Furnishing advice for landlords
December 3rd, 2009Landlords have you ever wondered how you should be presenting your house or flat shares in order to make your available rooms and the whole property more appealing? Here’s some quick pointer’s that may help you:
- Imagine what prospective tenants expect and would like from the property that they are going to be living in.
- When decorating rooms that will be rented, use neutral colours for the walls, flooring and curtains. This will make the living space more appealing to a wider market.
- If provided, keep bedroom furniture to a minimum, as this will make the room appear to be more spacious.
- First impressions count even with house or flat shares, therefore make the garden ,front door area and the first room a viewing tenant may see as appealing and tidy as possible.
- Prior to a property viewing, get to the house or flat earlier so that you can give the communal living areas and room a quick tidy.
- When a tenant moves out, have the bedroom thoroughly cleaned. This includes flooring, curtains, bedding, etc. and make sure that pleasant smelling air fresheners are left in the room to rid any nasty odours.
- Don’t spend enormous amounts of money on furniture as accidents can easily happen. Try purchasing furniture packages which as the name suggests are the basics to furnish a property in one pack. Examples of where you can purchase these packs are, Furnishings Made Easy, Landlord Furniture and Room Service Group.
- You must ensure that all fabric furnishings comply to the correct legal requirements, as do any appliances that you provide the tenants with.
- If there are any cracks or marks on the walls from where the previous tenant has removed items such as posters, be sure to fill this damage and repaint the area.
Hopefully this list will be of use to you, and when viewing house and flat shares people are looking for somewhere that is clean and decluttered, so ask the existing house and flatmates to chip in too.


















































