Many tenancies start out beautifully, you find what seem like great tenants, they pay their deposit and first month’s rent. Things are rosy. Fast forward a few months and it’s a very different scenario.
The tenant is in arrears of rent, has left the property and has trashed the place. The costs of the rent arrears and the damage are not covered by the deposit. You are now out of pocket and have no other details of your ex-tenant who omitted to provide you with an alternative contact address, or worse still, turned out not to be the person they claimed! As a landlord you are left with very little options for contacting your tenant, short of hiring a private detective, which can add to your existing funds deficit. For this reason, landlordsolutions.ie feel it is vital to obtain firm details of the tenant’s identity, references and other points of contact, to include an alternative address, parents home address or next of kin, which will make the job of pursuing a problem tenant who has gone AWOL a lot easier for the landlord and can help get money back.
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