[dave123]

I have a few letting agents that i do work for and i find it easy money ,maybe because they don.t want to lose their deposit ,must admit though don.t do a lot of upholstery for them.The prices you guys charge up North are a lot dearer than down Sarf.

[Len Gribble]

I’m cheap spread over three blocks 6 two bed flats @ £95 each same type flats 2 halls only & £50 each, home by 1400 trying to get the communal areas.

Clinton

I always do but can be a few days later, if they walk they walk; I know they wont because I’m the best and they know it!

Shaun

Hard times down south all them bankers out of work and renting their property out.


Len

[clinton]

Len

[suffolkclean]

Doctor Carpet - Reading your post is exactly whats happening to us we provide the red carpet treatment too, flexible with payment (still awaiting one from 30th Jan) now been told well we have to get other prices can you do it at £xxxx per hour  . As you say the cleaning is the easiest part it's all the other bits that goes with it.

Oh well - we can always get more customers!!

[clinton]

Barbara

Thats a long wait from letting agents 2 months :

[Joe H]

I would have been on the phone middle of March asking wheres me money - Im hungry.

[colin thomas]

can only speak for myself but i have only one agent who pays late, the others are good, i do clean furniture for some of them, i don't charge as much as i generally charge domestics but then i do 'whiz' over them in double quick time, they are always pleased with the results. as for the carpets, ok they might be sometimes trashed but extra prespray of blitz or whatever and they usually look great, as someone else has said, they are generally empty or not much furniture so a 3-bed is normally  less than 1½ hours work, £2 a sq mtr comes to serious money if you have a couple or three to do in a day, especially in these times.
steve, a 20 minute drive + another 20 minutes? that's on the doorstep!! you don't want them to bring the carpets to you do you?
colin

[Len Gribble]

Joe

Eat cake as Josephine once said.

Len 

[robert meldrum]

Thought that was Marie Antoinette, Len but you're 600 miles closer to France than me so your " local" knowledge will be better.


I " sacked  "my last letting agent last year. Got fed up with; -

No electricity
Walking into s**it heaps which their cleaners had supposedly cleaned
Climbing 3 or 4 flights of stairs too often, etc.

If there was a super duper light weight machine I would probably still be doing them as the steady flow of money was good.

[suffolkclean]

Don't worry I was on the phone chasing after 4 weeks, then at 6 weeks and so on. They said there was a lot to pay out of the deposit on that one and we now have to wait for the 2nd months rent to come in. Cheeky! I'm expecting it in the next few days

[Shaun_Ashmore]

City Centre living did it for me, not the fact that the TM can't reach but the fact that I needed to pay for parking and find the flat in a warren of corridors that weren't straight lined they were all on different levels like carparks and then the agent would only want the 'cream carpet cleaning' in the lounge as most of apartment was tiled.

Shaun

[elliott cleaning]

Do work for a number of Letting Agents.  Like Colin Thomas, regard this as easy turnover.  Found the secret is to get in with their management side & tell them how it has to work ( they are not usually the sharpest tools in the box).
  Also liase closely with their general cleaners. I like to get in to do the carpets last thing after all other cleaning/maintenance work has been done, so can usually plan ahead to fit it in with the rest of my work.
Charge normal domestic rates.  Why should I cut for a Letting Agent.  After all they don't foot the bill: the outgoing tenant (out of his depost) or landlord does.
Payments normally 30 - 45 days.  Not unusual for commercial market.  If this causes cash flow problems to some then guess commercial should be steered clear of

[Len Gribble]

Robert

Just testing, it’s funny how eagerly one can forget late/bad payers, can’t complain but some keep changing the goal posts, I prefer rounders hate cricket!

Len

[robert meldrum]

With the quality ( lack of it ) in Scottish football nowadays I could be talked into watching just about any other sport even cricket !