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On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 03:13:10 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
tabbypurr wrote
Bill wrote

A relation is thinking of renting out his house for a year or so while
he works away. He has had a very tentative contact with a local estate
agent who has quoted the possible rent and offered to manage the
whole arrangement. The agent hasn't seen the property.

Letting agents are never good.

Even sillier than you usually manage.

Rod confirms it's correct in his usual way


I've been involved in doing that myself,

oh god

with a house that I bought
at auction with the new owner hundreds of miles away, on the phone
during the auction.

So you didn't buy it, they did.

The letting agent has in fact been quite effective even tho
the new owner did find the tenant himself and got the letting
agent to check that they are viable to let the place to.

So a sample of one has gone ok for 6 months.

We all swooned when you showed that every single use of a letting agent
ended up proving that none of them are any use at all.