UK Ltd head office in Warwick – there has been a continual interest in new tenancies in Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth and the surrounding villages.

Many new graduates are also relocating into the computer games companies and other small and medium sized businesses in the area in the process of expanding their workforce.

The Letting People are proud to be one of the first companies to welcome new employees into the area and always like to offer a warm reception to everyone moving into their new homes.
 

Looking for a rent guarantee? The Letting People – Leamington Spa are offering a FREE 6 months rent guarantee* for all new landlords signing up to our Letting and Management Service by 31/12/2019

*Terms and conditions apply and this offer can not be used in conjunction with any other offer. Please sign up below to register your details for this offer. Please note that you will need to complete your registation details below to be eligible for this offer.

The letting People are all set and ready to go to announce the launch of a franchise opportunity at the Warwickshire Business Expo event on the 25th November 2011. Commenting on the launch, the founders, Anthony and Caroline Kempster said “this is really the most exciting day for us in the nearly 10 year history of The Letting People.

We have developed to become one of the leading residential lettings and management companies in the area and this latest development, which has taken over 12 months to prepare, takes the business on to the next level providing a tried and tested model for our franchise partners to follow to participate in our success.”

We will shortly be releasing full franchise package details. In the meantime, further information and the opportunity to register your initial interest is now available on our brand new web site under the heading ‘franchising’.
 

Almost half of landlords are reporting rising rents in their locality according to a recent survey undertaken by BDRC Continental undertaken in partnership with the National Landlords Association (NLA). Commenting on the trend, Anthony Kempster of The Letting People said “in Leamington Spa and the surrounding area we are experiencing rents rising across the board for well presented properties with some rents rising 10% or more over the last 12 months”