It has been reported by the NFIB (National Fraud Intelligence), that increasing numbers of empty properties are being used by criminals purporting to be landlords to commit rental fraud.

Fake landlords have been taking over empty properties and replacing locks before ensnaring unsuspecting tenants into unlawful tenancies who find themselves homeless after the real landlords find them living in their properties. Of course the landlords then have to go through a costly and lengthy eviction process, besides having to change locks and repair any other associated damage to the property.

The NFIB is strongly urging all landlords, who have vacant properties, to be forever on their guard and to inspect them regularly and immediately report any instances of being called to provide details about the property.

The CEO for property management experts, Guy Other, said: “Landlords have an obligation to ensure that their vacant property is not being used inappropriately. By employing rigorous security and monitoring measures on their sites, managers can protect the public from falling victim to these crimes. However, unsuspecting tenants are not the only vulnerable party in fake landlord scams. The cost to landlords in terms of monetary and reputational loss could potentially be huge.”

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Central Housing Group’s ‘Guaranteed Rent’ Scheme protects landlords from the substantial risk of rent arrears, costly evictions and wilful tenant damage. Our landlords are paid an agreed monthly Guaranteed Rent for the duration of the term of their contract regardless of their tenants’ financial or employment circumstances and regardless of whether their property is occupied or not.

Landlords – please carefully consider the risks you run by choosing to let your property privately when, instead, you can let your property on our ‘Guaranteed Rent’ Scheme and protect yourself from any rental loss exposure or legal eviction costs. 

When you let your property on our ‘Guaranteed Rent’ Scheme either our local authority clients will assume full legal and financial responsibility for the eviction of your tenants or we will, depending on the nature of the letting of your property – consequently you can be assured that you will not incur any legal eviction costs at all when letting your property to us and, furthermore, you can also be assured that you will continue to receive full monthly rental payments from us until vacant possession of your property has been lawfully obtained!

If you are interested in finding our more about our ‘Guaranteed Rent’ Scheme, currently operating in north, east & west London, please call us today on 020 8447 1222.

See details of our Guaranteed Rent Scheme here