RentPro are pleased to announce that they will be attending the forth coming Landlord Expo 2009 Conference & Exhibition on Thursday 14th May 2009 at the Holiday Inn, Filton, Bristol.  

The event is also supported by the Bristol Association of Letting and Managing Agents (BALMA) and the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA).  

Members of the RentPro sales team wiil be on hand to provide software demonstrations of our easy to use lettings management software and to answer your questions on lanlord software.

Come pay us a visit on stand 52 and find out how RentPro can streamline your entire lettings business.

The HSE (Health and Safety Executive) is warning landlords about potentially unsafe gas installations - particularly in rented properties. The warning comes after a recent case in which a lettings business in Burton-on-Trent was fined £40,000 for gas safety offences stemming from the fatality of a single man living alone.

RentPro can help you stay on top of safety checks.  With RentPro lettings management software, you can define any safety check you want against a property and subsequently be notified when these checks are due to take place, thus helping to ensure that oversights don’t occur.

To find out more about this, and a host of additional benefits RentPro can bring to your lettings business, take the RentPro product tour.

RentPro are pleased to announce that they will be attending the forth coming ARLA 2009 Conference & Exhibition on the 03/02/2009 at the Novotel London West, Hammersmith, London.  The event gives ARLA members an insight into the lettings industry for the forth coming year.  Members of the RentPro sales team wiil be on hand to provide software demonstrations of our easy to use lettings management software and to answer your questions on lettings management software.

Come pay us a visit on Stand 22 and see how RentPro can streamline your entire lettings business.

Failure to comply with this new legislation could result in the landlord receiving penalties of up to £200 per property for non-compliance.

More information on how to comply with this legislation can be found on the Communities And Local Government website.

The seminar will focus on the RentPro Rental Management Software developed by K-Point Internet Solutions and how its deployment within your letting agency will help you manage properties efficiently, saving both time and related costs.

Further venues for similar events this year include Liverpool and Manchester.

Click here to register for the event or contact the RentPro team on 028 4175 4836 for further details.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) says the slump in house sales is forcing many more people to become either landlords or tenants.

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Source: BBC News

The seminar will focus on the RentPro Rental Management Software developed by K-Point Internet Solutions and how its deployment within your letting agency will help you manage properties efficiently, saving both time and related costs.

Further venues for similar events this year include Derry, Liverpool and Manchester.

Click here to register for the event or contact the RentPro team on 028 4175 4836 for further details.

LHA is based on the area in which the tenant lives, the number of occupiers in the property and household size. Another interesting difference between LHA and HB, is that with the new scheme, if the determined LHA rate is higher than the rent agreed with the landlord / letting agency, then the tenant can keep any excess benefit up to a maximum of £15 / week.

Note that the LHA does not apply to existing tenants, only those moving into new rented accommodation.

Although the Local Housing Allowance applies throughout the UK an important difference exists within Northern Ireland. In England, Scotland and Wales, payment is normally made to the tenant either directly into a bank or building society account, or by cheque. If the tenant has fallen into arrears then the landlord can request that payment be made directly. In Northern Ireland the payment mechanism remains unchanged from that employed by the Housing Benefit scheme, i.e. the tenant can choose if they wish to receive the allowance or have it paid directly to the landlord.

This may all seem to be yet another headache for landlords and letting agents. Fortunately RentPro is on hand to help. It’s obvious that under the new scheme a greater potential exists for fluctuations in rent received directly from the tenant and rent received from a benefit agency. RentPro accommodates such changes ensuring that you’re always aware of shortfalls in rent and the source of the shortfall, i.e. tenant or benefit agency.

Further information is available from the Directgov website.

RentPro is a software application designed specifically to encompass all the activities generated by managing a property portfolio. RentPro enables the letting agent to manage properties efficiently saving both time and related costs.

Click here to register for the event or contact the RentPro team for further details.

• New improved user interface
• Introduction of RentPro Dashboard - single panel highlights
• Functionality to comply with the Deposit Protection Scheme (currently only applicable to England and Wales)
• Improved Seach facility to seach records based on key data

A demo of RentPro v2 can be requested by contacting us either here or by calling 028 4175 4836.