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The risk of renting your homes to criminals and dubious tenants
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It pays to have a closer look at your tenants before signing a lease, given there are pitfalls in simply relying on other people’s checks.
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Employing an estate agent to do the heavy lifting has been a time-honoured way of ensuring that the tenants from hell don’t end up renting your investment unit, but some due diligence on the owner’s part won’t be wasted.
If that sounds like an overly finicky approach, look at the eye-watering cases here when estate agents were less than diligent when it came to dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.
