Optimum Reference

Taking a little extra time to research your prospective tenants can pay dividends in the long run. With our Optimum Tenant Reference, you’ll get all the same comprehensive background checks our Insight and Enhance products offer, and we’ll also guarantee to remove the tenant from the property if they fail to pay the rent.

Our Optimum Tenant Reference includes:

• Complete credit check, including adverse history such as CCJs and bankruptcy
• Background search on previous names, addresses and aliases
• Financial sanctions check
• Assurance that their bank account is genuine
• Cross referencing against HomeLet’s Default Database
• Contacting current landlord or managing agent for a reference, ensuring that the tenant paid on time and looked after the property
• Employment check to establish your tenant’s salary (and that their employment isn’t likely to be terminated)
• Our guarantee to remove your tenant if they fail to pay their rent in the first 12 months

Features

We’re so confident in our checks that we’ll guarantee to remove the tenant from the property if they fail to pay the rent.

As part of the reference we’ll check:

Any adverse credit history such as, bankruptcy, CCJs and court decrees
Previous names and addresses which haven’t been disclosed
Undisclosed credit history which is linked to their current and most recent homes
Banking details provided are for a genuine bank account
HomeLet’s own Default Database, which may indicate whether your tenant has not been able to pay their rent in the past
Financial Sanctions, to make sure that your tenant isn’t registered to any of the Government’s Asset Freezing lists

Plus, we’ll speak to:

The tenant’s current Landlord or Managing Agent to ask them for a reference
Their employer to check the tenant is being paid what they’ve told us and that there is no reason their employment will be terminated any time soon

Benefits

Bringing big benefits to your business

Open your HomeLet account and you’ll soon be enjoying access to our:

Comprehensive product range, including Referencing, Rent Guarantees and Insurance
Speedy turnaround with references (Insight are completed instantly, Enhance and Optimum are generally completed within a day, or 72 hours at the most)
Expert team of dedicated account managers and agent trainers, here to support you over the phone or face to face
In-house Legal and Claims team
Free, professional marketing material
Around-the-clock access to your very own personalised online referencing suite

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